Slashdot Mirror
Linus Goes Hollywood At Pre-Oscars Party
alphadogg writes "For those who feel like Linux and open source have been slighted by Tinseltown in the face of its embrace of Facebook and The Social Network, you'll be heartened to know that the Father of Linux, Linux Torvalds, and his wife Tove were among the beautiful people at Saturday's pre-Oscars Night Before Party in Beverly Hills. Torvalds blogged about the Oscars party experience Monday, recounting a series of awkward encounters with movie stars."
the Father of Linux, Linux Torvalds
Ahh, good old Linux Torvalds. I wonder if he brought his son Android, Andy for short.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
Good lord...
He mentions asking people "Who are you?" and 'recounts' (mentions) only two specific encounters.
Not at all the titillating and medium-long read that the summary promises.
"For those who feel like Linux and open source have been slighted by Tinseltown in the face of its embrace of Facebook and The Social Network"
Well stop sending scripts in EMACS and insisting that Hollywood attach them to the end credits. Pilots in theora don't help either.
I've met a few famous people and, unless they spend a lot of time being famous for just being themselves, they really don't look or act a lot like the characters they play and are famous for. Take them out of context and you'll hesitate before calling them by name.
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
or is this an accidental repeat from the April fools day prank a few years ago with an attempt to widen slashdot's appeal by adding "omg ponies" signs and pink color scheme now we add celebrity gossip?
every anarchist is a baffled dictator. Benito_Mussolini
Wow.. good to see that Linus is also NOT politically correct!
that's cold. not much to celebrate there? definitely up there with 'stuff that matters' a lot right now? phreaking old/frail people & their grandchildren. you gotta love 'em. trying to stay alive etc..., no matter what happens to them. that's US.
Seriously, this is not news. This is like some sort of tabloid shit. Keep this stupid crap off slashdot.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
...Who cares.
So it's not close to being in Hollywood with the movie stars, but I can tell you if there's one guy out there who's so totally humble, Linus is it. He's a nice guy; it's great to see him get to do things like this from time to time.
Warning: goatse is NSFW!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Of course kids don't need anything, being young and all. plus they've never worked anyway, & like to be cold. But it would seem that the old folks union should help take care of them? They knew their retirement savings & taxes they had paid faithfully may have had to be spent on wars &/or stolen, so whose fault is it? Can't the kids get jobs when they're bigger, & then take care of the old people if they still insist on being alive? It has to be fair. It's not our fault.
"We interrupted David Spade chatting up Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis..."
Too bad Linus was not familiar enough with B list movie stars to recognize Spade and slap him. I'll never get those hours back from Joe Dirt.
One care bear is available for each person that actually cares
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Care_Bears
/ss
I can tell you if there's one guy out there who's so totally humble
It's Hollywood, so yes, there's only one guy out there who's humble.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
Next thing you know he'll be in the tabloids rumored to have snorted blow off Lindsay Lohan's ass.
Don't click the link, is is a goatse pic. I warned you!
He is not the father of Linux, he is the father of the Linux Kernel. There's a difference. All of the utilities, shells, pretty much everything else was GNU. And they would have had a kernel first if Stallman didn't spend all of his time working on Emacs.
Was I the only one geeky enough to be pleased at the sight of KDE 3.x on "Zuckerberg's" laptops in the movie?
I sit in my office (which used to be in the basement, now it's a room above the garage)
I think he should get out of there now, before it moves even further
Nullius in verba
Clearly, he won't be corrupted by such considerations as money, but glamor is another story. How long till he embrasses the Hollywood's view on intellectual property rights?
I even have a picture of myself and Linus
You do realize you just said you're the goatse guy, right?
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
I can tell you if there's one guy out there who's so totally humble
It's Hollywood, so yes, there's only one guy out there who's humble.
Actually most of them are. I'm sorry to suck the fun out of this well-established generalization, but this reputation is something that scared me when I first started working on movies. Instead of working with egotistical prima donnas like I expected, instead I met a lot of kind people who were eager to help me out. Maybe it's just because they're nice people or maybe it's just because movie making only really works when people work as a team. Couldn't tell you. What I can tell you is that I've dealt with a good deal less ego in this career than I did working at web startups back in the dot-com days.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Not just movie stars? There, I said it.
I heard Charlie Sheen was doing coke in the back room whereas Linus, the party boy, had brought his own stash of Jolt.
j'ai découvert une démonstration vraiment admirable (de ce théorème général) que cette si
what, no pictures? this is all fud...
Don't despair. I'm sure I saw Ballmer there.
No, wait. That was Shrek. Never mind.
Have gnu, will travel.
Unfortunately, I am not :-(
I have found that ego is usually inverse proportional to talent. It's those who are mostly inept who seem to have the biggest chip on their shoulders. While there is a lot of BSing in hollywood there is also a lot of talented professionals who only got to where they are through a lot of hard work and experience. Such a brutal thinning process of reputation/skill tends to weed out the egotistical assholes more than something like accounting where you just have to impress the HR person.
It's such a small industry that if you're an asshole and you are replaceable you probably won't have someone vouch for you on the next project.
And all I got was this invite to this shitty Hollywood Party.
I've dealt with a good deal less ego in this career than I did working at web startups back in the dot-com days.
That's because successful actors don't have to wear the bridle of not actually having made any money yet...
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein
I've dealt with a good deal less ego in this career than I did working at web startups back in the dot-com days.
That's because successful actors don't have to wear the bridle of not actually having made any money yet...
That's an odd response to what I said. I'm not Hollywood's biggest talent agent.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Yeah, the people who are nice get more work. Its pretty obvious when Directors are always casting the same actors in all their movies. How many Tim Burton Movies don't have Johnny Depp or Helena Bonham-Carter? How many Ridley Scott movies have Russel Crowe in them? On the other side, how many Steven Speilberg movies have Julia Roberts? Only one, because Speilberg Didn't get along well with Roberts.
Yeah if you're a big name Actor you'll still get work even if you're an asshole, but there will be some big name directors that will refuse to work with you. And thats not helping your career much.
the Father of Linux, Linux Torvalds, and his wife Tove were among the beautiful people
From the blog:
Everybody seemed to take [us walking up to familiar looking people and asking them who they were] in good cheer. We interrupted David Spade chatting up Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis (that's what Tove says, I was oblivious - it's those famous geek social graces again. I told her I'm sure I'd have noticed Natalie Portman and that she can't possibly have been there, but whatever), and Tove pissed off Warren Beatty by asking his name not just once, but twice.
So. Who is this, Linux Torvalds anyway?
No, I mean, who is this Linux Torvalds anyway?
You can't handle the truth.
What? I thought everyone had a Charlie Sheen in them...?
This is blinging
My point was that startups are, for the most part, unproven and unprofitable, so people working for them overcompensate by being a bit egotistical. I say this as someone who's been kicking around the "Silicon Alley" startup culture for a while; I've seen it a few times.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein