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Quickies a go-go
tilly sent us a really interesting little article on Why O'Reily is Better written from the perspective of one of their authors.
Rahga wrote in to comment that the new KDE Mascot Looks like Playstation's "Croc". He's got a little poll. I vote no, but its close.
tilly wrote in to note that Sunday's User Friendly is funny- it features a the ultimate choice.
And for the best Star Wars quickie today, Sharkey sent us a link to this picture. Just look at it.
Somewhat related is this one from an Anonymous reader: The Dark Redemption which is a 26 minute short film being directed in Australia- it takes place 2 days before the beginning of Star Wars, A New Hope and is apparently being done with permission of Lucas.
gwendolin wrote in to ask the ultimate question: Do you dare to eat pop rocks and drink pepsi at the same time? This is wierd stuff (both the
page, and the fact that a female with a cool homepage submitted a story!)
Some Slashdot Sightings:
VinceV wrote in to say that Slashdot apparently is mentioned in the printed manual for Caldera OpenLinux 2.2.
cymen wrote in to tell us that Slashdot appeared in the Mit Technology Review. No URL, but someone sent me a scan (that I can't post for they fear the Slashdot effect) but its pretty cool.
And finally, for some good old fashioned porn parody,
gelbardn sent us Geek Erortica which features live strip shows of Ms. G3 and Ms. Dell. (No its not actually dirty, but its quite amusing).
they messed it up... what you need to do is swallow the poprocks... theres no use in having them in your mouth... its too easy for the gas to escape... swallow those rocks and chug the pepsi! thats how ya do it!
First of all it is put out by Fox not Sony.
Second of all if it is playstation's croc then
why do I have a version for my Saturn?
Is this a reference to the TRF Song?
That may be, but at least Lucas produces *much* better movies from what are strong similarities to Herbert's ideas, than *ahem* other attempts (anyone remember Dune, the movie? gack, retch, spew).
I took the pepsi/pop rock challenge once in my more "young and stupid" days. Basically, I got about a minute and a half of foam spewing up my esophagus and out my mouth. Quite interesting to watch I was told, but not much fun to do.
You have spelled O'Reilly with only one 'l'! Just thought you'd like to know.
O'Reily -> O'Reilly
I think a wyvern would be cooler. But it's okay.
I could name you half a dozen other 'pet' dragons that look at least as much or more than 'Croc' than the KDE dragon.
Eyes, eyebrows, wings, teeth, nose (no holes), big hands/feet, and the horns on the heat are totally different.
So what was it that's so similar except that it is a dragon and green?
It's one thing to publish legitimate criticim like yours about memory consumtion (albeit Gnome with some applets uses more mem then KDE 1.1 -much better than 1.0 in this respect- with me), but this case is different.
What the first poster mentioned is the fact that Slashdot deliberately published anything that harms KDE, even if it is definitely not "Stuff that matters", like in this case.
Be it slander, libel, RedHat influence, character assasination or Rob's personal preference, but it's pretty obvious that *really* important things about KDE don't come up on Slashdot at all, like
KOM/OpenParts
KOffice (except for one article)
KDE 2 features and screenshots
I'd appreciate if Rob gave credit were credit is due...
Maybe you didn't find the right ones.
Just look at these!
Gold
Marble
Gradient
Just for information: KDE/Qt 2 themes are more versatile and powerful than gtk's...
My favorite publisher is Addion-Wesley.
O'Reilly publishes only `New Jersey school'
titles. But the best for Unixy stuff, then.
well i am a female and you are sounding like a pc bitch, (i'm even from the midwest) but remember what he gave you was a good compliment for a guy :)
Yeah.
I saw the screenshots and went "Yippy skippy, yet ANOTHER system to allow you to add a bunch of distracting and hideous gradients and textures to your UI"
A user interface should be extremely non-invasive. Black rimmed gradient gold buttons with 14 point bold type over a grey pebbled surface with gold radio buttons and MacOS widgets is anything but that.
You mean "neighbour", of course...
;-)
Anonymous UK Coward.
Hmm. What's most amazing is that people are extremely thrilled by Gnome's themes, and criticise KDE for not having it.
On the other hand, when KDE has themes, even better one's, they are criticised for offering distraction...
Maybe a little bit more fairness would be appropriate.
Maybe you should read my comments again. I don't think I said anything about GNOME, either positive or negative. Do you always read disparaging comments about KDE into everything you see?
I use KDE. I like KDE. But, I use KDE in it's most basic configuration. Doctoring it up with all that useless crap is quite pointless, imho.
So KDE will be skinable. And soon thereafter we'll see the standard cadre of skins (Win9x, MacOS, NeXTSTEP, BeOS, E, Blue Marble, Black Marble, Brushed Chrome, etc...) that are available for every overdone skinning system become available for KDE. What's the point? If I wanted a MacOS interface I'd damn well run a Mac.
the "imac pinup girl" can be found at
http://www.din.or.jp/~toy/tb/tb20e.html
look around the site and you'll also find a "g3 princess" and assorted hentai.
Point is:
:)
Either you play Q3A the whole week OR you go to SW-TPM 20 times.
That's a tough one
Looks like it's not doing duplicate IP address detection... I'm not sure it's keeping a real count anyway, but script away, kids...
This "experiment" was done ages ago on UK TV on a show called "The Adam and Joe Show" - they even had their popping candy in test-tubes and had Adam upside-down for a nice in-mouth shot.
They have a forum at www.channel4.com where people will fondly remember this....
Http://www.n-link.com/~rrjadams/
It's a funny guide for all of you who are considering "camping" out for your tickets.
It even has a sweet T-Shirt printout if you do!
They look almost nothing alike. They are both green and curved - and that's about the end of the similarities. The curvature is just classic of a certain style of art.
The eyes - different shapes (round and oval). Different colors. Different location (front of head, top of head) 1 has eyebrows, the other doesnt.
The head (nose?) different shaped. The chests both have horizontal segments, but not in the same color or pattern.
One has wings, the other doesn't. The body is completley different shaped. The feet arent the same. One has knees, the other doesn't.
If you mean "are they both rendered and green" then yes, they are identical in those two categories. But also note that the author of this page changed the colors on one of the pictures (gimped, brightness=+97, contrast=+91) so the colors probably aren't even identical in actuality. Basicly these two characters have the common trait of being computer generated. If you play around with the colors a bit, im sure Yoshi could look as much of a match.
I remember when I was a bit younger making out with pop rocks in my mouth...the girl loved it. Obviously depends a lot on who you're kissing too...
Actually, I agree with the previous poster - these are just a couple of screenshots, like every website about programs has its screenshots. Themes are not good or nice - everyone has his own opinion about such values. Themes may be good in the sense that they're easily usable by the programmer. Maybe Qt does that trick better then GTK does. I don't know.
Posted by Moritz Moeller - Herrmann:
I must say I am really annoyed with Slashdot!
While the site is very useful overall, some Editors seem to drive their personal agendas against KDE. Yes that's you CmdrTaco.
I personally submitted a story about the new theming KDE 2.0 / QT screenshots under this link. The themes are marvellous, linuxtoday and other impartial sites reported about them and Slashdot runs a quickie about a similarity between the unnamed KDE mascot and some Sony Playstation character?
I guess when Gnome finally releases it's first mail reader that can decode HTML mails it will become a Slashdot feature!
Please try to be more impartial and check out those screenshots. They are amazing and will convince every person of the technical merits of the great work of the KDE developers. I can't wait for the first Beta of KDE 2.0.
Thank you for reading this.
I remember the movie Dune. I saw it in the theater and fell asleep. I then watched it when it was on cable, and fell asleep... Hmmm, I guess I only remember *some* of it...
...end of transmission...
Hell no!
Coke and Pixie Stix forever!!!
(sorry, I'm a Coke addict,
and I like dusting it...)
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Is that how long you poor sods have to wait for The Phantom Menace to come out? Ouch, that sucks! My condolences.
:(
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
That said, I love Star Wars. I really do think that its deliberate postmodernism is its true genius. But I do think Lucas is going a little overboard in ripping off the spice theme. :(
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
Maybe they should release Q3A in Europe first on May 19th, and release it at a more appropriate time in the States. Say July 16th.
Paul.
Bruce
Bruce Perens.
> "an essay predicting the arrival of "sexbots" that never have headaches."
Thanks, Jon! Now we're all a bunch of stupid perverts! Go watch Citizen Kane! Why does this "sexbot" episode still hang around like a bad fart, anyway?
I seem to have missed the point of the User Friendly comic strip... anyone care to clue me in?
I think there is a world market for maybe five personal web logs.
Oops.. strike that. Isn't May 19 the release date of Starbuck?
I think there is a world market for maybe five personal web logs.
What happened to Ms Linux (aka la femme nikita)? hmm where's that article...
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Actually it's Argonauts...
Read the packaging, and support developers, not publishers.
Thank you.
notice: i worked on a commercial shoot for pop rocks as a pa about ten years ago. i snagged a box of assorted flavors that i experimented with for about a year. sticking them between your upper lip and gum and then taking a shot of jagermeister has been proven to induce automatic vomiting, no matter what.
The last thing you can expect from Slashdot is being impartial.
But I must agree that posting this is really nasty. When creating an cartoonish figure like the KDE mascot, you'll always resemble similar figures so some extent. And dragons are very popular.
But exept for the colour, this 'Crock' doesn't look very much like the KDE dragon, and Stefan certainly didn't think of it. He may have thought of Tabaluga or Urmel from Augsburger Puppenkiste, which is very popular in German-speaking countries.
But IMHO the KDE dragon is still unique enough, and in particular it's an excellent piece of work.
As I've said posting this was nasty, as it degrades the work of the artist without giving him the possibility to comment on that.
I don't mind Rob posting "Gnome rules" statements all the time, but he should drop those "KDE sucks" ones.
Please report rather the newsworthy things about KDE and let people decide on their owm.
And yes, KDE themes stuff does matter!
I thought I recognized that home page.
Jay (=
(yes, that TrentC)
Enlightenment is prettier. And there aren't any pesky QPL things to worry about. I don't think it sucks or anything, but if I want cool I'll use Enlightenment. If I wan't functional, I'll use fvwm.
Anyone else have trouble getting to the strip pen :-)
page? It crashed my browser 4 times before it
loaded properly. I really didn't think I was going to get it the 5th time. I just kept going back so Talkback would send a bunch of bug reports.
Well, the "Dune" movie had Frank Herbert's blessing, but producers Dino de Laurentiis and daughter cut Lynch's five hour epic down - removing key scenes in the process.
Frank Herbert has an essay on the making, at least reprinted in the short-story collection entitled "The Eye". He even lists the scenes cut.
Don't blame Lynch, blame the de Laurentiises. (Agh! How do you pluralize names properly in English?)
It is just geek humour (joking about the sad lack of swarms of females who are like us). No one is trying to belittle anyone.
Hmmm. Now I have to go back to my Cobol assignment. Yuck.
The plot for that Star Wars short seems a whole lot like Dune. Banished to a planet that produces a telepathy-inducing 'spice'?
I don't see what's so amazing about these screenshots. It's just another screenshot. Sheesh.
Choose? Only if you don't have enough money for both. I explicitly deny that "we can't have are cake and not eat it" has any meaning whatsoever.
What you do is: wait in line for the 12:01 AM showing, catch a few Z's, then be at (insert favorite software store here) at opening time for Q3A.
Or get Q3A first then wait in line for Star Wars.
And, yes folks, if you can't get one or the other on May 19th, there's always May 20, 21, 22, 23,... This ain't exactly a "Your money or your life! I'm thinking it over!" situation here.
Glückwünsche, haben Sie Slashdot ermordet, indem Sie zum korporativen Druck beugten und Subskriptionen einlei
Yep.. it does look like Croc.. no wonder it looked familar when i saw it yesterday.. didn't make the connection tho.
mTor
and not all us females are luddites, rob [e.g. This is wierd stuff (both the page, and
/.'d ;]
the fact that a female with a cool homepage submitted a story!)]....maybe it's because you're in the midwest where i've heard it's not quite as evolved, but i know a buttload of technologically proficient [albeit lowly] females out here [sf/bay area] as well as online.
i'm not a PC bitch [in any sense] but the constant backhanded girl comments are getting a bit tired.
-g.
p.s. i am, however, really getting off on the fact that *i* am being
p.p.s. i highly recomment the jack london square theater in oakland for sw:tpm when you're in town next month. real easy to get to on bart, reclining bucket seats, and all the up-to-the minute tech crap.
i was brainwashed by trekkie esperantist parents and several years at a women's college, where i was held captive and tortured by my commie professors until i admitted that girls are almost as capable as boys.
-g.
p.s. i *am* thrilled by rob's compliment btw. truly. madly. deeply. rock on, kids.
(No, I do not use GNOME)...
Will you stop whining? Yes, KDE is nice,
yes... it now has features that MacOS/GNOME
/AMEIGA have had for yes, and yes, you will
be spending the next 10 monthes fixing hard
refenced pics, and debuggin them. Good for
you.
Make it so that KDE is not such a memory and
proccesor slob and I will have more respect.
Just thought i'd put in my opinion of O'Reilly books, for those of you that care (of course, all of you that do care probably already KNOW :-)
:-)
:-(
O'REILLY ROCKS! They put out the best computer/programming books I've ever read. They're concise and to the point. No mindless garbage. Except Larry Wall's Perl anecdotes, but those are funny.
The only O'Reilly book I have that I wish I didn't buy was a book on the PalmPilot. From the table of contents and the back, it seemed like the book would have some good information on programming the damn thing, but all it has is a little chapter saying "Buy CodeWarrior and read the manual it comes with" or something to that effect. Ugh.
Oh yeah, and I wish I didn't buy that Perl handbook thingy, but only because I lost it somewhere under a pile of crap in my dorm and ended up spilling bong water on it
"Software is like sex- the best is for free"
And you can't have both because we can't have are cake and not eat it.
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What would you choose? Star Wars or Quake3?
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Jason Eric Pierce
You're obviously not putting in any serious effort here. If so, you'd see that Croc was a (gasp) crocodile, not a dragon. Kroc is basically Croc with wings and longer claws.
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Jason Eric Pierce
I thought the same thing... Aren't the similiarties between Star Wars and Dune enough already?
Nica having Mara Jade though. She looks familiar, has she been in movies before?
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"Computers are mighter than the pen, sword and usually the programmer."
ever think of moving to say... Ohio? we have a definitive shortage of women into technology. For an example go to the peer to peer personals off of userfriendly & search on Ohio. You will get several guys, but no women (at least as of a couple weeks ago).
;)
Any women want to move to this state? please?
If you've ever been to the south island of new zealand and seen a canterbury rugby [big bastards chase an oblong spheroid pigskin ball] supporter you'll know what i mean.
that maul dude is nothing compared to those guys -- they open beer bottles with their eye-sockets and drink more beer that yo mama!
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Rare Window - free your photos
He must have taken the advice "'i' before 'e'
except after 'c' or when sounding like 'ay' as
in 'neighbor' and 'weigh'" too literally.
In theory, theory and practice are the same; in practice they're different. (Yogi Berra & A. Einstein)
Yea! Let's dig up one of the most stale flame war topics on slashdot!
I'm sure much will be contributed to the discussion this time around.
Minds will be expanded, and whichever side demonstrates more flaming prowness will see a massive influx of users as everyone abandons the losing side.
Noone ever said slashdot was impartial FWIW. Never assume anything or anyone is impartial.
When you see evidence of a bias some where, feel free to point it out, but don't whine about it.
I'm not too surprised at the difference. Open Sources is a book of essays of people's opinions, not necessarily of the facts :-) While I'd expect a technical editor to be able to thoughtfully correct and proofread I/O stream architecture, I'd imagine they wouldn't have a lot to offer to opinion essays.