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That just doesn't have the same feeling of excitement as getting up at 2am in the pouring rain, going to a telephone booth with a 555 timer chip and piezo, making freaking calls with your computer next to you plugged into the 12V socket of your car, then posting abusive messages anonymously on your favourite BBS. And all for free, man!
You know, like we used to have [a filter] for Jon Katz? So we don't have to even see anything he submits, since it's mostly old news or just recycled from a more credible source?
I was about to take offence at that statement, but then I realized I'm not Roland Pipe.. pip.. something.
But I had to laugh at the title. The meaning of the structure of networks is a stupid idea. The purpose maybe, the philosophy behind the structure maybe. But the meaning of? Go ask a Dadaist.
No more windows pre-installed. Or so I've heard. Now we only need tons of Ubuntu disks to give away at the sotre. Wow, talk about being behind and ahead at the same time! Do they have a ban on the eeepc and other less-than-$800 computers? And any way it doesn't have to be $800 - surely there is a market for importing old hardware?
... a lot of money for a fancy metronome? Isn't it so true - Man doesn't need the devil to make him look a fool. He is perfectly capable of doing it himself.
but what's the point of simplifying descriptions and problems up to the point of being meaningless and useless ? This isn't information, it's advertising. The target audience is teenagers with wealthy parents who will buy the NVIDIA cards for them.
'The concept of writing individual programs which run on multiple cores is called multi-threading. That basically means that more than one part of the program is running at the same time, but on different cores.
Patrick (the maintainer) is a SubGenius [wikipedia.org]. Well, for a distro that was supposedly inspired by the religion, Slackware is not particularly funny or amusing but much of the installation process does make you think it's intended to make a parody of the user and teach them the true meaning of absurdity.
To some it is boring, yet to others it's a sign that not only is Linux not going to go away, but it is available for any business, government institution, school, person etc. to modify and use it as they please
I just read some reviews on Slackware, then Gentoo. I run Ubuntu at the moment. I think people bash Slackware because it's difficult to install and maintain compared to others. But if someone gave me the job of installing Linux onto a computer that will later be difficult to physically access and must work no matter what, say, for example, in an operating theatre, then Slackware is a worthy choice. Seems like it's possible to get exactly the features you desire with slackware and nothing else.
But it seems to me that everybody is thinking that every Linux distro's big wish is to pass the wife-test. Not everybody wants to design, build and maintain their own car. Most people just want a car that works and gets fixed for them, but it would be a sad day if we had no alternatives like slackware.
The parent has a point. Just because Mr Schwarz is a CEO of a household name and just because he's talking about open source doesn't make it a worthy article. It's full of drivel and very boring to read. Our humble down-modded first-poster was trying to save us a bit of time. There is nothing new in this engadget article. Slow news day.. move along!
It can also observe in the ultraviolet and infrared, in addition to visible light. ... and if you phone in the next 30 minutes, we'll throw in a free set of telescopic steak-knives, absolutely free. That's right folks, it slices, it dices, it focuses with razor sharp precision. Still not convinced, stay tuned and watch our chef Pierre demonstrate...
No mod points? A sudden burst of unfiltered posts. An unbiased reflection of the vast mediocrity of mankind with all its inanity. Or is it a haystack full of golden needles? Ouch! These stupid analogies are beginning to hurt.
Maybe if you made your own stains with her she wouldn't be suspicious. I forgive you for making that statement (since you haven't seen her photograph), but really, that would be gross.
Note the use of the words: Recently, ext2, defrag, and.. token ring?? At first when I saw the formatting, I thought the self-inflicted linebreaks were there because the poster was about to write a poem or something beautiful, but it really was diarrhoea with a dash of sulphur. A total waste of time.
I might be a little inaccurate about this, but AFAIK nobody forces you to GPL license your kernel patches, but you are forced to tell people that you used a GPL'd kernel in the first place and tell them where they can get it for free.
Serves you right if you are trying to make a buck off other people's hard work. Running software (including kernel drivers) on Linux DOES NOT require you to release your source code. Where's the source code for Googleearth, or VMWare, or NXClient/Server or the nVidia proprietary drivers? Where's the source code for your router? Exactly.
I don't know who you have for a lawyer, but I can't see how your case is real. Nobody else is seeming to be having this problem.
A lot of what makes a Mac a Mac is the whole "it just works" thing. Many people don't quite get this until they've actually used a real Mac for more than a few weeks. Plug things in and you don't need to dick around with fighting to get it to work right. Sleep and hibernation that work the way they're supposed to. But with a machine like this, you toss all that out the window - which means one of the most attractive things about owning or using a Mac (aside from the joy of OS X) goes out the window too.
You don't happen to work in a macshop or something, do you?
Heaps of computers 'just work'. Maybe not Windows ones. And heaps of Macs just die suddenly. They are pretty, they are easy to use, but they still aren't worth the money.
The fan's so loud that at about 2 minutes into the video it drowns out a passing fire truck. Nah that's just the commentator's hairy, distorted, monotonous voice.
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That just doesn't have the same feeling of excitement as getting up at 2am in the pouring rain, going to a telephone booth with a 555 timer chip and piezo, making freaking calls with your computer next to you plugged into the 12V socket of your car, then posting abusive messages anonymously on your favourite BBS. And all for free, man!
I was about to take offence at that statement, but then I realized I'm not Roland Pipe.. pip.. something.
But I had to laugh at the title. The meaning of the structure of networks is a stupid idea. The purpose maybe, the philosophy behind the structure maybe. But the meaning of? Go ask a Dadaist.
Let me see... *tap tap tap* .. hmmm...
.. Computer says no I'm afraid.
... a lot of money for a fancy metronome? Isn't it so true - Man doesn't need the devil to make him look a fool. He is perfectly capable of doing it himself.Precisely.
No offence, but I'm perplexed as to how this rubbish made it past the firehose.
Wow, I bet nobody on slashdot knew that!
I just read some reviews on Slackware, then Gentoo. I run Ubuntu at the moment. I think people bash Slackware because it's difficult to install and maintain compared to others. But if someone gave me the job of installing Linux onto a computer that will later be difficult to physically access and must work no matter what, say, for example, in an operating theatre, then Slackware is a worthy choice. Seems like it's possible to get exactly the features you desire with slackware and nothing else.
But it seems to me that everybody is thinking that every Linux distro's big wish is to pass the wife-test. Not everybody wants to design, build and maintain their own car. Most people just want a car that works and gets fixed for them, but it would be a sad day if we had no alternatives like slackware.
The parent has a point. Just because Mr Schwarz is a CEO of a household name and just because he's talking about open source doesn't make it a worthy article. It's full of drivel and very boring to read. Our humble down-modded first-poster was trying to save us a bit of time. There is nothing new in this engadget article. Slow news day.. move along!
...they misrepresented the capacity... I'm sure they thought they were just being creative.No mod points? A sudden burst of unfiltered posts. An unbiased reflection of the vast mediocrity of mankind with all its inanity. Or is it a haystack full of golden needles? Ouch! These stupid analogies are beginning to hurt.
.. right..
But they still need the back door for the BSA and the NSA... this is all starting to sound disturbingly like the trench-coat brigade at the wharf public toilets.
I might be a little inaccurate about this, but AFAIK nobody forces you to GPL license your kernel patches, but you are forced to tell people that you used a GPL'd kernel in the first place and tell them where they can get it for free.
Serves you right if you are trying to make a buck off other people's hard work. Running software (including kernel drivers) on Linux DOES NOT require you to release your source code. Where's the source code for Googleearth, or VMWare, or NXClient/Server or the nVidia proprietary drivers? Where's the source code for your router? Exactly.
I don't know who you have for a lawyer, but I can't see how your case is real. Nobody else is seeming to be having this problem.
You don't happen to work in a macshop or something, do you?
Heaps of computers 'just work'. Maybe not Windows ones. And heaps of Macs just die suddenly. They are pretty, they are easy to use, but they still aren't worth the money.