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There's always been a kind of "change is bad/one system forever!" monoculture in the IT sectors in Korea (and, in lots of other area in Korea too, but let's keep to the topic.)
Other pet peeves:
1. Making whole pages textual information just (titled up) jpeg images of... text, because they're too set in the ways (read: "lazy") to learn how to use HTML to position text and make it do what they want. (That, and having a fast local network, too; some older pages still have a 10MB flash based "welcome" graphic.... just because.) I've actually sat in on a class at a Korean computer institute and they were just concentrating on 1.) designing in Photoshop, 2.) exporting the whole canvas as a "page", and 3) doing very basic editing in the HTML editor to define some click hotspots. That's it.
2. Just trying to buy a pre-built computer system off the shelf that isn't Windows/Intel CPU/nVidia GPU. You'll have a hard time finding them in (South) Korea. You see, the hardware cartel of Intel/nVidia were established early in the PCbangs (LAN cafes)â"where most people encountered their first PC, so that's what everybody now looks for when they go shopping for a home PC. AMD parts can now be found on Gmaket or down in Yongsan, but they're not often bufled together.
This idea, that the perception of the passage of time is in direct relation to the size/mass of the observer, was a central theme of the science fiction novel Dragon's Egg.
One question he was asked was whether a government agency had ever asked about inserting a back-door into Linux. Torvalds responded 'no' while shaking his head 'yes,'
That's actually quite a cunning answer: possibly, regardless of his answer to the back-door request (I hope the answer was something like "No, fuck you"), like others in comparable situations have hinted at, maybe he's being held accountable to some kind of on-going government "Non-disclosure clause" concerning such a request/conversation.
But can body language and gestures be held up to the same legal gagging? I'm sure no legal precedent been held for that yet, and Linus probably is aware of that.
Slashdot Mirror
But, what about on a plug resistant magnetic yank?
There's some good live coverage of it here as of right now: http://english.cntv.cn/live/p2p/index.shtml
http://www.troll.me/images/facepalm-picard/not-this-shit-again.jpg
How appropriate. You fight like a cow.
It took me until the third sentence to work out that it's referring to programming languages.
How it works and how its contents remain "private" and "secure":
You use it, but none of your friends do.
You can't educate users, but you can configure the technology to improve the 'idiot mode'...
And thus, we all get Windows 8.
http://proselyytti.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/thats_the_joke.jpg
"Suggest(s)" = you could fit the whole universe into that.
Someone's already on to it: http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=373763
(Quick link to the petition.)
That's why I don't type on the internet, I just lurk.
Oh, shit.
They'll be prying his midget porn from his small, cold, dead, slightly sticky hands
FTFY
I guess children will have to search for abuse some other way, then.
Pass coffee?? I can do that all by myself, thank you.
"My work here is done."
In the bottom-right corner of the above mentioned website, I noticed what might be a very recent addition:
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There's always been a kind of "change is bad/one system forever!" monoculture in the IT sectors in Korea (and, in lots of other area in Korea too, but let's keep to the topic.)
Other pet peeves:
1. Making whole pages textual information just (titled up) jpeg images of... text, because they're too set in the ways (read: "lazy") to learn how to use HTML to position text and make it do what they want. (That, and having a fast local network, too; some older pages still have a 10MB flash based "welcome" graphic.... just because.) I've actually sat in on a class at a Korean computer institute and they were just concentrating on 1.) designing in Photoshop, 2.) exporting the whole canvas as a "page", and 3) doing very basic editing in the HTML editor to define some click hotspots. That's it.
2. Just trying to buy a pre-built computer system off the shelf that isn't Windows/Intel CPU/nVidia GPU. You'll have a hard time finding them in (South) Korea. You see, the hardware cartel of Intel/nVidia were established early in the PCbangs (LAN cafes)â"where most people encountered their first PC, so that's what everybody now looks for when they go shopping for a home PC. AMD parts can now be found on Gmaket or down in Yongsan, but they're not often bufled together.
Put simply (according to the SKT Korean phone in my hands): "there's an app for that".
That's what she said.
"We have altered the deal; pray we do not alter it again."
This troper...
There's a trope for that.
...you can't fight in here: this is the war room!
This idea, that the perception of the passage of time is in direct relation to the size/mass of the observer, was a central theme of the science fiction novel Dragon's Egg.
One question he was asked was whether a government agency had ever asked about inserting a back-door into Linux. Torvalds responded 'no' while shaking his head 'yes,'
That's actually quite a cunning answer: possibly, regardless of his answer to the back-door request (I hope the answer was something like "No, fuck you"), like others in comparable situations have hinted at, maybe he's being held accountable to some kind of on-going government "Non-disclosure clause" concerning such a request/conversation.
But can body language and gestures be held up to the same legal gagging? I'm sure no legal precedent been held for that yet, and Linus probably is aware of that.
A cunning, cunning way of answering the question.
Three score barrels of powder below,
Poor old England to overthrow:
By God's providence he was catch'd
With a dark lantern and burning match.