I don't think Taco meant that Slackware was worthless and should be put out to pasture. I think he was referring to the fact that its still around, despite others (RedHat, Debian, etc) that have exploded in popularity. If anything I think Taco was praising the fact that Slackware has been able to survive for as long as it has.
Does anyone else find the fonts in Konqueror painful to look at. I swear if they could fix this one problem they would have a first-tier web browser. Please, K-team, fix this for me!
Hey I hacked thru your firewall. It was a pretty pathetic one. I know nothing of ipchains but its obvious you know even less. And when I did hack it all you had were some crappy 80s MP3s (all of which I had, btw) and some gross German scat films, you sicko!
Just to teach you a lesson I rm -rf *'ed your/home/* directory. I'd post the log of it here, but my files seem to have disappeared. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go see what happened to them!
You personally might not renew your MSDN membership, but I doubt many software shops will be so bold. If your companies bread-and-butter is making Windows-based products, cancelling your MSDN membership is just not an option.
Really this is just a trial ballon that MS is floating. If no huge cry of protest goes up, expect to see this issued as a EULA in a great deal of their software from now on.
MS knows that using OSS will not require that anything produced with their SDK will neccessitate one to release ones product under the GPL, for example. However, MS is attempting to convince people of this. This is just another layer in their campaign of FUD.
Furthermore by adding this into their EULA, they're also attempting to force people to choose between MS and the rest of the world. In other words, its either Gate's way, or the highway. I wonder if any coding shops will change their practices because of this...
This sounds a lot like the Encyclopedia Brown stories I totally dug as a kid. I remember being thrilled once when I figured out how Bugs Meanie managed to win the raffle. On a similar note, be sure to look at Modern Humor's various parodies of thisseries.
Okay. I confess. I cheat from time to time in games. Mostly Half Life. When the speedcheat was tearing up servers several months ago, I'd use it from time to time to give me a new element to the game. But after a few minutes the newness wears off and the cheat gets boring.
Aimbots are similiar. They're fun for several rounds but once the newness wears off then its not as fun. Of course, half the fun is the reaction of people when the realize someone is cheating. I've never been called a fag so many times in my life!:)
So how do you get rid of a cheater? Simple: ignore him. I think most people who cheat do it for attention, either positive ("Wow you're great!") or negative ("Get off this server, homo!"). If no one pays him any attention he'll leave and go somewhere else. Of course, if you can get an entire server to act like no one is cheating, you can color me *very* impressed.
If you've yet to try Python I highly recommend it. I'm just learning to code and both Java and C++ proved frustrating. I learned more with Python in a few weeks than I did in a few months with other languages. Python greatly simplifies coding. You don't need to deal with pointers or garbage collection. You don't have to declare variables and their type before use. Instead one is free to focus on algorithms.
It helps that there is a great tutor mailing list with a very helpful community.
I don't know if any of you noticed this, but the voice of Choad was Stephen Root. He was Mr James in the TV Show News Radio. He also played Milton in the underrated Office Space. Just kinda interesting....
And I can see little reason why anyone should use it for their business.
Well, my mother does some consulting for architechture firms. She has to go to various firms throughout the day. Its much easier for her to upload data to a ASP then download it when she gets to her client.
Since the clients accept only certain types of media (ie: someplaces won't take zips) it makes it difficult to save it locally. So ASPs definately have their uses.
I saw that episode! I remember the dancing Port-O-Potty that would taunt them.
I also have a clip called "Guess Whats In Your Hat?" Two Japanese men would wear a wicket basket on their heads. The bottom of the basket was cut out. The game show host would put various living thing in their hat, and the contestants would have to guess what they were.
Of course it was impossible to guess. The winner was the one who didn't freak out on hearing he had several very large black scorpions crawling around his scalp.
In the words of Fark.com "What the hell is wrong with the Japanese?"
Not if it happened at Duke, but if it happened at Notre Dame I'd make a ton of drunken catholic jokes. I mean, they *are* the "fighting Irish" for a reason.:)
PS: The poster is Catholic and speaks from experience.
Ride your bike all you want, but don't take up the whole lane when I'm in a hurry. Nothing makes me wanna run over a bicyclist more than him pretentiously pedalling along, holding up traffic.
And before you flame me, I ride my mountainbike several times a week.
I, personally, don't use Mozilla (was never impressed too too much) but I'm glad it's OSS/Free Software.
Too bad Konqueror is a much, much better browser than Mozilla. Which would you rather have: Something shitty, but OpenSource or something that works great and closed source? Myself, I'd take the later. I'd probably run IE if it was on Linux.
OpenSource is nice, but only if it leads to a superior product.
It seems that The Filthy Critic already knows about this fake reviewer, and posts his comments about this, and the new Rob Schneider film, on his site. I meant to add this to my previous post (Taco, it would be nice if when I hit the return key, it previews the post instead of submitting it.)
I have to say of all the movie reviewers I've read, I think that only the Filthy Critic has all his shit in the same sock. I just wish he'd review things a little more often, though.
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Hi kids! Building a nuclear reactor might be all the rage amongst your friends, but really its yesterdays news. If you want to be "hip" with your peers, and maybe win the affection of that pretty girl in your class, why not build your own atomic bomb!
Yes, once you've built your own atomic device, we at ACME Atomic Products promise no more being picked on!
I have to second this. This post was probably one of the best things I've ever seen on Slashdot. I kept expecting to see a goatse.cx link. Maybe I'm just impressed at this point to see any reply of length that doesn't have a goatse.cx link at this point. Heh. Anyways, good job.
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I don't think Taco meant that Slackware was worthless and should be put out to pasture. I think he was referring to the fact that its still around, despite others (RedHat, Debian, etc) that have exploded in popularity. If anything I think Taco was praising the fact that Slackware has been able to survive for as long as it has.
How about a good old fashioned Clambake instead?
Clonaid makes the Scientologists seem almost rational in comparison. Almost.
Does anyone else find the fonts in Konqueror painful to look at. I swear if they could fix this one problem they would have a first-tier web browser. Please, K-team, fix this for me!
Move along folks, nothing to see here. Just a common, garden variety troll.
Just to teach you a lesson I rm -rf *'ed your /home/* directory. I'd post the log of it here, but my files seem to have disappeared. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go see what happened to them!
Really this is just a trial ballon that MS is floating. If no huge cry of protest goes up, expect to see this issued as a EULA in a great deal of their software from now on.
Furthermore by adding this into their EULA, they're also attempting to force people to choose between MS and the rest of the world. In other words, its either Gate's way, or the highway. I wonder if any coding shops will change their practices because of this...
This sounds a lot like the Encyclopedia Brown stories I totally dug as a kid. I remember being thrilled once when I figured out how Bugs Meanie managed to win the raffle. On a similar note, be sure to look at Modern Humor's various parodies of this series.
Aimbots are similiar. They're fun for several rounds but once the newness wears off then its not as fun. Of course, half the fun is the reaction of people when the realize someone is cheating. I've never been called a fag so many times in my life! :)
So how do you get rid of a cheater? Simple: ignore him. I think most people who cheat do it for attention, either positive ("Wow you're great!") or negative ("Get off this server, homo!"). If no one pays him any attention he'll leave and go somewhere else. Of course, if you can get an entire server to act like no one is cheating, you can color me *very* impressed.
It helps that there is a great tutor mailing list with a very helpful community.
I don't know if any of you noticed this, but the voice of Choad was Stephen Root. He was Mr James in the TV Show News Radio. He also played Milton in the underrated Office Space. Just kinda interesting....
Well, my mother does some consulting for architechture firms. She has to go to various firms throughout the day. Its much easier for her to upload data to a ASP then download it when she gets to her client.
Since the clients accept only certain types of media (ie: someplaces won't take zips) it makes it difficult to save it locally. So ASPs definately have their uses.
"In America you reward knowledge! In Japan, we punish ignorance!"
I also have a clip called "Guess Whats In Your Hat?" Two Japanese men would wear a wicket basket on their heads. The bottom of the basket was cut out. The game show host would put various living thing in their hat, and the contestants would have to guess what they were.
Of course it was impossible to guess. The winner was the one who didn't freak out on hearing he had several very large black scorpions crawling around his scalp.
In the words of Fark.com "What the hell is wrong with the Japanese?"
PS: The poster is Catholic and speaks from experience.
Wow, I'm glad to see someone besides Timothy posted something. I was beginning to think there'd been a massacre at the Slashdot Compound.
And before you flame me, I ride my mountainbike several times a week.
You know, my first impression was this was a Steve Jobs quote. Having read it twice, I'm still not sure that it isn't! :)
Too bad Konqueror is a much, much better browser than Mozilla. Which would you rather have: Something shitty, but OpenSource or something that works great and closed source? Myself, I'd take the later. I'd probably run IE if it was on Linux.
OpenSource is nice, but only if it leads to a superior product.
It seems that The Filthy Critic already knows about this fake reviewer, and posts his comments about this, and the new Rob Schneider film, on his site. I meant to add this to my previous post (Taco, it would be nice if when I hit the return key, it previews the post instead of submitting it.)
I have to say of all the movie reviewers I've read, I think that only the Filthy Critic has all his shit in the same sock. I just wish he'd review things a little more often, though.
Yes, once you've built your own atomic device, we at ACME Atomic Products promise no more being picked on!
I have to second this. This post was probably one of the best things I've ever seen on Slashdot. I kept expecting to see a goatse.cx link. Maybe I'm just impressed at this point to see any reply of length that doesn't have a goatse.cx link at this point. Heh. Anyways, good job.