Have you ever read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson? it deals with some of the issues you're complaining about, while I can't say much more without giving away plot points...
I don't mean it's a linux killer now...but it very well could be in a few years.. unless Linus decides he's gonna completely redo the kernel as OO once HURD starts gaining marketshare and usablility.
who knows...her character in Austin Powers went for Mike Myers... maybe she has a thing for TTH's like Rob... Hemos is just jealous..don't see why though, Nitrozac drawing all ripped and all...
I remember when you first started posting on/. your day job was with freedomforum.org and Slashdot was just something you wrote for because you wanted to. my question is, are you now on Slashdot/Andover/VA payroll, and where else are you currently writing stuff? or more briefly...what is your "day job," besides writing cool books about geeks?
I certainly would not want people putting wors in my mouth, would you? That is what I mean: no more, and no less.
I agree with your statement about such a thing allow others to put words into someone else's mouth, but if you find such a thing so distasteful, why do you do that very thing to Roblimo (the real one)?
disagree with you there. I watched a documentary on a PBS station a while ago about how the producers of 60 minutes actually do their work. All the extensive review and revision and further review are 1,000,000,000,000x more than slashdot could easily do in a year. This has to be done every week and is the only thing they ever do. Slashdot cannot compete with "traditional" media outlets unless they significantly increase their capital and use streaming video segments 24/7/365 with a whole world wide team of anchors and editors. So, because they do damn near same quality work, with less expenditure of resources, they are inferior? in my opinion if it can be done cheaper and quicker, it is better... what is NASA's new motto? Smaller, Cheaper, Faster?
I read this book in the mid 90's and I loved it, but as i read it, I wondered how different I would have interpreted it if I had been reading it in the mid 80's. the end of the cold war takes away some of the spookiness of the story, but the threat is still there. If you remember growing up or living through the Cold War, you should enjoy this book
oops, my bad. but can you blame a guy raised in a culture that pretends it runs the world? my humble apolgies. I realize I am americancentric, and I don't like it. I try to avoid it, but you are right, it is incredibly pervasive.
the term science fiction was coined by Hugo Gernsback, publisher of a few pulp magazines in the golden age of Sci-Fi, and the man the the Hugo Award for outstanding Science Fiction is named after. his original term for the genre was "Scientific Fiction", but was later shortened to Science Fiction.
the first american/modern Sci-Fi novel is considered to be Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (if you've only seen the movies, read the book, it is so much better, and deeper), although Shelley wasn't the first (Jules Vern, to name the most famous out of a large crowd) her novel was the first to take modern science (the animation of dead frog legs with electricity) an make the fantastic jump to animated flesh from death.
I personally think Science Fiction can be any type of story, any genre, but they are all stories that use a scientific discover/occurance as a backdrop.
what do you think are the chances of MS being forced to release the source of Windows under a GPL-like license and different Windows Distrobutions popping up? and if you answer yes to that question, how will that affect linux? will we just gobble up the good and throw out the bad, or will we continue to fight for the desktop space?
so...this begs the question, how much does a good headhunter cost, and do for those of us in the Pennsylvania area, who was your headhunter? since she did such a very good job.:)
some companies are using Marimba Castanet... I do Tech Support to one of the larges tax preparers in the country, and for the 2000 tax year we are using castanet to send sales information to world headquarters. I'm very foggy on the details, becuase the company doesn't like to let their lowly Tech support staff no more about the software then they absolutely need to.
but to sum up that rambling, Castanet is still alive...if barely
I'm always amused how when something like this comes up we spend hours upon hours trying to define it by way of an analogy. What is it about the human mind that always needs an analogy to assimilate new information or processes?
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hey! he is a highly trained astronaut, who we all know have to spend years learning to identify foreign DNA on sight! or something...
heck yeah, hasn't anyone seen Independence Day? sheesh :)
Have you ever read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson? it deals with some of the issues you're complaining about, while I can't say much more without giving away plot points...
who programs in a kill command that kills the executable AND the source? That's just silly.
how durable are these things? can I stick it in my wallet and sit down without worrying about cracking my CD?
glad I'm not the only one who found it funny :)
Oh, and go search for anything about McCain on AltaVista and it will think you misspelled it... they think you were probably looking for cocaine.
oh, you mean they think you were looking for Bush?
sorry, had to say it.
wow. a geek that takes pictures of his ramen noodles and puts it on the web. now I seen perhaps the most rediculous use of webspace. more power to ya
I don't mean it's a linux killer now...but it very well could be in a few years.. unless Linus decides he's gonna completely redo the kernel as OO once HURD starts gaining marketshare and usablility.
just a guess, and I'm wearing absetos jockey shorts, so flame away, but...
GNU/HURD
just making it my personal mission to point out to everyone that is is not the real hemos he has a . after his name... darn posers...
who knows...her character in Austin Powers went for Mike Myers... maybe she has a thing for TTH's like Rob... Hemos is just jealous..don't see why though, Nitrozac drawing all ripped and all...
I'm aware of his creditials, I'm just interested in what else he is involved in these days. Oh Sheesh, indeed
I remember when you first started posting on /. your day job was with freedomforum.org and Slashdot was just something you wrote for because you wanted to. my question is, are you now on Slashdot/Andover/VA payroll, and where else are you currently writing stuff? or more briefly...what is your "day job," besides writing cool books about geeks?
I certainly would not want people putting wors in my mouth, would you? That is what I mean: no more, and no less.
I agree with your statement about such a thing allow others to put words into someone else's mouth, but if you find such a thing so distasteful, why do you do that very thing to Roblimo (the real one)?
disagree with you there. I watched a documentary on a PBS station a while ago about how the producers of 60 minutes actually do their work. All the extensive review and revision and further review are 1,000,000,000,000x more than slashdot could easily do in a year. This has to be done every week and is the only thing they ever do. Slashdot cannot compete with "traditional" media outlets unless they significantly increase their capital and use streaming video segments 24/7/365 with a whole world wide team of anchors and editors. So, because they do damn near same quality work, with less expenditure of resources, they are inferior? in my opinion if it can be done cheaper and quicker, it is better... what is NASA's new motto? Smaller, Cheaper, Faster?
if I had read it in the late fifties,
I probably would have started archiving libraries
I read this book in the mid 90's and I loved it, but as i read it, I wondered how different I would have interpreted it if I had been reading it in the mid 80's. the end of the cold war takes away some of the spookiness of the story, but the threat is still there. If you remember growing up or living through the Cold War, you should enjoy this book
oops, my bad. but can you blame a guy raised in a culture that pretends it runs the world? my humble apolgies. I realize I am americancentric, and I don't like it. I try to avoid it, but you are right, it is incredibly pervasive.
the term science fiction was coined by Hugo Gernsback, publisher of a few pulp magazines in the golden age of Sci-Fi, and the man the the Hugo Award for outstanding Science Fiction is named after. his original term for the genre was "Scientific Fiction", but was later shortened to Science Fiction.
the first american/modern Sci-Fi novel is considered to be Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (if you've only seen the movies, read the book, it is so much better, and deeper), although Shelley wasn't the first (Jules Vern, to name the most famous out of a large crowd) her novel was the first to take modern science (the animation of dead frog legs with electricity) an make the fantastic jump to animated flesh from death.
I personally think Science Fiction can be any type of story, any genre, but they are all stories that use a scientific discover/occurance as a backdrop.
what do you think are the chances of MS being forced to release the source of Windows under a GPL-like license and different Windows Distrobutions popping up? and if you answer yes to that question, how will that affect linux? will we just gobble up the good and throw out the bad, or will we continue to fight for the desktop space?
so...this begs the question, how much does a good headhunter cost, and do for those of us in the Pennsylvania area, who was your headhunter? since she did such a very good job. :)
yeah...why doesn't the Church try to get the patent on all genetic material on earth... after all, they control the estate of it's developer...
That, I say, That there is a joke, Son
--Foghorn Leghorn
some companies are using Marimba Castanet...
I do Tech Support to one of the larges tax preparers in the country, and for the 2000 tax year we are using castanet to send sales information to world headquarters. I'm very foggy on the details, becuase the company doesn't like to let their lowly Tech support staff no more about the software then they absolutely need to.
but to sum up that rambling, Castanet is still alive...if barely
I'm always amused how when something like this comes up we spend hours upon hours trying to define it by way of an analogy. What is it about the human mind that always needs an analogy to assimilate new information or processes?