Wow. I actually felt bad for you before I read the linked thread. There are very few people in the world who truly are jerks to the core of their being. I think you're one of them.
Maybe other people did what I did. Every time I got mod points, I'd switch to oldest-first, read at -1, and really take my time and mod carefully. After a while, getting metamodded as 'unfair' on things like 'redundant' or 'troll' (which I can guarantee were the case -- I took moderating seriously) just got old. So I no longer moderate. By this point, it's probably mostly trolls with the points anyway.
And like you said, if the editors can't be bothered to take pride in their work, I'm not going to care either. I'm not complaining, really -- it's their blog and I just read it. But the state of/. is definitely driven from the top down.
I've always dreamed of going off to a monatstery for like ten years and becoming some kind of ninja of anime-style artwork. Then I'd do Count Zero, Neuromancer, and Mona Lisa Overdrive. (In that order. In media res and all that.) I might even throw in Johnny Mnemonic to make up for the abomination that was the movie. Then I'd just sit back and say "Take that, Akira!"
I agree with you that it's not really filmable; you couldn't do it justice with live actors. But it begs to be animated.
The same ACLU that has consistently fought in favor of allowing children to pray, distribute religious literature, or otherwise express their religious beliefs in schools? You're either arguing against an organization you know little about, or simply being disingenuous. Neither one is a particularly honorable tactic for persuading people to your beliefs.
That's a great idea! I can shell out to MS for a Windows license and then downl... oh wait, we're back to where we started. Not to mention that I can't send in anything to my government... it's supposed to be two-way.
Instead of this roundabout, I'm honestly and genuinely interested in hearing your justification for a government ever storing public documents in a closed format. I've never been able to come up with one, but I'd love to hear it.
As a tax-paying resident of Massachusetts, I disagree. I should not be required to pay for a license from Microsoft to read documents that my tax dollars paid for. It's as simple as that.
AFAIK, Arthur C Clark made obvious that he wrote Science Fiction.
He also proposed/invented the communications satellite. Many people thought he should have stuck to writing fiction then, too, instead of passing off his crazy ideas as possible.
Notably, when asked when the space elevator would be built, he replied "About 50 years after everyone has stopped laughing." (Though I've read he's later revised it down to 25.)
Some of us have stopped laughing.
Actually, "quantum" in Latin means "how great" or "how much". In that light, the name of the series makes sense -- the main character never knew 'how great' a leap he'd be making next.
So you applied some of those dubious 'third party utilities' to something new and incompatible with them, fucked it up, and blamed the 'something new.'
You know that 'third party' generally doesn't mean 'shipped with the OS by the manufacturer', right? You know that scandisk is Microsoft's own utility for repairing VFAT partitions, right?
I rarely argue with anyone about what is obviously a personal preference. But honestly, if you want things to 'just work' with no tinkering, what could possibly make you think that Gentoo was for you? It's explicitly aimed at those who want the bleeding edge stuff and like to tinker.
There's direct historical precedent for power corrupting. (How's the Free Love going now that the hippies are in power?)
Children do learn from what they see. What they see isn't necessarily the same thing you've been telling them. If we believe that there's genuinely no way to make a difference, it's only because you taught us that lesson so very well.
Ah, I finally understand! All those silly scientists who've been claiming that evolution is a series of inheritable adaptations are idiots! Evolution *really* means "one creature evolving into someonthing completely unrecognizably different in one generation, preferably taking less than five minutes". You've shown me the light!
One step ahead of
you. But I would argue that having a presidential candidate does
more good than harm by providing exposure. It shows that the party is
large and well-organized enough to successfully campaign for the largest
election in the country.
I'm not even going to contemplate where they think Alaska is
located.
Duh... it's a few hundred miles southwest of California, right next to
Hawaii. (There's a thick black protective barrier of some kind around
them, I think after Pearl Harbor was bombed in the 1700s.) Don't you
look at maps?
Skim the article... maybe you'll find a link to a crowbar to pry your
foot out of your mouth. (Or, "Don't tell others to RTFA if you haven't
RTFA yourself.")
(Not the original poster, but I'll respond anyway.) It's not like su at
all... it's like different terminals. Each virtual terminal is a new
login.
What was described with the Fn keys is a bit clunky, IMHO. There's no
automatic security on there -- you can switch to another open terminal
just by hitting the appropriate button. However, I remember Ximian
adding a 'New Login...' option to the GNOME menu sometime around 1.4(?).
It performed just like the fast user switching in XP/OSX... you get an
XDM/GDM/KDM login window asking for a username and password, and the
display on the original login just got locked like XScreensaver does.
It was fairly well hidden, so not many people seem to know it was there,
but I used it frequently and loved it. And this was before XP came out
-- I remember wondering why MS acted like switching users on the fly was
such a big deal when I'd been doing it in Linux already.
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Wow. I actually felt bad for you before I read the linked thread. There are very few people in the world who truly are jerks to the core of their being. I think you're one of them.
Maybe other people did what I did. Every time I got mod points, I'd switch to oldest-first, read at -1, and really take my time and mod carefully. After a while, getting metamodded as 'unfair' on things like 'redundant' or 'troll' (which I can guarantee were the case -- I took moderating seriously) just got old. So I no longer moderate. By this point, it's probably mostly trolls with the points anyway.
/. is definitely driven from the top down.
And like you said, if the editors can't be bothered to take pride in their work, I'm not going to care either. I'm not complaining, really -- it's their blog and I just read it. But the state of
I've always dreamed of going off to a monatstery for like ten years and becoming some kind of ninja of anime-style artwork. Then I'd do Count Zero, Neuromancer, and Mona Lisa Overdrive. (In that order. In media res and all that.) I might even throw in Johnny Mnemonic to make up for the abomination that was the movie. Then I'd just sit back and say "Take that, Akira!"
I agree with you that it's not really filmable; you couldn't do it justice with live actors. But it begs to be animated.
The same ACLU that has consistently fought in favor of allowing children to pray, distribute religious literature, or otherwise express their religious beliefs in schools? You're either arguing against an organization you know little about, or simply being disingenuous. Neither one is a particularly honorable tactic for persuading people to your beliefs.
That's a great idea! I can shell out to MS for a Windows license and then downl... oh wait, we're back to where we started. Not to mention that I can't send in anything to my government... it's supposed to be two-way. Instead of this roundabout, I'm honestly and genuinely interested in hearing your justification for a government ever storing public documents in a closed format. I've never been able to come up with one, but I'd love to hear it.
As a tax-paying resident of Massachusetts, I disagree. I should not be required to pay for a license from Microsoft to read documents that my tax dollars paid for. It's as simple as that.
AFAIK, Arthur C Clark made obvious that he wrote Science Fiction. He also proposed/invented the communications satellite. Many people thought he should have stuck to writing fiction then, too, instead of passing off his crazy ideas as possible. Notably, when asked when the space elevator would be built, he replied "About 50 years after everyone has stopped laughing." (Though I've read he's later revised it down to 25.) Some of us have stopped laughing.
Actually, "quantum" in Latin means "how great" or "how much". In that light, the name of the series makes sense -- the main character never knew 'how great' a leap he'd be making next.
So you applied some of those dubious 'third party utilities' to something new and incompatible with them, fucked it up, and blamed the 'something new.' You know that 'third party' generally doesn't mean 'shipped with the OS by the manufacturer', right? You know that scandisk is Microsoft's own utility for repairing VFAT partitions, right?
I rarely argue with anyone about what is obviously a personal preference. But honestly, if you want things to 'just work' with no tinkering, what could possibly make you think that Gentoo was for you? It's explicitly aimed at those who want the bleeding edge stuff and like to tinker.
"Not having access to that technology, we make ours out of napkins."
There's direct historical precedent for power corrupting. (How's the Free Love going now that the hippies are in power?)
Children do learn from what they see. What they see isn't necessarily the same thing you've been telling them. If we believe that there's genuinely no way to make a difference, it's only because you taught us that lesson so very well.
Ah, I finally understand! All those silly scientists who've been claiming that evolution is a series of inheritable adaptations are idiots! Evolution *really* means "one creature evolving into someonthing completely unrecognizably different in one generation, preferably taking less than five minutes". You've shown me the light!
If plants that naturally grow wild can be illegal, modding hardware that you own can too. (Of course, illegality != immorality. Follow the money.)
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Seriously, do you have any links to more information about this? I'd be interested in reading them.
Google turns up a reprint here with no registration required.
One step ahead of you. But I would argue that having a presidential candidate does more good than harm by providing exposure. It shows that the party is large and well-organized enough to successfully campaign for the largest election in the country.
Of course you [the average American] know the Canadian provinces, it's right next door.
Hmmm... probably not...
(there are just too many that are too insignificant to remember them all).
I was going to explain why, but you seem to have done that for me.
I'm not even going to contemplate where they think Alaska is located.
Duh... it's a few hundred miles southwest of California, right next to Hawaii. (There's a thick black protective barrier of some kind around them, I think after Pearl Harbor was bombed in the 1700s.) Don't you look at maps?
Shouldn't that be "I for 1.000000000317"? Or did they fix that bug?
(-1, reference to overblown P1 rounding errors)
Skim the article... maybe you'll find a link to a crowbar to pry your foot out of your mouth. (Or, "Don't tell others to RTFA if you haven't RTFA yourself.")
This is just another stupid Slashdot fad that will hopefully die quickly before it catches on.
Don't you mean before it catches on... in Japan?
("I'm bizarro Stormy!" "I'm regular Stormy!")
My lungs are adapting! I've inhaled a roast
(Not the original poster, but I'll respond anyway.) It's not like su at all... it's like different terminals. Each virtual terminal is a new login.
What was described with the Fn keys is a bit clunky, IMHO. There's no automatic security on there -- you can switch to another open terminal just by hitting the appropriate button. However, I remember Ximian adding a 'New Login...' option to the GNOME menu sometime around 1.4(?). It performed just like the fast user switching in XP/OSX... you get an XDM/GDM/KDM login window asking for a username and password, and the display on the original login just got locked like XScreensaver does. It was fairly well hidden, so not many people seem to know it was there, but I used it frequently and loved it. And this was before XP came out -- I remember wondering why MS acted like switching users on the fly was such a big deal when I'd been doing it in Linux already.
Librarys should be blackboxes, and you should be able to trust them.
*wipes away a tear*
Thanks... I needed that. If I had modpoints, you'd have +1 Funny right now.