I eat two bagels in the morning with cream cheese, work like a dog all day, then I eat whatever I can find sometime around 6 or 7. Then maybe once a month I eat like a fly (as in nothing but sugar for a day). Basically the same weight I was in high school, 175 or so.
My dad was born the day the bismark sank. (he's old) He knows that you can play solitaire on a computer. That, mahjongg and email is all he cares about. He uses linux now. It's stupid simple for him to use. It doesn't crash. Despite all records to the contrary XP does in fact crash reading email.
People that say linux isn't user friendly are people that just gave up on their brains. I don't have any computer training whatsoever. I do have a normal life of parties, beer and friends. I have slept with several women. I am not a geek stereotype (who is anymore?) It does not take a computer science degree to use linux or any other operating system. Don't give up on your brain.
also, what is so simple about navigating windows? Windows has never been "point and click" it has been "click and guess".
there is nothing intuitive about the Windows ui. or the mac ui. or gnome or kde or any of the others. There's nothing intuitive about a steering wheel either. You have to learn it.
I'm on a roll now and have karma to burn. what is intuitive about the file menu? file is a menu on every program I've ever used with drop down menus. why is "print" under file? why is "quit" under file? its doens't make any intuitive sense but that's the way we've always done it and we've learned to do it that way.
windows isn't user friendly. its just never changes. you know what happens with something that doesn't change? it stagnates and dies.
as I recalll Apple did the same thing many moons ago. You youngsters might not remember this but there was a time when the only computers in a school were Apple computers. IIes I think. It doesn't seem that did much of a difference for them in the long term.
I'm so fucking over this shit. I fucking can't stand it anymore. All I want to do is listen to the music I purchase in the manner I choose.
I understand they want to make sure I'm not stealing the music. Thats fine. I'm not. I own all the oggs I've encoded. I don't share em. I don't make copies on discs. I just listen to them. Thats it. Thats what the majority of us do. quit treating your customers like criminals. fucking pissing me off. god damn it!
sorry folks I needed to do that. mod me down. doesn't hurt me.
hawking, feynman, gribbin. good good good. all on my shelf.
everyone recommends six easy pieces but might I suggest that you be sure and get the audio of the lectures. I taught myself to rollerblade while listening to Feynman explain everything else. do note though that the first lecture sounds somewhat crappy due to the original source material. but the other five are dandy and Feynman is a funny guy.
actually I started with debian, couldn't figure out what the hell I was doing, got red hat, botched that, got mandrake, managed that rather well, then back to debian.
I just think this is a natural progression for users. mandrake holds your hand more which is great. red hat gives you that feeling of big company to turn to, and debian has that sort of indier than thou flavor with a little apt-get thrown in for good measure.:) laugh people.
I wouldn't know what to do with blender but I understand many of you would. I have to say I'm quite impressed by the swiftness of this code rescue. makes you think we're not all just trying to get free stuff. perhaps this will lead people to do the same in future instances for money-calls. This shows it can be done.
everyone complains about debian. too slow to release, too hard to install... etc, ad nauseum.
folks. there are other distros. use them instead.
I've come to believe that mandrake is the first distro you use, red hat is the second and then once you realize that you should be reading slashdot and other such sites and start hearing about debian and graducate to that. after debian you start thinking about trying linux from scratch. thats just the nature of the beast. I kind of like it that way.
take it from the son of a diabetic. pricking your finger and taking care of yourself is much preferred to the neuropathy that can develop if you don't. course once you have neuropathy you don't have to worry about pricking your finger cause you won't be able to feel it anymore.
remember, prick your finger, never finger your prick.
i have to say that physics, especially on the quantumn level, is the most interesting science I know of. there are others that are fascinating but nothing gets to the heart of everything like physics. can i get an amen?:) the slit experiment, when I first read about it in some layman's guide to physics just floored me with its simplicity and easy understandability.
this is why every disc I copy to my harddrive is done in ogg. all kept in house. i use a free codec to copy my music that I bought with my money to my computer that I do not redistribute so that I can listen to it in a fashion that is more suitable for me. near as I can tell thats still legal isn't it? I'd really have no problem with xmms becoming an ogg only player. the only thing I look forward to is ogg compatibility on the iPod.
agreed. I've got the O'reilly vi book and its been just handy dandy for me. I use vim about a billion times a day (ok not a billion but you get the picture) and anything I ever need to do is pretty handily answered in o'reilly's book.
I love vim and my heart goes out to starving africans but I'm not buying this book. the typos I've heard about here alone is enough to steer me away from it.
also, new riders, whats their deal? has anyone read the NR's mysql book? does it not seem like a damn near verbatim copy of the mysql online documentation only sans that helpful search function?
If they have windows and line of sight can't they use infrared? How fast does the network really have to be in a couple of houses that are hundreds of years old? what exactly do they do that they need the network for anyway?
good point. there is an upside, though, to all the gadgets a super geek may find themselves with. All that extra weight may actually be good for your health and daily excercise. Someday muscles may be a distinguishing charateristic for geeks.
course, I don't own a watch. and I'm still thinking over whether or not to get a pda.:)
why is this news for nerds? um... cause. it just is. I wouldn't even know megatokyo existed but for slashdot. no one else notice that theres a webcomics slashbox? in it are PA and MT and many others. this is news for nerds. if slashdot posted a story about football then I would wonder what the hell was going on. as for the plot of MT. , it is his strip. and I've never known him to proclaim himself grand poobah of webcomics.
ok, my curiosity is definetly piqued by gentoo. I admit that. but I've never been able to figure out how I install it with just a 56k modem. admittedly I've never tried very hard.
I have to say Mandrake has to be the releasenest (new word) distro there is. I think because of that I'm now giving debian a go for the first time in about 8 years. apt-get is just a frickin dream. now I know why everyone always raves about it.
the pledge was invented in the 1890s I believe. Originally it did not contain the "under god" part. that was added at the request of the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic Fraternal Organization around the 1950s. Before some of you fly off the handle might I suggest reading up on this. One excellent source (you don't even have to read) is www.th-jefferson.org
I'm not even going to rant at this point beyond saying that its nice to see that for once we're getting back to the actual constitution as opposed to these phony "traditions". Oaths and pledges have never been a tradition in a country founded by men who detested the very idea of an oath or pledge of allegiance. Its refreshing that in this time when so many of our rights are in jeopardy and the constitution is being contorted to meet the needs of national security that there is a moment of sanity.
Ok, so its a little ranty.
Slashdot Mirror
I eat two bagels in the morning with cream cheese, work like a dog all day, then I eat whatever I can find sometime around 6 or 7. Then maybe once a month I eat like a fly (as in nothing but sugar for a day). Basically the same weight I was in high school, 175 or so.
try again.
My dad was born the day the bismark sank. (he's old) He knows that you can play solitaire on a computer. That, mahjongg and email is all he cares about. He uses linux now. It's stupid simple for him to use. It doesn't crash. Despite all records to the contrary XP does in fact crash reading email.
People that say linux isn't user friendly are people that just gave up on their brains. I don't have any computer training whatsoever. I do have a normal life of parties, beer and friends. I have slept with several women. I am not a geek stereotype (who is anymore?) It does not take a computer science degree to use linux or any other operating system. Don't give up on your brain.
also, what is so simple about navigating windows? Windows has never been "point and click" it has been "click and guess".
there is nothing intuitive about the Windows ui. or the mac ui. or gnome or kde or any of the others. There's nothing intuitive about a steering wheel either. You have to learn it.
I'm on a roll now and have karma to burn. what is intuitive about the file menu? file is a menu on every program I've ever used with drop down menus. why is "print" under file? why is "quit" under file? its doens't make any intuitive sense but that's the way we've always done it and we've learned to do it that way.
windows isn't user friendly. its just never changes. you know what happens with something that doesn't change? it stagnates and dies.
as I recalll Apple did the same thing many moons ago. You youngsters might not remember this but there was a time when the only computers in a school were Apple computers. IIes I think. It doesn't seem that did much of a difference for them in the long term.
I'm so fucking over this shit. I fucking can't stand it anymore. All I want to do is listen to the music I purchase in the manner I choose.
I understand they want to make sure I'm not stealing the music. Thats fine. I'm not. I own all the oggs I've encoded. I don't share em. I don't make copies on discs. I just listen to them. Thats it. Thats what the majority of us do. quit treating your customers like criminals. fucking pissing me off. god damn it!
sorry folks I needed to do that. mod me down. doesn't hurt me.
slashdot needs a "true dat" moderation.
hawking, feynman, gribbin. good good good. all on my shelf.
everyone recommends six easy pieces but might I suggest that you be sure and get the audio of the lectures. I taught myself to rollerblade while listening to Feynman explain everything else. do note though that the first lecture sounds somewhat crappy due to the original source material. but the other five are dandy and Feynman is a funny guy.
actually I started with debian, couldn't figure out what the hell I was doing, got red hat, botched that, got mandrake, managed that rather well, then back to debian.
:) laugh people.
I just think this is a natural progression for users. mandrake holds your hand more which is great. red hat gives you that feeling of big company to turn to, and debian has that sort of indier than thou flavor with a little apt-get thrown in for good measure.
I wouldn't know what to do with blender but I understand many of you would. I have to say I'm quite impressed by the swiftness of this code rescue. makes you think we're not all just trying to get free stuff. perhaps this will lead people to do the same in future instances for money-calls. This shows it can be done.
everyone complains about debian. too slow to release, too hard to install... etc, ad nauseum.
folks. there are other distros. use them instead.
I've come to believe that mandrake is the first distro you use, red hat is the second and then once you realize that you should be reading slashdot and other such sites and start hearing about debian and graducate to that. after debian you start thinking about trying linux from scratch. thats just the nature of the beast. I kind of like it that way.
take it from the son of a diabetic. pricking your finger and taking care of yourself is much preferred to the neuropathy that can develop if you don't. course once you have neuropathy you don't have to worry about pricking your finger cause you won't be able to feel it anymore.
remember, prick your finger, never finger your prick.
always refreshing when taco posts about buffy. good to know I'm not alone in my fanaticism.
i have to say that physics, especially on the quantumn level, is the most interesting science I know of. there are others that are fascinating but nothing gets to the heart of everything like physics. can i get an amen? :) the slit experiment, when I first read about it in some layman's guide to physics just floored me with its simplicity and easy understandability.
was hotmail ever considered a secure way to do anything?
this is why every disc I copy to my harddrive is done in ogg. all kept in house. i use a free codec to copy my music that I bought with my money to my computer that I do not redistribute so that I can listen to it in a fashion that is more suitable for me. near as I can tell thats still legal isn't it? I'd really have no problem with xmms becoming an ogg only player. the only thing I look forward to is ogg compatibility on the iPod.
who cares? this is just.. dumb. what are we worried about here? anyone else notice that lilo looks different on different distros? who cares?
add this to the pointless and time-wasting flame wars bin, next to vi vs. emacs and the rest of the dumb things we bitch about.
maybe someday I'll be able to buy that mac I've been wanting. just have to keep saving up the pennies I find on the street.
agreed. I've got the O'reilly vi book and its been just handy dandy for me. I use vim about a billion times a day (ok not a billion but you get the picture) and anything I ever need to do is pretty handily answered in o'reilly's book.
I love vim and my heart goes out to starving africans but I'm not buying this book. the typos I've heard about here alone is enough to steer me away from it.
also, new riders, whats their deal? has anyone read the NR's mysql book? does it not seem like a damn near verbatim copy of the mysql online documentation only sans that helpful search function?
If they have windows and line of sight can't they use infrared? How fast does the network really have to be in a couple of houses that are hundreds of years old? what exactly do they do that they need the network for anyway?
windows support is there now. I mean you can actually buy it. CompUSA has the software sitting right next to the iPod at my local.
good point. there is an upside, though, to all the gadgets a super geek may find themselves with. All that extra weight may actually be good for your health and daily excercise. Someday muscles may be a distinguishing charateristic for geeks.
:)
course, I don't own a watch. and I'm still thinking over whether or not to get a pda.
why is this news for nerds? um... cause. it just is. I wouldn't even know megatokyo existed but for slashdot. no one else notice that theres a webcomics slashbox? in it are PA and MT and many others. this is news for nerds. if slashdot posted a story about football then I would wonder what the hell was going on. as for the plot of MT. , it is his strip. and I've never known him to proclaim himself grand poobah of webcomics.
ok, my curiosity is definetly piqued by gentoo. I admit that. but I've never been able to figure out how I install it with just a 56k modem. admittedly I've never tried very hard.
I have to say Mandrake has to be the releasenest (new word) distro there is. I think because of that I'm now giving debian a go for the first time in about 8 years. apt-get is just a frickin dream. now I know why everyone always raves about it.
I'm halfway through a 56k download of woody. damn it. damn it. arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
the pledge was invented in the 1890s I believe. Originally it did not contain the "under god" part. that was added at the request of the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic Fraternal Organization around the 1950s. Before some of you fly off the handle might I suggest reading up on this. One excellent source (you don't even have to read) is www.th-jefferson.org I'm not even going to rant at this point beyond saying that its nice to see that for once we're getting back to the actual constitution as opposed to these phony "traditions". Oaths and pledges have never been a tradition in a country founded by men who detested the very idea of an oath or pledge of allegiance. Its refreshing that in this time when so many of our rights are in jeopardy and the constitution is being contorted to meet the needs of national security that there is a moment of sanity. Ok, so its a little ranty.