Well, since this is a geek realm here, perhaps the final words--or letters--should be GPL. Or, more apt to book publishing, CC. I've written four books, and if any of them were to be published (I don't count Lulu as publishing, sorry), I'd want them to have CC licenses on them. It's in line with what I teach anyway: the more you defend something, the more walls of paranoia and litigation that you erect around it, the less does it become art. I am no more afraid of someone teaching the Tao "better" than me through the use of my work than Ubuntu developers are of Warren Woodford (MEPIS) making a better use of their code (and specifically, of KDE) than they did (he did). There is abundance enough for everyone; it is only the insane pursuit of wealth that destroys from within.
Nope, she's wrong, and I hope the courts say so too. Preventing people from doing literary criticism and background is Death Eater stuff. I wrote a book that two different (and very successful) NYC lit agents loved, which failed to make it all because pubs fear Rowling, WB, Bloomsbury/Scholastic, and their lawyers. So now it's rotting away on lulu.com, and whatever merit it contains is lost.
One of the teachings in that book is this: Wealth is poison; it murders from within. Lucius Malfoy ("bad faith") killed himself with wealth before he embarked on his career as a Death Eater. Rowling has allowed herself to be turned into a corporate person -- such a "corpse" will never rest in peace.
why did they get rid of brown? Brown looks great on Ubuntu (especially the elephant skin of 7.10). Ah, never mind, those dopes at M$ would use real elephant skin on the music player...
view the least-read geek page on the web: http://dailyrevolution.net/?page_id=643
Agreed: longtime Mac users will like iWork 08. Keynote alone is worth the $80. You can now do voiceover shows and export to Quicktime without separate audio and video files (my major complaint with the previous versions). Numbers is actually a very good version 1, and Pages is marginally improved as a word processor, and still excellent as a page layout editor. All depends on how you use these types of applications: if you're a Mac user, then graphical quality and accurate, speedy file conversions matter, because that's what you expect. That said, I still use OO in X11 and have very few and minor complaints with it. Faster than MS Office for Mac, safer, and more reliable. What I don't understand is how OO and NeoOffice can get universal binary versions together so quickly while MS will have us waiting till next year. Maybe it's true what one of my geek buddies says about open source: "None of us is as smart as all of us."
Just run DSL (Damn Small Linux) but install it (it's a 50MB OS, typically runs off a live cd). There's a word processor called Ted, and Dillo the web browser. Install Knoppix (which DSL is based on) and you'll get the same effect with Firefox and Abiword.
Yeah, I had to write it up at the blog, I was so pissed off at this clown:
Let me make a suggestion, Mr. Louderback: could it be because you didn't do your damned job in the first place? Instead of taking an objective approach to Vista, you climbed on board its bandwagon without having any valid reason for doing so. In the process, you dragged a lot of your readers into OS hell. This is inexcusable.
They've just proven the obvious, something that everyone who works in IT knows. One day at my office, one of our sys admins, Nearly Redmond Nick, was contemplating a report on a rack of Solaris boxes that had started to fry as soon as the company had announced that it was getting all new Blades with Suse. NR Nick told me the story of how, when he was a student at CMU, he had bought a new laptop and started it up beside his old tower machine. "Better not do that with the desktop right there to see, it'll get jealous," an older student advised Nick. Sure enough, the tower started to malfunction that very day.
I'm just the QA guy, I don't know anything. So I asked NR Nick: "what's that mean, then?"
Nick patted the old Dell Optiplex on my desk and said, "Sometimes I would swear these things have souls."
Agreed: OO2 is fine either on a Mac with X11 or Linux (I'm a MEPIS fan myself). But now you can get Star with your Google Pack: whether that makes a difference is a mystery to me.
Heh, I've never had a problem with ruthless, on the rare occasions where it's joined with competence. But when you put arrogance and stupidity into one package, you've got yourself a typical middle manager, and the biggest problem in corporate America. Once in a blue moon I've met a geek fitting this description (usually a kid just out of college who thinks he can be CIO next week because of that CMU attitude you talked about), but overwhelmingly my experience with the guys writing the code is that they know their stuff, stay late, seek solutions, try to have fun, and never use email or Crackberries as weapons. And they don't act like assholes on Monday morning when we find out the app servers have hosed over the weekend (usually because they've known about it since Saturday night).
And in my other tribute to geeks, I compare you guys to Harry Potter.
True--I've got Feisty and MEPIS (which has a Dapper core) running in Parallels on a plain white 2GHz MacBook. The only thing they can't handle is the 802.11n Atheros Wifi. I had tried some of that stuff on that ndiswrapper to them to play nicely with it, but no joy. But that's only because I'm not a pimple on a true geek's ass--I only work in IT. Doesn't mean I'm any good at it.
Nah, I'm not in software development--I couldn't code my way out of a wet paper bag (which is why I use MEPIS). I just read slashdot for the humor. Reading the comments is usually funny: everybody is insulting each other; I just can't figure out why or what about. But I'll let you in on a secret, based on my many years on the corpo-treadmill in QA and (now) as a BA: geeks in real life are easily the most reasonable, balanced, and generous people I've met in corporate America. In fact, I wrote about it at the blog.
If The Open Group is "making standards work" (TM), then who is Making Work Standard? These are the really big questions that we have long meetings about here in corporate America. These are the things you contemplate when you've finished your third cup of jove and are sitting on the porcelain throne, thinking about death...
I completely agree with this--could we get a little more turgid and retro, please? "Choice sucks--it hinders hegemony."
Thanks for posting this revolutionary opinion, Redmond...er, I mean, slashdot.
As the Stanford boys Branford and Beckstrom would say, this is a starfish moment. Rowling and her pubs are finding out what the RIAA has discovered: that when you stir up hype and then enforce obedience and secrecy, you're asking for trouble from all those people who aren't in on the take. As I mention at the blog, it's one of those feed-the-kids-sugar-and-then-spank-them-for-acting -up scenarios.
So, will I be reading it anyway this weekend? You bet.
Hey Z.A.G.: 2/1/07 has come and gone, where's the new and improved site? In any event, I tested the teen group IQ law yesterday and it may be an understatement. I left three 13 year olds in the apartment alone all day and came home to the kind of mayhem that only the janitor at Chucky Cheeses would understand. Truly bizarre.
I just want them to make the OS work better on the Intel boxes. And please, can we get rid of the traffic light control buttons and have a plain old Windows-style thing with bigger, square buttons? You can put them on the left, right, or center, I don't care--just make them so a fellow working on a laptop doesn't feel like he's practicing microsurgery by just trying to click a window control.
Glad to see someone thought of questioning the underlying assumption here. In the words of an old RN I know who has personally met virtually form of medical unpleasantness possible over three decades of ER work in NYC hospitals once told me:
"Brian, bacteria aren't evil beings--they're just cells doing their jobs..."
I can also recall reading, about ten years ago, a paper written by some Johns Hopkins grad students who had gone into some restaurants and surreptitiously sampled some of the food, silverware, and other table items: they found enteric bacilli (cellular detritus of human shit) on most of their samples.
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Well, since this is a geek realm here, perhaps the final words--or letters--should be GPL. Or, more apt to book publishing, CC. I've written four books, and if any of them were to be published (I don't count Lulu as publishing, sorry), I'd want them to have CC licenses on them. It's in line with what I teach anyway: the more you defend something, the more walls of paranoia and litigation that you erect around it, the less does it become art. I am no more afraid of someone teaching the Tao "better" than me through the use of my work than Ubuntu developers are of Warren Woodford (MEPIS) making a better use of their code (and specifically, of KDE) than they did (he did). There is abundance enough for everyone; it is only the insane pursuit of wealth that destroys from within.
One of the teachings in that book is this: Wealth is poison; it murders from within. Lucius Malfoy ("bad faith") killed himself with wealth before he embarked on his career as a Death Eater. Rowling has allowed herself to be turned into a corporate person -- such a "corpse" will never rest in peace.
why did they get rid of brown? Brown looks great on Ubuntu (especially the elephant skin of 7.10). Ah, never mind, those dopes at M$ would use real elephant skin on the music player... view the least-read geek page on the web: http://dailyrevolution.net/?page_id=643
Agreed: longtime Mac users will like iWork 08. Keynote alone is worth the $80. You can now do voiceover shows and export to Quicktime without separate audio and video files (my major complaint with the previous versions). Numbers is actually a very good version 1, and Pages is marginally improved as a word processor, and still excellent as a page layout editor. All depends on how you use these types of applications: if you're a Mac user, then graphical quality and accurate, speedy file conversions matter, because that's what you expect. That said, I still use OO in X11 and have very few and minor complaints with it. Faster than MS Office for Mac, safer, and more reliable. What I don't understand is how OO and NeoOffice can get universal binary versions together so quickly while MS will have us waiting till next year. Maybe it's true what one of my geek buddies says about open source: "None of us is as smart as all of us."
This is serious: if we are "totally unable to seed," we will have no babies.
Just run DSL (Damn Small Linux) but install it (it's a 50MB OS, typically runs off a live cd). There's a word processor called Ted, and Dillo the web browser. Install Knoppix (which DSL is based on) and you'll get the same effect with Firefox and Abiword.
Let me make a suggestion, Mr. Louderback: could it be because you didn't do your damned job in the first place? Instead of taking an objective approach to Vista, you climbed on board its bandwagon without having any valid reason for doing so. In the process, you dragged a lot of your readers into OS hell. This is inexcusable.
Henry VI, Part 2. Act IV, Sc. ii. "First thing we do..."
I'm just the QA guy, I don't know anything. So I asked NR Nick: "what's that mean, then?"
Nick patted the old Dell Optiplex on my desk and said, "Sometimes I would swear these things have souls."
Agreed: OO2 is fine either on a Mac with X11 or Linux (I'm a MEPIS fan myself). But now you can get Star with your Google Pack: whether that makes a difference is a mystery to me.
Zonk, Zonk: 3P Plural nouns go with what verb tense? The course gets harder as we go along...
Geeks talking about war---hilarious beyond description.
Heh, I've never had a problem with ruthless, on the rare occasions where it's joined with competence. But when you put arrogance and stupidity into one package, you've got yourself a typical middle manager, and the biggest problem in corporate America. Once in a blue moon I've met a geek fitting this description (usually a kid just out of college who thinks he can be CIO next week because of that CMU attitude you talked about), but overwhelmingly my experience with the guys writing the code is that they know their stuff, stay late, seek solutions, try to have fun, and never use email or Crackberries as weapons. And they don't act like assholes on Monday morning when we find out the app servers have hosed over the weekend (usually because they've known about it since Saturday night). And in my other tribute to geeks, I compare you guys to Harry Potter.
True--I've got Feisty and MEPIS (which has a Dapper core) running in Parallels on a plain white 2GHz MacBook. The only thing they can't handle is the 802.11n Atheros Wifi. I had tried some of that stuff on that ndiswrapper to them to play nicely with it, but no joy. But that's only because I'm not a pimple on a true geek's ass--I only work in IT. Doesn't mean I'm any good at it.
Nah, I'm not in software development--I couldn't code my way out of a wet paper bag (which is why I use MEPIS). I just read slashdot for the humor. Reading the comments is usually funny: everybody is insulting each other; I just can't figure out why or what about. But I'll let you in on a secret, based on my many years on the corpo-treadmill in QA and (now) as a BA: geeks in real life are easily the most reasonable, balanced, and generous people I've met in corporate America. In fact, I wrote about it at the blog.
If The Open Group is "making standards work" (TM), then who is Making Work Standard? These are the really big questions that we have long meetings about here in corporate America. These are the things you contemplate when you've finished your third cup of jove and are sitting on the porcelain throne, thinking about death...
I completely agree with this--could we get a little more turgid and retro, please? "Choice sucks--it hinders hegemony." Thanks for posting this revolutionary opinion, Redmond...er, I mean, slashdot.
As the Stanford boys Branford and Beckstrom would say, this is a starfish moment. Rowling and her pubs are finding out what the RIAA has discovered: that when you stir up hype and then enforce obedience and secrecy, you're asking for trouble from all those people who aren't in on the take. As I mention at the blog, it's one of those feed-the-kids-sugar-and-then-spank-them-for-acting -up scenarios.
So, will I be reading it anyway this weekend? You bet.
This unfortunate writer has been bitten by a nargle. Horklump blood is the only antidote. Or you can try this.
Hey Z.A.G.: 2/1/07 has come and gone, where's the new and improved site? In any event, I tested the teen group IQ law yesterday and it may be an understatement. I left three 13 year olds in the apartment alone all day and came home to the kind of mayhem that only the janitor at Chucky Cheeses would understand. Truly bizarre.
They're looking for nargles.
I agree with this guy. As we all know, the computers, like our cars, are alive. That's why we talk to them. That's why Apple made design the centerpiece of their HDLC and SDLC: see the piece by the MIT guy here: http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/18621/page 1/
Does that make me a mac fanboy? Maybe, though I'd read this before drawing any conclusions: http://www.dailyrevolution.net/2007/07/geek-bless- america.html
I just want them to make the OS work better on the Intel boxes. And please, can we get rid of the traffic light control buttons and have a plain old Windows-style thing with bigger, square buttons? You can put them on the left, right, or center, I don't care--just make them so a fellow working on a laptop doesn't feel like he's practicing microsurgery by just trying to click a window control.
Glad to see someone thought of questioning the underlying assumption here. In the words of an old RN I know who has personally met virtually form of medical unpleasantness possible over three decades of ER work in NYC hospitals once told me: "Brian, bacteria aren't evil beings--they're just cells doing their jobs..." I can also recall reading, about ten years ago, a paper written by some Johns Hopkins grad students who had gone into some restaurants and surreptitiously sampled some of the food, silverware, and other table items: they found enteric bacilli (cellular detritus of human shit) on most of their samples.