I daresay he's referring to Miyazaki Tsutomu (no relation to Ghibli's Miyazaki Hayao). A quick summary in Japanese of his history is available here.
Basically, he was a young man who killed four small girls back in the late 80s. He owned approximately 6000 videotapes, including many horror movies and a large selection of anime.
Of course, none of this means that the general image of anime fans among Japanese people is that of Miyazaki Tsutomu, any more than Americans' image of Boston is irrevocably associated with the Boston Strangler.
Did you get that new filesystem Do you have faith in the schedule If Mr Gates tells you so? Now, do you believe in release dates Will Longhorn raise your running costs And can it make your PC run real slow?
Well, I know you're in love with it 'Cause I saw you running the beta You sure had to spend a few bucks Man, I don't see any new features!
I was a lowly Pentium user With a little hard drive and a tiny screen But I knew I was out of luck The day the upgrade cycle died
I started singing
*Chorus* So bye, bye my new GUI Pointed IE to WindowsUpdate but it was empty And them good old hackers were using Linux anyway Singing this will be the day Windows dies This will be the day Windows dies
Now for ten years we've been running XP And losses get bigger on their balance sheet But that's not how it used to be When the Monkey Boy sang for developers In a suit he borrowed from a gorilla In a voice that went from high to low
And while Bill Gates was looking on The USB driver crashed his poor PC The conference was adjourned No reviews were written
And while Linus wrote a kernel and more The core team tried really hard And were given stock options up the wazoo The day the upgrade cycle died
We were singing
*Chorus* So bye, bye my new GUI Pointed IE to WindowsUpdate but it was empty And them good old hackers were using Linux anyway Singing this will be the day Windows dies This will be the day Windows dies
A long, long time ago, I can still remember How a release wouldn't take a while And I knew that if I had my chance That I'd do the upgrade dance And maybe I'd be happy for a while
But XP made me shiver With every email it'd deliver A new worm for my inbox I couldn't take one more Win32.CTX
I can't remember if I cried When I read about the delayed Longhorn But something touched me deep inside The day the upgrade cycle died
*Chorus* So bye, bye my new GUI Pointed IE to WindowsUpdate but it was empty And them good old hackers were using Linux anyway Singing this will be the day Windows dies This will be the day Windows dies
Not necessarily dreck any more. There was a recent murder case in Japan where a 12-year-old girl was killed by her classmate (and supposedly friend), because she'd called the other girl "fat" on her weblog.
If you're interested in the details, she made the girl sit on a chair (at school, no less) and cut her throat from behind using a craft knife, then waited until she died from blood loss before calling a teacher.
The main problem that I see with weblog/email insults is that it's usually difficult to discuss it directly in a way that would be possible face-to-face, which means that people tend to stew over these things more than they would otherwise.
Enlightenment - the WM you run when your PC's too fast!
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He's actually talking about Enlightenment. Alan Cox was heard to say that Rasterman is good at drawing pretty pictures, but as a programmer he makes a good plumber (or something to that effect - it's in one of the back issues of his Diary from 4 or 5 years ago).
Shit, if I'd known I was going to be modded down for speaking the straight truth, I would have posted with my +1 bonus to give you modders something to get your teeth into.
By the way, from the FAQ: Concentrate more on promoting than on demoting. The real goal here is to find the juicy good stuff and let others read it. Do not promote personal agendas. Do not let your opinions factor in. Try to be impartial about this. Simply disagreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it down.
I hope Rasterman has remembered to include plenty of that CPU-crushing eyecandy that was the major (indeed only) feature of earlier releases. I always found Enlightenment to be the most enjoyable of WMs, as it felt so good when you stopped using it.
Enlightenment - the best advertisement for Ratpoison yet!
Maybe by then you can come up with some decent replies!
Why bother? It's obvious you've undergone total cranial fossilization. I've got better things to do than try to convince a submoron of the reality of the evidence that's right in front of his face.
Agreed. I bought two in case they went out of business and one broke. I'm still using the first one with no problems (and they're still in business).
Just to give people who don't have one of these keyboards an idea of what it's like, the keyboard contains a big metal plate that gives it plenty of mass and stops it moving around. The keys have a tactile click and make quite a bit of noise, so it may be irritating if you use one at work and don't have your own office.
(BTW, in a fit of pique my wife poured a glass of water into my keyboard while I was at work. I got home several hours later. I only noticed because a couple of keys were failing to register and there was a drop of water on one of the function keys. The thing turned out to have a watertight base - I had to turn it upside-down to drain the water out of it. Once I'd let it dry off for a day or two, it started working fine again. That was four years ago, and it's still going.)
The reason I can't reasonably argue with anything you've said is because nothing you've said so far is open to logical, or indeed rational, discussion.
Your justification for your "facts" is that they're mentioned in the Bible. Please look up the phrase "empirical evidence" and then we might be able to have a discussion that doesn't degenerate into "It's true because it says so in the Bible! Which is infallible! So there!"
That was uncalled for. He's absolutely right - the differences between Linux and the *BSDs are more philosophical than technical, so if someone wants a UNIX-like OS under a license that allows them to do what they like with it, they've already got a choice between at least three variants.
Well, excuuuuuse me - I've never actually seen an episode of Sealab 2021 (or indeed heard of it until now), so I fail to see how it makes my metaphor 'unoriginal'.
Even if this were a good idea (which it's not - it's roughly on a par with somebody who is being attacked by rabid hyenas deciding that they'd be safer if they distracted the hyenas by attaching large chunks of fresh meat all over their body), it would require that either: a) Anybody with significant (as in more than 20-30 lines or so) contributions to the kernel give their approval for the switch, and it ain't gonna happen because even if Linus went for it, Alan Cox is very much pro-GPL and has large chunks of code all over the kernel
or: b) Somebody strip out or rewrite all parts of the kernel copyrighted by people who objected to the license change, which in the end would probably amount to an effective rewrite of the whole thing.
If I'm not mistaken, Chung Kwei is the figure known as Shouki in Japanese. He's usually described in English as the "Demon Queller", which seems a suitable-enough symbol for an anti-spam program.
I mean, come on - don't anti-spam programs have the coolest names? SpamAssassin, Vipul's Razor...
Maybe the government can just implant RFIDs in the asses of all new-born babies. It could be called "the Mark" or something. You'd sit in a special seat whenever you needed to be identified, and if the identification failed to authorise you, the handy high-voltage circuits in the chair could save officials the trouble of arresting you and holding a trial and stuff.
Hey, good idea! Mind if I patent it? Now all I need is a snappy name for the airline. "Blind as a Bat Airways"... "Meat-tube Air"... "Nintendo Airlines"... Whadda ya think?
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I daresay he's referring to Miyazaki Tsutomu (no relation to Ghibli's Miyazaki Hayao). A quick summary in Japanese of his history is available here.
Basically, he was a young man who killed four small girls back in the late 80s. He owned approximately 6000 videotapes, including many horror movies and a large selection of anime.
Of course, none of this means that the general image of anime fans among Japanese people is that of Miyazaki Tsutomu, any more than Americans' image of Boston is irrevocably associated with the Boston Strangler.
Read: vnc, I bet.
Did you get that new filesystem
Do you have faith in the schedule
If Mr Gates tells you so?
Now, do you believe in release dates
Will Longhorn raise your running costs
And can it make your PC run real slow?
Well, I know you're in love with it
'Cause I saw you running the beta
You sure had to spend a few bucks
Man, I don't see any new features!
I was a lowly Pentium user
With a little hard drive and a tiny screen
But I knew I was out of luck
The day the upgrade cycle died
I started singing
*Chorus*
So bye, bye my new GUI
Pointed IE to WindowsUpdate but it was empty
And them good old hackers were using Linux anyway
Singing this will be the day Windows dies
This will be the day Windows dies
Now for ten years we've been running XP
And losses get bigger on their balance sheet
But that's not how it used to be
When the Monkey Boy sang for developers
In a suit he borrowed from a gorilla
In a voice that went from high to low
And while Bill Gates was looking on
The USB driver crashed his poor PC
The conference was adjourned
No reviews were written
And while Linus wrote a kernel and more
The core team tried really hard
And were given stock options up the wazoo
The day the upgrade cycle died
We were singing
*Chorus*
So bye, bye my new GUI
Pointed IE to WindowsUpdate but it was empty
And them good old hackers were using Linux anyway
Singing this will be the day Windows dies
This will be the day Windows dies
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
A long, long time ago,
I can still remember
How a release wouldn't take a while
And I knew that if I had my chance
That I'd do the upgrade dance
And maybe I'd be happy for a while
But XP made me shiver
With every email it'd deliver
A new worm for my inbox
I couldn't take one more Win32.CTX
I can't remember if I cried
When I read about the delayed Longhorn
But something touched me deep inside
The day the upgrade cycle died
*Chorus*
So bye, bye my new GUI
Pointed IE to WindowsUpdate but it was empty
And them good old hackers were using Linux anyway
Singing this will be the day Windows dies
This will be the day Windows dies
Yes, I know about that... the name "Nevada-tan" actually came about on 2ch after a class group photo was passed around on various uploader sites.
Try to cut and paste between them...
Not necessarily dreck any more.
There was a recent murder case in Japan where a 12-year-old girl was killed by her classmate (and supposedly friend), because she'd called the other girl "fat" on her weblog.
If you're interested in the details, she made the girl sit on a chair (at school, no less) and cut her throat from behind using a craft knife, then waited until she died from blood loss before calling a teacher.
The main problem that I see with weblog/email insults is that it's usually difficult to discuss it directly in a way that would be possible face-to-face, which means that people tend to stew over these things more than they would otherwise.
Hey, I'm enjoying myself here, OK?
Keep it coming, I've got karma to burn.
Enlightenment - the WM you run when your PC's too fast!
He's actually talking about Enlightenment. Alan Cox was heard to say that Rasterman is good at drawing pretty pictures, but as a programmer he makes a good plumber (or something to that effect - it's in one of the back issues of his Diary from 4 or 5 years ago).
Shit, if I'd known I was going to be modded down for speaking the straight truth, I would have posted with my +1 bonus to give you modders something to get your teeth into.
By the way, from the FAQ:
Concentrate more on promoting than on demoting. The real goal here is to find the juicy good stuff and let others read it. Do not promote personal agendas. Do not let your opinions factor in. Try to be impartial about this. Simply disagreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it down.
I hope Rasterman has remembered to include plenty of that CPU-crushing eyecandy that was the major (indeed only) feature of earlier releases.
I always found Enlightenment to be the most enjoyable of WMs, as it felt so good when you stopped using it.
Enlightenment - the best advertisement for Ratpoison yet!
Absolutely not?
Maybe by then you can come up with some decent replies!
Why bother? It's obvious you've undergone total cranial fossilization. I've got better things to do than try to convince a submoron of the reality of the evidence that's right in front of his face.
Agreed. I bought two in case they went out of business and one broke. I'm still using the first one with no problems (and they're still in business).
Just to give people who don't have one of these keyboards an idea of what it's like, the keyboard contains a big metal plate that gives it plenty of mass and stops it moving around. The keys have a tactile click and make quite a bit of noise, so it may be irritating if you use one at work and don't have your own office.
(BTW, in a fit of pique my wife poured a glass of water into my keyboard while I was at work. I got home several hours later. I only noticed because a couple of keys were failing to register and there was a drop of water on one of the function keys.
The thing turned out to have a watertight base - I had to turn it upside-down to drain the water out of it.
Once I'd let it dry off for a day or two, it started working fine again. That was four years ago, and it's still going.)
IIRC, the Lite2 uses rubber domes for the keys, whereas the normal one uses mechanical switches, but I may be wrong.
When I pressed it, my PC started contradicting itself and then crashed so badly it had to take it to pieces.
The reason I can't reasonably argue with anything you've said is because nothing you've said so far is open to logical, or indeed rational, discussion.
Your justification for your "facts" is that they're mentioned in the Bible. Please look up the phrase "empirical evidence" and then we might be able to have a discussion that doesn't degenerate into "It's true because it says so in the Bible! Which is infallible! So there!"
Heh ;)
That was uncalled for. He's absolutely right - the differences between Linux and the *BSDs are more philosophical than technical, so if someone wants a UNIX-like OS under a license that allows them to do what they like with it, they've already got a choice between at least three variants.
Well, excuuuuuse me - I've never actually seen an episode of Sealab 2021 (or indeed heard of it until now), so I fail to see how it makes my metaphor 'unoriginal'.
Even if this were a good idea (which it's not - it's roughly on a par with somebody who is being attacked by rabid hyenas deciding that they'd be safer if they distracted the hyenas by attaching large chunks of fresh meat all over their body), it would require that either:
a) Anybody with significant (as in more than 20-30 lines or so) contributions to the kernel give their approval for the switch, and it ain't gonna happen because even if Linus went for it, Alan Cox is very much pro-GPL and has large chunks of code all over the kernel
or:
b) Somebody strip out or rewrite all parts of the kernel copyrighted by people who objected to the license change, which in the end would probably amount to an effective rewrite of the whole thing.
If I'm not mistaken, Chung Kwei is the figure known as Shouki in Japanese. He's usually described in English as the "Demon Queller", which seems a suitable-enough symbol for an anti-spam program.
I mean, come on - don't anti-spam programs have the coolest names? SpamAssassin, Vipul's Razor...
Maybe the government can just implant RFIDs in the asses of all new-born babies. It could be called "the Mark" or something. You'd sit in a special seat whenever you needed to be identified, and if the identification failed to authorise you, the handy high-voltage circuits in the chair could save officials the trouble of arresting you and holding a trial and stuff.
Hey, good idea! Mind if I patent it?
Now all I need is a snappy name for the airline. "Blind as a Bat Airways"... "Meat-tube Air"... "Nintendo Airlines"... Whadda ya think?