Please find me the group of linux users who aren't too fat, too skinny, too cracked out on mountain dew, without problems with their ring fingers(hitting ls too much), not too busy trying to get their chip to 833Mhz instead of 800Mhz, not too busy trying to promote linux as an embedded solutions product when assembly code is 1000x more efficient(has anybody ported linux to the HC11 anyway?), not too busy to do anything else because they are always recompiling their kernel, and also somebody who doesn't talk in run-on sentences like me, and let me know if that group has a number of people above 0. Why do people like me have to take the blame for tech stocks going up and down also? Personally, I hate "dot-coms." Profit from the net will come for business-to-business, not this business-to-whoever-I-can-find. I'm an electrical and computer engineering major and so many times I see people missing the point of the internet for commerce(uh oh, set myself up for a flame here). Does anybody really care about www.watchmecrap.com? Of course not! But so many people are investing in this junk. First in the new economy we need a sense of reality about what Americans need and will buy. Engineers like myself NEED to make products that have SIMPLE user interfaces and don't require a lot of computer science to finish. A window manager on top of linux is just about as bad as windows on top of DOS. Granted, the linux version is much more stable, but can the AVERAGE user figure it out? The problem with Windows is that people don't understand how the registry works. However, the problem with linux is that people don't understand how anything works. We as a computing society need to provide the average user with an interface for linux that works as a GOOD link to the net, a GOOD gaming system, a GREAT application environment for word processing, spreadsheets, and other dumb stuff that I don't use. But anyway, I think that my original point is that many linux people should go out and get some sun because I'm sure that the majority of us are pale and white, the only tan we have is coming from a bunch of flourescent lighting. Yikes, what I just wrote is disorganized and not totally what i mean, but it has some good juicy bits of stuff to debate about. Have fun!
Thank god for somebody else who doesn't want tech crap for christmas. I spent all semester learning about ones and zeros. Can I just get something nice like cologne to make my girlfriend happy? Oh, I'm sorry half of you just download your "girlfriends" from alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.* I'll keep to the real thing. Another thing that I would love since I'm a poor college student now, is to be able to buy a gift for somebody else. I've finally discovered the joy of the gift of giving, but I'm on limited resources until I graduate in May.(ps - any good leads for an Electrical and Computer Engineering major?) I already have an offer(which is pretty hard to compete with), but it's good to hear from anybody else... Anyway, us technologically elite should be GIVING!!! Don't worry about the stupid gifts that you get, but try to help others. I bet that RAM and hard drives and all that stupid tech crap is cheaper in a couple months anyway. Hell, I'm still churning along on a p-200 with only 32 meg. Don't ask why i haven't bought more memory. Let's just say that some of us have other priorities. Happy holidays.
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Please find me the group of linux users who aren't too fat, too skinny, too cracked out on mountain dew, without problems with their ring fingers(hitting ls too much), not too busy trying to get their chip to 833Mhz instead of 800Mhz, not too busy trying to promote linux as an embedded solutions product when assembly code is 1000x more efficient(has anybody ported linux to the HC11 anyway?), not too busy to do anything else because they are always recompiling their kernel, and also somebody who doesn't talk in run-on sentences like me, and let me know if that group has a number of people above 0. Why do people like me have to take the blame for tech stocks going up and down also? Personally, I hate "dot-coms." Profit from the net will come for business-to-business, not this business-to-whoever-I-can-find. I'm an electrical and computer engineering major and so many times I see people missing the point of the internet for commerce(uh oh, set myself up for a flame here). Does anybody really care about www.watchmecrap.com? Of course not! But so many people are investing in this junk. First in the new economy we need a sense of reality about what Americans need and will buy. Engineers like myself NEED to make products that have SIMPLE user interfaces and don't require a lot of computer science to finish. A window manager on top of linux is just about as bad as windows on top of DOS. Granted, the linux version is much more stable, but can the AVERAGE user figure it out? The problem with Windows is that people don't understand how the registry works. However, the problem with linux is that people don't understand how anything works. We as a computing society need to provide the average user with an interface for linux that works as a GOOD link to the net, a GOOD gaming system, a GREAT application environment for word processing, spreadsheets, and other dumb stuff that I don't use. But anyway, I think that my original point is that many linux people should go out and get some sun because I'm sure that the majority of us are pale and white, the only tan we have is coming from a bunch of flourescent lighting. Yikes, what I just wrote is disorganized and not totally what i mean, but it has some good juicy bits of stuff to debate about. Have fun!
I can't wait unitl linux has toast. Additionally, who made this tab key so sensitive in slashdot?
Thank god for somebody else who doesn't want tech crap for christmas. I spent all semester learning about ones and zeros. Can I just get something nice like cologne to make my girlfriend happy? Oh, I'm sorry half of you just download your "girlfriends" from alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.*
I'll keep to the real thing.
Another thing that I would love since I'm a poor college student now, is to be able to buy a gift for somebody else. I've finally discovered the joy of the gift of giving, but I'm on limited resources until I graduate in May.(ps - any good leads for an Electrical and Computer Engineering major?) I already have an offer(which is pretty hard to compete with), but it's good to hear from anybody else...
Anyway, us technologically elite should be GIVING!!! Don't worry about the stupid gifts that you get, but try to help others. I bet that RAM and hard drives and all that stupid tech crap is cheaper in a couple months anyway. Hell, I'm still churning along on a p-200 with only 32 meg. Don't ask why i haven't bought more memory. Let's just say that some of us have other priorities.
Happy holidays.