Overall cd sales have doubled in the time period in which they record the drop in youth sales(1990-1998). And somehow, they're still not getting enough. -lx
"Linus Torvalds explains what makes the Linux kernel great."
I'd rather have someone else do it, personally, someone a little less partial - seems to me that Linus would be a little biased. Why not ask the author of Minix to explain it? >;) Microkernels - just a way to get more research dollars. Of no use in the real world. -lx
Chuck tattoos. help! (BeOS mascot)
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I hope they don't use something stupid like a bee. That would make a pretty lame mascot. I think they should genetically engineer a totally new mascot, leaving out all the legacy code in current life forms... ;)
I saw a pretty funny news story involving a frivolous lawsuit in the uk(i can't remember the details), but one uk government higher-up was quoted as saying something to the effect of "If we permit this kind of lawsuit to go through, we'll become as bad as America." I thought it was amusing that in other parts of the world, we're known for being sue-happy. -lx
If anyone cares to read the infos on aolsucks.com, they talk about their legal defense against aol. Alterations of trademarked pictures, mentioning trademarked names, it's all legal when used in parody or critisism/commentary. -lx
Is that they found that for the most part, kids weren't actually trying to look at 'objectionable' material. Besides, who is going to go to the library to look at porn?
I want my own filtering software - one that will filter out geocities, aol, and all sites based in Utah. -lx
Ok, first off, the show didn't die when joel left. Mike has been the head writer of the show for 90% of the show's lifespan. The only thing that has changed is the person saying the words.
I think people need to be able to get over changes like that - it's as pathetic as saying "only the original star trek was any good...", or maybe these people are just trying to prove how old-school they are.
MST is still the smartest humor on tv. It's the only tv show I'll watch, excluding the japanese programming, which is really hilarious.
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funny, I noticed that the sci-fi channel plays complete crap most of the time. Mission Genesis and Sliders and all that. Bleah. Sci-fi pretty much blows, unless you're making fun of it. -lx
Ditto - the only thing that has changed is the person doing the actual speaking, in the human character's case. I personally think mst has gotten better over the years, although it took my a while to get used to the change. -lx
And now you're telling people Linux is superior due to its stability. Notice a pattern?;)
WYSIWYG is just fine - NOT NOT
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I do the majority of my html in vi, but that doesn't mean I don't recognize the appropriate uses of a wysiwyg editor. Output varies from editor to editor, but some of them can be largely cleaned up by a script to remove ^M 's. Plus, it just makes sense to design something that will be judged by how it looks designing it by LOOKS, not by code. It's like graphic design.
I'd like to see CSS done by hand. Show me CSS that wiggles all over the screen like the customer wants, and done by hand, and I'll be impressed.
*ahem* "Yeah! And edit all your images with command line tools! Mice are for wimps, use the keyboard! Keyboards are for wimps, use punchcards! I've got a big dick! I'm a teenage Linux user pretending to be old school!"
WYSYIWYG does NOT necessarily suck. I see the web becoming more and more like desktop publishing what with things like css and xml and all that. You want to try doing css in vi? Have you ever tried doing imagemaps in a text editor(ok, it's easier than css, but still a pain)? Maybe you don't do very complex web design for your sites, but a lot of customers want the bells and whistles, and you can't do it by hand. GUIs are very good for certain tasks, and not as good for others. -lx
I had thought about getting a bsd daemon on my shoulder as well, but then I couldn't decide whether it would be an incredibly stupid thing to do or not. (no offense to people with os-related tattoos, it's all personal preference) I mean - at first I thought bsd can't last forever, so I'd be stuck with a hopelessly out of date tattoo. Then I thought that maybe it would be a reminder of happy computing days gone by, and for a while I was happy with that.
Then I thought "what if BSD suddenly goes in some horrible direction, to the point where I would willfully stop using it, like adopting the gpl or if linux/windows users started switching to it or something? What if I found an operating system that just blows bsd out of the water? Why doesn't BeOS have a cute tattooable mascot?"
And if I did end up getting a daemon tattoo, should I use the FreeBSD one, or the OpenBSD 3d-ish one?
Any thoughts on this? I don't have any tattoos at the moment - maybe I can just get an ambiguous tattoo in the meantime to help me catch the tattoo bug.:) -lx
This is one of the more intelligent threads on slashdot I've read!:) One of the reasons I count myself in with the *BSD community is because of an increasingly clueless Linux community. Linux IS rapidly becoming the next windows, flooded with former windows users. Plus, the allegiance some linux users have to their OS is ridiculous.
That's why I like associating with BSD types, because the software is TRULY free, people generally don't give a damn about commercial software development, and when I ask a question, I know I can get it answered, since the majority of BSD users are way more knowledgable than I am.:)
Everytime some news comes out that might say something even slightly negative about linux, or maybe infer that it won't achieve world domination, there's 20-some morons posting "FUD, FUD, FUD!" in their subject line. The term is way overused in my opinion, and doesn't even mean that much. How about this, people - post some intelligent comments instead of letting an acronym do the work for you. I'm sick of hearing FUD! Anyone ever see Matt Groening's 'forbidden words of the 90s'? Well, that should be on there.
Um. That's not really related to your pose, or directed at you, cjs. I agree with you, I just had to get that off my chest.:)
FreeBSD doesn't NEED a distribution. The whole point is that BSD is scalable, meaning that you can run it on ANY kind of hardware without gratuitous apps eating up space. Coming from a BSD background, I can't understand what all you linux folks are going on about with distributions. What difference does it make? Why do you want preloaded software?
Anyhoo - administration is simple for anyone with a moderate unix background. And, FreeBSD has been proven again and again to be able to handle higher loads with greater stability than Linux. 17 linux servers running DejaNews? What does that prove? 17!?? -lx
The 'invisible hand' theory is utterly ridiculous, and one has to look no further than the slums of any large city to figure out why. The invisible hand is a way for rich folks and corporation owners to lessen their burden of guilt. People acting selfishly do NOT do what is best for society - that shouldn't be too hard to figure out. It's a contradiction.
I think it was an article on/. that mentioned Adam Smith's invisible hand being firmly implanted in his invisible butt. That was funny.:)
I giggled cuz I thought "now there's someone who knew the importance of registering domain names early..." Like christian.com back in the old days...(*sniff*) -lx
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Overall cd sales have doubled in the time period in which they record the drop in youth sales(1990-1998). And somehow, they're still not getting enough.
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Oooh! Harsh! I love it. :)
-lx
"Linus Torvalds explains what makes the Linux kernel great."
I'd rather have someone else do it, personally, someone a little less partial - seems to me that Linus would be a little biased. Why not ask the author of Minix to explain it? >;) Microkernels - just a way to get more research dollars. Of no use in the real world.
-lx
I hope they don't use something stupid like a bee. That would make a pretty lame mascot.
I think they should genetically engineer a totally new mascot, leaving out all the legacy code in current life forms...
;)
-lx
I saw a pretty funny news story involving a frivolous lawsuit in the uk(i can't remember the details), but one uk government higher-up was quoted as saying something to the effect of "If we permit this kind of lawsuit to go through, we'll become as bad as America." I thought it was amusing that in other parts of the world, we're known for being sue-happy.
-lx
If anyone cares to read the infos on aolsucks.com, they talk about their legal defense against aol. Alterations of trademarked pictures, mentioning trademarked names, it's all legal when used in parody or critisism/commentary.
-lx
yeah, and do we have to pay property taxes on it?
-lx
Is that they found that for the most part, kids weren't actually trying to look at 'objectionable' material. Besides, who is going to go to the library to look at porn?
I want my own filtering software - one that will filter out geocities, aol, and all sites based in Utah.
-lx
Ok, first off, the show didn't die when joel left. Mike has been the head writer of the show for 90% of the show's lifespan. The only thing that has changed is the person saying the words.
I think people need to be able to get over changes like that - it's as pathetic as saying "only the original star trek was any good...", or maybe these people are just trying to prove how old-school they are.
MST is still the smartest humor on tv. It's the only tv show I'll watch, excluding the japanese programming, which is really hilarious.
-lx
funny, I noticed that the sci-fi channel plays complete crap most of the time. Mission Genesis and Sliders and all that. Bleah. Sci-fi pretty much blows, unless you're making fun of it.
-lx
no.
-lx
Ditto - the only thing that has changed is the person doing the actual speaking, in the human character's case. I personally think mst has gotten better over the years, although it took my a while to get used to the change.
-lx
ahem? You have a flaw in logic there - the word 'compaq' was included in a bigger dick statement. Doesn't work.
And now you're telling people Linux is superior due to its stability. Notice a pattern? ;)
I do the majority of my html in vi, but that doesn't mean I don't recognize the appropriate uses of a wysiwyg editor. Output varies from editor to editor, but some of them can be largely cleaned up by a script to remove ^M 's. Plus, it just makes sense to design something that will be judged by how it looks designing it by LOOKS, not by code. It's like graphic design.
I'd like to see CSS done by hand. Show me CSS that wiggles all over the screen like the customer wants, and done by hand, and I'll be impressed.
-lx
*ahem* "Yeah! And edit all your images with command line tools! Mice are for wimps, use the keyboard! Keyboards are for wimps, use punchcards! I've got a big dick! I'm a teenage Linux user pretending to be old school!"
WYSYIWYG does NOT necessarily suck. I see the web becoming more and more like desktop publishing what with things like css and xml and all that. You want to try doing css in vi? Have you ever tried doing imagemaps in a text editor(ok, it's easier than css, but still a pain)? Maybe you don't do very complex web design for your sites, but a lot of customers want the bells and whistles, and you can't do it by hand. GUIs are very good for certain tasks, and not as good for others.
-lx
I had thought about getting a bsd daemon on my shoulder as well, but then I couldn't decide whether it would be an incredibly stupid thing to do or not. (no offense to people with os-related tattoos, it's all personal preference) I mean - at first I thought bsd can't last forever, so I'd be stuck with a hopelessly out of date tattoo. Then I thought that maybe it would be a reminder of happy computing days gone by, and for a while I was happy with that.
:)
Then I thought "what if BSD suddenly goes in some horrible direction, to the point where I would willfully stop using it, like adopting the gpl or if linux/windows users started switching to it or something? What if I found an operating system that just blows bsd out of the water? Why doesn't BeOS have a cute tattooable mascot?"
And if I did end up getting a daemon tattoo, should I use the FreeBSD one, or the OpenBSD 3d-ish one?
Any thoughts on this? I don't have any tattoos at the moment - maybe I can just get an ambiguous tattoo in the meantime to help me catch the tattoo bug.
-lx
This is one of the more intelligent threads on slashdot I've read! :) One of the reasons I count myself in with the *BSD community is because of an increasingly clueless Linux community. Linux IS rapidly becoming the next windows, flooded with former windows users. Plus, the allegiance some linux users have to their OS is ridiculous.
:)
That's why I like associating with BSD types, because the software is TRULY free, people generally don't give a damn about commercial software development, and when I ask a question, I know I can get it answered, since the majority of BSD users are way more knowledgable than I am.
I didn't read the bit about Alan Cox, but I know that all of the best UNIX hackers have long beards. :)
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most of em.
Everytime some news comes out that might say something even slightly negative about linux, or maybe infer that it won't achieve world domination, there's 20-some morons posting "FUD, FUD, FUD!" in their subject line. The term is way overused in my opinion, and doesn't even mean that much. How about this, people - post some intelligent comments instead of letting an acronym do the work for you. I'm sick of hearing FUD! Anyone ever see Matt Groening's 'forbidden words of the 90s'? Well, that should be on there.
:)
Um. That's not really related to your pose, or directed at you, cjs. I agree with you, I just had to get that off my chest.
FreeBSD doesn't NEED a distribution. The whole point is that BSD is scalable, meaning that you can run it on ANY kind of hardware without gratuitous apps eating up space. Coming from a BSD background, I can't understand what all you linux folks are going on about with distributions. What difference does it make? Why do you want preloaded software?
Anyhoo - administration is simple for anyone with a moderate unix background. And, FreeBSD has been proven again and again to be able to handle higher loads with greater stability than Linux.
17 linux servers running DejaNews? What does that prove? 17!??
-lx
Crowley adopted a VERY old philosophy. Do what thou wilt shall it harm none.
Besides, you don't think that crowley might have been being sarcastic when/if he made that comment about education?
-lx
The 'invisible hand' theory is utterly ridiculous, and one has to look no further than the slums of any large city to figure out why. The invisible hand is a way for rich folks and corporation owners to lessen their burden of guilt. People acting selfishly do NOT do what is best for society - that shouldn't be too hard to figure out. It's a contradiction.
/. that mentioned Adam Smith's invisible hand being firmly implanted in his invisible butt. That was funny. :)
I think it was an article on
-lx
I giggled cuz I thought "now there's someone who knew the importance of registering domain names early..."
Like christian.com back in the old days...(*sniff*)
-lx
I doubt they use it - ever see the snotty "we don't use electronic stuff" messages on the inside of their albums?
Sheesh, and here I was thinking that amplifiers, mixers, and electric guitars were electronic.
-lx