and the people who can't afford to pay a dollar per hour to watch television or a thousand dollars a year on box sets can just spend the time they've recovered working. this is america after all!! no more free rides for the lazy.
well said. i'd been looking forward to the movie ever since i set the book down, and then i heard boyle was directing, and they were shooting (almost) on location, and it was just going to be cool.
then i started hearing about some "changes" (namely, i knew that richard was going to hook up with francoise), and was a little nervous, but, hey, ok, it's hollywood. it's different, but i'm not going to crucify anyone for putting sex in the movie,
but, anyway, longstoryshort, i didn't account for a stultifyingly STUPID screenplay. it was just pretty much "bad" all the way through, and that's okayish, since it's still okay to just watch the pretty pictures, but then the ending,
OH MY GOD, THE ENDING WAS JUST SO BAD
and i'm going to ruin it here, but i don't care, since there's no reason to see this movie anyway if you haven't already,
anyway, when leo walks into this brightly lit room of clearly branded computers, logs onto his clearly branded web-based commercial e-mail service, and then starts downloading the picture i laughed REALLY HARD and then walked out when the thing was still only about 15% dowloaded.
in any case, it was just ridiculous. and then i read joel stein's interview with leo in last week's time, where leo talks about that picture being the "center" of the film, how taking it stole the community's soul or whatever and i am like
JESUS CHRIST LEO, GET A LIFE. YOUR WHOLE MOVIE STANK
because COME ON, i don't care how "deep" you think you are, it's just plain STUPID. they just *cut off* the ending of the book, and instead decided to show me the marvels of technology! yay!
anyway, all this "the movie is ripping off lord of the flies" crap is just a bunch of shit, since all the good trauma got left behind in the book! i was sitting there, waiting, the entire movie, thinking, well, i waited forever for this movie, and it's awful, but at least i can wait a little bit more until everything falls to shit & then it will at least be kind of exciting,
but, NO! they decided to rip us off AGAIN. i wonder, as like they're floating away in their big human raft, they're thinking "well, we just made over a hundred minutes of shitty movie, what's the point of really finishing it off? somebody invent a "center" of the movie for leo to talk about!"
and anyway, the funny thing about the movie is that it's really not for ANYONE. i mean, people who liked the book will hate it, people who hated the book will hate it, people who don't even know about the book will hate it, and it's all so USELESS.
Now if you'd said "great" programmers, I might be inclined to agree.
i hearby ammend my earlier comment to "great", as it is indeed closer to my true meaning.
and, if you ask me, the best thing about the whole concept is that it means that there are legions of great programmers out there who just haven't gotten around to writing code!
not that there's anything wrong with that. it's almost kind of a romantic notion that there are legions of the world's best programmers out there playing in the sun, away from keyboards, monitors, and circuitry.
i was hoping that someone could explain why this post was marked off topic??
it seems to me like a fairly straightforward answer to the question du jour. "how many hours do you work per week?" "3!"
it honestly appears that some overanxious moderator has--in a fit of jealousy--decided to try and punish the free speech rights of someone fortunate enough to not have to waste their life away working.
it's because of attitudes like these that the ideal of the anonymous coward must be maintained. no one must allow the hoards of detractors in their misguided crusade against trolling to remove the vital possibilty of everyone with something to fear from their beliefs to speak from behind that veil of anonymity!
let you all consider this case carefully. if those with the power on this site to judge the beliefs and thoughts of others can so casually and thoughtlessly strike down those they simply disagree with, what are the possiblities when even more important issues are at stake?
so, judge if ye will, judge if ye must, but be careful--be painfully aware--of what you are doing. and thank providence that we still retain the right & ability to post anonymously, where even though our views be maligned, our freedom to post them remains.
your whole posts just oozes the "but i already knew that" vibe that's what bothers me most about the book. sure, maybe it's a "welcome addition" to your bookshelf, but, is it going to do anything other than just sit on that shelf & gather dust, while you look up every once in a while for a moment of "yes, that's the book that has in it everything that i know!"?
i mean, isn't that kind of pointless? you're better off sinking your money into LinuxOne stock, because then there's at least a chance that it will actually end up worth more than zero cents.
what i don't get is why so many people who've read this book love it. there are some interesting parts, and i guess it's all fine & dandy to have people spend an entire page (84) telling me why i shouldn't use windows notepad to write my code,
but, uh,
isn't that kind of obvious? i think it's an okay book, especially for people who can't already program, but it's also a mistake for an experienced programmer to just rush off and order it on-line sight-unseen, because i think a lot of you might have the same "duh?" reaction that i did to a lot of the material.
it all ties into the basic fact that good programmers aren't taught, they're born.
As this glorious MadMorf Day comes to a close, I want to once again thank you, Madmorf--for being you--without which none of this would have been possible.
Every city, every borough, is reporting back with the inspiring news that this event--your event!--has been a resounding success. With such a virtuous, intelligent role model, on this day the hearts and minds (and souls!) of the entire Open Source Community have been greatly enlarged. I expect that we will see a lasting effect from this, and it is obvious that we are all better for it.
So, let no one in the future put forward false, unvirtuous idols! Let all remember the example of MadMorf and his Words of Wisdom!
I want to make a personal pledge, MadMorf, to do my best to celebrate you, and all that is MadMorf.
Hence,
I hereby declare that today is MAD MORF day, and instruct that this declamation should be carried from person to person, street corner to street corner, from forest to vale, until all of the Linux Nation knows and sings the sacred name.
i think "annoying" is an even more appropriate label for the moderation of this post. by my count, it is one of approximately 3 on topic posts out of 58 total, and yet, some helpful moderator went to the trouble of knocking it down to zero.
Christ, sometimes you fucking 12 year old pissant angry geeks just make me wanna install Win95 again
most of the twelve year olds that i know have better senses of humor than Your Average Slashdot Poster.
i don't really have anything against anger, definitely don't have anything against geekdom, and i'm still not sure what a pissant is, but um where was this going?
oh! the point is, you should all get over yourselves. there was a world before/., and there will be a world afterwards. luckily, in the meantime, there are geek communities around where people don't use phrases like "bearded one" or have their days ruined by news about gui toolkit contributors.
Normally people do things like prove that vulnerabilities do not exist (by testing or by intimate knowledge of the way a system is designed) before calling them hoaxes.
you know, maybe in a perfect world that's true, but not in the world that apple users have been given.
so, Zigg, please try to stay on topic within threads. giggle!
it's allowed us all to discover the grandest tragedy of the whole debacle--john romero wasn't chosen as the final winner.
his startling innovative new game, daikatana, is a model for the future. he's so busy innovating, he's got no time to ship product. now there is an example for the (so-called) open source community to follow.
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not only was friendster also invite-only at the start, you also had to know the "beta code" to login.
and the people who can't afford to pay a dollar per hour to watch television or a thousand dollars a year on box sets can just spend the time they've recovered working. this is america after all!! no more free rides for the lazy.
go jfuNk!
well said. i'd been looking forward to the movie ever since i set the book down, and then i heard boyle was directing, and they were shooting (almost) on location, and it was just going to be cool.
then i started hearing about some "changes" (namely, i knew that richard was going to hook up with francoise), and was a little nervous, but, hey, ok, it's hollywood. it's different, but i'm not going to crucify anyone for putting sex in the movie,
but, anyway, longstoryshort, i didn't account for a stultifyingly STUPID screenplay. it was just pretty much "bad" all the way through, and that's okayish, since it's still okay to just watch the pretty pictures, but then the ending,
OH MY GOD, THE ENDING WAS JUST SO BAD
and i'm going to ruin it here, but i don't care, since there's no reason to see this movie anyway if you haven't already,
anyway, when leo walks into this brightly lit room of clearly branded computers, logs onto his clearly branded web-based commercial e-mail service, and then starts downloading the picture i laughed REALLY HARD and then walked out when the thing was still only about 15% dowloaded.
in any case, it was just ridiculous. and then i read joel stein's interview with leo in last week's time, where leo talks about that picture being the "center" of the film, how taking it stole the community's soul or whatever and i am like
JESUS CHRIST LEO, GET A LIFE. YOUR WHOLE MOVIE STANK
because COME ON, i don't care how "deep" you think you are, it's just plain STUPID. they just *cut off* the ending of the book, and instead decided to show me the marvels of technology! yay!
anyway, all this "the movie is ripping off lord of the flies" crap is just a bunch of shit, since all the good trauma got left behind in the book! i was sitting there, waiting, the entire movie, thinking, well, i waited forever for this movie, and it's awful, but at least i can wait a little bit more until everything falls to shit & then it will at least be kind of exciting,
but, NO! they decided to rip us off AGAIN. i wonder, as like they're floating away in their big human raft, they're thinking "well, we just made over a hundred minutes of shitty movie, what's the point of really finishing it off? somebody invent a "center" of the movie for leo to talk about!"
and anyway, the funny thing about the movie is that it's really not for ANYONE. i mean, people who liked the book will hate it, people who hated the book will hate it, people who don't even know about the book will hate it, and it's all so USELESS.
so, DO NOT GO SEE THIS MOVIE. thank you.
haY
Now if you'd said "great" programmers, I might be inclined to agree.
i hearby ammend my earlier comment to "great", as it is indeed closer to my true meaning.
and, if you ask me, the best thing about the whole concept is that it means that there are legions of great programmers out there who just haven't gotten around to writing code!
not that there's anything wrong with that. it's almost kind of a romantic notion that there are legions of the world's best programmers out there playing in the sun, away from keyboards, monitors, and circuitry.
haY
i was hoping that someone could explain why this post was marked off topic??
it seems to me like a fairly straightforward answer to the question du jour. "how many hours do you work per week?" "3!"
it honestly appears that some overanxious moderator has--in a fit of jealousy--decided to try and punish the free speech rights of someone fortunate enough to not have to waste their life away working.
it's because of attitudes like these that the ideal of the anonymous coward must be maintained. no one must allow the hoards of detractors in their misguided crusade against trolling to remove the vital possibilty of everyone with something to fear from their beliefs to speak from behind that veil of anonymity!
let you all consider this case carefully. if those with the power on this site to judge the beliefs and thoughts of others can so casually and thoughtlessly strike down those they simply disagree with, what are the possiblities when even more important issues are at stake?
so, judge if ye will, judge if ye must, but be careful--be painfully aware--of what you are doing. and thank providence that we still retain the right & ability to post anonymously, where even though our views be maligned, our freedom to post them remains.
but, one question for you!
your whole posts just oozes the "but i already knew that" vibe that's what bothers me most about the book. sure, maybe it's a "welcome addition" to your bookshelf, but, is it going to do anything other than just sit on that shelf & gather dust, while you look up every once in a while for a moment of "yes, that's the book that has in it everything that i know!"?
i mean, isn't that kind of pointless? you're better off sinking your money into LinuxOne stock, because then there's at least a chance that it will actually end up worth more than zero cents.
what i don't get is why so many people who've read this book love it. there are some interesting parts, and i guess it's all fine & dandy to have people spend an entire page (84) telling me why i shouldn't use windows notepad to write my code,
but, uh,
isn't that kind of obvious? i think it's an okay book, especially for people who can't already program, but it's also a mistake for an experienced programmer to just rush off and order it on-line sight-unseen, because i think a lot of you might have the same "duh?" reaction that i did to a lot of the material.
it all ties into the basic fact that good programmers aren't taught, they're born.
giggle.
As this glorious MadMorf Day comes to a close, I want to once again thank you, Madmorf--for being you--without which none of this would have been possible.
Every city, every borough, is reporting back with the inspiring news that this event--your event!--has been a resounding success. With such a virtuous, intelligent role model, on this day the hearts and minds (and souls!) of the entire Open Source Community have been greatly enlarged. I expect that we will see a lasting effect from this, and it is obvious that we are all better for it.
So, let no one in the future put forward false, unvirtuous idols! Let all remember the example of MadMorf and his Words of Wisdom!
Let freedom ring! and welcome back, Kevin.
I want to make a personal pledge, MadMorf, to do my best to celebrate you, and all that is MadMorf.
Hence,
I hereby declare that today is MAD MORF day, and instruct that this declamation should be carried from person to person, street corner to street corner, from forest to vale, until all of the Linux Nation knows and sings the sacred name.
i think "annoying" is an even more appropriate label for the moderation of this post. by my count, it is one of approximately 3 on topic posts out of 58 total, and yet, some helpful moderator went to the trouble of knocking it down to zero.
i mean, whuhhhh?
most of the twelve year olds that i know have better senses of humor than Your Average Slashdot Poster.
i don't really have anything against anger, definitely don't have anything against geekdom, and i'm still not sure what a pissant is, but um where was this going?
oh! the point is, you should all get over yourselves. there was a world before /., and there will be a world afterwards. luckily, in the meantime, there are geek communities around where people don't use phrases like "bearded one" or have their days ruined by news about gui toolkit contributors.
you know, maybe in a perfect world that's true, but not in the world that apple users have been given.
so, Zigg, please try to stay on topic within threads. giggle!
i guess the best hoaxes are the ones that companies release patches for?
thanks for posting the link to the full list!
it's allowed us all to discover the grandest tragedy of the whole debacle--john romero wasn't chosen as the final winner.
his startling innovative new game, daikatana, is a model for the future. he's so busy innovating, he's got no time to ship product. now there is an example for the (so-called) open source community to follow.