The Serious Questions: Whatever happened from Slackware 4 to Slack ware 7? This is a fairly large gap here. Do you presonally run Slackware on your computer? What other OSes do you use? Do you have any dreaded microsoft boxes? Are you a S.L.A.C.K.E.R.? (System Literate Anarchists Can Kill Everyone with Railguns) The Stupid Questions: Do you own any penguins? What color are they? What is your favorite way to cook penguins?
Microsoft working on something for Linux users? Why is it suddenly so cold here in Hell? I thought Microsoft was stolid in their proprietary OS (awful as it is). Perhaps great things are ahead. Perhaps not, but even so, maybe we might we even see a (perish the thought) Microsoft Unix clone. Hmmm, what would they call it? Microsux? Damn pigs, they're getting hard to duck.
Despite the comment made in Geeks in Space episode something or other, this really does prove that Big Brother is watching and yes, he is out to get you if you do anything that The Man dissaproves of. How many people must the DVD CCA go through to realise that when they do an encryption, it gets broken, the "Cracker" gets arrested, and life is a general cluster *ahem* for everyone else? 3? 30? It doesn't work, the DVD CCA and all its eyes and arms need to back off and let us run our happy little ways.
Remeber the old saying "Nuke 'em 'till they glow and shoot 'em in the dark?" Well, now you can shoot them until they glow and, uh, shoot them in the dark.
Did someone officially declare it open season on stupid patents? So what happens if you use one-click shopping on Barnes And Noble while using Linux? Do the patent police come burn your computer or something? "Hey, you can't do that!" *foom, up in flames*
Oh, by the way, I'm patenting air, so everyone stop breathing or I'll have you arrested for theft.
The whole Y2K thing was created IMHO to increase worldwide technology sales. A flurry of Y2K compliance buying happened and tons of major tech firms got piles and piles of money from it. People stockpiled food, thusly agricultural companies boomed. Now, roll in the quasi-millennium celebration and the resultant hysteria is enough to make any person with a Willpower of 6 or less fly into a Frenzy of buying food and everything else. Thousands of retailers and their "Millennium Sales" and "Last Chance This Millennium" deals capitalized on human ignorance. Even MTV perpetuated the mass stupidity at every turn with such things as "The Last Music Video Awards This Millenium." What? You're not going to do it again next year? Dang, I liked watching those. Oh well, I have no control over it.
So, if Windows=cheap beer (ex. Natural Lite), and Linux is so much better than Windows, what would Linux be? Heineken? "Keep your hands off my Linny, baby."
Technology has definitely rooted itself in society. Without a doubt, everywhere you look, there is Tech looming at you. Even the once tranquil farmer now has the latest computer controlled harvesting machines and complex planting timelines calculated on the latest software from the latest company embracing the latest paradigm.
And it is good.
Without technology, mankind would be stagnanted to the form of society from pre-industrial Europe. Whether or not one sees the present as better or worse than the past, the present is a Tech-laced one based on not the human spirit, but the human wallet. Where once the fittest survived, the richest survive. Those with power get the money. With the money, they gain more power. Ask the average person who the most powerful man in the world is. Do they say Bill Clinton? No, on average, they will give that "other" Bill.
As we look to the future for a path and a guide, we are met with the ever increasing role of technology in our daily lives. One day, the average person WILL have microchips implanted in his upper arms so the building can work around him. One day, the average person probably WILL have biotechnical devices coursing through his veins to faster repair his ailing body. It wouldn't be too wild and wooly to theorize that one day large portions of the human brain will be replaced by silicon as it can transfer information MUCH faster than simple organic neurons.
I'd be the first on the waiting list for it.
Then there are the things we have now that don't look like they will go away any time soon. Cars, the Internet, and other various pieces of Tech have been here for a while now and look to stay that way. Think about it, if the internal combustion engine had never been invented, we'd all still be on horses. If the Internet had never been invented and evolved to at least its present state, just think how much the life of you, the Slashdot reader would be changed.
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The Serious Questions: Whatever happened from Slackware 4 to Slack ware 7? This is a fairly large gap here. Do you presonally run Slackware on your computer? What other OSes do you use? Do you have any dreaded microsoft boxes? Are you a S.L.A.C.K.E.R.? (System Literate Anarchists Can Kill Everyone with Railguns) The Stupid Questions: Do you own any penguins? What color are they? What is your favorite way to cook penguins?
Microsoft working on something for Linux users? Why is it suddenly so cold here in Hell? I thought Microsoft was stolid in their proprietary OS (awful as it is). Perhaps great things are ahead. Perhaps not, but even so, maybe we might we even see a (perish the thought) Microsoft Unix clone. Hmmm, what would they call it? Microsux? Damn pigs, they're getting hard to duck.
Be 5.0 is free to noncommercial users. duh.
My personnal vote goes to Be. But I'm just a free software jerk.
Despite the comment made in Geeks in Space episode something or other, this really does prove that Big Brother is watching and yes, he is out to get you if you do anything that The Man dissaproves of.
How many people must the DVD CCA go through to realise that when they do an encryption, it gets broken, the "Cracker" gets arrested, and life is a general cluster *ahem* for everyone else? 3? 30? It doesn't work, the DVD CCA and all its eyes and arms need to back off and let us run our happy little ways.
Remeber the old saying "Nuke 'em 'till they glow and shoot 'em in the dark?"
Well, now you can shoot them until they glow and, uh, shoot them in the dark.
Did someone officially declare it open season on stupid patents? So what happens if you use one-click shopping on Barnes And Noble while using Linux? Do the patent police come burn your computer or something? "Hey, you can't do that!" *foom, up in flames*
Oh, by the way, I'm patenting air, so everyone stop breathing or I'll have you arrested for theft.
The whole Y2K thing was created IMHO to increase worldwide technology sales. A flurry of Y2K compliance buying happened and tons of major tech firms got piles and piles of money from it. People stockpiled food, thusly agricultural companies boomed. Now, roll in the quasi-millennium celebration and the resultant hysteria is enough to make any person with a Willpower of 6 or less fly into a Frenzy of buying food and everything else. Thousands of retailers and their "Millennium Sales" and "Last Chance This Millennium" deals capitalized on human ignorance. Even MTV perpetuated the mass stupidity at every turn with such things as "The Last Music Video Awards This Millenium." What? You're not going to do it again next year? Dang, I liked watching those. Oh well, I have no control over it.
So, if Windows=cheap beer (ex. Natural Lite), and Linux is so much better than Windows, what would Linux be? Heineken? "Keep your hands off my Linny, baby."
Technology has definitely rooted itself in society. Without a doubt, everywhere you look, there is Tech looming at you. Even the once tranquil farmer now has the latest computer controlled harvesting machines and complex planting timelines calculated on the latest software from the latest company embracing the latest paradigm.
And it is good.
Without technology, mankind would be stagnanted to the form of society from pre-industrial Europe. Whether or not one sees the present as better or worse than the past, the present is a Tech-laced one based on not the human spirit, but the human wallet. Where once the fittest survived, the richest survive. Those with power get the money. With the money, they gain more power. Ask the average person who the most powerful man in the world is. Do they say Bill Clinton? No, on average, they will give that "other" Bill.
As we look to the future for a path and a guide, we are met with the ever increasing role of technology in our daily lives. One day, the average person WILL have microchips implanted in his upper arms so the building can work around him. One day, the average person probably WILL have biotechnical devices coursing through his veins to faster repair his ailing body. It wouldn't be too wild and wooly to theorize that one day large portions of the human brain will be replaced by silicon as it can transfer information MUCH faster than simple organic neurons.
I'd be the first on the waiting list for it.
Then there are the things we have now that don't look like they will go away any time soon. Cars, the Internet, and other various pieces of Tech have been here for a while now and look to stay that way. Think about it, if the internal combustion engine had never been invented, we'd all still be on horses. If the Internet had never been invented and evolved to at least its present state, just think how much the life of you, the Slashdot reader would be changed.
Just a thought.
I'm only making one resolution. I resolve not to make any resolutions. Oh, drat! I broke it already!