we all know that the Engineers at Slackware and RedHat are thinking "god damn! why am i working at this dead end job where my company just GIVES the software away"
oh wait - no they're not. they're thinking "Jesus christ - i am sooooo fucking rich!"
Open source does have a marketplace - just because people can get the source doesn't mean people won't pay for it. You and your happy little windows 15 minutes is almost up....14....13...12...
ding-dong "who could that be"
"Umm..sir...it's the justice department...does a Mr. Gates live here?"
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
i have used Xfree v 4.0 on three different chips. One ATI Rage, one 3dfx Voodoo 3, and a TNT2.
out of these three. the only one that i even gotten to work without hacking the XF86Config file was the TNT2 - that's not to say the the whole setup took a dump when i tried to use the nv driver provided by nVidia.
I'm just saying that the original 4.0 release wasn't all that it was built up to be. I know a signifigant number of people still running 3.3.6 because 4.0 was more of a beta than anything.
as far as the 3dfx drivers being published by 3dfx. This is only half-true. The drivers that 3dfx is providing are 3d only, the 2d servers they provide are meant as a replacement for the current XFree86 drivers, but XFree does in fact specify standalone 2d support for these chips. What bugs me is that the support pages specifically list the Voodoo chipsets as supported, even more specifically the Voodoo3 and Banshee chips (using the 'tdfx' driver). This is just not so. I would rather see the folks at XFree86 just come out and say it's not supported yet.
I'm still going home and trying 4.0.1 when i get there;-)
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
that i'm not too happy with the state of XFree86 4.0. Primarily because there's a lot of support that was left out. Particularly on most 3dfx chipsets. Sure, it says all 3dfx chips are supported, but that's laughable.
Perhaps 4.0 was build up quite a bit more than it should have been - but it comes down to the fact that this wasn't really a next-gen release. It was more of a 'other-gen' release. For some people it was worth while to upgrade, while for others it was not. I would have been much happier to see the folks at XFree86 wait a little longer to release a much better product. Something that everyone could upgrade to. I know at least 3dfx and some ATI chips got screwed.
(Next comes my - why does 3dfx support for linux suck so bad? post)
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
Slashdot did not force it's reputation on high level magazines, but itstead it was earned that by word-of-mouth.
kind of like the term "hacker" has become derogatory now-a-days. I now try to refrane from calling myself a hacker because people automatically assume "wow - you're some script kiddie who breaks into innocent people's computers." - I reply "no...you're thinking of a cracker" and the conversation deteriorates from there. The term has even made it into webster's dictionary. Something i'm not too happy about IMNSHO. Not that anyone who reads slashdot, or uses an OS coded by a European hacker should know or anything;-)
As far as "news" sites are concerned. I'll say this. I was flamed greatly for my reply to the "oily penguin" story that was posted several days ago. My viewpoint wsa this - a site should stay focused and true to it's readership. That story, i felt, was not particularly well focused, at least in the slashdot sense. What does this have to do with sensoring stories on other sites? Simply this: Staying focused and true to your readership means not only refraining from posting stories that are "out of bounds" as far as the scope of your site, but additionally, posting stories that are in-bounds and timely.
Unfortunately for all of us, this usually means that the editors have to make a subjective judgement call in relation to what goes and what stays. In this case, however, i do think this was most likely just plain old sensorship. Let's get with the program kids. If you have a linux website dedicated to linux-based news - post linux based news - even if it's not in your interest. Or your readers will find someone else who will.
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
till i have a child and we get to watch it evolve to walk.
maybe we'll catch it on tape. i think it's called learning because others already knew how to do it and it picked it up. Evolving is more of a genetic process, certainly a much more epic process.
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
lol - you mean the People's Republic of Boulder? Or perhaps 5 square miles surounded by reality
two of my favorites. look me up when you get to boulder. i'll be the only 20 year old in the city of littleton. Or, the only one without a 99 SUV purchased for me by my parents.
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
While i'm by no means from The Kansas Territory (little Colorado joke;-) I do have a lot of experience from the state, having lived on one side, Co. for 19 years and a year long stint in the greater Colombia, Mo metropolitan area (translation == jesus that state is humid)
As you said, Kansas is a very conservitive state, as is much of the midwest, and I wouldn't have a linux expo in KC for the same reasons i wouldn't have one in Des Moines or Lincoln. They're nice enough places to visit. Hell, i'd even consider living in KC if it weren't for those damned Chiefs! - but what linux needs right now is what it's been using for quite some time, a newer, more (dare i say) hip approach. The midwest seems to, like it or not, bring with it images of, as you said, grass-roots, stability, tradition. Linux seems to represent some of the opposite characteristics. A break with tradition. (ok - everything except instability:P )Certainly, if you're going to throw a linux expo, you'll want to throw it somewhere where you KNOW it's going to succeed. Perhaps somewhere a little more progressive. Denver? Seattle? Any California city, NY? Atlanta?
These all seem to me to be good choices. Oh well, i suppose i'm just sad i didn't get to make the 9 hour drive out to see ESR. my bad!
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
I think what's really cool is that games are starting to take a turn for the more realistic.
case in point: Counterstrike - the extraordinarily popular half-life mod that basically gives you one life. when you die, you're dead. No respawn (at least till the 5 minute or so match has ended).
Perhaps, in a addition to teaching our children about violence, games will begin to teach children about the consequences of violence. It may be a bit basic, but then again, so is the video game violence. - Maybe some of these "violent" video games will show kids that, while violence may seem fun on a TV screen, there are *real* consequences for our actions...people do get hurt, and some times, that person is you.
On one other note. I really want to say thank you to the guys over at Gamespy - that has got to be one of the biggest bang for your buck i've gotten out of any piece of software in a long time. (Linux anyone????) - Really good design, configurability without any learning curve. The only thing i could ask for is a linux port:)
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
i believe it is the intent behind the reference, sir.
I said that indian people were in poor dental health...and that they were poor. while in fact india is a relatively poor country (comparatively at least) - i make no assumptions regarding their dental health. Assuming Indians eat better than americans, one could probably think they have better dental health than my own country. It was all in jest. While you one may find my joke tasteless, it was entirely obvious that it was, in fact, a joke
However, when i was called a bigot, that, sir, was in all seriousness, and yes....that does offend me. Not once in all the reply posts have i made in this thread did i state that i truly believed that India was a country "lesser" to that of the U.S. - I suppose i am just glad that when someone makes light of my heritage, i am able to laugh it off, or perhaps even participate in the meriment. I would hate to be as miserably defensive as the Indian gentleman who originally replied to my post.
BTW - if you haven't read all of the sub-threads, i encourage you to do so. there are some very insightful coments from several other people. Regardless of their viewpoints.
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
you know - some of the few racists i know in this world are the ones that go "hey - i have a friend who's black!"
you just said it. - you know what you're problem is, you've given in to the P.C. view of life. You might think i'm a narrow minded individual because i posted the way i did. I think you're a narrow minded individual for exactly the opposite reasons. You will defend to the death freedom of speech - so long as you're in agreement with the speech. But it doesn't matter - when all is said and done, i don't see color or culture. I see an individual. - now...run along, there's a cause somewhere that's one protester short!
"I don't agree with what you say, but i will defend to the death your right to say it!" -Voltaire
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
i know this post right here is going to get moderated down. why? because some asshole is coming through and meta-moderating the FUCK out of all my posts.
when a post has nothing to do with the original story, yet is in context with the thread - IT'S NOT FUCKING OFF-TOPIC you vindictive assholes. but hey, way to rise above the flagrant racism some of you felt i displayed with my original post.
after you're done meta-moderating me are you gonna get together and bomb a fucking abortion clinic because you think "hey - killing children is wrong! let's go kill the people who kill children! that seems right in our fucking warped minds"???? way to demonstrate how ignorant and intolerant I am.
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
you know - it's just too bad, in this day and age, that if you're not "PC" then you're a flaming asshole!
It seems the world, certainly america, is on the brink of going from one extreme: scathing racism, to another: intolerance for controversy. Your post has to be the most insightful one in this thread - it's just too bad you'll lose karma because you *defended* an un-PC viewpoint.
oh well...i suppose if i'm not posting what other people want to hear, or at least expect to hear, then i shouldn't be surprised that posts like mine go from +5 to -1 Flamebait faster than a speeding bullet. LOL - i lost karma on the "oily penguin" story too. go figure.
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
naw - your "fat" joke wasn't funny because it wasn't timely. it was something that someone would expect as a flaming response to my post. it wasn't *not* funny because it was about fat people - fat jokes are funny too...it was unfunny because it didn't have any of the asthetic elements of humor - just like my original post wouldn't have been funny in response to a story posted about P-III Xeons.
the irish joke was an illustration that one should learn to laugh at their own culture - and others for that matter. of course you didn't find it funny - it was put there to make a point, not to make you laugh - just like your *fat* joke
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
lmfao - i find this extraordinarily funny...and what's more, i'm about %75 irish. I don't find it offensive because i know it's not true...you should take a lesson from that.
oh..and BTW - not all Irish are drunkards either! it's just that %92 that give the rest of us a bad name!
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
actually, using a more practical approach, india plans on stacking each member of the population on the others' shoulders untill they create a human tower...they should reach the moon with a stack of approximately.82 billion people - all with poor dental health
how is this possible? how do they breath outside the earth's atmosphere? - simple. very long bendy straws.
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
lol - i just thought i would reply that i do in fact know how much work goes into a site like this. I work for a "site like this" - not necessarily a news related site. But if you asked me how much of a pain in the ass it was to come in on weekends to rack new boxes, having to involve yourself in the hassle of a semi-ungrateful user base, or getting in at 8 or 9 in the morning, only to find out that you have to stay 'till midnight or later because of someone's screw up or a DDOS or what have you (and then do it again the next day, and the next, and the nex....)....i would know.
Slashdot gets an A for effort - but so does just about every other company i've ever seen, or had the privelege to work for.
i think what disturbs me, is that every time i post an unpopular opinion on slashdot, i get flamed. I didn't post "Natalie Portman With hot grits down her pants!" - and still i get moderated down and flamed because of it. That, i think, is the saddest part of all.
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
Actually, I flamed you because I, quite frankly, thought your post was tasteless, irrelevant, and a waste of bandwidth and hard drive space. Does this make me intolerant? Perhaps. Maybe I'm justified in my intolerance however as you seem to be lowering the median IQ of the human race I belong to.
i'm glad you're of the opinion that because i don't have specifically the same taste in humor, food, or whatever else we would most likely disagree on, that i am A)Dumber than you are, B)Not qualified to share my views with whomever i wish.
i shudder at the thought that there are others as intolerant as you allowed to freely roam this planet. THAT my friend is something that scares me more than oil spills!
and with that. I give this thread to you. You have won. I am beaten. Now let's both shut up!
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
It wasn't even half funny, it was an absolutely retarded thing to do
you realize you flamed me because you didn't think i was funny. i think that makes you the retarded one. or at least the intolerant one. oh well...i guess i'll just thank god that i'm only subjected to your opinions on a relatively obscure environmentalist-geek website.
btw - as far as 'on-topic' is concerned. if i go to hear a person speak at a convention on linux...and they start to digress about how they hate cheeseburgers or some such gobledeegook, is that not 'off-topic'? even if they organized and funded the convention? - you can approve of whatever they do at slashdot. - that's your right....just fucking admit the story was digressionary. Maybe if sengan had actually posted more than 2 stories in the long history of slashdot you'd have a leg to stand on with that 'it's whatever they want the topic to be' argument.
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
i think one of the things that's being overlooked here...or perhaps a question that wasn't asked is: do the proprieters of a site, such as slashdot, as popular as it now is, have an implied duty to the 'consumer' to provide a relatively on-topic set of media?
My answer to that question would be yes. I'm not blasting the folks at slashdot for posting this. While i disagree with the decision to go ahead with it. I do agree it is a valid cause. That being said, news for nerds: stuff that matters, does not encompas every thing news worthy. Elian is a good cause, however, that heart-warming child's story has nothing to do with a wireless lan:)
Slashdot is a company, or at least a subsidiary, and as such, i do believe they have some inkling of a duty to the consumer to provide timely, and on-topic stories to their reader base. No one is saying that they don't feel for the penguins. I personally think it's a tragedy, but i don't believe it has a place on slashdot.
BTW - when you speak of CmdrTaco and Hemos, and the rest of the crew, it's not their website - it's Andover's website, which is in turn owned by VA Linux. So - maybe someone should ask the guys at VA if this is a slashdot worthy story. not that they would really give a shit either way.
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
Slashdot Mirror
with or without the 3dfx drivers??? if without...could you be more specific?
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
wow - you've made me see the light!
we all know that the Engineers at Slackware and RedHat are thinking "god damn! why am i working at this dead end job where my company just GIVES the software away"
oh wait - no they're not. they're thinking "Jesus christ - i am sooooo fucking rich!"
Open source does have a marketplace - just because people can get the source doesn't mean people won't pay for it. You and your happy little windows 15 minutes is almost up....14....13...12...
ding-dong "who could that be"
"Umm..sir...it's the justice department...does a Mr. Gates live here?"
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
i have used Xfree v 4.0 on three different chips. One ATI Rage, one 3dfx Voodoo 3, and a TNT2.
;-)
out of these three. the only one that i even gotten to work without hacking the XF86Config file was the TNT2 - that's not to say the the whole setup took a dump when i tried to use the nv driver provided by nVidia.
I'm just saying that the original 4.0 release wasn't all that it was built up to be. I know a signifigant number of people still running 3.3.6 because 4.0 was more of a beta than anything.
as far as the 3dfx drivers being published by 3dfx. This is only half-true. The drivers that 3dfx is providing are 3d only, the 2d servers they provide are meant as a replacement for the current XFree86 drivers, but XFree does in fact specify standalone 2d support for these chips. What bugs me is that the support pages specifically list the Voodoo chipsets as supported, even more specifically the Voodoo3 and Banshee chips (using the 'tdfx' driver). This is just not so. I would rather see the folks at XFree86 just come out and say it's not supported yet.
I'm still going home and trying 4.0.1 when i get there
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
that i'm not too happy with the state of XFree86 4.0. Primarily because there's a lot of support that was left out. Particularly on most 3dfx chipsets. Sure, it says all 3dfx chips are supported, but that's laughable.
Perhaps 4.0 was build up quite a bit more than it should have been - but it comes down to the fact that this wasn't really a next-gen release. It was more of a 'other-gen' release. For some people it was worth while to upgrade, while for others it was not. I would have been much happier to see the folks at XFree86 wait a little longer to release a much better product. Something that everyone could upgrade to. I know at least 3dfx and some ATI chips got screwed.
(Next comes my - why does 3dfx support for linux suck so bad? post)
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
Slashdot did not force it's reputation on high level magazines, but itstead it was earned that by word-of-mouth.
;-)
kind of like the term "hacker" has become derogatory now-a-days. I now try to refrane from calling myself a hacker because people automatically assume "wow - you're some script kiddie who breaks into innocent people's computers." - I reply "no...you're thinking of a cracker" and the conversation deteriorates from there. The term has even made it into webster's dictionary. Something i'm not too happy about IMNSHO. Not that anyone who reads slashdot, or uses an OS coded by a European hacker should know or anything
As far as "news" sites are concerned. I'll say this. I was flamed greatly for my reply to the "oily penguin" story that was posted several days ago. My viewpoint wsa this - a site should stay focused and true to it's readership. That story, i felt, was not particularly well focused, at least in the slashdot sense. What does this have to do with sensoring stories on other sites? Simply this: Staying focused and true to your readership means not only refraining from posting stories that are "out of bounds" as far as the scope of your site, but additionally, posting stories that are in-bounds and timely.
Unfortunately for all of us, this usually means that the editors have to make a subjective judgement call in relation to what goes and what stays. In this case, however, i do think this was most likely just plain old sensorship. Let's get with the program kids. If you have a linux website dedicated to linux-based news - post linux based news - even if it's not in your interest. Or your readers will find someone else who will.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
till i have a child and we get to watch it evolve to walk.
maybe we'll catch it on tape. i think it's called learning because others already knew how to do it and it picked it up. Evolving is more of a genetic process, certainly a much more epic process.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
lol - you mean the People's Republic of Boulder? Or perhaps 5 square miles surounded by reality
two of my favorites. look me up when you get to boulder. i'll be the only 20 year old in the city of littleton. Or, the only one without a 99 SUV purchased for me by my parents.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
Get a cyrix-III a Maxtor Hard drive and Win95 (OSR1). Add in 32Meg of RAM and make sure you bought the box from Packard Bell.
Your box gets it's very own darwin award!
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
While i'm by no means from The Kansas Territory (little Colorado joke ;-) I do have a lot of experience from the state, having lived on one side, Co. for 19 years and a year long stint in the greater Colombia, Mo metropolitan area (translation == jesus that state is humid)
:P )Certainly, if you're going to throw a linux expo, you'll want to throw it somewhere where you KNOW it's going to succeed. Perhaps somewhere a little more progressive. Denver? Seattle? Any California city, NY? Atlanta?
As you said, Kansas is a very conservitive state, as is much of the midwest, and I wouldn't have a linux expo in KC for the same reasons i wouldn't have one in Des Moines or Lincoln. They're nice enough places to visit. Hell, i'd even consider living in KC if it weren't for those damned Chiefs! - but what linux needs right now is what it's been using for quite some time, a newer, more (dare i say) hip approach. The midwest seems to, like it or not, bring with it images of, as you said, grass-roots, stability, tradition. Linux seems to represent some of the opposite characteristics. A break with tradition. (ok - everything except instability
These all seem to me to be good choices. Oh well, i suppose i'm just sad i didn't get to make the 9 hour drive out to see ESR. my bad!
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
I think what's really cool is that games are starting to take a turn for the more realistic.
:)
case in point: Counterstrike - the extraordinarily popular half-life mod that basically gives you one life. when you die, you're dead. No respawn (at least till the 5 minute or so match has ended).
Perhaps, in a addition to teaching our children about violence, games will begin to teach children about the consequences of violence. It may be a bit basic, but then again, so is the video game violence. - Maybe some of these "violent" video games will show kids that, while violence may seem fun on a TV screen, there are *real* consequences for our actions...people do get hurt, and some times, that person is you.
On one other note. I really want to say thank you to the guys over at Gamespy - that has got to be one of the biggest bang for your buck i've gotten out of any piece of software in a long time. (Linux anyone????) - Really good design, configurability without any learning curve. The only thing i could ask for is a linux port
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
i believe it is the intent behind the reference, sir.
I said that indian people were in poor dental health...and that they were poor. while in fact india is a relatively poor country (comparatively at least) - i make no assumptions regarding their dental health. Assuming Indians eat better than americans, one could probably think they have better dental health than my own country. It was all in jest. While you one may find my joke tasteless, it was entirely obvious that it was, in fact, a joke
However, when i was called a bigot, that, sir, was in all seriousness, and yes....that does offend me. Not once in all the reply posts have i made in this thread did i state that i truly believed that India was a country "lesser" to that of the U.S. - I suppose i am just glad that when someone makes light of my heritage, i am able to laugh it off, or perhaps even participate in the meriment. I would hate to be as miserably defensive as the Indian gentleman who originally replied to my post.
BTW - if you haven't read all of the sub-threads, i encourage you to do so. there are some very insightful coments from several other people. Regardless of their viewpoints.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
jesus man! your post is dangerous! you almost made me suffocate on mountain dew!!
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
you know - some of the few racists i know in this world are the ones that go "hey - i have a friend who's black!"
you just said it. - you know what you're problem is, you've given in to the P.C. view of life. You might think i'm a narrow minded individual because i posted the way i did. I think you're a narrow minded individual for exactly the opposite reasons. You will defend to the death freedom of speech - so long as you're in agreement with the speech. But it doesn't matter - when all is said and done, i don't see color or culture. I see an individual. - now...run along, there's a cause somewhere that's one protester short!
"I don't agree with what you say, but i will defend to the death your right to say it!"
-Voltaire
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
not really. i tend to take it personally when someone calls me a biggot, be it on slashdot, or in real life.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
i know this post right here is going to get moderated down. why? because some asshole is coming through and meta-moderating the FUCK out of all my posts.
when a post has nothing to do with the original story, yet is in context with the thread - IT'S NOT FUCKING OFF-TOPIC you vindictive assholes. but hey, way to rise above the flagrant racism some of you felt i displayed with my original post.
after you're done meta-moderating me are you gonna get together and bomb a fucking abortion clinic because you think "hey - killing children is wrong! let's go kill the people who kill children! that seems right in our fucking warped minds"???? way to demonstrate how ignorant and intolerant I am.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
THAT was funny.
i saw the subject line of your post and i laughed my ass off.
now you're getting it!
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
you know - it's just too bad, in this day and age, that if you're not "PC" then you're a flaming asshole!
It seems the world, certainly america, is on the brink of going from one extreme: scathing racism, to another: intolerance for controversy. Your post has to be the most insightful one in this thread - it's just too bad you'll lose karma because you *defended* an un-PC viewpoint.
oh well...i suppose if i'm not posting what other people want to hear, or at least expect to hear, then i shouldn't be surprised that posts like mine go from +5 to -1 Flamebait faster than a speeding bullet. LOL - i lost karma on the "oily penguin" story too. go figure.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
naw - your "fat" joke wasn't funny because it wasn't timely. it was something that someone would expect as a flaming response to my post. it wasn't *not* funny because it was about fat people - fat jokes are funny too...it was unfunny because it didn't have any of the asthetic elements of humor - just like my original post wouldn't have been funny in response to a story posted about P-III Xeons.
the irish joke was an illustration that one should learn to laugh at their own culture - and others for that matter. of course you didn't find it funny - it was put there to make a point, not to make you laugh - just like your *fat* joke
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
or your forhead dotted arse is gonna die young.
ready for another joke?
what's four miles long and has an IQ of 2?
the saint patricks day parade!
lmfao - i find this extraordinarily funny...and what's more, i'm about %75 irish. I don't find it offensive because i know it's not true...you should take a lesson from that.
oh..and BTW - not all Irish are drunkards either! it's just that %92 that give the rest of us a bad name!
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
actually, using a more practical approach, india plans on stacking each member of the population on the others' shoulders untill they create a human tower...they should reach the moon with a stack of approximately .82 billion people - all with poor dental health
how is this possible? how do they breath outside the earth's atmosphere? - simple. very long bendy straws.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
how many pentium processors does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
exactly 1.8342210020334565635623561
but 2 is close enough.
all hail the thunderbird!
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
lol - i just thought i would reply that i do in fact know how much work goes into a site like this. I work for a "site like this" - not necessarily a news related site. But if you asked me how much of a pain in the ass it was to come in on weekends to rack new boxes, having to involve yourself in the hassle of a semi-ungrateful user base, or getting in at 8 or 9 in the morning, only to find out that you have to stay 'till midnight or later because of someone's screw up or a DDOS or what have you (and then do it again the next day, and the next, and the nex....) ....i would know.
Slashdot gets an A for effort - but so does just about every other company i've ever seen, or had the privelege to work for.
i think what disturbs me, is that every time i post an unpopular opinion on slashdot, i get flamed. I didn't post "Natalie Portman With hot grits down her pants!" - and still i get moderated down and flamed because of it. That, i think, is the saddest part of all.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
Actually, I flamed you because I, quite frankly, thought your post was tasteless, irrelevant, and a waste of bandwidth and hard drive space. Does this make me intolerant? Perhaps. Maybe I'm justified in my intolerance however as you seem to be lowering the median IQ of the human race I belong to.
i'm glad you're of the opinion that because i don't have specifically the same taste in humor, food, or whatever else we would most likely disagree on, that i am A)Dumber than you are, B)Not qualified to share my views with whomever i wish.
i shudder at the thought that there are others as intolerant as you allowed to freely roam this planet. THAT my friend is something that scares me more than oil spills!
and with that. I give this thread to you. You have won. I am beaten. Now let's both shut up!
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
It wasn't even half funny, it was an absolutely retarded thing to do
you realize you flamed me because you didn't think i was funny. i think that makes you the retarded one. or at least the intolerant one. oh well...i guess i'll just thank god that i'm only subjected to your opinions on a relatively obscure environmentalist-geek website.
btw - as far as 'on-topic' is concerned. if i go to hear a person speak at a convention on linux...and they start to digress about how they hate cheeseburgers or some such gobledeegook, is that not 'off-topic'? even if they organized and funded the convention? - you can approve of whatever they do at slashdot. - that's your right....just fucking admit the story was digressionary. Maybe if sengan had actually posted more than 2 stories in the long history of slashdot you'd have a leg to stand on with that 'it's whatever they want the topic to be' argument.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
i think one of the things that's being overlooked here...or perhaps a question that wasn't asked is: do the proprieters of a site, such as slashdot, as popular as it now is, have an implied duty to the 'consumer' to provide a relatively on-topic set of media?
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My answer to that question would be yes. I'm not blasting the folks at slashdot for posting this. While i disagree with the decision to go ahead with it. I do agree it is a valid cause. That being said, news for nerds: stuff that matters, does not encompas every thing news worthy. Elian is a good cause, however, that heart-warming child's story has nothing to do with a wireless lan
Slashdot is a company, or at least a subsidiary, and as such, i do believe they have some inkling of a duty to the consumer to provide timely, and on-topic stories to their reader base. No one is saying that they don't feel for the penguins. I personally think it's a tragedy, but i don't believe it has a place on slashdot.
BTW - when you speak of CmdrTaco and Hemos, and the rest of the crew, it's not their website - it's Andover's website, which is in turn owned by VA Linux. So - maybe someone should ask the guys at VA if this is a slashdot worthy story. not that they would really give a shit either way.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network