And just who do you think you are dictating what the subject matter of slashdot is?
i, sir, am the consumer. If slashdot wants to turn itself into a nature-conservatory, or what have you...that's all well and good. That is their perogative. I didn't email anyone about it. i didnt call Hemos at his honeymoon hideout and bitch at him for allowing one of his co-workers to post the story. I simply stated that i felt it was an off-topic story in a publicly accessible forum.
If the guys at slashdot want to turn it into a generic news source for any and all news-worthy articles, e.g. Elian, Gore, and whatever else passes for news these days, that's fine with me. I'll take my readership elsewhere - as will a signifigant portion of slashdot's user base. Then we'll see if Andover, or VA, or whoever else, wants to pay for/.'s colocation facilities, bandwidth, et. al.
Sorry, but Hemos, CmdrTaco, and the rest aren't my fearless leaders. I don't hang on every word the say, or post as the case may be. And i'm certainly not 'unquestioningly loyal' like some of the people i've seen posting. This is my tech source, when it ceases to be that, i'll go elsewhere.
I eagerly await your "well why don't you go elsewhere NOW! asshole" reply.
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
it seems funny to me that all of these supposed 'search engines' are all using other 'search engines' to do the work for them
used to be you had yahoo, hotbot, altavista, lycos, etc. -- now yahoo is going to be 'powered by' google, and hotbot is 'powered by' lycos, and altavista still returns pictures of santa claus when you do a search on "caffeine free diet coke"
you know - i'll bet if you look into this far enough it probably all links back to one guy who stays up all night answering queries.
guy: "jesus another search for 'caffeine free diet coke' - wtf...let's see how he reacts when i return links to pictures of santa claus!"
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
i think the reason there are 'flames' about this (most of what i'm seeing is just "hey - this isn't slashdot fodder") is that there really is no need for this to be posted on slashdot.
I would argue two points against your post:
1 slashdot is a geek web-site. It's for geeks, it's by geeks. While there is no sense in denying that this oil spill sucks. I would rather read about it on CNN.com or BBC.com, etc. I come to slashdot for my tech news, period. The mapping of the human genome is signifigant too, but i don't expect to see news of that on planetquake.com.
2Much as another poster has mentioned. This isn't being posted just because it's a tragedy, or a worthy cause or whatever, it's being posted because it's an article about penguins....which is related to linux. If the oil spill had happened in say, Alaska, and a bunch of seals died, there would be no news of this on slashdot. THAT is probably one of the most hypocritical aspects of this story.
Either way, as i said before, i come to slashdot for one reason alone. Geek news. When there's something on here that's totally irrelevant, (traditionally) news-worthy or not...if it's got nothing to do with technologoy/geeks/nerds/what have you...then it's got no business being on slashdot.
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
if you get the point...then how could it possibly be irrelevant?
there's something inordinately mundane about posting "jeepers. that penguin article just doesn't seem to have anything to do with the subject matter of slashdot."
but, then again, you already knew that.
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
Linus Takes a Poop - Slashdot Posts posted by CmdrTaco Joe The Trollbaby writes:"Linus torvalds took a poop. Since this has something to do with linux, being that linus developed the linux kernel - it must be slashdot news-worthy." - note: linus has taken poops before. check here for more.
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
you're right bro! the kernel needs to be as flexible as possible and allow support for as many programs as possible.
That's why i think linus and alan cox should have a web browser integrated into the operating system so that you can't remove it. I want to see something like IE5 in there! yeah! that would be good!!
in all seriousness - the linux kernel, ironically, is the same thing as neo-mail....it was a free 'program' (if you'll allow me a little license here) - that Linus originally intended for himself because he didn't want to have to pay inordinately high prices for other *nix distributions. That being said, linus (and AC now) have pretty much absolute say over what goes into the kernel, and more importantly, what doesn't. - I think the politics of the kernel have little to do with what's going on around it. Up to now, Linus and AC have been very good about keeping cool heads. If this changes, maybe other people will use other operating systems...their choice.
Right now, I use linux because it's the best choice for me, if that changes, i'll use another OS, probably (Open|Free)BSD. This is exactly like the NeoMail example. If it's right for you, use it, if it isn't - don't. No skin off your back, no skin off the developer's back.
Linus hasn't made any money off linux (aside from the peripheral gains like fame, and he'll never have to pay for a buger when he's around John 'maddog' Hall) - So, who cares about ego so long as he's still building a good OS. Like i said, if that changes, people will move on.
When software pissing matches go to far....people don't need to talk about the consequences...they just happen. Look at MS - all people see coming out of Redmond now days is a big river of piss...and look where it's getting them. Bad software is bad software, regardless of the reasons. Maybe it's shitty code, maybe it's shitty managerial decisions (brought on by whatever reason). But either way, it's a natural process.
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
overclocking is the technological equivalent to putting a turbo kit on your car. The same equivalents can be said for new exhaust systems, new cylinder heads, tranny, etc. No one is accusing these guys of being self-destructive even though they lower the life span of their vehicle's by up to 100k miles or so. Of course, rather than beef up your car, you could just buy a newer, faster one for more money, but you don't get the same satisfaction and you certainly don't get the same cost to performance ratio as you would by fixing up a slightly older or slower vehicle.
When a guy fucks with his car to run a quarter mile in 13 seconds...that's initiative. When a guy fucks with his processor to make it 50-100Mhz faster, is that self-destructive??? I think it's frugal
Secondly, who the hell are you to tell me that just because i sniff glue i'm less of a person than you are. Of course sniffing glue is fun...but...er....wait...i better go...
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
is slashdot going to post a story every time someone at Qwest takes a dump or what?
This article was posted a little over a month ago about how the guys at Qwest did a hundred mile round trip at 40Gbs. Is this really that much more signifigant? It just seems to me that this is the/. equivalent of a front page headline about how Bell called his other assistant a little over a month after he phoned the first one. The overwhelming response from the telephone using public "Whooptie shit!"
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
It seems to me that overclocking has often been frowned upon by a lot of people. It seems that no one comes out and say "you damn well better not overclock a-hole!" but it's a silent thing....you just get the feeling that some people are of the opinion that 'overclocking is stealing processor cycles'
Idunno - i'm glad that AMD is still making their chips 'overclockable' - or at least isn't denying anyone the ability to do so. That, in addition to the fact that AMD has been bitchslapping Intel in the processor market lately, makes me even more brand loyal than i was before. I'm on my third AMD (K6-2)...and i'm not about to switch any time soon!
VIVA LA PROCESSOR RESISTANCE!
off-topic: has anyone notice their karma decreasing for no reason since the new/. code was put in place??
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
When you talk about anything, it pretty much comes down to cold hard cash. Everyone wants to know "What's in it for me?" Well, i'll tell ya. Money! If you look at the market share linux has gained in the past few years you see what's going on in the computer world. More and more people are switching to linux. Linux's market share has gone from almost nil, including servers and (especially) home users, to brawling for second with MacOS - that is one hell of an accomplishment. What does it mean. People are going to keep switching to linux and there's a veritable gold mine waiting to be dug in the software market. The same people that are installing default RedHat with GNOME or KDE and trying to figure out why linux is so "cool" are the same people that want Apps for linux.
Well, it's not free....these people are coming from a closed source, pay-to-play environment. You give them good software, open-source or no, and they'll pay for it!! If your friend were to develop an audio app that rivaled something like Rebirth (i swear if someone mentions FreeBirth i'm going to flip my lid)....i would be willing to shell out the cash for that. And so would a LOT of other people that are looking for that type of software.
Why develop on linux? Because there are a lot of gaps out there as far as linux software vs. windows is concerned. And as more and more people switch to linux from windows, the value of closing those gaps is going to increase exponentially. Develop for linux and make a BUNDLE! look at Loki, RedHat, VALinux, and all kinds of others. The way I see it...you either lead, follow, or continue to develop for Windows.
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
I remember a gentleman from NORAD come to my school about 4 or 5 years back to discuss what exactly they did up there. One of the facts that they gave us was that they were (then) tracking over 65,000 objects in and around earth's upper atmosphere. Most of it man made trash.
When you realize that if one of these hits a satelite or (worse) space, shuttle...at the velocity it's going...it would basically tear a hole right through it.
I think in the best of all possible worlds, the U.N or some other international organization would get together to find the funds for something like this. It's getting pretty cluttered up there, and i don't want to have to see a whole bunch of garbage when i take my scenic trip to the moon in 2014.:P
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
of a study done my several of my friends and I at our lab up in Boulder, Co.
Basically, it was an experiment in the neural synaptic responses produced by the oral ingestion of Delta-9 TetraHyrdaCanabinol via several metalic media heated on an electronic thermal amplifier.
results: when you smoke weed via the "hot knives" method...you get really fucking danked!!
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
the PROC want's everyone in china to read headlines about how much the chinese government sucks? "Hey....we should really do more to promote people hearing about how much we've done to totally fuck up the lives of people living in this country!"
If only....but the one thing people forget about china is that the vast majority of it's population really doesn't give a shit about what form of government they live in. The farmers on the mongolian border don't care. And they sure as shit don't care about what people are saying the chinese government is doing about the "internet" either.
the internet is information, but what most people fail to realize is that the vast majority of the chinese populous KNOW how much Communist China licks goat ass, they just don't care because, with a country of more than one billion people, the government and the internet aren't priorities. They'll just live their lives and deal...and they're not going to die for freedom, and certainly not freedom of speech, when the government isn't bugging them. It's called political apathy, and everyone's got it...even the U.S.
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
why would you pay $20 million to fly on a russion space station....i think i saw Russia on e-bay...the last bid was i $4.6million (reserve has been met)
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
i am soo glad to hear of hopes for these applications.
I've waited for the day when i could use MSIE and MS Office in linux!!! no...wait...that's one of the fucking reasons i switched!!!
Doesn't it seem odd to anyone that a shit ton of people are heralding the arrival to linux of the apps/os they originally were trying to get away from??
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
here's the deal. you compare it to domain names, i'll compare it to fledgling bands.
perhaps...in the next year or so...Vorbis won't get big. I, too, doubt that there's any real serious benefit to using a.ogg file right now;-)
However, if/when the RIAA really starts making the $#!+ hit the fan...then we'll see it get used. I think the very thing that major record companies want to see (i.e. everyone stops using mp3's) could come to pass if the conditions are right. which they could be in the next year or three.
The RIAA and whatever that company was who makes the mp3 codecs get together and say "wait a fucking minute...we're not getting paid here" and they pass all kinds of laws against doing it without one of those two organizations getting paid. There are all kinds of loopholes and wierd scenarios that hadn't been planned out by the U.S. Gov...and people go "wait...you mean if i use this vorbis thing i don't have to pay a cent to anyone??? HELL YEAH!!!" While it may be impractical right now...the internet, the RIAA, and anyone else trying to "bogart" the rights of consumers may just make it practical.
note to the RIAA: you want people to quit using thse illicit and illegal mp3's? be careful what you wish for...you just might get it!!!
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
you *can* create a haiku generator. i assume that wouldn't be that difficult. Much like assembling a group of "stealth squirrels"
however, i haven't even seen that many living, breathing, human beings create good haiku. in non-english graduate student terms...just because it rhymes doesn't mean it's poetry. (if you are going to flame me with "hey asshole, haiku don't have to rhyme" then please smack yourself, and tell your head it's from flux.
Idunno, this is a neat little programming assignment. Create a program that generates haiku, but i'm not sure that it's anything more than that. Something on the order of a programming assignment for CS students who got an %88 on their "game of life" homework. There's no way (at least not any time soon) that a program is going to come up with any meaningful haiku any time soon.
It may be 5-7-5, but it's sure as hell not going to be poetry.
when i look into the grasshopper's eyes, i see the mountains behind
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
it was probably some really old russian spy who's been hiding out since '44 in the los alamos area...so top secret he was instructed not to contact Mother Russia untill he had extremely valuable information. Below is an encrypted message from "Vladimir" (as he is known) to KGB Headquarters, dated 6/13/00
"DEAR GOD!! THE AMERICANS HAVE THE BOMB!!!!"
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
what the hell, this just got me to thinking about an amusing anecdote related to how shitty some GUI's are (in my opinion).
I had a friend message me via licq (he uses winders)..."d00d! is there a way to unzip like 30 zip files all at once? without having to double click on each one of them?"
me: "yeah, do a for loop!"
I laughed my ass off for about 5 minutes...long enough for him to message me back, "a what??"
some people just don't even have a CLUE how productive a CLI can really be...
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
Slashdot Mirror
And just who do you think you are dictating what the subject matter of slashdot is?
/.'s colocation facilities, bandwidth, et. al.
i, sir, am the consumer. If slashdot wants to turn itself into a nature-conservatory, or what have you...that's all well and good. That is their perogative. I didn't email anyone about it. i didnt call Hemos at his honeymoon hideout and bitch at him for allowing one of his co-workers to post the story. I simply stated that i felt it was an off-topic story in a publicly accessible forum.
If the guys at slashdot want to turn it into a generic news source for any and all news-worthy articles, e.g. Elian, Gore, and whatever else passes for news these days, that's fine with me. I'll take my readership elsewhere - as will a signifigant portion of slashdot's user base. Then we'll see if Andover, or VA, or whoever else, wants to pay for
Sorry, but Hemos, CmdrTaco, and the rest aren't my fearless leaders. I don't hang on every word the say, or post as the case may be. And i'm certainly not 'unquestioningly loyal' like some of the people i've seen posting. This is my tech source, when it ceases to be that, i'll go elsewhere.
I eagerly await your "well why don't you go elsewhere NOW! asshole" reply.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
it seems funny to me that all of these supposed 'search engines' are all using other 'search engines' to do the work for them
used to be you had yahoo, hotbot, altavista, lycos, etc. -- now yahoo is going to be 'powered by' google, and hotbot is 'powered by' lycos, and altavista still returns pictures of santa claus when you do a search on "caffeine free diet coke"
you know - i'll bet if you look into this far enough it probably all links back to one guy who stays up all night answering queries.
guy: "jesus another search for 'caffeine free diet coke' - wtf...let's see how he reacts when i return links to pictures of santa claus!"
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
i think the reason there are 'flames' about this (most of what i'm seeing is just "hey - this isn't slashdot fodder") is that there really is no need for this to be posted on slashdot.
I would argue two points against your post:
1 slashdot is a geek web-site. It's for geeks, it's by geeks. While there is no sense in denying that this oil spill sucks. I would rather read about it on CNN.com or BBC.com, etc. I come to slashdot for my tech news, period. The mapping of the human genome is signifigant too, but i don't expect to see news of that on planetquake.com.
2Much as another poster has mentioned. This isn't being posted just because it's a tragedy, or a worthy cause or whatever, it's being posted because it's an article about penguins....which is related to linux. If the oil spill had happened in say, Alaska, and a bunch of seals died, there would be no news of this on slashdot. THAT is probably one of the most hypocritical aspects of this story.
Either way, as i said before, i come to slashdot for one reason alone. Geek news. When there's something on here that's totally irrelevant, (traditionally) news-worthy or not...if it's got nothing to do with technologoy/geeks/nerds/what have you...then it's got no business being on slashdot.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
if you get the point...then how could it possibly be irrelevant?
there's something inordinately mundane about posting "jeepers. that penguin article just doesn't seem to have anything to do with the subject matter of slashdot."
but, then again, you already knew that.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
i just checked out that link
karma of 22 eh? still not posting at +2 yet?
i'm not going to bother defending my post to you - since you obviously didn't get the point of it in the first place!
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
Linus Takes a Poop - Slashdot Posts
posted by CmdrTaco
Joe The Trollbaby writes:"Linus torvalds took a poop. Since this has something to do with linux, being that linus developed the linux kernel - it must be slashdot news-worthy." - note: linus has taken poops before. check here for more.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
is that you have to outfit your computer with special paper 3d glasses. one side red, one side blue!
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
you're right bro! the kernel needs to be as flexible as possible and allow support for as many programs as possible.
That's why i think linus and alan cox should have a web browser integrated into the operating system so that you can't remove it. I want to see something like IE5 in there! yeah! that would be good!!
in all seriousness - the linux kernel, ironically, is the same thing as neo-mail....it was a free 'program' (if you'll allow me a little license here) - that Linus originally intended for himself because he didn't want to have to pay inordinately high prices for other *nix distributions. That being said, linus (and AC now) have pretty much absolute say over what goes into the kernel, and more importantly, what doesn't. - I think the politics of the kernel have little to do with what's going on around it. Up to now, Linus and AC have been very good about keeping cool heads. If this changes, maybe other people will use other operating systems...their choice.
Right now, I use linux because it's the best choice for me, if that changes, i'll use another OS, probably (Open|Free)BSD. This is exactly like the NeoMail example. If it's right for you, use it, if it isn't - don't. No skin off your back, no skin off the developer's back.
Linus hasn't made any money off linux (aside from the peripheral gains like fame, and he'll never have to pay for a buger when he's around John 'maddog' Hall) - So, who cares about ego so long as he's still building a good OS. Like i said, if that changes, people will move on.
When software pissing matches go to far....people don't need to talk about the consequences...they just happen. Look at MS - all people see coming out of Redmond now days is a big river of piss...and look where it's getting them. Bad software is bad software, regardless of the reasons. Maybe it's shitty code, maybe it's shitty managerial decisions (brought on by whatever reason). But either way, it's a natural process.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
lol - i'm wearing my 'chicks dig unix' T-shirt with some cargo pants. and a Gameworks hat from seattle...
there are only two things that get me hard bro - naked women that i'm about to have sex with and the 2.4.0 kernel - this article wasn't about either.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
not so sure about the self-destructive behavior.
overclocking is the technological equivalent to putting a turbo kit on your car. The same equivalents can be said for new exhaust systems, new cylinder heads, tranny, etc. No one is accusing these guys of being self-destructive even though they lower the life span of their vehicle's by up to 100k miles or so. Of course, rather than beef up your car, you could just buy a newer, faster one for more money, but you don't get the same satisfaction and you certainly don't get the same cost to performance ratio as you would by fixing up a slightly older or slower vehicle.
When a guy fucks with his car to run a quarter mile in 13 seconds...that's initiative. When a guy fucks with his processor to make it 50-100Mhz faster, is that self-destructive??? I think it's frugal
Secondly, who the hell are you to tell me that just because i sniff glue i'm less of a person than you are. Of course sniffing glue is fun...but...er....wait...i better go...
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
is slashdot going to post a story every time someone at Qwest takes a dump or what?
/. equivalent of a front page headline about how Bell called his other assistant a little over a month after he phoned the first one. The overwhelming response from the telephone using public "Whooptie shit!"
This article was posted a little over a month ago about how the guys at Qwest did a hundred mile round trip at 40Gbs. Is this really that much more signifigant? It just seems to me that this is the
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
It seems to me that overclocking has often been frowned upon by a lot of people. It seems that no one comes out and say "you damn well better not overclock a-hole!" but it's a silent thing....you just get the feeling that some people are of the opinion that 'overclocking is stealing processor cycles'
/. code was put in place??
Idunno - i'm glad that AMD is still making their chips 'overclockable' - or at least isn't denying anyone the ability to do so. That, in addition to the fact that AMD has been bitchslapping Intel in the processor market lately, makes me even more brand loyal than i was before. I'm on my third AMD (K6-2)...and i'm not about to switch any time soon!
VIVA LA PROCESSOR RESISTANCE!
off-topic: has anyone notice their karma decreasing for no reason since the new
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
pure and simple.
When you talk about anything, it pretty much comes down to cold hard cash. Everyone wants to know "What's in it for me?" Well, i'll tell ya. Money! If you look at the market share linux has gained in the past few years you see what's going on in the computer world. More and more people are switching to linux. Linux's market share has gone from almost nil, including servers and (especially) home users, to brawling for second with MacOS - that is one hell of an accomplishment. What does it mean. People are going to keep switching to linux and there's a veritable gold mine waiting to be dug in the software market. The same people that are installing default RedHat with GNOME or KDE and trying to figure out why linux is so "cool" are the same people that want Apps for linux.
Well, it's not free....these people are coming from a closed source, pay-to-play environment. You give them good software, open-source or no, and they'll pay for it!! If your friend were to develop an audio app that rivaled something like Rebirth (i swear if someone mentions FreeBirth i'm going to flip my lid)....i would be willing to shell out the cash for that. And so would a LOT of other people that are looking for that type of software.
Why develop on linux? Because there are a lot of gaps out there as far as linux software vs. windows is concerned. And as more and more people switch to linux from windows, the value of closing those gaps is going to increase exponentially. Develop for linux and make a BUNDLE! look at Loki, RedHat, VALinux, and all kinds of others. The way I see it...you either lead, follow, or continue to develop for Windows.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
I remember a gentleman from NORAD come to my school about 4 or 5 years back to discuss what exactly they did up there. One of the facts that they gave us was that they were (then) tracking over 65,000 objects in and around earth's upper atmosphere. Most of it man made trash.
:P
When you realize that if one of these hits a satelite or (worse) space, shuttle...at the velocity it's going...it would basically tear a hole right through it.
I think in the best of all possible worlds, the U.N or some other international organization would get together to find the funds for something like this. It's getting pretty cluttered up there, and i don't want to have to see a whole bunch of garbage when i take my scenic trip to the moon in 2014.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
of a study done my several of my friends and I at our lab up in Boulder, Co.
Basically, it was an experiment in the neural synaptic responses produced by the oral ingestion of Delta-9 TetraHyrdaCanabinol via several metalic media heated on an electronic thermal amplifier.
results: when you smoke weed via the "hot knives" method...you get really fucking danked!!
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
the PROC want's everyone in china to read headlines about how much the chinese government sucks? "Hey....we should really do more to promote people hearing about how much we've done to totally fuck up the lives of people living in this country!"
If only....but the one thing people forget about china is that the vast majority of it's population really doesn't give a shit about what form of government they live in. The farmers on the mongolian border don't care. And they sure as shit don't care about what people are saying the chinese government is doing about the "internet" either.
the internet is information, but what most people fail to realize is that the vast majority of the chinese populous KNOW how much Communist China licks goat ass, they just don't care because, with a country of more than one billion people, the government and the internet aren't priorities. They'll just live their lives and deal...and they're not going to die for freedom, and certainly not freedom of speech, when the government isn't bugging them. It's called political apathy, and everyone's got it...even the U.S.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
why would you pay $20 million to fly on a russion space station....i think i saw Russia on e-bay...the last bid was i $4.6million (reserve has been met)
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
i thought it was about porting Office and IE to *nix based operating systems, e.g. - BSD, OS X and Linux.
i suppose next time i'll just put my eyeball directly against the monitor.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
i am soo glad to hear of hopes for these applications.
I've waited for the day when i could use MSIE and MS Office in linux!!! no...wait...that's one of the fucking reasons i switched!!!
Doesn't it seem odd to anyone that a shit ton of people are heralding the arrival to linux of the apps/os they originally were trying to get away from??
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
here's the deal. you compare it to domain names, i'll compare it to fledgling bands.
.ogg file right now ;-)
perhaps...in the next year or so...Vorbis won't get big. I, too, doubt that there's any real serious benefit to using a
However, if/when the RIAA really starts making the $#!+ hit the fan...then we'll see it get used. I think the very thing that major record companies want to see (i.e. everyone stops using mp3's) could come to pass if the conditions are right. which they could be in the next year or three.
The RIAA and whatever that company was who makes the mp3 codecs get together and say "wait a fucking minute...we're not getting paid here" and they pass all kinds of laws against doing it without one of those two organizations getting paid. There are all kinds of loopholes and wierd scenarios that hadn't been planned out by the U.S. Gov...and people go "wait...you mean if i use this vorbis thing i don't have to pay a cent to anyone??? HELL YEAH!!!" While it may be impractical right now...the internet, the RIAA, and anyone else trying to "bogart" the rights of consumers may just make it practical.
note to the RIAA: you want people to quit using thse illicit and illegal mp3's? be careful what you wish for...you just might get it!!!
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
you *can* create a haiku generator. i assume that wouldn't be that difficult. Much like assembling a group of "stealth squirrels"
however, i haven't even seen that many living, breathing, human beings create good haiku. in non-english graduate student terms...just because it rhymes doesn't mean it's poetry. (if you are going to flame me with "hey asshole, haiku don't have to rhyme" then please smack yourself, and tell your head it's from flux.
Idunno, this is a neat little programming assignment. Create a program that generates haiku, but i'm not sure that it's anything more than that. Something on the order of a programming assignment for CS students who got an %88 on their "game of life" homework. There's no way (at least not any time soon) that a program is going to come up with any meaningful haiku any time soon.
It may be 5-7-5, but it's sure as hell not going to be poetry.
when i look into
the grasshopper's eyes, i see
the mountains behind
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
it was probably some really old russian spy who's been hiding out since '44 in the los alamos area...so top secret he was instructed not to contact Mother Russia untill he had extremely valuable information. Below is an encrypted message from "Vladimir" (as he is known) to KGB Headquarters, dated 6/13/00
"DEAR GOD!! THE AMERICANS HAVE THE BOMB!!!!"
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
that would open up X number of winzip windows...one for every zip file you had.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
what the hell, this just got me to thinking about an amusing anecdote related to how shitty some GUI's are (in my opinion).
I had a friend message me via licq (he uses winders)..."d00d! is there a way to unzip like 30 zip files all at once? without having to double click on each one of them?"
me: "yeah, do a for loop!"
I laughed my ass off for about 5 minutes...long enough for him to message me back, "a what??"
some people just don't even have a CLUE how productive a CLI can really be...
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
guest: what was that thing over there?
really smart harvard guy: what thing? (acting nonchalant)
guest: that thing...it looks like an imac with a cover over it?!?!
really smart harvard guy: that...uh...that was a pigeon!
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network