Maybe it's lonely because people don't want to hang around with someone who feels superior for having different tastes than them. I could care less if one of my friends didn't feel like watching the football game — it's his life. Maybe you didn't mean your post to come off like this, but you remind me of this dumb bitch from high school who would proudly tell anyone who would listen that she'd never stepped into a K-mart in her entire life. BFD.
LOL. Damn, you sound stupid and bitter. Great combination! So anyway, what are you trying to say? That only Americans are superior enough to cure Alzheimer's? Why wouldn't the countries which don't "worship" sports and commercials be able to come up with a cure? And I guess those countries plan to keep all the cures for themselves instead of sharing them with Americans. Oh, the horrors! I am so fearful of the future now — I have only your wise post to make me see the light!
The Matrix thing was cool. I've seen people complain that it was too jerky, but big deal — it's not pretending to be a seamless real-time kind of thing. It's like someone complaining that the tape they made of a lo-fi band doesn't sound 100% true. The way they could zoom around and show a clear running lane and things like that was very nice.
The Super Bowl doesn't have a large pre-teen girl audience, which is exactly why they brought in the boy bands, so that they could increase their ratings among those demographics. The hard core football fans are going to be watching anyway. It's the same reason why the networks ruin their sports coverage by giving us all those sappy personal profiles — it gives the female audience that normally wouldn't turn in a reason to watch.
The E*trade monkey was awesome again, although I was hoping that they'd have a later commercial with him happy and dancing again. That and the Bob Dole/Pepsi commercial and the yuppies/"What are you up to?" commercial are the only things that made me laugh. Oh yeah, the EDS/Running of the Squirrels was funny, too, but the fact that it was a total ripoff of their Cat-herding commercial last year was disappointing.
Like I said, the yuppies commercial was funny, but I wonder what the reaction would've been if parallel racial stereotypes would've been played with. Say, a takeoff of those student achievement commercials with black kids inventing a new kind of pager with which to sell drugs, or an Ebonics spelling bee. Somehow I don't think they'd be seen with such good humor...
It was a supermarket, actually — I noticed when I re-read my post that I should've said that instead of "grocery store," but didn't think I'd bother correcting myself with another post. FWIW, it was a "Kroger's," if you're familiar with 'em.
No, I speak from the experience of knowing that today's unions suck. The beating up, trashing at cars, etc. doesn't need my testimony, since anyone whose turned on the local news during a strike already knows that stuff happens.
The badgering part was the only thing that's happened personally to me.
And, don't forget, unions give you the chance to sit at home without pay when you'd rather be working. And then, if you decide that you want to work anyway, so that you can make money to support your family, the unions then give you a chance to get beaten up, get your car trashed, and get pelted by batteries or food when you cross the picket lines. Now why on Earth would anyone think that they're thugs?
Oh yeah, and I speak from experience, since I was forced to join a union when I worked part-time at a grocery store in high school. There was a lot of strike talk during part of the time when I was there, and it was just pathetic to see the lazy slob old-timers (length of time in the company, not their ages) badgering part-timers my age to support the union, so that they could continue to work even less hard than us kids and collect an even bigger undeserved paycheck for it.
Sure, but in their efficiency, they gave us the Y2K problem. Last I heard (in January or February 2000), the costs devoted to fixing it may have exceeded £400 billion (~ $580 billion US). Thanks, guys?:)
Uh, maybe because I actually use all the open source tools that I mentioned to him, except for Apache, and including AOLServer, Postgres, MySQL, PHP and others? The reason why I'd rather not see the term "open source" become synonymous with Linux is because whiny little zealots like you have already sullied the name of respectable Linux users everywhere. I'd rather not see you drag the rest of the open source tools down into the gutter with you.
Oh yeah, and do you really think that darksmurf felt like he was being "harrassed?" I doubt it. Go save someone who needs it.
My main problem is that seems like a case where a Linux group is using the broad name of "open source," and all that it encompasses in people's minds (which besides Linux includes major things like Apache, FreeBSD, Python, and Perl), and trying to funnel that broader interest to work only for Linux's benefit instead of for the overall interest of promoting open source. It's slightly similar to the annoyance I feel when Richard Stallman tries to co-opt Linux's success by insisting on the whole GNU/Linux thing. If you're really working for the open source thing as a whole, then more power to you. You really should come up with a non-penguin logo, though.
Wouldn't it be better termed the "Linux Development Lab," seeing as, from this article, they're only interested in Linux? Not to mention that they have a penguin for a logo.
So at what point did the open source crowd, which has been around a lot longer than Linux, decide to allow the Linux advocates to co-opt the term "open source" for themselves, to promulgate the very idea that "Open Source == Linux"? Seems kinda sad.
The iPaq's got a Sony-made, side-lit passive matrix display which is awesome, despite only having 4K colors. Here's what c|net said about it:
Rather than being backlit like other color LCDs, the iPaq instead has small lights around its edge, which reflect off the screen and make it brilliantly bright, even when outdoors in direct sunlight.
Secondly, how many buttons and keys do you think you need? The iPaq's got a directional control plus four buttons in front, and probably 3 or 4 along the side. So, I don't really buy either of your complaints.
The glaring weakness of gaming on the iPaq is Compaq did a poor job of making sure that the buttons act independently of each other. The Cassiopeia handles this perfectly, though, so it's not some inherent problem with PDAs. If Compaq would quit being stubborn and fix that button problem in their next model, they'd have an even bigger winner on their hands than they do with the current one.
If I want to play games/surf the web, that's what a PC is for.
Well sure, a PC is nice at home to fire up a little Grim Fandango or Need For Speed V, but it's a little burdensome to lug your PC around with you in a plane or limo. I don't think these guys are trying to make your home computers obsolete. Those folks would be in Sony's PlayStation division.:)
It just depends how limited the games are vs. the annoyance of having to carry around an extra device. For example, on my Cassiopiea I've got a Color GameBoy emulator and Windows Media Player. There's some slowdown on the GB emulator on the most complex games, but it's not worth it to me to have to carry around yet another device plus cartridges. I might not get perfect playback from WMP when I'm playing my PDA at chess on the highest level (actually, I don't know whether or not this is true, I haven't tried it yet), but it's something I can live with so that I don't have to carry around an extra MP3 player.
A well designed game doesn't have to have all the bells and whistles available to a GameBoy or PocketPC, either. A decent version of Tetris would be more than enough to keep a lot of people entertained on their cell phones on those long flights.
Hell, I'm down to travelling with just my cell phone and PocketPC (and sometimes the laptop, if it's a longer trip), and I still feel like I'm burdened with too many items. If someone would combine high-speed wireless with the Cassiopeia, I'd shell out some serious dough for that.
(There's also another advantage that the GameBoy emulator has that would probably resonate with folks around here but which I'll not comment on.:) You can just download the ROMs to your PocketPC instead of paying for and carrying around all those cartridges.)
No kidding, I can't believe that got an "Insightful." Ever seen a Mandrake box in a store? It reeks of amateurism. The only things I've seen in stores that look like they might've been produced by professionals (not that they're great, but passable) are the boxes for Corel's and Red Hat's distributions. Anyone know what software they used? I'd bet money that Corel didn't use Linux tools; as far as Red Hat goes, I have no idea.
No offense, but what do any of the tools you mention have to do with creating non-amateurish logos for companies/organizations? It doesn't seem like any such tools for Linux exist right now.
If you're really wanting to do gaming on your phone, you might want to check out Mitsubishi's Mondo Trium (info here, picture here). It's a phone + PocketPC, so along with the other cool non-gaming stuff that comes with it (Internet Explorer, Outlook, Word, Excel, Windows Media Player, MS Reader, etc.), you can just fire up MAME for CE or a CE-based NES emulator and blast away.
Dude, you're in America, what can't you sue for?;)
And you ruined my fun — I was hoping I wasn't the only one around here who bought some stocks in 2000 that were total dogs! (Not LNUX, but nearly as bad.)
Awww, and maybe in 100 years, you'll have actually grown the balls to say something like that without hiding behind the Anonymous Coward label. Doubtful, though.:)
Wheeeee! Let's all hold hands and dance in the Sugar Fairy Gumdrop Land where the golden rule is "If you can't say something nice about somebody, don't say anything at all," and we can pretend that everything's just A-OK! Gosh darn those complainers!
Actually, it's more likely that in 100 years Microsoft (and Apple) will be viewed as liberators, wresting computers out of the grip of possessive nerds who fought hard to keep the use of computers an arcane science, capable of being used only by the favored members of an elitist boys club. Yeah, I know how the thought that the masses can now happily use computers without the gloried help from those on high just burns those people up. Thankfully those people have lost, as evidenced by the barrage of GNOME/KDE/GUI-app-du-jour articles posted here. With each article, it's another admission that Microsoft and Apple were right.
C'mon, take yourself out of your shoes as submitter of this story and check out the Slashdot home page. Spam logo, headline about spammers, saying they were "jailed for two years after sending 50 e-mails." That's about as accurate as saying they were "jailed for two years after eating at Denny's that morning" — both are factually true, but neither shows any cause and effect: they were jailed for two years because they were running a scam, not because they spammed people.
Now, I could've been less venomous about it, and I probably wouldn't have even posted if not for the other two SNAFUs that I mentioned, but after getting ready to post on the subject until realizing the true nature of it, I decided to post anyway. No ill will meant toward you, just a carryover of my annoyance from the other stories. (FWIW, I was going to express disappointment. I don't like getting spammed, but for people around here to applaud jailtime for someone just because having to delete a few emails is an inconvenience, while bemoaning all these other "freedoms" that they supposedly have taken away from them all the time, well it just seems pretty hypocritical.)
Why do you want Canada to tighten her gun laws? I can see why the anti-gun zealots are able to trick people in the U.S. into that, just because of the sheer number of deaths (heaven forbid they might actually look beyond the mere numbers, though), but I haven't really heard about many gun problems in Canada. What's the scoop?
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Maybe it's lonely because people don't want to hang around with someone who feels superior for having different tastes than them. I could care less if one of my friends didn't feel like watching the football game — it's his life. Maybe you didn't mean your post to come off like this, but you remind me of this dumb bitch from high school who would proudly tell anyone who would listen that she'd never stepped into a K-mart in her entire life. BFD.
Cheers,
LOL. Damn, you sound stupid and bitter. Great combination! So anyway, what are you trying to say? That only Americans are superior enough to cure Alzheimer's? Why wouldn't the countries which don't "worship" sports and commercials be able to come up with a cure? And I guess those countries plan to keep all the cures for themselves instead of sharing them with Americans. Oh, the horrors! I am so fearful of the future now — I have only your wise post to make me see the light!
Cheers,
The Matrix thing was cool. I've seen people complain that it was too jerky, but big deal — it's not pretending to be a seamless real-time kind of thing. It's like someone complaining that the tape they made of a lo-fi band doesn't sound 100% true. The way they could zoom around and show a clear running lane and things like that was very nice.
The Super Bowl doesn't have a large pre-teen girl audience, which is exactly why they brought in the boy bands, so that they could increase their ratings among those demographics. The hard core football fans are going to be watching anyway. It's the same reason why the networks ruin their sports coverage by giving us all those sappy personal profiles — it gives the female audience that normally wouldn't turn in a reason to watch.
The E*trade monkey was awesome again, although I was hoping that they'd have a later commercial with him happy and dancing again. That and the Bob Dole/Pepsi commercial and the yuppies/"What are you up to?" commercial are the only things that made me laugh. Oh yeah, the EDS/Running of the Squirrels was funny, too, but the fact that it was a total ripoff of their Cat-herding commercial last year was disappointing.
Like I said, the yuppies commercial was funny, but I wonder what the reaction would've been if parallel racial stereotypes would've been played with. Say, a takeoff of those student achievement commercials with black kids inventing a new kind of pager with which to sell drugs, or an Ebonics spelling bee. Somehow I don't think they'd be seen with such good humor...
Cheers,
It was a supermarket, actually — I noticed when I re-read my post that I should've said that instead of "grocery store," but didn't think I'd bother correcting myself with another post. FWIW, it was a "Kroger's," if you're familiar with 'em.
Cheers,
No, I speak from the experience of knowing that today's unions suck. The beating up, trashing at cars, etc. doesn't need my testimony, since anyone whose turned on the local news during a strike already knows that stuff happens. The badgering part was the only thing that's happened personally to me.
Cheers,
And, don't forget, unions give you the chance to sit at home without pay when you'd rather be working. And then, if you decide that you want to work anyway, so that you can make money to support your family, the unions then give you a chance to get beaten up, get your car trashed, and get pelted by batteries or food when you cross the picket lines. Now why on Earth would anyone think that they're thugs?
Oh yeah, and I speak from experience, since I was forced to join a union when I worked part-time at a grocery store in high school. There was a lot of strike talk during part of the time when I was there, and it was just pathetic to see the lazy slob old-timers (length of time in the company, not their ages) badgering part-timers my age to support the union, so that they could continue to work even less hard than us kids and collect an even bigger undeserved paycheck for it.
Cheers,
Sure, but in their efficiency, they gave us the Y2K problem. Last I heard (in January or February 2000), the costs devoted to fixing it may have exceeded £400 billion (~ $580 billion US). Thanks, guys? :)
Cheers,
Uh, maybe because I actually use all the open source tools that I mentioned to him, except for Apache, and including AOLServer, Postgres, MySQL, PHP and others? The reason why I'd rather not see the term "open source" become synonymous with Linux is because whiny little zealots like you have already sullied the name of respectable Linux users everywhere. I'd rather not see you drag the rest of the open source tools down into the gutter with you.
Oh yeah, and do you really think that darksmurf felt like he was being "harrassed?" I doubt it. Go save someone who needs it.
Cheers,
My main problem is that seems like a case where a Linux group is using the broad name of "open source," and all that it encompasses in people's minds (which besides Linux includes major things like Apache, FreeBSD, Python, and Perl), and trying to funnel that broader interest to work only for Linux's benefit instead of for the overall interest of promoting open source. It's slightly similar to the annoyance I feel when Richard Stallman tries to co-opt Linux's success by insisting on the whole GNU/Linux thing. If you're really working for the open source thing as a whole, then more power to you. You really should come up with a non-penguin logo, though.
Cheers,
Whoa, you mean Microsoft employees were checking out a story about Microsoft? Wow! Did you send that one to Ripley's Believe It or Not?
Cheers,
Wouldn't it be better termed the "Linux Development Lab," seeing as, from this article, they're only interested in Linux? Not to mention that they have a penguin for a logo.
So at what point did the open source crowd, which has been around a lot longer than Linux, decide to allow the Linux advocates to co-opt the term "open source" for themselves, to promulgate the very idea that "Open Source == Linux"? Seems kinda sad.
Cheers,
Secondly, how many buttons and keys do you think you need? The iPaq's got a directional control plus four buttons in front, and probably 3 or 4 along the side. So, I don't really buy either of your complaints.
The glaring weakness of gaming on the iPaq is Compaq did a poor job of making sure that the buttons act independently of each other. The Cassiopeia handles this perfectly, though, so it's not some inherent problem with PDAs. If Compaq would quit being stubborn and fix that button problem in their next model, they'd have an even bigger winner on their hands than they do with the current one.
Cheers,
If I want to play games/surf the web, that's what a PC is for.
Well sure, a PC is nice at home to fire up a little Grim Fandango or Need For Speed V, but it's a little burdensome to lug your PC around with you in a plane or limo. I don't think these guys are trying to make your home computers obsolete. Those folks would be in Sony's PlayStation division. :)
Cheers,
It just depends how limited the games are vs. the annoyance of having to carry around an extra device. For example, on my Cassiopiea I've got a Color GameBoy emulator and Windows Media Player. There's some slowdown on the GB emulator on the most complex games, but it's not worth it to me to have to carry around yet another device plus cartridges. I might not get perfect playback from WMP when I'm playing my PDA at chess on the highest level (actually, I don't know whether or not this is true, I haven't tried it yet), but it's something I can live with so that I don't have to carry around an extra MP3 player.
A well designed game doesn't have to have all the bells and whistles available to a GameBoy or PocketPC, either. A decent version of Tetris would be more than enough to keep a lot of people entertained on their cell phones on those long flights.
Hell, I'm down to travelling with just my cell phone and PocketPC (and sometimes the laptop, if it's a longer trip), and I still feel like I'm burdened with too many items. If someone would combine high-speed wireless with the Cassiopeia, I'd shell out some serious dough for that.
(There's also another advantage that the GameBoy emulator has that would probably resonate with folks around here but which I'll not comment on. :) You can just download the ROMs to your PocketPC instead of paying for and carrying around all those cartridges.)
Cheers,
No kidding, I can't believe that got an "Insightful." Ever seen a Mandrake box in a store? It reeks of amateurism. The only things I've seen in stores that look like they might've been produced by professionals (not that they're great, but passable) are the boxes for Corel's and Red Hat's distributions. Anyone know what software they used? I'd bet money that Corel didn't use Linux tools; as far as Red Hat goes, I have no idea.
Cheers,
No offense, but what do any of the tools you mention have to do with creating non-amateurish logos for companies/organizations? It doesn't seem like any such tools for Linux exist right now.
Cheers,
Cheers,
And you ruined my fun — I was hoping I wasn't the only one around here who bought some stocks in 2000 that were total dogs! (Not LNUX, but nearly as bad.)
Cheers,
Cheers,
Cheers,
Wheeeee! Let's all hold hands and dance in the Sugar Fairy Gumdrop Land where the golden rule is "If you can't say something nice about somebody, don't say anything at all," and we can pretend that everything's just A-OK! Gosh darn those complainers!
Smiles on, children!
Cheers,
Cheers,
Cheers,
Now, I could've been less venomous about it, and I probably wouldn't have even posted if not for the other two SNAFUs that I mentioned, but after getting ready to post on the subject until realizing the true nature of it, I decided to post anyway. No ill will meant toward you, just a carryover of my annoyance from the other stories. (FWIW, I was going to express disappointment. I don't like getting spammed, but for people around here to applaud jailtime for someone just because having to delete a few emails is an inconvenience, while bemoaning all these other "freedoms" that they supposedly have taken away from them all the time, well it just seems pretty hypocritical.)
Cheers,
Why do you want Canada to tighten her gun laws? I can see why the anti-gun zealots are able to trick people in the U.S. into that, just because of the sheer number of deaths (heaven forbid they might actually look beyond the mere numbers, though), but I haven't really heard about many gun problems in Canada. What's the scoop?
Cheers,