As all the lonely but oh-so-eloquent guys will come out of the woodwork to respond thoughtfully to some chick's post, because, y'know, chicks digs guys who are smart and sensitive and post to slashdot.
Just a side note - it's disgusting that you'd say Mike Tyson's inability to control himself is a _good_ thing. You do know he went to prison for rape, right? Would you really rather have a champion boxer than someone you could trust to walk your sister to her car?
The point, I think, is that autistic people aren't just going to be outcasts like the smart kids were in school, eg., able to adjust and fit into a more welcoming social group like university- autistic people may not have an ability to communicate, period. People with severe autism cannot express themselves, and it's not that they're different, it's that they're crippled. I had a friend for many years whose little brother was autistic, and he didn't express any savant abilities (not all autistic people are "idiot savants," you know), he just didn't act like a normal child. He didn't laugh, didn't play, wouldn't make eye contact. He'd raise his voice to a single sustained yell and he'd flail his arms around. I'm not making light- this was the extent of his interaction with his world. And the thing about autistic people is, there _is_ a mind in there, but it's locked away from the world by the disease. Hardly how I think any genius would want to be.
Really, is your point that the obsessive fixation on triviality and hermit-like reclusion so popular and held in such esteem here ("hackers that lock themselves away for xx hours"?) is actually all right and normal? that calling any aberrant behavior is just, like, your opinion, man?
There's a reason all you tech loser programmers get stomped on by management, and there's a reason no one else in the world cares - because your childish maladjusted antisocial behavior are just that.
I can't wait till there's a pill we can slip into the water so you techie morons will drop the pretention that anyone takes you seriously as human beings and just do what you're told.
Agreed. I don't like families, or interpersonal relationships, so I'd rather not be constantly confronted with these godawful pictures of wives, children, pets.. Everywhere you turn, it's "family" this or "girlfriend" that.. sickening! I don't care if your son just graduated from college, or your little girl just got a puppy for her birthday (ooh, so much responsibility! why doesn't she get a job instead!)
Actually, I don't even like "fun" or "happiness." And so many people these days walk around with smiles on their faces, like it was coming back in style.
Please do not involve me in your "relationships" or "emotions." I'm here to work, and so are you.
I'd love it! iI'd run that service in an instant!!
Here's something I've always wondered about micropayments - why don't more peopel suggest combining them with a volunteer/honor system payment? I'd sure as hell make my work micro-payable if you wanted to give me 5c per art-view, but i'd also let you just view stuff for free.
It's the best obf both worlds, really, where I could pull in maybe an additional $10/mo from people who were generous, but no one would feel like they had to decide whether ornot the value i'd place on my work was worth the entiertainment they desrive from it.
(btw- I aplogize for the psleling mistakes but I too ksome melatonin a few hours ago and am fallinga sleep at the wheel)
Maybe "web fundamentals" is changing.. the web isn't gopher, you know.. dumb lynx users who say "Content blahb lah" etc., just cause you have no sense of aesthetics doesn't mean there isn't a place in the world for it. I can get all teh content I want, and so can anyone else with ahlf a brain- now let's dress it up a little!
Would you recommend stripping the grace notes and ornamentation out of a piece of music, because "they serve no purpose and obscure the true melody"?
Even tar zxvf $1-*.tar.gz && cd $1-* &&./configure && make && make install isn't all that difficult, if someone's given you a slip of paper or a shell script to do it.
This is so stupid and I see it constnatly. Sure, that series of commands (some 30 letters) is not intrinsically difficult to remember in itself, if you can remember word-punctuation-word-punctuation-word.. but the point is that having to remember that IS NOT THE END-ALL AND BE-ALL OF SOFTWARE INSTALLATION!! Why would anyone _WANT_ to have to type that if a much simpler way were available? If you could speak to your computer, "Install package NUTTY," and it could do it, would you still rather type make ; configure ; install? If it offered absolutely no advantage to type out the commands over a single-click or spoken-word installation, would you still do it?
This is the crux of the matter.. software installation CAN be made easier, but geeky losers don't want it to be. That's why people always run away from one-click stuff and scurry back to hide under their make;configure rock.
Well see, black people love taffy and talk funny and steal a lot. So it's OK to kick them out. Same with women. Mexicans are different though because they always waddle when they walk like penguins. And they slide on their rotund stomicks down those chutes of ice into the ocean, where they swim around all day looking for fish. I hate those mexicans. They stole my pickup truck and drove it off a cliff.
Yes..maybe we should look to Rob as a reflection of slashdot "culture" *shudder*... childish and sloppy (insults, personal opinions, and myriad spelling/grammar mistakes in his article descriptions), fancies himself king of the world without really much claim to it (the slashdot code - I honestly don't get how poorly it could be put together, causing so many glitches and crashes on a nonstop basis.. writing websites isn't rocket science people!), and spends his days on the soapbox yelling at anyone who will listen (c'mon, even if you're not a hardcore linus evangelist, you know you've pontificated about _something_ computer-related to friends/family at least once)...
If that story is true, the BSA should be shut down for good. Destroying the computer resources of a 400 employee company is a terribly criminal offense. What could people do to get this story more well-known?
Yes, imagine. Imagine if web designers weren't obsessed with style over content, with special effects over usability, with animated intros over usefulness, with exactly positioned layout over standards that are easily accesible by the visually impaired or degrade well for old browsers.
What else are web designers for?????? That seems to be _exactly_ their purpose! dressing up the content! Web designers don't provide you with the content, they _design_ the website! If you have a beef with the fact that they're not providing the content how you like it, take it up with the content provider (the person the web designer is designing for) and demand that _they_ give it to you. Don't knock the web designer for doing their job.
They have a great physical presence, but since most of the salshdot crowd won't be in portland, check em out online:
Powells - disclaimer: I used to work for them. They have more obscure merchandise than you can shake a stick at, so if you ever need an old math or engineering text, try em out.
(yeah, I'm a shill- but that's what this topic's about)
this is just an open question, I look forward to all replies. How willing are you to pay for shareware games? If a company released ep.1 of a game for free, with eps 2 and 3 purchasable as shareware for $20 or $30, would you go for it?
This was the situation years ago in the dos games market, and it worked out pretty well. We got all manner of good games, like Commander Keen and Wolfenstein 3D.. but would the same rules apply in the Linux games market?
Furthermore, would you register closed-source games? Would you expect to receive source upon registering? For most purposes (thinking from a game-developer point of view now), keeping the source locked up doesn't really matter much, cause the value of the game is in the data- the artwork and levels the creators have built. The most you could do with the source would be to build cheats into the game, and if you've paid for the levels that's pretty much cool with us. Would you pay for games that weren't GPLd?
(We're not going to release any of our games under the GPL, although we don't mind releasing the source...)
i get so tired of hearing this tired old line about how schools are little robot factories..
i think school can really be what you make of it. i had a lot of teachers who didn't go the distance to make learning come alive for their students, but i also saw that all my fellow classmates didn't care at all about learning. what are these teachers supposed to do?
i also had several teachers who, once i showed them that i wasn't just another warm body in a seat, really opened up to me and taught me far more about the world than i could've imagined at the time. even now, _many_ years later, i'm still thankful for how they helped when they did. but i _know_ for a fact that they weren't like this to everyone... because most people just didn't care.
didn't any of you people ever show any initiative in school yourselves? maybe it wouldn't have been such a robot factory kind of place for you, too. maybe you didn't know everything already.
Take a look at the Workabout MX.. it's GSM-capable, has a TCP/IP stack, runs the excellent EPOC operating system. You can write software for it in EPOC's OPL or C++, even.
They don't want to think the government is out to get them. (hint: it probably isn't.)
The public at large will never embrace encryption because the public at large is not anti-authoritarian, is not confrontational, and is definitely too lazy to be bothered with something "just because it's a good idea." I'm no government shill, but it's silly to expect your neighbor to believe you when you say, "Encryption is the backbone of something-something blah blah and that's why you should use pgp for every email you send."
People have different priorities. Your priorities are not the world's, nor are they even the "best" for an ideal (eg, safe, free, beer-filled, whatever) world.
Encryption just doesn't matter that much.
Random thoughts:
-encryption is not like putting a letter in an envelope for mailing, because the envelope doesn't protect the contents of the letter so much as it contains them from the rigors of mailing. If people could save 15c by not using an envelope, they probably would.
-living in a safe world _is_ a good thing, for those of you who are about to suggest that no freedom is worth giving up for safety. Anyone who hasn't been mugged or assaulted on the street may sit out of any discussion about the value of a safe world.
Slashdot Mirror
Motion.. a .CX site.. hmm......resisting..the..link....
;)
As all the lonely but oh-so-eloquent guys will come out of the woodwork to respond thoughtfully to some chick's post, because, y'know, chicks digs guys who are smart and sensitive and post to slashdot.
*tee hee*
If you get the new york times delivered to your door for free in exchange for the flaming bags, sure why not?
Just a side note - it's disgusting that you'd say Mike Tyson's inability to control himself is a _good_ thing. You do know he went to prison for rape, right? Would you really rather have a champion boxer than someone you could trust to walk your sister to her car?
The point, I think, is that autistic people aren't just going to be outcasts like the smart kids were in school, eg., able to adjust and fit into a more welcoming social group like university- autistic people may not have an ability to communicate, period. People with severe autism cannot express themselves, and it's not that they're different, it's that they're crippled. I had a friend for many years whose little brother was autistic, and he didn't express any savant abilities (not all autistic people are "idiot savants," you know), he just didn't act like a normal child. He didn't laugh, didn't play, wouldn't make eye contact. He'd raise his voice to a single sustained yell and he'd flail his arms around. I'm not making light- this was the extent of his interaction with his world. And the thing about autistic people is, there _is_ a mind in there, but it's locked away from the world by the disease. Hardly how I think any genius would want to be.
Obviously, not a contentious loser like you.
Really, is your point that the obsessive fixation on triviality and hermit-like reclusion so popular and held in such esteem here ("hackers that lock themselves away for xx hours"?) is actually all right and normal? that calling any aberrant behavior is just, like, your opinion, man?
There's a reason all you tech loser programmers get stomped on by management, and there's a reason no one else in the world cares - because your childish maladjusted antisocial behavior are just that.
I can't wait till there's a pill we can slip into the water so you techie morons will drop the pretention that anyone takes you seriously as human beings and just do what you're told.
Actually, I don't even like "fun" or "happiness." And so many people these days walk around with smiles on their faces, like it was coming back in style.
Please do not involve me in your "relationships" or "emotions." I'm here to work, and so are you.
(yes, it's sarcasm.)
I'd love it! iI'd run that service in an instant!!
Here's something I've always wondered about micropayments - why don't more peopel suggest combining them with a volunteer/honor system payment? I'd sure as hell make my work micro-payable if you wanted to give me 5c per art-view, but i'd also let you just view stuff for free.
It's the best obf both worlds, really, where I could pull in maybe an additional $10/mo from people who were generous, but no one would feel like they had to decide whether ornot the value i'd place on my work was worth the entiertainment they desrive from it.
(btw- I aplogize for the psleling mistakes but I too ksome melatonin a few hours ago and am fallinga sleep at the wheel)
Maybe "web fundamentals" is changing.. the web isn't gopher, you know.. dumb lynx users who say "Content blahb lah" etc., just cause you have no sense of aesthetics doesn't mean there isn't a place in the world for it. I can get all teh content I want, and so can anyone else with ahlf a brain- now let's dress it up a little!
Would you recommend stripping the grace notes and ornamentation out of a piece of music, because "they serve no purpose and obscure the true melody"?
This is so stupid and I see it constnatly. Sure, that series of commands (some 30 letters) is not intrinsically difficult to remember in itself, if you can remember word-punctuation-word-punctuation-word
This is the crux of the matter.. software installation CAN be made easier, but geeky losers don't want it to be. That's why people always run away from one-click stuff and scurry back to hide under their make;configure rock.
Stupid.
Why won't anyone sit next to me during vespers?
I'm drunk at work and it's only 3pm!! wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Well see, black people love taffy and talk funny and steal a lot. So it's OK to kick them out. Same with women. Mexicans are different though because they always waddle when they walk like penguins. And they slide on their rotund stomicks down those chutes of ice into the ocean, where they swim around all day looking for fish. I hate those mexicans. They stole my pickup truck and drove it off a cliff.
While you may know about chip chemical composition, chances are good those "feeble-mindeds" know a bit more about having a life
alsodr, drunk
virus.
Second-declension nouns do conjugate thusly:
Modus - modi
Puteus - putei
Malus - mali
Virus does not.
*sighs*
If that story is true, the BSA should be shut down for good. Destroying the computer resources of a 400 employee company is a terribly criminal offense. What could people do to get this story more well-known?
- Yes, imagine. Imagine if web designers weren't obsessed with style over content, with special effects over usability, with animated intros over usefulness, with exactly positioned layout over standards that are easily accesible by the visually impaired or degrade well for old browsers.
What else are web designers for?????? That seems to be _exactly_ their purpose! dressing up the content! Web designers don't provide you with the content, they _design_ the website! If you have a beef with the fact that they're not providing the content how you like it, take it up with the content provider (the person the web designer is designing for) and demand that _they_ give it to you. Don't knock the web designer for doing their job.Powells - disclaimer: I used to work for them. They have more obscure merchandise than you can shake a stick at, so if you ever need an old math or engineering text, try em out.
(yeah, I'm a shill- but that's what this topic's about)
this is just an open question, I look forward to all replies. How willing are you to pay for shareware games? If a company released ep.1 of a game for free, with eps 2 and 3 purchasable as shareware for $20 or $30, would you go for it?
This was the situation years ago in the dos games market, and it worked out pretty well. We got all manner of good games, like Commander Keen and Wolfenstein 3D.. but would the same rules apply in the Linux games market?
Furthermore, would you register closed-source games? Would you expect to receive source upon registering? For most purposes (thinking from a game-developer point of view now), keeping the source locked up doesn't really matter much, cause the value of the game is in the data- the artwork and levels the creators have built. The most you could do with the source would be to build cheats into the game, and if you've paid for the levels that's pretty much cool with us. Would you pay for games that weren't GPLd?
(We're not going to release any of our games under the GPL, although we don't mind releasing the source...)
Thanks much,
Steve
Perl has been ported to the Psion 5/5mx series platform for some time.
i think school can really be what you make of it. i had a lot of teachers who didn't go the distance to make learning come alive for their students, but i also saw that all my fellow classmates didn't care at all about learning. what are these teachers supposed to do?
i also had several teachers who, once i showed them that i wasn't just another warm body in a seat, really opened up to me and taught me far more about the world than i could've imagined at the time. even now, _many_ years later, i'm still thankful for how they helped when they did. but i _know_ for a fact that they weren't like this to everyone... because most people just didn't care.
didn't any of you people ever show any initiative in school yourselves? maybe it wouldn't have been such a robot factory kind of place for you, too. maybe you didn't know everything already.
The public at large will never embrace encryption because the public at large is not anti-authoritarian, is not confrontational, and is definitely too lazy to be bothered with something "just because it's a good idea." I'm no government shill, but it's silly to expect your neighbor to believe you when you say, "Encryption is the backbone of something-something blah blah and that's why you should use pgp for every email you send."
People have different priorities. Your priorities are not the world's, nor are they even the "best" for an ideal (eg, safe, free, beer-filled, whatever) world.
Encryption just doesn't matter that much.
Random thoughts:
-encryption is not like putting a letter in an envelope for mailing, because the envelope doesn't protect the contents of the letter so much as it contains them from the rigors of mailing. If people could save 15c by not using an envelope, they probably would.
-living in a safe world _is_ a good thing, for those of you who are about to suggest that no freedom is worth giving up for safety. Anyone who hasn't been mugged or assaulted on the street may sit out of any discussion about the value of a safe world.