By the way, this is me, The_Messenger. Al Gore is one of my alter egos, used soley for posting offensive trollish flamebait. Since I've used up both my logged-in and AC posting limit for today, and since my usual proxy isn't working, I'm forced to adopt the identity of our beloved communist ex-presidential-candidate loser for the purpose of communication. Whatever.
Gaz! Hey, man, how's it going? Haven't heard from any of the Trollaxor.com crew for a while. I was just thinking about T.c the other day... I had found some of my old diary entries, saved as textfiles. There was my anti-ricecar rant, and the whole sex thing... I also found some of my old posts from my hoax from when Trollaxor disappeared for a couple weeks. I tried to convince everyone that he was in jail, and then that he died and that Turd Report would be taking over the website. And we had two rival factions -- the revolutionary coup, lead by myself (with Turd Report as the titular head; in reaality he had nothing to do with it), and the Trollaxor loyalists, consisting of pretty much everyone else.
I wish that I had saved other people's posts and diaries as well, because there was some great stuff in there. Despite Trollaxor's attempt to make the site a general-purpose discussion forum, it was almost completely run by trolls, and some really, really weird shit was posted.
Who's the flaming newbie whose password was "stolen?" I'll bet it was a good one, too -- maybe "college" or something really esoteric, like "irvine". Of course, having only attended the local LUG for a few weeks, you hadn't enough time to absorb to proper levels of, um, sophistication... I'll bet that by now, you're using passwords like "tux" and "userfriendly", that no one would ever be able to guess. You do use Linux, after all! Tee hee!
I dare you to prove that I didn't, asshole. And who are you to talk? You're probably some wetback who couldn't pass yourself as white if your worthless life depended on it. You're probably a terrorist, too. A taco terrorist. Ha!
Except that the Nigerian scam isn't much like being mugged. A better analogy would be a homeless person walking up to you on the street and claiming that if you can loan him the money for a plane ticket to London, he can prove his royal heritage and will return as a nobleman to shower you with gifts. Muggings are active, aggressive crimes. Nigerian scams -- especially those propagated via spam, which anyone who has been online for more than an hour should know is the most unreliable method of "commerce" ever imagined -- are passive "tricks" stupid and obvious enough that only a naive five-year-old retarded child could fall for them. I agreee with the original poster that victims of 419 spam scams shouldn't be allowed to have money -- and I'd also prefer that they not be allowed to breed, vote, or drive an automobile. 419 spam scams are a 100% accurate stupidity test.
But, unfortunately, the majority of my supporters is composed of just that sort of idiot. I mean, look at Florida in the 2000 elections -- half of my supporters couldn't even figure out how to use the damn voting machines. And while I was understandably peeved at the time, it wasn't not fucking rocket science there -- sure, the voting machine operation wasn't as straightforward as, say, crapping your pants, but any clearly-thinking, literate adult should have had no problem using them. And honestly I'd prefer that those who had such problems not vote at all -- if you can't work the fucking voting machine, how are we supposed to believe that you understand the issues? I mean, half of those old mummies probably just [attempted to] vote for me because they liked my haircut or my tie. Dried-up useless old sacks of failing organs!
He's not anti-African, he's anti-moron. And any population that ignores scientific evidence and continues to infect itself with AIDS -- whether because of an animalistic inability to control sexual urges, or the silly supernatural belief that disease is caused by evil spirits -- is definitely on the stupid side. The situation is made even worse by the class of ruling savages who exploit their countries' weaknesses for meager personal gain.
Make no mistake: Africa is an intellectual and cultural wasteland. I'm not very spiritual myself, but when I see a wasteland ravaged by a disease that preys on its population's inability to evolve, it makes me wonder if there is a greater purpose to AIDS.
Does that make me a racist? No. It makes me a realist. And after four years of Bush's Kaucasian Kristian Klan ruling in DC, I think that America is ready for a bit of realism, don't you?
Because, you retard, Best Buy bought the "Route 666" DVDs based on bad sales predictions and are now stuck with unmovable products due to the fact that the kind of person who would purchase such a DVD is a great deal dumber than the average Best Buy customer (wow!). Since there's no way in hell that they're going to profit from such garbage, it only makes sense to sell the DVDs at a discount. If the DVDs remained at the original $16 price, they would have sat on the shelves for years, simultaneously depreciating in value and taking shelf space away from saleable merchandise. They still won't sell many DVDs, but it usually makes sense to keep the discounted product on the shelf for two more weeks, in an attempt to lure in cheapskate gift-buyers, before tossing it in the dumpster. They still take a loss, but less of one.
It's called the bargain bin, kids, and things in the bargain bin are there for a reason: because they suck. Or because they feature manly freak-women like Lori Petty. Jesus, the last time I saw her, she was living in a box on Sunset Blvd, offering blowjobs in exchange for day-old Chinese takeout. *shudder* I think that she was the one who gave my syphi -- well, that is a story for another day. The worst part was that everyone thought she was a guy, so all of her "clients" were closeted Mormons (sorry, was that redundant?). Very scary.
You say that because you don't live there. To those of us who spend significant time in Boston, then perhaps you would understand. I have made Boston the home of my 2004 election campaign, and I have already purchased homes in Massachusetts. Let me tell you that Big Dig is not only the most awful thing to plague humanity in all of world history, but it also will play a direct role in Satan's eventual victory over the powers of good, a victory that will mark the beginning of ten million years of pain and suffering. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, you Mac-using pansy. God, I still hear locals talking about the faggot-infestation that followed that particular MacWorld Expo. Thousands of prancing Mac-faggots who can't wait to get their fat little hands on the latest over-priced under-powered plastic-coated turd that Steve Jobs shat out his manicured asshole! Supposedly almost half of them were obese, unkempt librarians, many of which were found hanging out around Boston pre-school playgrounds, offering children rides on their "special seesaws." Fuck, I would trust a San Francisco gigalo or a Catholic priest around my children before I'd let a Mac user get near them. *shudder* Luckily, since my daughter is female, she's relatively safe from Catholic priests and faggots, but there is no bounds to the perversity of the Mac user.
I think you've posted enough meaningless drivel for one day, retard. Please turn off the computer and return to your equally meaningless life. You're an idiot! An idiot! Go away!
Icaza is such a moron. But I'm glad that he's so blatantly proving my thesis that Cheap Software cannot create original ideas and survives by stealing R&D from commercial software developers. Unfortunately, because only people who can't get well-paying jobs in development and who have copious free time contribute to Cheap Software, the copies are always inferior. Linux is a bad copy of a ~1985-era UNIX kernel. The entire GNU project was created to make copies of existing UNIX utilities. Every single Cheap Software window manager is either a copy of Windows, Mac OS, or NeXTstep. PostgreSQL can't steal Oracle and Microsoft's ideas fast enough. (I won't even mention MySQL, because it isn't even a real RDBMS.) Mozilla, the WORST EXAMPLE OF SOFTWARE "DEVELOPMENT" EVER, is just plain SHITE.
The only Cheap Software product that I respect is Apache httpd. And that isn't even GPLed.
Anyway, I'm not sure what sort of wack Mexican drugs Miguel has been smoking, but he's a fucking moron. Even assuming that it's possible to create a functional copy of.NET (which it isn't, considering that Microsoft has more developers working on.NET than GNOME has users!), no one would use a Cheap Software copy when the original is guaranteed to be supported by Redmond in the future. (And don't give me the license fee argument, because if you've worked for any real company, you know that they LIKE paying license fees. I've actually seen people punished for "trusting our business to freeware.")
If you want people to use GNOME, try providing something original and innovative. Unfortunately, such initiative falls outside the bounds of Cheap Software.
My guess is that Miguel is trying to get a job at Microsoft, and he wants to impress them by making his own.NET. Sorry, amigo, Microsoft doesn't hire copycats. They may know how to pinch good ideas from other developers when they see them, but no one is impressed by the fact that you can steal ideas from commercial developers, make the ideas into half-functioning copies three years later, and in turn provide free tools to terrorists and script kiddies. Maybe you should work on making GNOME a decent window manager before taking on projects that are so obviously above your skill level.
Miguel talks big, but he's an amateur. And he shows the same levels of unprofessionalism and lack of instruction in proper software development management that made Mozilla such a failure.
Remember, please, that 3Com is also in the midst of change, as they refocus their strategy on core business products and services. They're slowly letting go of the home market, which Linksys has been steadily eating up. 3Com, along with Intel and many other companies, spent a lot of cash on the "home peripheral" market in the mid/late 90s, and are now discovering that the market isn't as profitable as they had hoped. Both Intel and 3Com have recently disbanded their consumer devices divisions. I've also heard that 3Com is planning to eliminate several thousand jobs by the end of this year.
Palm is smart to get rid of its software developers -- and really, that's what this announcement is foreshadowing -- and focusing on hardware. Palm is in trouble because PocketPCs blow them away and are now fairly inexpensive. Sure, Palms are VERY cheap, but PDAs are mainly used by businesspeople who use them as both status symbols AND useful tools. iPaqs are now "in" among IT execs. Palm is all but finished in the PDA market, but are gaining new life in the combination PDA/phone market. Palm will provide specialized B2B hardware services to Samsung, Nokia, et al.
But even then, Palm won't be a viable company for more than five years. Before 2004, Palm will likely be disbanded and their employees, who by then are much more focused on networked PIM/comms hardware, will be absorbed by 3Com.
Wow, that's just about the worst comic that has ever existed. It's not as lame Badtech, but the "stupid factor" puts it on par with the ultimate wannabe-geek comic, User Friendly. (Have you ever read their message board? Jesus, the biggest bunch on nontechnical wannabe "geek groupies" you'll ever find. "yeah i still use teh windows but i gots a book on teh rad hat lunix and im gonna be a h4X0r. i alredy know ls and cd so im pretty much a h4X0r now. i am l337. oh, teh dust buny is so cute!!@ l8r i gotta get off AOL so my sister can ues it.") Any way, BBOCS is just fucking LAME.
Shut the fuck up already, you fags! I mean, drawing a connection between "sluggish" and "sluggie" is fucking queer to begin with, so rlowe should have recognized sluggie's homosexuality and given him the cold shoulder. But he replied! GAY ALERT, GAY ALERT, WE HAVE TWO CONFIRMED FUDGEPACKERS ON DECK THREE! And then sluggie replies to rlowe's faggotry, and makes some sort of moronic "rLax;)" comment! Please, keep your disgusting homosexuality to yourselves, you goddamn pillowbiters! We don't need to see your PDAs (public displays of asshole-worship) on Slashdot!
Ask Slashdot: Why is it that CmdrTaco now only posts articles relating to games, cartoons, and "l337 d3v1c3s?" Has he finally come to terms with the fact that he's a non-technical Linux poseur?
The only thing impressive about Alan Cox is his ego -- if he wants to leave, just fucking leave, and don't bother everyone with your press release. The kernel would go on if he died tomorrow ("Ape-man killed in tragic beard/blender accident"). Personally, I think that both Linus and Cox should get the fuck off the kernel team... perhaps then its lack of organization and slacker release schedule would be replaced with something resembling "project management."
Good luck finding another company which would endow you with the same (haha) prestige, Alan. Good luck finding another company who would understand the fact that you live in Shitfuck-Nowhere, UK, and are exempted from attending business meetings. You and Telsa had better start working on a "linux.org.uk/Buy/Tshirts" shopping cart, because I don't think you'll be able to live on handouts from GNOME. Maybe you can move into Linus's basement, like a couple of embarassing relatives! Maybe Linus can get you a job working at Transmeta, cleaning the lab equipment! Oops, Transmeta's about to declare bankruptcy, not a good idea I guess... well, let's think of other Linux-friendly companies that are looking to employ a self-declared "hacker" with an unwarranted arrogance, a spotty employment history, a profound lack of personal hygeine, and various personality "issues" that leave him unable to work as part of a normal development team.
Hey, I know! Maybe VA Software has a place for him!
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By the way, this is me, The_Messenger. Al Gore is one of my alter egos, used soley for posting offensive trollish flamebait. Since I've used up both my logged-in and AC posting limit for today, and since my usual proxy isn't working, I'm forced to adopt the identity of our beloved communist ex-presidential-candidate loser for the purpose of communication. Whatever.
I wish that I had saved other people's posts and diaries as well, because there was some great stuff in there. Despite Trollaxor's attempt to make the site a general-purpose discussion forum, it was almost completely run by trolls, and some really, really weird shit was posted.
Anyway, nice to hear from you again.
Who's the flaming newbie whose password was "stolen?" I'll bet it was a good one, too -- maybe "college" or something really esoteric, like "irvine". Of course, having only attended the local LUG for a few weeks, you hadn't enough time to absorb to proper levels of, um, sophistication... I'll bet that by now, you're using passwords like "tux" and "userfriendly", that no one would ever be able to guess. You do use Linux, after all! Tee hee!
I dare you to prove that I didn't, asshole. And who are you to talk? You're probably some wetback who couldn't pass yourself as white if your worthless life depended on it. You're probably a terrorist, too. A taco terrorist. Ha!
But, unfortunately, the majority of my supporters is composed of just that sort of idiot. I mean, look at Florida in the 2000 elections -- half of my supporters couldn't even figure out how to use the damn voting machines. And while I was understandably peeved at the time, it wasn't not fucking rocket science there -- sure, the voting machine operation wasn't as straightforward as, say, crapping your pants, but any clearly-thinking, literate adult should have had no problem using them. And honestly I'd prefer that those who had such problems not vote at all -- if you can't work the fucking voting machine, how are we supposed to believe that you understand the issues? I mean, half of those old mummies probably just [attempted to] vote for me because they liked my haircut or my tie. Dried-up useless old sacks of failing organs!
Make no mistake: Africa is an intellectual and cultural wasteland. I'm not very spiritual myself, but when I see a wasteland ravaged by a disease that preys on its population's inability to evolve, it makes me wonder if there is a greater purpose to AIDS.
Does that make me a racist? No. It makes me a realist. And after four years of Bush's Kaucasian Kristian Klan ruling in DC, I think that America is ready for a bit of realism, don't you?
Vote Gore 2004!
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It's called the bargain bin, kids, and things in the bargain bin are there for a reason: because they suck. Or because they feature manly freak-women like Lori Petty. Jesus, the last time I saw her, she was living in a box on Sunset Blvd, offering blowjobs in exchange for day-old Chinese takeout. *shudder* I think that she was the one who gave my syphi -- well, that is a story for another day. The worst part was that everyone thought she was a guy, so all of her "clients" were closeted Mormons (sorry, was that redundant?). Very scary.
You say that because you don't live there. To those of us who spend significant time in Boston, then perhaps you would understand. I have made Boston the home of my 2004 election campaign, and I have already purchased homes in Massachusetts. Let me tell you that Big Dig is not only the most awful thing to plague humanity in all of world history, but it also will play a direct role in Satan's eventual victory over the powers of good, a victory that will mark the beginning of ten million years of pain and suffering. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, you Mac-using pansy. God, I still hear locals talking about the faggot-infestation that followed that particular MacWorld Expo. Thousands of prancing Mac-faggots who can't wait to get their fat little hands on the latest over-priced under-powered plastic-coated turd that Steve Jobs shat out his manicured asshole! Supposedly almost half of them were obese, unkempt librarians, many of which were found hanging out around Boston pre-school playgrounds, offering children rides on their "special seesaws." Fuck, I would trust a San Francisco gigalo or a Catholic priest around my children before I'd let a Mac user get near them. *shudder* Luckily, since my daughter is female, she's relatively safe from Catholic priests and faggots, but there is no bounds to the perversity of the Mac user.
I think you've posted enough meaningless drivel for one day, retard. Please turn off the computer and return to your equally meaningless life. You're an idiot! An idiot! Go away!
Damn straight, motherfucker!
The only Cheap Software product that I respect is Apache httpd. And that isn't even GPLed.
Anyway, I'm not sure what sort of wack Mexican drugs Miguel has been smoking, but he's a fucking moron. Even assuming that it's possible to create a functional copy of .NET (which it isn't, considering that Microsoft has more developers working on .NET than GNOME has users!), no one would use a Cheap Software copy when the original is guaranteed to be supported by Redmond in the future. (And don't give me the license fee argument, because if you've worked for any real company, you know that they LIKE paying license fees. I've actually seen people punished for "trusting our business to freeware.")
If you want people to use GNOME, try providing something original and innovative. Unfortunately, such initiative falls outside the bounds of Cheap Software.
My guess is that Miguel is trying to get a job at Microsoft, and he wants to impress them by making his own .NET. Sorry, amigo, Microsoft doesn't hire copycats. They may know how to pinch good ideas from other developers when they see them, but no one is impressed by the fact that you can steal ideas from commercial developers, make the ideas into half-functioning copies three years later, and in turn provide free tools to terrorists and script kiddies. Maybe you should work on making GNOME a decent window manager before taking on projects that are so obviously above your skill level.
Miguel talks big, but he's an amateur. And he shows the same levels of unprofessionalism and lack of instruction in proper software development management that made Mozilla such a failure.
Deport his criminal ass.
a port of the PC "Monopoly" game to the Xbox.
Remember, please, that 3Com is also in the midst of change, as they refocus their strategy on core business products and services. They're slowly letting go of the home market, which Linksys has been steadily eating up. 3Com, along with Intel and many other companies, spent a lot of cash on the "home peripheral" market in the mid/late 90s, and are now discovering that the market isn't as profitable as they had hoped. Both Intel and 3Com have recently disbanded their consumer devices divisions. I've also heard that 3Com is planning to eliminate several thousand jobs by the end of this year.
Palm is smart to get rid of its software developers -- and really, that's what this announcement is foreshadowing -- and focusing on hardware. Palm is in trouble because PocketPCs blow them away and are now fairly inexpensive. Sure, Palms are VERY cheap, but PDAs are mainly used by businesspeople who use them as both status symbols AND useful tools. iPaqs are now "in" among IT execs. Palm is all but finished in the PDA market, but are gaining new life in the combination PDA/phone market. Palm will provide specialized B2B hardware services to Samsung, Nokia, et al.
But even then, Palm won't be a viable company for more than five years. Before 2004, Palm will likely be disbanded and their employees, who by then are much more focused on networked PIM/comms hardware, will be absorbed by 3Com.
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Have you used an iPaq? Trust me, Palm is deader than *BSD.
Wow, that's just about the worst comic that has ever existed. It's not as lame Badtech, but the "stupid factor" puts it on par with the ultimate wannabe-geek comic, User Friendly. (Have you ever read their message board? Jesus, the biggest bunch on nontechnical wannabe "geek groupies" you'll ever find. "yeah i still use teh windows but i gots a book on teh rad hat lunix and im gonna be a h4X0r. i alredy know ls and cd so im pretty much a h4X0r now. i am l337. oh, teh dust buny is so cute!!@ l8r i gotta get off AOL so my sister can ues it.") Any way, BBOCS is just fucking LAME.
It can't be any more ridiculous than Cheap Software as a business model! Aha hahaha haha! Ahahaha ha! When is that trash going to be delisted, anyway?
Being a moderator is better than being a whining newbie.
I believe the question is written in Katzmalda, the dialect of English used by poor writers.
What the hell do they mean by "optimized for use with Windows XP?" Does it reboot faster than a Pentium 4?
Shouldn't you being attending a pride rally or dying of AIDS or something? Piss off and take your "friend" sluggie with you.
Thank you, boys, and good day!
Ask Slashdot: Why is it that CmdrTaco now only posts articles relating to games, cartoons, and "l337 d3v1c3s?" Has he finally come to terms with the fact that he's a non-technical Linux poseur?
Thank you for clearing this up.
Good luck finding another company which would endow you with the same (haha) prestige, Alan. Good luck finding another company who would understand the fact that you live in Shitfuck-Nowhere, UK, and are exempted from attending business meetings. You and Telsa had better start working on a "linux.org.uk/Buy/Tshirts" shopping cart, because I don't think you'll be able to live on handouts from GNOME. Maybe you can move into Linus's basement, like a couple of embarassing relatives! Maybe Linus can get you a job working at Transmeta, cleaning the lab equipment! Oops, Transmeta's about to declare bankruptcy, not a good idea I guess... well, let's think of other Linux-friendly companies that are looking to employ a self-declared "hacker" with an unwarranted arrogance, a spotty employment history, a profound lack of personal hygeine, and various personality "issues" that leave him unable to work as part of a normal development team.
Hey, I know! Maybe VA Software has a place for him!