I just got a T720. And I think I'll be cancelling my service after reading this. Not necessarily because I wanted to write my own apps, but because I don't feel like I got a great deal, and don't want to get locked into a real mess.
Tremors:TS looks like it will be -fun-. There's been a real lacking in action-adventure stuff on TV, and Farscape just seemed to mix up action-adventure with drama a bit too ineffectively for my tastes. I couldn't watch three episodes in a row without thinking "Damn muppets" or "This is boring". I've got some hope for Tremors, but I'm prepared for it to really suck.
From looking at the site, the premise, and the character bios, they might have a pretty decent shot at making a show that's actually watchable. And it's got Burt Gummer. If you've seen Tremors 3, you'll know that even if the movies weren't high-quality cinema, that Burt can just be a fun damn character to watch in action.
I'll admit, it's hard to give a logical explanation of why I'm looking forward to the series, but I am. And hey, they're getting Christopher Lloyd for two episodes to play a mad scientist.
It's usually not a "switch", but an addition. IIRC, Taco bought a Powerbook. I have several platforms that I use, ranging from BSD and Linux all the way to the dreaded XP. But more and more, I've moved to my new Powerbook (faster than Taco's, hah!) for just about everything I do at work or home except gaming.
And yes, I know it was foolish to brag about my Powerbook being faster. He can probably -afford- a new one, where I'm still gonna be in debt for a while on mine.:)
Microsoft makes good mice, Apple makes good computers. In that particular scenario, things work out pretty well. As to installing a Microsoft operating system in a Virtual PC, I'm willing to bet that's never done without either the software being pirated, or being required for work conformity. The simple fact you CAN install Windows-in-a-Window on a Mac without being a true techie, is a good testament to the PPC platform. On my Powerbook G4 867, I think the VirtualPC Windows 2000 I use for work is probably as capable as any of the workstations in the office.
Neither of your examples shows any evidence that MS is less hated. We all do things we hate, because they're what we need to do. Just look at taxes. A better benchmark of MS-hatred would be to look at the browsers used by Mac owners. IE, Mozilla, Netscape, or Chimera(Mozilla "Phoenix"). I use Chimera. 'zilla guts, Cocoa UI. Perfect.
I usually refrain from any comment on spelling but... but... Oh my GOD, submitter. PLEASE at least TRY a little, huh? I think my brain just had a few hundred neurons just explode at witnessing such poor spelling in a submission that makes it to the front page.
Love/Hate... screw it, I love my Powerbook.
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We love Apple, we hate Apple... Argh, why must this company be so fucking schizophrenic in how it treats people? C'mon, Apple! Make up your mind, are you an asshole megacorp-wannabe or a company that tries to do What's Right(tm) by people? I just... don't... get it.
Steve. Seriously. Are you a real prick or do you just play one in the courtroom?
I had something I thought was funny to post, but it turned out not to be so funny on reflection. So I'm just posting instead to say I'm really, really, really hyper about the TiBook I replaced my iBook with today. I'd let the ants have my iBook, but that has a new home next week.:)
What kind of discussion on-topically is even -possible- with this post? Aiee.:)
I just bought a TiBook, 867Mhz, for $250 off as an open-box deal. This... was a dangerous trip. And I love it. I'm standing in the store waiting for it to get a RAM install done, then I get to take it home. Sigh. I am -so- broke now.:)
I'm buying my second iBook today. I have two PC's, a 500Mhz iBook and a couple Sun classic-era workstations that I play with. Windows is for gaming, pretty much says it all. Sure, my Windows machine is more upgradeable than my laptops, but for the past month I've been using the iBook constantly on the job and have no problem whatsoever with it except that I really like what apple has done to revamp the line. So what did I do?
Today I got a loan from Apple, and will be getting a new $1489 iBook. 800Mhz, 640M of RAM, 30G, and a 32M Radeon in it. Am I stoked? Fuck yeah, I'm stoked. My iBook is going to my partner on 'indefinite postponed payment' once I get my new one. He'll make the second person I've brought over into the Mac realm. And just about two years ago, I was bashing them myself.
OSX is just incredible. No two ways about it, it kicks ass. Closed source GUI? Sure. I can live with that. Secretive API's? I can live with that too. It just works.
And as soon as I get back from the Salem, NH Apple Store tonight, I'll be reading good ol' Slashdot from it. Happy as hell.
Microsoft OS'es are lousy, but the games are okay. At this rate though, I'll be shelving Windows in favor of a PS3 or whatever comes next, and a desktop Mac.
Remember, folks. Taiwan is the Republic of China (ROC) and mainland China is the People's Republic of China (PRC).
This is dealing with the ROC, not the PRC. The PRC claims the ROC is a renegade province, the ROC is just sitting back with the US covering its ass waiting to be able to truly flip the PRC off.
We could see cheap Taiwanese copies of Microsoft software on the black market fo... oh, wait. We can already?
We could investigate and fix bugs in... Wait, you mean Microsoft -really- intends to kill all the bugs in the code?
But we... Oh, I knew you were just joking about the bugs too. Really, I did.
I don't really want Windows to go open source. I -really- don't want it to go restricted source, because they'd use that as a weapon against Free Software like you wouldn't believe.
"The Samba team looked at the Windows XP source code and took components, putting them into the Samba tree."
"No we didn't."
"Yes you did, look here. See this contribution from X? He plead with us for immunity so we can bust your asses."
Microsoft probably won't put in any significant look and feel changes until much later in the testing program, probably someplace around beta 3. I'd say it's very likely they'll try and hold something impressive back until then, to help keep the hype machine cranking away.
But screw it, maybe by the time Longhorn comes out, I'll be able to have gotten myself a Mac desktop and won't care about Windows. The only thing making me hope for a death of PC gaming is the fact it's the last thing really keeping the machine on my desk a Windows one.
What do you mean "playing with nothing less than the death of the general purpose processor", they're openly -banking- on it. Microsoft has wanted to kill off the idea of the "Personal Computer" ever since they realized being a monopoly and letting other people work with the same hardware, building on their software layer was going to be a losing gamble in the long run.
They want to lock everything down and help the industry along back to the era of computing devices, rather than flexible, expandable, personal computers. This new "Freestyle" media center is just the beginning if you think about it. You can't -buy- a Windows Media Center license, you have to buy the software installed on a Microsoft-approved machine. Unless the software industry as a whole fights back against this push, we'll see the death of PC's within the next 10-15 years and the rise of a more fragmented, more expensive series of black boxes.
Why should Microsoft include DirectX in a PC when they have Xbox? Why allow people to build whitebox machines and risk them installing someone else's OS on it when they can tear the PC apart and make multiple "appliances" that conveniently link together bit by bit in order to become what people want? Snap your internet module into your media module, then connect your IO module and run the whole thing on WindowsCE 2010.
Call me paranoid, but I'm really afraid they'll find a way to make this profitable for the whole industry and completely kill the hobbyist when it comes to the new gear down the road.
RMS didn't post this as an essay, though. He posted it to the Kernel mailing list. If he'd posted it to a news site (any Free Software/Open Source site would bow and scrape to host it) it wouldn't have been so obnoxious. But in this case, RMS took his gripe to people in a place that they didn't want to clutter up with arguments and politics. He should have submitted it here, people here -thrive- on politics and bitching.:)
Please get an account instead of posting flames as an anonymous coward, you come off as chickenshit for not having the balls to correct my mistake with your own name.:)
The ACLU doesn't have representatives on TV every week telling us what they think. We know. Just like most of the people here know what RMS stands for already. We've heard it all before, and in many areas he -might- be right, but he's just so obnoxious people won't want to deal with him. I respect him greatly for having principles and sticking to them, yes. But it's getting damn near the point where I'm starting to respect him in the same way you'd respect Jerry Falwell. He's a bigoted, racist, loudmouthed prick, but he's got his principles.
Open source doesn't need a Jerry Falwell. It needs a Martin Luther King Jr.
There's only one problem with the statement about "Linux's Philosophy". Linus is Linux. His philosophy is "Use what works", which is why he chose BitKeeper. Linus was kind enough to use the GPL and allow his little kernel to grow into a full OS with the help of GNU.
What's at issue is RMS's philosophy, not Linux's. And there's nothing wrong with stating one's opinion, but what RMS does is try and state his opinion in an only slightly less aggressive and sometimes offensive manner than the preacher standing outside a porn shop waving a bible and screaming at "sinners". That kind of obnoxiousness on -any- side pisses me off.:)
Sigh. This is just another nail in his credibility-coffin. Why does it seem like he spends more time picking fights, pushing people to name things the way he wants them to, or to use software the only matches his ideology? For christ's sake (pun intended) he's gotten so damn bad that it's probably just as bad as it was when the first Christians (Or muslims, or jews...) came on the scene ranting about how THEIR god was going to kick everyone ELSE'S god in the ass.
Yes, RMS has contributed far more than I'll ever even DREAM of. Yes, RMS has a super-genius IQ and a -highly- admirable vision of what the future should hold. But goddamit, he needs to start working on some POSITIVE SHIT otherwise he's just going to make the entire Open Source community look like squabbling fools that can't cooperate and will never be able to compete feature-for-feature with commercial software. He wants to prove that Open Source is better, then DO it. Don't just bitch about who gets the credit for the kernel.
Stop picking fights and start being productive in a way that actually inspires everyone, rather than irritates most.
It made it to Ask Slashdot a few weeks ago when I was asking what to do about an older machine I was buidling up to give to my aunt and uncle. It just seemed that nobody really had any -good- answers, and I wasn't even trying to get anyone on the Internet. Older machines really tend to be hugely problematic with newer Linux distributions, so the best I could reccommend based on my experience with Old Crap at Washington County Tech and with my aunt and uncle's machine, would be QNX if capable, and Windows 98 otherwise.
But, if you're working in the 200-300Mhz range instead of the 1-200 range, or have decent hardware... Bah. It's a very hard call to make. I tried three different distributions and two OS options before settling on handing over my old Windows 98.
Nope, I don't think that's going to happen. Why? When's the last time you copied a DVD rip over a 10Mbit connection in the three or four minutes the average male lasts? And I think I'm being generous here. Not evem MPEG-4 will make up for the trigger-happiness of most guys.
If this service was offered by someone like Netflix, who I subscribed to for two years before dropping it in favor of cablemodem access, I'd be buying an Xbox or PS2 rather quickly, where right now I have no reason to consider anything but my PC and Dreamcast (which hasn't been hooked up since my move three months ago) for gaming use.
Netflix has great service, in my opinion. With a games inventory, they'd do quite well considering the improvement they made in turnaround times a little bit before I had to cancel my subscription.
Console games are expensive, rarely "demoed" and limited in lifespan rather significantly for the most part. They're perfect for rentals, but not all that great to own if you have any kind of financial conservatism in you.
I actually agree with most of this post. This line and the ones supporting it made me think of some issues, though.
As far as the geek chic thing goes, I don't see it as a cultural phenomenon.
I think what geeks would call "chic" and what the general population (and the nouveau-geek) think it is are entirely seperate things. When I think geek, I think about the fat guys with beards, suspenders and flannel you mentioned at trade shows. I think about the infatuation with technology and what it can do.
But as two years of "Technical(ly) College" in rural Maine taught me, the rest of the world has a pretty different view than the type of folks that frequent Slashdot. My best friend in college was 22, scraggly goatee, completely into "Extreme" stuff (sports, games, drinking binges), and knocked up his 19 year old girlfriend before moving into a trailer with her. My folks and a number of people at the school considered him a geek because he happened to be into computer games and Napster when he was stuck on campus. Anyone who doesn't fit the "normal guy" mold and owns a computer for fun is being considered a geek in many areas.
The whole money and poseur thing... well, that was pretty much restricted to California. Thank god.
Unfortunately, I'm one of the poor sods that got stuck with only a chance at a 2 year college education (Thanks a lot, University of Maine. This is Maine, you pricks, locals don't fucking HAVE $130 a credit hours.) and wound up with an Associates in Programming. Personally, I think it's actually better to have my year and a half of being the IT director's assistant on my resume than the degree itself. Go figure.
The fact the teachers in my college gave a person who literally watched Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back during Perl class a D- without him ever doing an assignment after the first month makes me sick though.(/rant)
I've always been kinda fringe geek. Not really a great programmer, more an observer, plotter, and wannabe administrator. Not nearly as geek as many I know, but still geek enough to be considered by people who aren't geeky at all. Unfortunately, we've got one thing making "geekdom" feel polluted, and that's the cram-away certification crowd.
High school kids coming out with MCSE's, places you can get a CCNA quick, or A+ certification that just seems like a joke to any old-school type. These people are the "new geek chic" and they're anything but.
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The Dumbledore/Gandalf match already happened. Dumbledore got his wizardly ass handed to him.
I just got a T720. And I think I'll be cancelling my service after reading this. Not necessarily because I wanted to write my own apps, but because I don't feel like I got a great deal, and don't want to get locked into a real mess.
Tremors:TS looks like it will be -fun-. There's been a real lacking in action-adventure stuff on TV, and Farscape just seemed to mix up action-adventure with drama a bit too ineffectively for my tastes. I couldn't watch three episodes in a row without thinking "Damn muppets" or "This is boring". I've got some hope for Tremors, but I'm prepared for it to really suck.
From looking at the site, the premise, and the character bios, they might have a pretty decent shot at making a show that's actually watchable. And it's got Burt Gummer. If you've seen Tremors 3, you'll know that even if the movies weren't high-quality cinema, that Burt can just be a fun damn character to watch in action.
I'll admit, it's hard to give a logical explanation of why I'm looking forward to the series, but I am. And hey, they're getting Christopher Lloyd for two episodes to play a mad scientist.
It's usually not a "switch", but an addition. IIRC, Taco bought a Powerbook. I have several platforms that I use, ranging from BSD and Linux all the way to the dreaded XP. But more and more, I've moved to my new Powerbook (faster than Taco's, hah!) for just about everything I do at work or home except gaming.
:)
And yes, I know it was foolish to brag about my Powerbook being faster. He can probably -afford- a new one, where I'm still gonna be in debt for a while on mine.
Microsoft makes good mice, Apple makes good computers. In that particular scenario, things work out pretty well. As to installing a Microsoft operating system in a Virtual PC, I'm willing to bet that's never done without either the software being pirated, or being required for work conformity. The simple fact you CAN install Windows-in-a-Window on a Mac without being a true techie, is a good testament to the PPC platform. On my Powerbook G4 867, I think the VirtualPC Windows 2000 I use for work is probably as capable as any of the workstations in the office.
Neither of your examples shows any evidence that MS is less hated. We all do things we hate, because they're what we need to do. Just look at taxes. A better benchmark of MS-hatred would be to look at the browsers used by Mac owners. IE, Mozilla, Netscape, or Chimera(Mozilla "Phoenix"). I use Chimera. 'zilla guts, Cocoa UI. Perfect.
I usually refrain from any comment on spelling but... but... Oh my GOD, submitter. PLEASE at least TRY a little, huh? I think my brain just had a few hundred neurons just explode at witnessing such poor spelling in a submission that makes it to the front page.
We love Apple, we hate Apple... Argh, why must this company be so fucking schizophrenic in how it treats people? C'mon, Apple! Make up your mind, are you an asshole megacorp-wannabe or a company that tries to do What's Right(tm) by people? I just... don't... get it.
Steve. Seriously. Are you a real prick or do you just play one in the courtroom?
I had something I thought was funny to post, but it turned out not to be so funny on reflection. So I'm just posting instead to say I'm really, really, really hyper about the TiBook I replaced my iBook with today. I'd let the ants have my iBook, but that has a new home next week. :)
:)
What kind of discussion on-topically is even -possible- with this post? Aiee.
I just bought a TiBook, 867Mhz, for $250 off as an open-box deal. This... was a dangerous trip. And I love it. I'm standing in the store waiting for it to get a RAM install done, then I get to take it home. Sigh. I am -so- broke now. :)
I'm buying my second iBook today. I have two PC's, a 500Mhz iBook and a couple Sun classic-era workstations that I play with. Windows is for gaming, pretty much says it all. Sure, my Windows machine is more upgradeable than my laptops, but for the past month I've been using the iBook constantly on the job and have no problem whatsoever with it except that I really like what apple has done to revamp the line. So what did I do?
Today I got a loan from Apple, and will be getting a new $1489 iBook. 800Mhz, 640M of RAM, 30G, and a 32M Radeon in it. Am I stoked? Fuck yeah, I'm stoked. My iBook is going to my partner on 'indefinite postponed payment' once I get my new one. He'll make the second person I've brought over into the Mac realm. And just about two years ago, I was bashing them myself.
OSX is just incredible. No two ways about it, it kicks ass. Closed source GUI? Sure. I can live with that. Secretive API's? I can live with that too. It just works.
And as soon as I get back from the Salem, NH Apple Store tonight, I'll be reading good ol' Slashdot from it. Happy as hell.
Microsoft OS'es are lousy, but the games are okay. At this rate though, I'll be shelving Windows in favor of a PS3 or whatever comes next, and a desktop Mac.
Remember, folks. Taiwan is the Republic of China (ROC) and mainland China is the People's Republic of China (PRC).
This is dealing with the ROC, not the PRC. The PRC claims the ROC is a renegade province, the ROC is just sitting back with the US covering its ass waiting to be able to truly flip the PRC off.
We could see cheap Taiwanese copies of Microsoft software on the black market fo... oh, wait. We can already?
We could investigate and fix bugs in... Wait, you mean Microsoft -really- intends to kill all the bugs in the code?
But we... Oh, I knew you were just joking about the bugs too. Really, I did.
I don't really want Windows to go open source. I -really- don't want it to go restricted source, because they'd use that as a weapon against Free Software like you wouldn't believe.
"The Samba team looked at the Windows XP source code and took components, putting them into the Samba tree."
"No we didn't."
"Yes you did, look here. See this contribution from X? He plead with us for immunity so we can bust your asses."
"But he works for Microsoft, according to..."
Behold, the power of plants.
Microsoft probably won't put in any significant look and feel changes until much later in the testing program, probably someplace around beta 3. I'd say it's very likely they'll try and hold something impressive back until then, to help keep the hype machine cranking away.
But screw it, maybe by the time Longhorn comes out, I'll be able to have gotten myself a Mac desktop and won't care about Windows. The only thing making me hope for a death of PC gaming is the fact it's the last thing really keeping the machine on my desk a Windows one.
What do you mean "playing with nothing less than the death of the general purpose processor", they're openly -banking- on it. Microsoft has wanted to kill off the idea of the "Personal Computer" ever since they realized being a monopoly and letting other people work with the same hardware, building on their software layer was going to be a losing gamble in the long run.
They want to lock everything down and help the industry along back to the era of computing devices, rather than flexible, expandable, personal computers. This new "Freestyle" media center is just the beginning if you think about it. You can't -buy- a Windows Media Center license, you have to buy the software installed on a Microsoft-approved machine. Unless the software industry as a whole fights back against this push, we'll see the death of PC's within the next 10-15 years and the rise of a more fragmented, more expensive series of black boxes.
Why should Microsoft include DirectX in a PC when they have Xbox? Why allow people to build whitebox machines and risk them installing someone else's OS on it when they can tear the PC apart and make multiple "appliances" that conveniently link together bit by bit in order to become what people want? Snap your internet module into your media module, then connect your IO module and run the whole thing on WindowsCE 2010.
Call me paranoid, but I'm really afraid they'll find a way to make this profitable for the whole industry and completely kill the hobbyist when it comes to the new gear down the road.
I got modded a troll above? Geez.
:)
RMS didn't post this as an essay, though. He posted it to the Kernel mailing list. If he'd posted it to a news site (any Free Software/Open Source site would bow and scrape to host it) it wouldn't have been so obnoxious. But in this case, RMS took his gripe to people in a place that they didn't want to clutter up with arguments and politics. He should have submitted it here, people here -thrive- on politics and bitching.
Please get an account instead of posting flames as an anonymous coward, you come off as chickenshit for not having the balls to correct my mistake with your own name. :)
The ACLU doesn't have representatives on TV every week telling us what they think. We know. Just like most of the people here know what RMS stands for already. We've heard it all before, and in many areas he -might- be right, but he's just so obnoxious people won't want to deal with him. I respect him greatly for having principles and sticking to them, yes. But it's getting damn near the point where I'm starting to respect him in the same way you'd respect Jerry Falwell. He's a bigoted, racist, loudmouthed prick, but he's got his principles.
Open source doesn't need a Jerry Falwell. It needs a Martin Luther King Jr.
There's only one problem with the statement about "Linux's Philosophy". Linus is Linux. His philosophy is "Use what works", which is why he chose BitKeeper. Linus was kind enough to use the GPL and allow his little kernel to grow into a full OS with the help of GNU.
:)
What's at issue is RMS's philosophy, not Linux's. And there's nothing wrong with stating one's opinion, but what RMS does is try and state his opinion in an only slightly less aggressive and sometimes offensive manner than the preacher standing outside a porn shop waving a bible and screaming at "sinners". That kind of obnoxiousness on -any- side pisses me off.
Sigh. This is just another nail in his credibility-coffin. Why does it seem like he spends more time picking fights, pushing people to name things the way he wants them to, or to use software the only matches his ideology? For christ's sake (pun intended) he's gotten so damn bad that it's probably just as bad as it was when the first Christians (Or muslims, or jews...) came on the scene ranting about how THEIR god was going to kick everyone ELSE'S god in the ass.
Yes, RMS has contributed far more than I'll ever even DREAM of. Yes, RMS has a super-genius IQ and a -highly- admirable vision of what the future should hold. But goddamit, he needs to start working on some POSITIVE SHIT otherwise he's just going to make the entire Open Source community look like squabbling fools that can't cooperate and will never be able to compete feature-for-feature with commercial software. He wants to prove that Open Source is better, then DO it. Don't just bitch about who gets the credit for the kernel.
Stop picking fights and start being productive in a way that actually inspires everyone, rather than irritates most.
It made it to Ask Slashdot a few weeks ago when I was asking what to do about an older machine I was buidling up to give to my aunt and uncle. It just seemed that nobody really had any -good- answers, and I wasn't even trying to get anyone on the Internet. Older machines really tend to be hugely problematic with newer Linux distributions, so the best I could reccommend based on my experience with Old Crap at Washington County Tech and with my aunt and uncle's machine, would be QNX if capable, and Windows 98 otherwise.
But, if you're working in the 200-300Mhz range instead of the 1-200 range, or have decent hardware... Bah. It's a very hard call to make. I tried three different distributions and two OS options before settling on handing over my old Windows 98.
Nope, I don't think that's going to happen. Why? When's the last time you copied a DVD rip over a 10Mbit connection in the three or four minutes the average male lasts? And I think I'm being generous here. Not evem MPEG-4 will make up for the trigger-happiness of most guys.
If this service was offered by someone like Netflix, who I subscribed to for two years before dropping it in favor of cablemodem access, I'd be buying an Xbox or PS2 rather quickly, where right now I have no reason to consider anything but my PC and Dreamcast (which hasn't been hooked up since my move three months ago) for gaming use.
Netflix has great service, in my opinion. With a games inventory, they'd do quite well considering the improvement they made in turnaround times a little bit before I had to cancel my subscription.
Console games are expensive, rarely "demoed" and limited in lifespan rather significantly for the most part. They're perfect for rentals, but not all that great to own if you have any kind of financial conservatism in you.
As far as the geek chic thing goes, I don't see it as a cultural phenomenon.
I think what geeks would call "chic" and what the general population (and the nouveau-geek) think it is are entirely seperate things. When I think geek, I think about the fat guys with beards, suspenders and flannel you mentioned at trade shows. I think about the infatuation with technology and what it can do.
But as two years of "Technical(ly) College" in rural Maine taught me, the rest of the world has a pretty different view than the type of folks that frequent Slashdot. My best friend in college was 22, scraggly goatee, completely into "Extreme" stuff (sports, games, drinking binges), and knocked up his 19 year old girlfriend before moving into a trailer with her. My folks and a number of people at the school considered him a geek because he happened to be into computer games and Napster when he was stuck on campus. Anyone who doesn't fit the "normal guy" mold and owns a computer for fun is being considered a geek in many areas.
The whole money and poseur thing... well, that was pretty much restricted to California. Thank god.
Unfortunately, I'm one of the poor sods that got stuck with only a chance at a 2 year college education (Thanks a lot, University of Maine. This is Maine, you pricks, locals don't fucking HAVE $130 a credit hours.) and wound up with an Associates in Programming. Personally, I think it's actually better to have my year and a half of being the IT director's assistant on my resume than the degree itself. Go figure.
The fact the teachers in my college gave a person who literally watched Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back during Perl class a D- without him ever doing an assignment after the first month makes me sick though.(/rant)
I've always been kinda fringe geek. Not really a great programmer, more an observer, plotter, and wannabe administrator. Not nearly as geek as many I know, but still geek enough to be considered by people who aren't geeky at all. Unfortunately, we've got one thing making "geekdom" feel polluted, and that's the cram-away certification crowd.
High school kids coming out with MCSE's, places you can get a CCNA quick, or A+ certification that just seems like a joke to any old-school type. These people are the "new geek chic" and they're anything but.
Compared to user #616, probably. ;)
But no, I'm just a sarcastic SOB.