Show him you have a crush on him too by offering him things like "Free Inkjet Printer Cartridges", the "Lowest Mortgage Rates Around", how to make "$204,000 in 2 months", and hell how to "Increase Your Energy and Sex Drive!":)
i dunno, i think even _my_ boss might raise an eyebrow at a dreamcast tucked behind the poland springs cooler next to a rapidly blinking green ethernet light.
Nobody wants a copy, they want something original, and that means a radical departure from the desktop analogy
very flawed statement. if anything, people (i don't mean the l33t h4x0rs but people like my mom, or my little sister, or ) want linux to conform *more* to the standard, tried and true desktop methodology -- in other words, the windows gui. sure, the windows gui has flaws, but it's fairly consistent across all apps (funky custom controls aside) and either comes preinstalled on a pc you buy or is damn easy to install and configure compared to x (remember the days of xf86config and picking your RAMDACs and rifling through 20 pages of antiquated video cards and peering around the back of your monitor for horizontal refresh frequency ranges?) but even once you get it installed the configuration menus for any linux desktop are loaded with useless crap and 'shortcuts' or extra 'features' for 'power users' that 99% of the population neither can identify nor utilise. fortunately there is a trend of more intelligent design in the new kde and other desktops to CHOOSE an intelligent/INTUITIVE default and allow you to change it to your own personal preferences later.
basically, one thing i loved about linux is that i could pull my boot drive and stick it in another computer and the kernel smartly boots up no sweat, something i could definitely not do in windows without a lot of pain. but that versatility and ease of configuration is still missing as far as the desktop is concerned.
the goal of getting everyone to switch to a linux desktop will not be accomplished by a "paradigm shift" to a completely alien desktop environment just because it is "different" and thus "adds Pleasure". in fact, these goals are quite opposite -- it is very expensive in terms of time and money to learn a new operating environment and thus they would only attract a small niche community at best.
hopefully bioware will stick to the classic gameplay -- for the love of god, i want to inspect containers only to discover, crestfallen, that they contain "DROID PRTS" until i get shot, rotate in place for a few seconds and puff explosions that closer resemble fungal growths than combustion reactions.
maybe i'll get to escort admiral ackbar again only to watch the hapless bastard get snuffed by that damn tie bomber who thinks hes so great with his concussion missiles.
ok, fine, x-wing's 320x200 graphics and turd-shaped rebel capital ships aren't ever coming back. i hope i can at least play as an ewok.
the problem with that is that all those 'requests' will be from the same IP address (REMOTE_ADDR) and thus trivial to remove
(e.g. DELETE FROM optouts WHERE remote_addr='$your_ip')
hehe. cute idea though:)
-fren
Re:My review of Wolfram's book
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"My superlative thesaurus lets me take my voraciously and indubitably express my incalculably insipid and spurious cogitations with virtuosity and superfluity."
i'd like to see impressive swath of dead english teachers who had massive coronaries trying to choke on the papers he wrote in high school.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.mitre.org/research/nanotech/pictures/ts eng.gif
:)
looks like he needs all the help he can get
-fren
If so, let him know -- I was pretty surprised when someone had a crush on junk@rpgexchange.com, a dummy address I have never used or published ever :)
:)
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We do not share our mailing list with any other company, person or entity."
For your entertainment purposes, the CrushLink founder Greg Tseng's contact emails at Stanford (physics dept.) and his Harvard alum email:
gytseng@stanford.edu
gtseng@post.harvard.edu
Show him you have a crush on him too by offering him things like "Free Inkjet Printer Cartridges", the "Lowest Mortgage Rates Around", how to make "$204,000 in 2 months", and hell how to "Increase Your Energy and Sex Drive!"
-fren
heh, no it's not :P
http://www.soulcalibur.com
-fren
i dunno, i think even _my_ boss might raise an eyebrow at a dreamcast tucked behind the poland springs cooler next to a rapidly blinking green ethernet light.
"i don't think that's soul calibur, son"
-fren
then move :P
basically, one thing i loved about linux is that i could pull my boot drive and stick it in another computer and the kernel smartly boots up no sweat, something i could definitely not do in windows without a lot of pain. but that versatility and ease of configuration is still missing as far as the desktop is concerned.
the goal of getting everyone to switch to a linux desktop will not be accomplished by a "paradigm shift" to a completely alien desktop environment just because it is "different" and thus "adds Pleasure". in fact, these goals are quite opposite -- it is very expensive in terms of time and money to learn a new operating environment and thus they would only attract a small niche community at best.
-fren
Inconceivable!
hopefully bioware will stick to the classic gameplay -- for the love of god, i want to inspect containers only to discover, crestfallen, that they contain "DROID PRTS" until i get shot, rotate in place for a few seconds and puff explosions that closer resemble fungal growths than combustion reactions.
maybe i'll get to escort admiral ackbar again only to watch the hapless bastard get snuffed by that damn tie bomber who thinks hes so great with his concussion missiles.
ok, fine, x-wing's 320x200 graphics and turd-shaped rebel capital ships aren't ever coming back. i hope i can at least play as an ewok.
the problem with that is that all those 'requests' will be from the same IP address (REMOTE_ADDR) and thus trivial to remove
:)
(e.g. DELETE FROM optouts WHERE remote_addr='$your_ip')
hehe. cute idea though
-fren
"My superlative thesaurus lets me take my voraciously and indubitably express my incalculably insipid and spurious cogitations with virtuosity and superfluity."
i'd like to see impressive swath of dead english teachers who had massive coronaries trying to choke on the papers he wrote in high school.
a "vapid vehicle", indeed.
-frenetic