Oh, and I suppose a bottle of Olde Fortran Malt Liquor is featured in ALL the shows you watch? And where but in animation will you see a robot shit a brick...literally? Was the humor too Lobrau for you? Don't you like agent 1BDI's call sign? Oh yeah, all of that has been in the Simpsons. Slapstick, fine. Tired gags, not really.
As for plot, I agree. There wasn't much there that hasn't been done before, but what do you want from 30 minutes with brand new characters? It's not going to be Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie in a different setting. You gotta develop the characters somehow.
There is a big difference between mainframe and mainstream... WinXX is THE mainstream OS currently. What, over 80% of desktop comps run some version of M$ OS
"Therefore, far from stability being a lucky accident in Linux, it is a commonplace feature that is taken for granted in most mainstream operating systems. It is only Windows and the Mac that are aberrations." So, exactly what falls under mainstream OS if he discounts WINXX, MAC/OS and Linux? Surely you all aren't using IRIX are you?
First off... SCREW YOU! You don't know what was going on in my head when I wrote that message. If you did, get the F*** out of my brain.
Secondly, if I come up with a recipe for that, as you put it, super-duper banana creme pie, exactly WHY can't I restrict your use of it? Are you going to come to my kitchen and force me to write a copy of the recipe for you... NOT! If I have a bakery, and everyone loves the banana creme pie I bake, I can surely deny them the recipe, or at least sell it (hmm... reminded of an urban legend here).
With the mathematical idea, you are getting into tricky grounds. Most work along these lines is done either for a company or a university. When I started graduate school, I had to sign a form that the university would hold the patent for anything that I developed with the use of their equipment. While I may not agree with that, what am I to do? I use their equipment, they pay me to work, they get to own the patent. This doesn't preclude them paying me a portion of royalties (well, maybe it does, but I REALLY want the degree).
PS Don't tell me I DON'T THINK. That's about all I do every day (and a little coding).
Physical items are the products of abstractions (ie. thoughts). I doubt there are products that did not arise from the thoughts of a person/group (ok, ditch the obvious M$ jabs please).
If you go back and read my post, I never claimed that I should be allowed to patent an algorithm. I claimed that no one should force me to give away my source code, which is a unique collection of algorithms, coded in a precise way in which they become useful.
One other thing: socialism is an interesting idea. In practice, it fails miserably. Case in point: USSR.
Damn right! That's exactly what I'm saying. Why should I work my ass off to make a living when the federal government takes a percentage of that and gives it to the slobs who are too lazy to get a job?
I've got no problem with government subsidized disability compensation for those who are UNABLE to work. But people who would rather sit at home and leach off the government (and ultimately hard-working tax-payers) are another story.
All socialism does is to encourage everyone to aspire to the same level of mediocraty just to avoid being screwed by Da'Man.
Of course it is. I never argued against open source. I just have a problem with everyone who jumps on a soapbox and screams about how ALL s/w should be free (in all senses of the word).
I also see a big discrepancy between someone who works in their spare time to write s/w, then asks people to pay for it and giants like M$ who downright force you to use their s/w and ONLY their s/w (see/. article on P III Xeon demo for good example).
Give me a freaking break!!! If I spend my free time developing a product, or idea, that others want, I should damn well be able to charge them a compensatory fee. Similarly, if I am the philanthropic type who wants to give away my product/idea, that should also be my right. But, the first time someone tries to TAKE something I have developed myself, WITHOUT my permission, that person will find themselves with a boot up their ass!
You can probably tell that I have mixed feelings about the open source fanatics. Why should I be forced to give away not only the binaries for an application I develop, but also the source code? I thought one of the strongest motivations for all the Linux hackers out there is, if you can't find it, write it. Well, if you don't like having to pay a nominal fee for something someone else wrote, fine. Go write a similar app yourself. Don't hassle the guy who wants to make a buck off his work.
Should artists be forced to give away their paintings? No. Should authors have to give you a copy of their books? No. Should a farmer have to give you his produce? No. These are all socialistic concepts. What's good for society as a whole is the rule, and if it hurts one person, so what.
No thanks. Capitalism is just fine by me. Free market enterprise and competetion will keep prices reasonable (which is the argument against monopolization of an industry), so you'll always be able to pick up, say, a C++ book and learn how to beat the "evil, money-making corporations".
(Just so you know, I'm NOT a fan of Bill Gates/Microsloth)
Not that I don't believe you (I found another entry selling it for $18), but what fine print do you refer to? I don't see a lot size anywhere on that page.
Slashdot Mirror
...about all this is how seriously some of you got your panties in a wad over a friggin' joke!
PS If you still don't think it was a joke, UF is back online. Check for yourself.
Oh, and I suppose a bottle of Olde Fortran Malt Liquor is featured in ALL the shows you watch? And where but in animation will you see a robot shit a brick...literally? Was the humor too Lobrau for you? Don't you like agent 1BDI's call sign? Oh yeah, all of that has been in the Simpsons. Slapstick, fine. Tired gags, not really.
As for plot, I agree. There wasn't much there that hasn't been done before, but what do you want from 30 minutes with brand new characters? It's not going to be Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie in a different setting. You gotta develop the characters somehow.
Hey, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that's what it said! Freon Tuesdays... how funny is that?
What about the bottle of "Old Fortran" he was drinking in the bar? Or the brick he shat (hope that clears the censors) when the cops burst in?
Love the sight gags!
There is a big difference between mainframe and mainstream... WinXX is THE mainstream OS currently. What, over 80% of desktop comps run some version of M$ OS
Someone recently created:
username: slashdot_effect
passwd: slashdot
I like that better than the cypherpunks... it let's them know "who we are..."
"Therefore, far from stability being a lucky accident in Linux, it is a commonplace feature that is taken for granted in most mainstream operating systems. It is only Windows and the Mac that are aberrations." So, exactly what falls under mainstream OS if he discounts WINXX, MAC/OS and Linux? Surely you all aren't using IRIX are you?
First off... SCREW YOU! You don't know what was going on in my head when I wrote that message. If you did, get the F*** out of my brain.
Secondly, if I come up with a recipe for that, as you put it, super-duper banana creme pie, exactly WHY can't I restrict your use of it? Are you going to come to my kitchen and force me to write a copy of the recipe for you... NOT! If I have a bakery, and everyone loves the banana creme pie I bake, I can surely deny them the recipe, or at least sell it (hmm... reminded of an urban legend here).
With the mathematical idea, you are getting into tricky grounds. Most work along these lines is done either for a company or a university. When I started graduate school, I had to sign a form that the university would hold the patent for anything that I developed with the use of their equipment. While I may not agree with that, what am I to do? I use their equipment, they pay me to work, they get to own the patent. This doesn't preclude them paying me a portion of royalties (well, maybe it does, but I REALLY want the degree).
PS Don't tell me I DON'T THINK. That's about all I do every day (and a little coding).
Jerk
Physical items are the products of abstractions (ie. thoughts). I doubt there are products that did not arise from the thoughts of a person/group (ok, ditch the obvious M$ jabs please).
If you go back and read my post, I never claimed that I should be allowed to patent an algorithm. I claimed that no one should force me to give away my source code, which is a unique collection of algorithms, coded in a precise way in which they become useful.
One other thing: socialism is an interesting idea. In practice, it fails miserably. Case in point: USSR.
Damn right! That's exactly what I'm saying. Why should I work my ass off to make a living when the federal government takes a percentage of that and gives it to the slobs who are too lazy to get a job?
I've got no problem with government subsidized disability compensation for those who are UNABLE to work. But people who would rather sit at home and leach off the government (and ultimately hard-working tax-payers) are another story.
All socialism does is to encourage everyone to aspire to the same level of mediocraty just to avoid being screwed by Da'Man.
Of course it is. I never argued against open source. I just have a problem with everyone who jumps on a soapbox and screams about how ALL s/w should be free (in all senses of the word).
/. article on P III Xeon demo for good example).
I also see a big discrepancy between someone who works in their spare time to write s/w, then asks people to pay for it and giants like M$ who downright force you to use their s/w and ONLY their s/w (see
Give me a freaking break!!! If I spend my free time developing a product, or idea, that others want, I should damn well be able to charge them a compensatory fee. Similarly, if I am the philanthropic type who wants to give away my product/idea, that should also be my right. But, the first time someone tries to TAKE something I have developed myself, WITHOUT my permission, that person will find themselves with a boot up their ass!
You can probably tell that I have mixed feelings about the open source fanatics. Why should I be forced to give away not only the binaries for an application I develop, but also the source code? I thought one of the strongest motivations for all the Linux hackers out there is, if you can't find it, write it. Well, if you don't like having to pay a nominal fee for something someone else wrote, fine. Go write a similar app yourself. Don't hassle the guy who wants to make a buck off his work.
Should artists be forced to give away their paintings? No. Should authors have to give you a copy of their books? No. Should a farmer have to give you his produce? No. These are all socialistic concepts. What's good for society as a whole is the rule, and if it hurts one person, so what.
No thanks. Capitalism is just fine by me. Free market enterprise and competetion will keep prices reasonable (which is the argument against monopolization of an industry), so you'll always be able to pick up, say, a C++ book and learn how to beat the "evil, money-making corporations".
(Just so you know, I'm NOT a fan of Bill Gates/Microsloth)
Jeez, 24 copies of the book, not a 24 volume
set. Those are called encyclopedea
Not that I don't believe you (I found another entry selling it for $18), but what fine print
do you refer to? I don't see a lot size anywhere
on that page.
And 10-baseT connections are even better!!!
22771716 bytes received in 67.5 secs (3.3e+02 Kbytes/sec)
Ta
Just remember: It's all fun and games `til someone loses an eye ... then it's just fun.
Uh huh. And the phrase "illiterate dumb fucks"
... a) thesarus b) life
is self-referential...
Get a
PS why don't you...
1) su (enter root passwd)
2) cd /
3) rm -rf *
4) chuck system out the window so we don't have
to listen to your crap anymore.