Penis Bird Guy, i'm beginning to think that your incessant bitching is merely a cry for help. You just want to be loved, I believe...Youre looking for someone to accept you for who you are... regardless of wether or not you have a parrot on your penis.
Well, I may not agree with your choice of lifestyle..but if it means anything to you, I care about you, Penis Bird Guy. I don't want you to feel that you (and your parrot) have no one to turn to in your time of crisis. I care--and I think I speak for everyone here, when I say that our homes and our hearts are open to you....and your penis, and your bird.
I hate to say it, but we're seeing why OSS isnt the future in recent months. The reason why this particular OSS life-cycle (1994-2001 or so) will inevitably will fail is because the corporations step in and milk the process for money. It sours everyone on the whole idea because it introduces foreign concepts like exclusivity and heirarchy to a group of people who have otherwise functioned quite well without it. So what's wrong with this? Its a subtle problem. OSS continues to grow and function on one basic premise. Whats mine is yours, and what's yours is mine, and we share openly and equally, period. When someone interrupts that system and says, "No. You cant have this until you give us X Y and Z", then the creative process will halt. No one will make a move out of fear of being screwed into the ground.
Here's a small example. Remember how the industry was back in the mid 70's and early 80's? It was pretty much the same deal -- People shared software openly, without much of a regard for where it came from. Good software survived because people used it. Bad software died because people didn't use it. People added to what they recieved, improved it in some small way, and passed in on. Then, software companies sprung up and decided to taint the process. People didn't call it "open source" back then. They just called it "trading". When the process is corrupted in even the smallest way, the overall picture will change. In my opinion, this change ultimately spells out failure for the whole OSS movement.
Here's another reason OSS will likely fail. By VA Linux Systems' own admission, the majority of active OSS projects in the world, right now, are being housed on SourceForge. SourceForge is owned by a company that has yet to turn a profit, and is currently teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. The company is backlogged, and incurring a huge amount of debt in an attempt to spread out resources. The lush green pastures provided by companies like VA tend to evaporate overnight, once all the money that can be made has been made. Its just a matter of time before the process is fully milked and depleated. Nothing separates VA from any other company out there -- Statistically, they stand a 93% chance of failing within the next 5 years.
And, a third reason:
Ultimately, no one will work for free, if they know the guy next to them is doing the same work for pay. In the last few years, theres been a shift from intellectual competition to financial competition..The whole idea of competition is counterintuitive to the development process. OSS projects are developed in stress-free circumstances. No deadlines, no sales figures, no pressure to gather mindshare for your product. Changing the rules of the game by introducing financial competition is outright suicide. That alone will ruin the OSS movement.
I don't really see what the problem is.. The internet, by its very nature is parasitic. That is, its comprised largely from takers, rather than givers. Its an environement set up for people to inhale information without any sort of group correspondance. Gnutella (and Napster, i'd bet) is no different than the rest of the internet. The number of leeches outweighs the number of contributors by at least 100 to 1.
Thats the nature of things. Doesn't make it evil, or bad, or wrong to leech. Thats just the shape of things. The only thing bad about it, is that some of us get tired of looking at the same pablum every day, and try and improve things by lending a hand.
The whole Linux community is an example of this..Look where that got us..We've all been had, basically....Tens of thousands of people use yours and my work freely, and physically contribute nothing in return. Its a parasitic process by design. People are building their careers based off the work you've done for free.
MAME handles Tempest quite nicely -- If you can manage to find the ROMs. Lucky for you, there's a copy of the original 1980 Tempest ROM set on PROPAGANDA for your retro-pleasure. Its listed as "Tempest ROMs" under the "Other Resources" category. Enjoy.
Its fairly simple, actually. We're working up toward next month's article in Wired. Think of it as the pre-game show.
As for trolling, this site is owned by VA. Therefore, I will without hesitation pee upon it.
Knowing what I know, you'd be drinking extra fluids too, just for the sake of it.:)
Big fuckin deal. The same technology has been available at your local veterinary clinic for years.
Why the fuck would somebody want to have something imbedded in their flesh that they could otherwise carry in their pockets? "Oh, look at meee!!! I'm a CYBERPUNK! I've got computer chips in my muscles and I dream in binary!! Loook at meeeee!! I'm a NEUROMANCER!"
I should probably chime in here.. We had a guy give a speech here at the U (University of Arizona, Tucson..big place for space research and all) back in 98 once all the data from the lander and the rover had been collected. This guy's job was to design and implement the cameras on both the lander (not the rover.) and clued us into the sorts of stuff they were doing with it.
Part of his speech included materials he'd brought with him from other portions of the design team. One of those things were some films of actual test-drops of the airbag system done out in the desert. Its certainly not as elegant as a parachute+retro burn landing, but it works, and works more often in tests. Simply cushioning the hell out of the unit and letting it bounce to a stop is statistically the best method to use. He pointed out an example in one of the tests where one entire side of the airbag was left intentionally uninflated -- The unit successfully bounced off the earth, settled, and deployed just fine -- It was just by luck that during the bounces, the side without the airbag was never face-down. Thats opposed to having 3 rocket burns, where 1 rocket fails.. The damn thing will cartwheel out of control and crash.
I guess it all sort of depends on how you think a landing should be done. Having it fall out of the sky on a parachute, and bounce for over half an hour (and a mile's distance!) before coming to rest can be thought of repeatedly exposing the lander to undue trauma. But it works.
PS..Seeing an ultra-high resolution slide of the surface of Mars in color-seperated 3D with a pair of 3D glasses was unbelievably cool..Handed out little cardboard glasses to everybody, and sat back for half an hour picking out things in the landscape..hehe...was unbelievably cool.
You may have been dealing with Acer, which is about as close to the bottom of the barrel as you can get. I know IBM rebadges some Thinkpads from gear originally produced by Acer.. The 390X may be one of them. Bowie J. Poag
On a monday night, I accidentally spilled a glass of ovaltine on the table next to my brand new Thinkpad..unfortunately, I managed to splash some of it up onto the keyboard down by the arrow keys. I did my best to dry it out, to no avail -- within an hour or so, the keyboard had completely died, rendering my poor little Thinkpad dead in the water.
I contacted IBM.
The service rep I talked to at IBM said there would be an Airborne Express shipment box on my doorstep by the time I wake up the following morning. Fantastic, I said, since I didn't have to pay a cent to either ship it, or pay for the repairs, since it was covered under my warranty. Sure enough, the shipment box arrived here in Tucson. Inside were very clear instructions regarding how to pack it up, and how to leave any last-minute notes for the service crew. Within 5 minutes, I was packed up and ready to go, and subsequently dropped off the package on its way back to Milpitas, CA.
About an hour later I realized I accidentally left a James Brown CD in my thinkpad, along with my 10/100 netcard. Oh well, no problem. I'll just wait.
A day goes by. I'm able to track the package via Airborne Express' webpage, which was nice. I managed to survive tuesday without my Thinkpad.:)
Wednesday night, a get a knock on my door at 5 in the afternoon -- Its Airborne Express with a package from IBM -- Its my Thinkpad, all fixed, complete with my 10/100 NIC and my James Brown CD taped to the hood. Within the course of less 72 hours, IBM got a package to my doorstep, got my Thinkpad to a service center, diagnosed the problem, fixed it, and sent my Thinkpad back to me. For free.
THAT is service.
You basically get what you pay for. If youre going to buy mission-critical servers from an unreputable little chop shop on the virge of bankruptcy like VA, you should expect to get the run-around. All any company like VA does is take off-the-shelf OEM parts, slap a machine together, and glue a little plastic logo on the front of the case. Youre not getting anything you couldn't otherwise assemble on your own, or obtain from a larger LInux systems vendor such as IBM, Dell, and others.
You're right. I dont like VA. I've got plenty of reasons why, too. I'm just glad other people are beginning to wake up and smell the coffee when it comes to this company..I worked with their people on a volunteer basis for nearly two years, I know exactly what sort of work-ethic they have..or lack, more specifically. Hell, go on EFnet and look in #linuxwarez. Most of the damn channel ops are VA employees, busy warezing on VA's own lines. Go look for yourself.
"I honestly don't see the big deal here, either, and I wonder why Apple would do such a thing which only, in the end, alienates their own customer base."
Well, its always nice to know that there's further evidence that there are worlds orbiting other stars.. It gives creedence to our current thoeries regarding the creation of our own solar system, and helps us fine-tune the methods to which we'll find more such planets in the future.
So this thing is Jupiter-sized, and pretty far away from its sun, so its probably a gas giant. "Duhh, so what, we cant land on it then." Well, yes, thats correct..we can't land on it. It doesnt have a surface..Just like with Jupiter, if you tried to land on it, you'de go straight through it. Its made entirely out of gas, not rock, or ice. The big deal about this, is that most Jupiter-sized planets also have Jupiter-like characteristics, i'm guessing, which means they more than likely have a large number of satellites, and the planet itself gives off heat. The same as Europa may harbor life sustained by Jupiter's heat, the moons of this newly discovered planet also have a chance of sustaining life.
Then again, even if we had the technology to span such distances in person, it would take hundreds of years to even build up a decent speed... we'd have to accellerate the spacecraft in a way that was survivable by human beings, mind you. I dont know anyone who wants to spend the next hundred years with their cheeks plastered to their skulls, trying to strain like theyre on the toilet... minute after minute, hour after hour, month after month.
I think i'll stay here..but I get first dibs on real estate.:)
Heh, well I could have told Jobs that ATI sucked three years ago.. Takes him that long to figure it out for himself?:)
3DFx is probably too smart to go into a deal with Apple..It would make their company look bad to have their otherwise fast-as-fuck gfx hardware saddled with a complete dog of an OS..I dont think 3DFx needs the money that badly.. heh
Looks like Apple is pulling another Metallica-like move on whats left of their meager fan base. Nice way to alienate your supporters. "You like our company so much that we're going to sue you!" If Apple had any damn brains they'd have a department set up within the company to intentionally leak interesting rumors into the trade press to build anticipation and interest in their product line. Going after the little guy because your employees cant keep their pants on is a little retarded, dontcha think?
Then again...."retarded" is sorta what i'd expect from a company that makes hockey-puck mice, 9600 bps Ethernet ports and an OS that can't multitask.
Bowie J. Poag
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Approximately 600-800 articles were rejected to make room for today's retarded butt-nugget of wisdom from Jon Katz..They dont care anymore. Its pretty obvious that they dont have to. Time to look for a new news page, imho. Slashdot just isnt cutting it.
Duh, Slashdot rules. Bowie J. Poag
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Ahhhh, now it all makes sense. Here's how it works:
First of all, the technology of culture politics have the Thomas Jefferson effects geeks society in Columbine. Columbine culture of technology in politics have Thomas Jefferson in geek-society. In society, geeks of political culture has effects on Thomas Jefferson and technology. The culture of Thomas Jefferson and Columbine in society effects culture geeks, but geek culture society effects technology. The politics of culture and technology in Thomas Jefferson effects Columbine but culture geek society and technology effects politics, and politics culture. Columbine culture technology and politics effect Thomas Jefferson geeks. Geek politics and Thomas Jefferson politics effect technology culture. The technology of Columbine and politics of Thomas Jefferson effect culture and society. The geek society of Thomas Jefferson effects Columbine technology and politics. Slashdot is a joke. Columbine, and geek culture effect politics, society and Thomas Jefferson. The technology politics of society culture geeks of Columbine and Thomas Jefferson. The geeks of Thomas Jefferson technology Columbine the effects of society and culture. The culture of Columbine society effects Thomas Jefferson technology. Technology-society, or Columbine, effects geek culture and Thomas Jefferson. In conclusion, geek technology and culture make Thomas Jefferson effect Columbine.
I got tired of having a karma of 60+.. So now i'm trying to nuke my karma as fast as possible. Its down to 29 now.
I dont see what the big problem is. The SDMI was defeated long ago -- Apparently several clueless Slashdot authors failed to realize this before posting the article. Meanwhile, hundreds of other articles are rejected. Another fact of the matter is, is that Slashdot is not the way it used to be, despite promises that it wouldn't change.
You have to admit. Most of Jon Katz's articles can be produced using a simple Perl script and a few rand() calls. Its to the point of being rediculous how every article he writes seems to revolve around a 10 or 15 word vocabulary. "Culture" , "Technology", "Media" , "Columbine" , "Issue", "Rights", "Betrayl", "Thomas", "Jefferson", "Corporations", and a handful of other miscellanous buzzwords. Its like listening to Al Gore mumble in his sleep. The guy lives, eats, sleeps and breathes buzzwords.
Even more amazing is the fact you guys back him. Then again, a no-confidence vote from you guys would probably destroy his career. It would follow him everywhere he went. Bowie J. Poag
Hey, you're welcome. I sorta got tired of having a 60+ Karma rating.. I've managed to drop it down to like 30 or so within the course of just a few days just for fun.:)
As Katz points out, the media corporations control popular culture with political vulnerable Columbine issues, and copyright betrayls. Then again, the political corporations control popular media culture with vulnerable Columbine issues. Some might argue that Columbine political controls make corporate media culture issue betrayls as well.
I could write better drivel with a Perl script that randomly assembled blocks of text from Katz's buzzword-bingo writing style. Spare me.
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Penis Bird Guy, i'm beginning to think that your incessant bitching is merely a cry for help. You just want to be loved, I believe...Youre looking for someone to accept you for who you are... regardless of wether or not you have a parrot on your penis.
Well, I may not agree with your choice of lifestyle..but if it means anything to you, I care about you, Penis Bird Guy. I don't want you to feel that you (and your parrot) have no one to turn to in your time of crisis. I care--and I think I speak for everyone here, when I say that our homes and our hearts are open to you....and your penis, and your bird.
Let us help you help yourself, Penis Bird Guy.
Bowie J. Poag
I hate to say it, but we're seeing why OSS isnt the future in recent months. The reason why this particular OSS life-cycle (1994-2001 or so) will inevitably will fail is because the corporations step in and milk the process for money. It sours everyone on the whole idea because it introduces foreign concepts like exclusivity and heirarchy to a group of people who have otherwise functioned quite well without it. So what's wrong with this? Its a subtle problem. OSS continues to grow and function on one basic premise. Whats mine is yours, and what's yours is mine, and we share openly and equally, period. When someone interrupts that system and says, "No. You cant have this until you give us X Y and Z", then the creative process will halt. No one will make a move out of fear of being screwed into the ground.
Here's a small example. Remember how the industry was back in the mid 70's and early 80's? It was pretty much the same deal -- People shared software openly, without much of a regard for where it came from. Good software survived because people used it. Bad software died because people didn't use it. People added to what they recieved, improved it in some small way, and passed in on. Then, software companies sprung up and decided to taint the process. People didn't call it "open source" back then. They just called it "trading". When the process is corrupted in even the smallest way, the overall picture will change. In my opinion, this change ultimately spells out failure for the whole OSS movement.
Here's another reason OSS will likely fail. By VA Linux Systems' own admission, the majority of active OSS projects in the world, right now, are being housed on SourceForge. SourceForge is owned by a company that has yet to turn a profit, and is currently teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. The company is backlogged, and incurring a huge amount of debt in an attempt to spread out resources. The lush green pastures provided by companies like VA tend to evaporate overnight, once all the money that can be made has been made. Its just a matter of time before the process is fully milked and depleated. Nothing separates VA from any other company out there -- Statistically, they stand a 93% chance of failing within the next 5 years.
And, a third reason:
Ultimately, no one will work for free, if they know the guy next to them is doing the same work for pay. In the last few years, theres been a shift from intellectual competition to financial competition..The whole idea of competition is counterintuitive to the development process. OSS projects are developed in stress-free circumstances. No deadlines, no sales figures, no pressure to gather mindshare for your product. Changing the rules of the game by introducing financial competition is outright suicide. That alone will ruin the OSS movement.
My $0.02,
Bowie J. Poag
I don't really see what the problem is.. The internet, by its very nature is parasitic. That is, its comprised largely from takers, rather than givers. Its an environement set up for people to inhale information without any sort of group correspondance. Gnutella (and Napster, i'd bet) is no different than the rest of the internet. The number of leeches outweighs the number of contributors by at least 100 to 1.
Thats the nature of things. Doesn't make it evil, or bad, or wrong to leech. Thats just the shape of things. The only thing bad about it, is that some of us get tired of looking at the same pablum every day, and try and improve things by lending a hand.
The whole Linux community is an example of this..Look where that got us..We've all been had, basically....Tens of thousands of people use yours and my work freely, and physically contribute nothing in return. Its a parasitic process by design. People are building their careers based off the work you've done for free.
Just stating the obvious, imho.
My $0.02,
Bowie J. Poag
MAME handles Tempest quite nicely -- If you can manage to find the ROMs. Lucky for you, there's a copy of the original 1980 Tempest ROM set on PROPAGANDA for your retro-pleasure. Its listed as "Tempest ROMs" under the "Other Resources" category. Enjoy.
Bowie J. Poag
Its fairly simple, actually. We're working up toward next month's article in Wired. Think of it as the pre-game show.
:)
As for trolling, this site is owned by VA. Therefore, I will without hesitation pee upon it.
Knowing what I know, you'd be drinking extra fluids too, just for the sake of it.
Bowie J. Poag
Actually, no, your MPEG doesnt rule. Its not even her, its some mexican.
Bowie J. Poag
Wow, somebody actually noticed the Devo references. :) Sharp!
Bowie J. Poag
Big fuckin deal. The same technology has been available at your local veterinary clinic for years.
Why the fuck would somebody want to have something imbedded in their flesh that they could otherwise carry in their pockets? "Oh, look at meee!!! I'm a CYBERPUNK! I've got computer chips in my muscles and I dream in binary!! Loook at meeeee!! I'm a NEUROMANCER!"
Gimmie a fuckin break. Jesus.
Bowie J. Poag
I should probably chime in here.. We had a guy give a speech here at the U (University of Arizona, Tucson..big place for space research and all) back in 98 once all the data from the lander and the rover had been collected. This guy's job was to design and implement the cameras on both the lander (not the rover.) and clued us into the sorts of stuff they were doing with it.
Part of his speech included materials he'd brought with him from other portions of the design team. One of those things were some films of actual test-drops of the airbag system done out in the desert. Its certainly not as elegant as a parachute+retro burn landing, but it works, and works more often in tests. Simply cushioning the hell out of the unit and letting it bounce to a stop is statistically the best method to use. He pointed out an example in one of the tests where one entire side of the airbag was left intentionally uninflated -- The unit successfully bounced off the earth, settled, and deployed just fine -- It was just by luck that during the bounces, the side without the airbag was never face-down. Thats opposed to having 3 rocket burns, where 1 rocket fails.. The damn thing will cartwheel out of control and crash.
I guess it all sort of depends on how you think a landing should be done. Having it fall out of the sky on a parachute, and bounce for over half an hour (and a mile's distance!) before coming to rest can be thought of repeatedly exposing the lander to undue trauma. But it works.
PS..Seeing an ultra-high resolution slide of the surface of Mars in color-seperated 3D with a pair of 3D glasses was unbelievably cool..Handed out little cardboard glasses to everybody, and sat back for half an hour picking out things in the landscape..hehe...was unbelievably cool.
Bowie J. Poag
Hey, no problem. Thanks for being polite by asking me to clarify it, by the way. Alot of people never bother.
:)
And thanks for using my stuff, too, by the way
Bowie J. Poag
You may have been dealing with Acer, which is about as close to the bottom of the barrel as you can get. I know IBM rebadges some Thinkpads from gear originally produced by Acer.. The 390X may be one of them.
Bowie J. Poag
On a monday night, I accidentally spilled a glass of ovaltine on the table next to my brand new Thinkpad..unfortunately, I managed to splash some of it up onto the keyboard down by the arrow keys. I did my best to dry it out, to no avail -- within an hour or so, the keyboard had completely died, rendering my poor little Thinkpad dead in the water.
I contacted IBM.
The service rep I talked to at IBM said there would be an Airborne Express shipment box on my doorstep by the time I wake up the following morning. Fantastic, I said, since I didn't have to pay a cent to either ship it, or pay for the repairs, since it was covered under my warranty. Sure enough, the shipment box arrived here in Tucson. Inside were very clear instructions regarding how to pack it up, and how to leave any last-minute notes for the service crew. Within 5 minutes, I was packed up and ready to go, and subsequently dropped off the package on its way back to Milpitas, CA.
About an hour later I realized I accidentally left a James Brown CD in my thinkpad, along with my 10/100 netcard. Oh well, no problem. I'll just wait.
A day goes by. I'm able to track the package via Airborne Express' webpage, which was nice. I managed to survive tuesday without my Thinkpad.
Wednesday night, a get a knock on my door at 5 in the afternoon -- Its Airborne Express with a package from IBM -- Its my Thinkpad, all fixed, complete with my 10/100 NIC and my James Brown CD taped to the hood. Within the course of less 72 hours, IBM got a package to my doorstep, got my Thinkpad to a service center, diagnosed the problem, fixed it, and sent my Thinkpad back to me. For free.
THAT is service.
You basically get what you pay for. If youre going to buy mission-critical servers from an unreputable little chop shop on the virge of bankruptcy like VA, you should expect to get the run-around. All any company like VA does is take off-the-shelf OEM parts, slap a machine together, and glue a little plastic logo on the front of the case. Youre not getting anything you couldn't otherwise assemble on your own, or obtain from a larger LInux systems vendor such as IBM, Dell, and others.
You're right. I dont like VA. I've got plenty of reasons why, too. I'm just glad other people are beginning to wake up and smell the coffee when it comes to this company..I worked with their people on a volunteer basis for nearly two years, I know exactly what sort of work-ethic they have..or lack, more specifically. Hell, go on EFnet and look in #linuxwarez. Most of the damn channel ops are VA employees, busy warezing on VA's own lines. Go look for yourself.
Bowie J. Poag
"I honestly don't see the big deal here, either, and I wonder why Apple would do such a thing which only, in the end, alienates their own customer base."
..What customer base?
Bowie J. Poag
Well, its always nice to know that there's further evidence that there are worlds orbiting other stars.. It gives creedence to our current thoeries regarding the creation of our own solar system, and helps us fine-tune the methods to which we'll find more such planets in the future.
:)
So this thing is Jupiter-sized, and pretty far away from its sun, so its probably a gas giant. "Duhh, so what, we cant land on it then." Well, yes, thats correct..we can't land on it. It doesnt have a surface..Just like with Jupiter, if you tried to land on it, you'de go straight through it. Its made entirely out of gas, not rock, or ice. The big deal about this, is that most Jupiter-sized planets also have Jupiter-like characteristics, i'm guessing, which means they more than likely have a large number of satellites, and the planet itself gives off heat. The same as Europa may harbor life sustained by Jupiter's heat, the moons of this newly discovered planet also have a chance of sustaining life.
Then again, even if we had the technology to span such distances in person, it would take hundreds of years to even build up a decent speed... we'd have to accellerate the spacecraft in a way that was survivable by human beings, mind you. I dont know anyone who wants to spend the next hundred years with their cheeks plastered to their skulls, trying to strain like theyre on the toilet... minute after minute, hour after hour, month after month.
I think i'll stay here..but I get first dibs on real estate.
My 48,500 rupees,
Bowie J. Poag
My soul. Current price is $9.99 + S&H.
Bowie J. Poag
Heh, well I could have told Jobs that ATI sucked three years ago.. Takes him that long to figure it out for himself? :)
3DFx is probably too smart to go into a deal with Apple..It would make their company look bad to have their otherwise fast-as-fuck gfx hardware saddled with a complete dog of an OS..I dont think 3DFx needs the money that badly.. heh
Bowie J. Poag
Looks like Apple is pulling another Metallica-like move on whats left of their meager fan base. Nice way to alienate your supporters. "You like our company so much that we're going to sue you!" If Apple had any damn brains they'd have a department set up within the company to intentionally leak interesting rumors into the trade press to build anticipation and interest in their product line. Going after the little guy because your employees cant keep their pants on is a little retarded, dontcha think?
Then again...."retarded" is sorta what i'd expect from a company that makes hockey-puck mice, 9600 bps Ethernet ports and an OS that can't multitask.
Bowie J. Poag
Approximately 600-800 articles were rejected to make room for today's retarded butt-nugget of wisdom from Jon Katz..They dont care anymore. Its pretty obvious that they dont have to. Time to look for a new news page, imho. Slashdot just isnt cutting it.
Duh, Slashdot rules.
Bowie J. Poag
Ahhhh, now it all makes sense. Here's how it works:
First of all, the technology of culture politics have the Thomas Jefferson effects geeks society in Columbine. Columbine culture of technology in politics have Thomas Jefferson in geek-society. In society, geeks of political culture has effects on Thomas Jefferson and technology. The culture of Thomas Jefferson and Columbine in society effects culture geeks, but geek culture society effects technology. The politics of culture and technology in Thomas Jefferson effects Columbine but culture geek society and technology effects politics, and politics culture. Columbine culture technology and politics effect Thomas Jefferson geeks. Geek politics and Thomas Jefferson politics effect technology culture. The technology of Columbine and politics of Thomas Jefferson effect culture and society. The geek society of Thomas Jefferson effects Columbine technology and politics. Slashdot is a joke. Columbine, and geek culture effect politics, society and Thomas Jefferson. The technology politics of society culture geeks of Columbine and Thomas Jefferson. The geeks of Thomas Jefferson technology Columbine the effects of society and culture. The culture of Columbine society effects Thomas Jefferson technology. Technology-society, or Columbine, effects geek culture and Thomas Jefferson. In conclusion, geek technology and culture make Thomas Jefferson effect Columbine.
Bowie J. Poag
I got tired of having a karma of 60+.. So now i'm trying to nuke my karma as fast as possible. Its down to 29 now.
I dont see what the big problem is. The SDMI was defeated long ago -- Apparently several clueless Slashdot authors failed to realize this before posting the article. Meanwhile, hundreds of other articles are rejected. Another fact of the matter is, is that Slashdot is not the way it used to be, despite promises that it wouldn't change.
Have a great day,
Bowie J. Poag
I did. And started my own page.. But I can't pass up such a golden opportunity to point out the diarrhea you guys are subjected to on here.
Go click on the link in my sig and see for yourself.
Bowie J. Poag
His article sounds like the outrage of a toddler who just lost a favorite toy
My thoughts exactly. Your appraisal of Katz's writing style is one of the most accurate i've ever read.
Bowie J. Poag
Only if they're worthy of it, Rob. ;)
You have to admit. Most of Jon Katz's articles can be produced using a simple Perl script and a few rand() calls. Its to the point of being rediculous how every article he writes seems to revolve around a 10 or 15 word vocabulary. "Culture" , "Technology", "Media" , "Columbine" , "Issue", "Rights", "Betrayl", "Thomas", "Jefferson", "Corporations", and a handful of other miscellanous buzzwords. Its like listening to Al Gore mumble in his sleep. The guy lives, eats, sleeps and breathes buzzwords.
Even more amazing is the fact you guys back him. Then again, a no-confidence vote from you guys would probably destroy his career. It would follow him everywhere he went.
Bowie J. Poag
Hey, you're welcome. I sorta got tired of having a 60+ Karma rating.. I've managed to drop it down to like 30 or so within the course of just a few days just for fun. :)
Bowie J. Poag
Lets see..
..DING!
"Media corporations"...DING!
"Popular Culture"...DING!
"Copyright issue:...DING!
"Betrayl"..DING!
"Political Vulnerability"...DING!
"Tech Culture"...DING!
"Alienation"...DING!
"Information in culture"..DING!
"Shared culture"..DING!
"Lives and culture"...DING!
"Open media" DING**DING!!!
"Corporatist perversion" DING!
"New Reality" DING!
"Hijacking Culture"
"Media Companies" (twice!) DING!
As Katz points out, the media corporations control popular culture with political vulnerable Columbine issues, and copyright betrayls. Then again, the political corporations control popular media culture with vulnerable Columbine issues. Some might argue that Columbine political controls make corporate media culture issue betrayls as well.
I could write better drivel with a Perl script that randomly assembled blocks of text from Katz's buzzword-bingo writing style. Spare me.
Bowie J. Poag