(Well, at least it was Hemos who fucked up,and not Timothy. You'd be surprised how much more liveable Slashdot is when you turn off articles from everyone BUT Rob and Hemos.)
As a little birthday gift to myself, I picked up a fairly high-end handheld digital shortwave radio like a week ago. Its an amazing little device, when you think about it.. In your hands you hold a box capable of opening a window into the communications of every technologically advanced culture on the planet, runs on three AA batteries, and will run forever if you take care of it. Not a bad deal for $219.00:)
That being said, here's a little something about numbers stations: Alot of them have already been linked directly to intelligence agencies, so, thats not a rumor anymore. Its a fact. Our on CIA, and Israel's Mossad are among a growing list of agencies known to be running numbers stations, as the broadcast source has been proven to be on land owned by these agencies.
On a totally different not, my own father ran crypto for the Navy (even had clearance at the Pentagon for a short time!) for a few years during the mid-late 1950's. During his stint in the Navy, he was stationed in Adak, Alaska where he and and a bunch of other guys jobs' were to monitor Russian shortwave radio traffic..mostly stuff in the Bering Strait, and from stations in and around the Kamchatka. To this day he can copy morse code by hand fast as fuck.:) A few weeks ago, I played some of the "numbers" station recordings for him, and he says he has never heard them before. I told them theyre linked with foreign intelligence agencies and his response was "Not surprising. Theyre all over the dial.":)
I got tired of listening to black people whine around 1990-1991 or so. Rap is worse than 70's soft-rock. And, like 70's soft-rock, I've pretty much been waiting for everyone to get tired of it and move on to something new since then.
The solution to the Napster problem is pretty simple. When the recording industry stops charging me $29.00 for an imported Laika CD just so they can turn around and make yet another fucking $18,000,000.00 [ wide-angle lens | hum-vee | sportscar | shiny space suit | helicopter ] rap video, then i'll stop using Napster. Until then, they can fuck themselves, just the same as any other company that decides to waste my money. Don't like it? Boo hoo. I feel really sorry for a multi-billion dollar corporation.
Personally, I think retards like "Puffy", boy bands that don't play any instruments, Disney-rock, and any other talentless acts that have to rely off enormous marketing campaigns to become famous can get in line and suck it..Napster is the great equalizer. Bands with talent survive. Bands with no talent get flushed down the toilet to visit the land of Hanson and Kriss Kross.
If you want to support a band, go Napster their music, tell a friend, and send the band a check. Giving your money to the industry is like flushing 99 cents out of every dollar down the toilet. You're sorely mistaken if you think even one TENTH of that money ends up in the hands of the artists themselves.
Your typical band benefits more from the name recognition and distribution Napster provides, than by the money the industry pays them for selling their work, IMHO. Bands like Metallica dont need any more recognition, which is why they're after the money. The rest of them dont give a shit. They make music for people to listen to. If you get involved in the industry with the intent of making _money_ , youre probably better off scrubbing toilets or laying bricks.
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500% is a nice way of saying "We went from 1% to 5% marketshare, but we still dont amount to jack shit when compared to other larger vendors."
I have penny in my pocket. I find a nickel and another penny in my couch. My revenue has just risen 500%.
The facts speak for themselves. Not me.:)
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Ahh, but shoving money down into the pockets of influential names in the Linux community makes good solid business sense.:) As I recall, they tried doing it to me as well, for nearly a year. Cant blame, them really. Buying influence is a good long-term investment for any business. Thats right..
News Flash: Money == Influence.:)
In my case, they tried to buy me off with everything from hardware, to IPO shares, to promises of employment. (Hi Trae.) I'm not big on fuzzy obligations, which is why I turned down all three repeatedly, thank God.
Now that money is the principal motivator in the Linux game, and not progress, all they have to do to is yank the cord of ESR, or the cord of anyone else they have an influence over, and theyll wobble all over the table like a wind-up toy singing the virtues of how wonderful companies like VA are. Meanwhile, VA sits comfortably ontop of the resources we, the real "Linux community" helped build. One single company now controls where you get your news, where you get your help, where you get your new software, where you develop your project, even where you decorate your windowmanager. If they're so nice, and gentle, and well-intentioned lil' shavers, then why the hell have they been dumping millions of dollars into controlling every single primary asset the Linux community has to offer, rather than simply encourage its future growth? (gasp)...Could it be that VA Linux Systems is not on the inside what it appears to be on the outside? IMHO, I think its about time we took a few steps back and asked ourselves why a supposedly benevolent company would insist on a media monopoly before anyone else gets hurt.
..And people wonder why I told them where to cram it.:) Im just glad people are beginning to wake up and smell the coffee about this company. I'd trust them with my work (and my money) about as far as I could throw a Buick.
Bowie J. Poag
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"Downturn" ? Thats putting it nicely! When a stock comes crashing down from $255 per share to $49, as is the case with VA Linux Systems, i'd call that something other than a "downturn". Theyre worth less than their initial IPO these days. Even worse is Red Hat, which is hovering around $19 a share. Makes me happy in a way..Happy I didnt put any money into either company's stock.
Its not surprising, really. VA Linux Systems is barely a blip on the radar when you look at the facts. It has the second-worst sales record among Linux vendors, weighing in at a measly 5% marketshare. Only one company is listed as doing worse -- "Fujitsu Siemens", at 3%. See for yourself here if you don't believe me. Congratulations to VA by the way, for defeating the massive Fujitsu-Siemens juggernaut. Heheh.
It could be worse, however. You could own some Red Hat stock, which has plummeted to $19 (as of the time of this writing) with no indication of stopping. Not a big surprise here either. Red Hat has no product. Whatever they try to sell for a couple hundred dollars can be bought at LinuxMall or CheapBytes for 99 cents.
Perhaps this is why you wont see any of the major Linux players backing any efforts to provide large-scale support beyond including manpages and HOWTOs.. If they did that, they would have no tangible source of income at all.
Ah, yes..another page is turned in the saga of Linux. People are beginning to catch on.
Personally, I agree with most of what Meyer points out in his article. It's never been fully explained (at least to my satisfaction) why attempting to make money off your own work (and exclusively your own work) is taboo. I've heard people scream bloody murder at me for years for simply trying to sell various little odds and ends i've made, rather than just declare it public domain and give it out for free.
Upon looking at Stallman's own views, I still fail to see how licensing your work "deprives" people. Ford isn't "depriving" people of transportation by demanding that you pay money for one of their cars. If you cant afford it, that's your problem, not Ford's. How is this evil? The whole thing smells a little weird. Quoting from the article:
"..And so on (there are countless other examples). These are extremely strong indictments, based on moral terms. They are morally unjustifiable. Nowhere in the hundreds of pages of GNU and FSF literature is there any serious explanation of why it is legitimate, for example, to make a living selling cauliflowers, or lectures (as a professor does), or videotapes of your lectures, but criminal to peddle software that you have produced by working long hours, sweating your heart out, thinking brilliantly and risking your livelihood and that of your family.
This absence of rational justification for the extremist view that all commercial software is evil is all the more striking given that some other parts of the GNU/FSF literature can be serious and reasoned. Its criticism of software patents, for example, is often cogent, and takes the trouble of presenting the opposite view to refute it. As soon as the discussion is about free software--and that's where it is much of the time--argument yields to irrational excommunication."
In a nutshell, Stallman's point of view is only truly rational if you accept his assertion that Free Software is good, and software licensing is bad.. That sort of thing is purely subjective, and more a question of ideology than anything factual. People need to pay their rent. I need to pay mine. Selling what I've made by my own hand doesn't make me a criminal.
Silly me. I happen to be of the opinion that any woman willing to show her bush to a few million people for a measly $175 puts herself at the same level as a prostitute. See, the 90's are over..For 15 years or so, we've been bullshitting ourselves into believing that crap like "The Girls Of Hooters" constitutes "art". Sorry to disappoint you, but I call it like I see it. it. And, as I see it, any woman who takes money in exchange for getting a guy off == a whore. What do you call them? Entrepeneurs? Artistic Collaborators? Quick! Find a politically correct term for "slut"!
See, I doubt many people buy Playboy to read their thought provoking editorials and in-depth sports coverage. They buy it to look at one thing: tits & ass. Now, if you're reading Playboy for the articles....well, then I 'd be worried. But until then, its for men to stare at, and for women too stupid to know any better.
No shit..Stupid is as stupid does. I'll bet you every single one of these women has at one point in their lives, complained that men view women only as sex objects.
Showing your snatch to countless millions of guys for a whopping $175 is what, a political statement? A career move?
If a girl's "self-esteem" is so low that she feels she has to put herself on display to amount to anything in life, that's just plain sad. Keep your $175 or give it to a shrink to fix your thinking at least.
While Romero's girlfriend IS hot, I can't help but wonder what her motivations were for doing a spread (no pun intended) in Playboy.
A few months back, Playboy visited the U of A campus here in Tucson in search of some fresh meat. Everyone thought it was great, there were flyers in every window of every shop downtown advertising it...hooray-hooray, 10 lucky girls will end up in Playboy. Then, the shit hit the fan, and they became the laughing stocks of the whole campus..An article in the Wildcat (our school paper) managed to interview one of the representatives from Playboy. It turns out these girls were paid a measly $100-300 each to bare all in a national magazine. Poor sluts, I thought, to be taken for a ride like that.. You've gotta be pretty hard up for booze money of you'll get nekkid for that cheap. Dumb girls just don't do it for me.
Then again, this is Playboy, not Scientific American. Being smart wont exactly land you in the centerfold.;)
Hehehe.. Maybe its because the only entertainment value left these days occurs when Timothy and the other tots screw the pooch.
Dontcha just love it, by the way? I crank shit out for these people for 2 years straight. I decide to stop. Now i'm a whipping-boy..Hehehe.. Gratitude is too much to ask from these people.. I'd settle for something simple, like sanity.
You know, I wonder how many hundreds of stories got rejected so we could hear about Jon Katz this morning.. First I ignored him. That didn't work.
Then I got aggrevated by his stupidity.
Then I put up with him. That didn't work either.
Then I filtered his ass out. And even that didn't work.
Then I wrote Rob and asked him why Katz has post access in the first place.
I've been reading Slashdot since the Chips & Dips days, and in all of that time, I've seen absolutely no reason to give a soapbox and spotlight to a print author, let alone a clueless, patently irritating author with questionable talent like Jon Katz.
Now other Slashdot authors starting doing Katz' posting for him. So, in my book, that's enough. After submitting this post, I'll be nuking my Slashdot bookmark and switch over getting my daily fodder from GeekNews.net. I'm so sick of Katz' repeated HELLMOUTH HELLMOUTH HELLMOUTH crap that I could squat and blast out a Buick.
In recent weeks, Slashdot has gone from bad to worse because of this sort of thing. Interesting things, fun things, and enjoyable things have been replaced with hidden agendas, frothing trolls, and politics. As someone pointed out not too long ago, Slashdot is now officially lame. If you step back and look at it all, nowadays its mostly news written by a number of clueless VA/Andover goons, and mostly a steaming heap of crap that nobody really cares about. Rob & Hemos only post occasionally. In their absence, we get to hear the luminary wisdom of Timothy, and other equally clueless tots who probably couldn't find the power switch on an IMac with both hands. To me, Slashdot just isn't worth reading anymore. I know what it used to be like, and from what I see of Slashdot today, its nowhere near the same.
From now on i'll get my news from somewhere more interested in actual news for nerds, and stuff that actually matters, instead of going to a place more interested in legal activism, rehashed boring stories, and promotion of book sales for a talentless author who insists on milking the Columbine cow until its udders bleed from wear & tear.
You're right. If I dont like it, I dont have to come here. Thats why I wont come here anymore unless things go back to the way they truly used to be.
One bombards you with spam before, during, and after your visit in the form of unsolicited email and endless banner ads. The other puts a minor dent in your wallet, but buys you a top-quality TV tuner card that works great in both Windows and Linux, and allows you to record MPEG or AVI videos off cable, VCR, camcrder, or any other video source in your house direct-to-disk at your leisure. Oh, and by the way, there are a few nice cable descrambler hacks available for it. Not to mention, it comes with a nice remote control you can put on your coffee table and use that nice 17" flatscreen LCD as a normal TV.
"If lameness is measured in units of Gore, cluelessness has to be measured in degrees of Timothy." - Me.
I dunno how usable it will be..Talk about legacy code..If anyone has been following Bullfrog in recent years, you'll know how long they've been wrestling with Black and White. Its most likely a mess, i'd imagine.. Then again, it might benefit from a few thousand pairs of eyes tearing it apart and cleaning it up. A good move.
Business must be pretty slow at VA for you to be able to spend your day trolling on Slashdot. Gives VA's recent stock price, I cant say I'm all that surprised.
FYI, I wasn't whining, dippy. I just find it interesting that this study ignored non-code based contributions to Linux.
Good to see something like this. However, I have to admit, its a little bit of a letdown. I've got 10MB worth of gear in Red Hat 6.1, but my name didn't show up anywhere. Yes, yes, I know, it's not code, Bowie..Heh
Actually, no, they never did address my "claims". Nor did the address anyone else involved in the project.
You might want to try taking your own advice..Especially when it comes to that little detail you mentioned about "getting some facts before you start spouting off at the mouth."
By the way, to the guy who originally wrote the above response: Thanks, but I dont really need a spokesman. If you dont like what VA is doing to the Linux community, great, I happen to agree with you. I'd even go so far as to agree with you on the concept that they ripped me, AND the other people working on System 12 off pretty badly. Its fairly obvious by now. Just please refrain from using my name to make your point.
From what I understand, matter which approaches and finally hits the speed of light instantly converts itself into energy. This is basically what happens in black holes -- The rotational axis of a black hole is huge jet of xrays shooting out of the back of the thing..although im not an expert on this sorta stuff..not by a longshot.:)
If you have a pole that long, even the most infinitesimally small movement of your hand would cause some distant portion of the pole to exceed the speed of light, and presumably explode into a shower of x-rays.
So, the question now becomes "What portion of the pole remains visible, and of that part which remains visible, what does it look like?"
Lets suppose you're standing somewhere in outer space, and, for the sake of the story, we dont have to worry about the little details like food, and water, and oxygen to breathe, and all that.
You're standing somewhere in outer space, and in your hand, you're holding a gigantic steel pole, one light-day long. That is, in order to see the entire pole, you have to wait an entire day for the light from the opposite end of the pole to reach your eyes.
You point it away from you, and wait a day. 24 hours later, you see the entire length of the pole in a straight line..from where it begins in your hand, to the other end, billions of miles away.
You now turn in a complete circle in one spot.
From your point of view, what would the pole look like now? The light from the other end of the poll still has a day left go before it reaches your eyes! From someone else's point of view, what would it look like? And why would it look different to an outside observer?
I'll give a free gift to the first person who gives me a decent explanation to this puzzle. I've asked it of 3 different Astronomy teachers, and all three gave me different answers.
Lets hear some ideas!
Bowie J. Poag
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As someone already pointed out earlier, the 90's are pretty much over. We're all very, very tired of being "politically correct" and stepping around like a bunch of fucking ballerinas hoping not to step on somebody's precious little toes or say anything that might possibly wound somebody's "inner child". Its retarded. Nobody says what they mean anymore, because they're afraid of what people will "think" of them. Well, I could give two shits less than half a rats ass what guys who get off wearing women's clothing think of me, so here you go:
Welcome to the 00's : Transvestites are freaks, and legitimate journalism doesn't appear in magazines where crap like "tranny fashion" takes the front page story. Wake the fuck up.
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Old story. Someone have a link to the original?
(Well, at least it was Hemos who fucked up,and not Timothy. You'd be surprised how much more liveable Slashdot is when you turn off articles from everyone BUT Rob and Hemos.)
Bowie J. Poag
As a little birthday gift to myself, I picked up a fairly high-end handheld digital shortwave radio like a week ago. Its an amazing little device, when you think about it.. In your hands you hold a box capable of opening a window into the communications of every technologically advanced culture on the planet, runs on three AA batteries, and will run forever if you take care of it. Not a bad deal for $219.00
That being said, here's a little something about numbers stations: Alot of them have already been linked directly to intelligence agencies, so, thats not a rumor anymore. Its a fact. Our on CIA, and Israel's Mossad are among a growing list of agencies known to be running numbers stations, as the broadcast source has been proven to be on land owned by these agencies.
On a totally different not, my own father ran crypto for the Navy (even had clearance at the Pentagon for a short time!) for a few years during the mid-late 1950's. During his stint in the Navy, he was stationed in Adak, Alaska where he and and a bunch of other guys jobs' were to monitor Russian shortwave radio traffic..mostly stuff in the Bering Strait, and from stations in and around the Kamchatka. To this day he can copy morse code by hand fast as fuck.
Whatever that means.
Bowie J. Poag
Yeah..I do. :)
I got tired of listening to black people whine around 1990-1991 or so. Rap is worse than 70's soft-rock. And, like 70's soft-rock, I've pretty much been waiting for everyone to get tired of it and move on to something new since then.
$traight outta Compton Estates,
Bowie J. Poag
The solution to the Napster problem is pretty simple. When the recording industry stops charging me $29.00 for an imported Laika CD just so they can turn around and make yet another fucking $18,000,000.00 [ wide-angle lens | hum-vee | sportscar | shiny space suit | helicopter ] rap video, then i'll stop using Napster. Until then, they can fuck themselves, just the same as any other company that decides to waste my money. Don't like it? Boo hoo. I feel really sorry for a multi-billion dollar corporation.
Personally, I think retards like "Puffy", boy bands that don't play any instruments, Disney-rock, and any other talentless acts that have to rely off enormous marketing campaigns to become famous can get in line and suck it..Napster is the great equalizer. Bands with talent survive. Bands with no talent get flushed down the toilet to visit the land of Hanson and Kriss Kross.
If you want to support a band, go Napster their music, tell a friend, and send the band a check. Giving your money to the industry is like flushing 99 cents out of every dollar down the toilet. You're sorely mistaken if you think even one TENTH of that money ends up in the hands of the artists themselves.
Your typical band benefits more from the name recognition and distribution Napster provides, than by the money the industry pays them for selling their work, IMHO. Bands like Metallica dont need any more recognition, which is why they're after the money. The rest of them dont give a shit. They make music for people to listen to. If you get involved in the industry with the intent of making _money_ , youre probably better off scrubbing toilets or laying bricks.
Bowie J. Poag
500% is a nice way of saying "We went from 1% to 5% marketshare, but we still dont amount to jack shit when compared to other larger vendors."
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I have penny in my pocket. I find a nickel and another penny in my couch. My revenue has just risen 500%.
The facts speak for themselves. Not me.
Bowie J. Poag
Ahh, but shoving money down into the pockets of influential names in the Linux community makes good solid business sense.
News Flash: Money == Influence.
In my case, they tried to buy me off with everything from hardware, to IPO shares, to promises of employment. (Hi Trae.) I'm not big on fuzzy obligations, which is why I turned down all three repeatedly, thank God.
Now that money is the principal motivator in the Linux game, and not progress, all they have to do to is yank the cord of ESR, or the cord of anyone else they have an influence over, and theyll wobble all over the table like a wind-up toy singing the virtues of how wonderful companies like VA are. Meanwhile, VA sits comfortably ontop of the resources we, the real "Linux community" helped build. One single company now controls where you get your news, where you get your help, where you get your new software, where you develop your project, even where you decorate your windowmanager. If they're so nice, and gentle, and well-intentioned lil' shavers, then why the hell have they been dumping millions of dollars into controlling every single primary asset the Linux community has to offer, rather than simply encourage its future growth? (gasp)
..And people wonder why I told them where to cram it.
Bowie J. Poag
"Downturn" ? Thats putting it nicely! When a stock comes crashing down from $255 per share to $49, as is the case with VA Linux Systems, i'd call that something other than a "downturn". Theyre worth less than their initial IPO these days. Even worse is Red Hat, which is hovering around $19 a share. Makes me happy in a way..Happy I didnt put any money into either company's stock.
Its not surprising, really. VA Linux Systems is barely a blip on the radar when you look at the facts. It has the second-worst sales record among Linux vendors, weighing in at a measly 5% marketshare. Only one company is listed as doing worse -- "Fujitsu Siemens", at 3%. See for yourself here if you don't believe me. Congratulations to VA by the way, for defeating the massive Fujitsu-Siemens juggernaut. Heheh.
It could be worse, however. You could own some Red Hat stock, which has plummeted to $19 (as of the time of this writing) with no indication of stopping. Not a big surprise here either. Red Hat has no product. Whatever they try to sell for a couple hundred dollars can be bought at LinuxMall or CheapBytes for 99 cents.
Perhaps this is why you wont see any of the major Linux players backing any efforts to provide large-scale support beyond including manpages and HOWTOs.. If they did that, they would have no tangible source of income at all.
Bowie J. Poag
Ah, yes..another page is turned in the saga of Linux. People are beginning to catch on.
Personally, I agree with most of what Meyer points out in his article. It's never been fully explained (at least to my satisfaction) why attempting to make money off your own work (and exclusively your own work) is taboo. I've heard people scream bloody murder at me for years for simply trying to sell various little odds and ends i've made, rather than just declare it public domain and give it out for free.
Upon looking at Stallman's own views, I still fail to see how licensing your work "deprives" people. Ford isn't "depriving" people of transportation by demanding that you pay money for one of their cars. If you cant afford it, that's your problem, not Ford's. How is this evil? The whole thing smells a little weird. Quoting from the article:
"..And so on (there are countless other examples). These are extremely strong indictments, based on moral terms. They are morally unjustifiable. Nowhere in the hundreds of pages of GNU and FSF literature is there any serious explanation of why it is legitimate, for example, to make a living selling cauliflowers, or lectures (as a professor does), or videotapes of your lectures, but criminal to peddle software that you have produced by working long hours, sweating your heart out, thinking brilliantly and risking your livelihood and that of your family.
This absence of rational justification for the extremist view that all commercial software is evil is all the more striking given that some other parts of the GNU/FSF literature can be serious and reasoned. Its criticism of software patents, for example, is often cogent, and takes the trouble of presenting the opposite view to refute it. As soon as the discussion is about free software--and that's where it is much of the time--argument yields to irrational excommunication."
In a nutshell, Stallman's point of view is only truly rational if you accept his assertion that Free Software is good, and software licensing is bad.. That sort of thing is purely subjective, and more a question of ideology than anything factual. People need to pay their rent. I need to pay mine. Selling what I've made by my own hand doesn't make me a criminal.
My $0.02,
Bowie J. Poag
Silly me. I happen to be of the opinion that any woman willing to show her bush to a few million people for a measly $175 puts herself at the same level as a prostitute. See, the 90's are over..For 15 years or so, we've been bullshitting ourselves into believing that crap like "The Girls Of Hooters" constitutes "art". Sorry to disappoint you, but I call it like I see it. it. And, as I see it, any woman who takes money in exchange for getting a guy off == a whore. What do you call them? Entrepeneurs? Artistic Collaborators? Quick! Find a politically correct term for "slut"!
See, I doubt many people buy Playboy to read their thought provoking editorials and in-depth sports coverage. They buy it to look at one thing: tits & ass. Now, if you're reading Playboy for the articles....well, then I 'd be worried. But until then, its for men to stare at, and for women too stupid to know any better.
My $0.02
Have a swell day,
Bowie J. Poag
No shit..Stupid is as stupid does. I'll bet you every single one of these women has at one point in their lives, complained that men view women only as sex objects.
Showing your snatch to countless millions of guys for a whopping $175 is what, a political statement? A career move?
If a girl's "self-esteem" is so low that she feels she has to put herself on display to amount to anything in life, that's just plain sad. Keep your $175 or give it to a shrink to fix your thinking at least.
Bowie J. Poag
While Romero's girlfriend IS hot, I can't help but wonder what her motivations were for doing a spread (no pun intended) in Playboy.
;)
A few months back, Playboy visited the U of A campus here in Tucson in search of some fresh meat. Everyone thought it was great, there were flyers in every window of every shop downtown advertising it...hooray-hooray, 10 lucky girls will end up in Playboy. Then, the shit hit the fan, and they became the laughing stocks of the whole campus..An article in the Wildcat (our school paper) managed to interview one of the representatives from Playboy. It turns out these girls were paid a measly $100-300 each to bare all in a national magazine. Poor sluts, I thought, to be taken for a ride like that.. You've gotta be pretty hard up for booze money of you'll get nekkid for that cheap. Dumb girls just don't do it for me.
Then again, this is Playboy, not Scientific American. Being smart wont exactly land you in the centerfold.
Bowie J. Poag
Never bothered to early on, really. Half the time I would have preferred that nobody know who I was anyway. Nowadays I just dont care. :)
Bowie J. Poag
Hehehe.. Maybe its because the only entertainment value left these days occurs when Timothy and the other tots screw the pooch.
Dontcha just love it, by the way? I crank shit out for these people for 2 years straight. I decide to stop. Now i'm a whipping-boy..Hehehe.. Gratitude is too much to ask from these people.. I'd settle for something simple, like sanity.
Triple-dog dare ya,
Bowie J. Poag
You know, I wonder how many hundreds of stories got rejected so we could hear about Jon Katz this morning..
First I ignored him. That didn't work.
Then I got aggrevated by his stupidity.
Then I put up with him. That didn't work either.
Then I filtered his ass out. And even that didn't work.
Then I wrote Rob and asked him why Katz has post access in the first place.
I've been reading Slashdot since the Chips & Dips days, and in all of that time, I've seen absolutely no reason to give a soapbox and spotlight to a print author, let alone a clueless, patently irritating author with questionable talent like Jon Katz.
Now other Slashdot authors starting doing Katz' posting for him. So, in my book, that's enough.
After submitting this post, I'll be nuking my Slashdot bookmark and switch over getting my daily fodder from GeekNews.net. I'm so sick of Katz' repeated HELLMOUTH HELLMOUTH HELLMOUTH crap that I could squat and blast out a Buick.
In recent weeks, Slashdot has gone from bad to worse because of this sort of thing. Interesting things, fun things, and enjoyable things have been replaced with hidden agendas, frothing trolls, and politics. As someone pointed out not too long ago, Slashdot is now officially lame. If you step back and look at it all, nowadays its mostly news written by a number of clueless VA/Andover goons, and mostly a steaming heap of crap that nobody really cares about. Rob & Hemos only post occasionally. In their absence, we get to hear the luminary wisdom of Timothy, and other equally clueless tots who probably couldn't find the power switch on an IMac with both hands. To me, Slashdot just isn't worth reading anymore. I know what it used to be like, and from what I see of Slashdot today, its nowhere near the same.
From now on i'll get my news from somewhere more interested in actual news for nerds, and stuff that actually matters, instead of going to a place more interested in legal activism, rehashed boring stories, and promotion of book sales for a talentless author who insists on milking the Columbine cow until its udders bleed from wear & tear.
You're right. If I dont like it, I dont have to come here. Thats why I wont come here anymore unless things go back to the way they truly used to be.
Bowie J. Poag
Here we go again..
Clueless Timmy,
Cost of this lame RecordTV service: "FREE"
Cost of Hauppauge WinTV Card: $50.00
One bombards you with spam before, during, and after your visit in the form of unsolicited email and endless banner ads. The other puts a minor dent in your wallet, but buys you a top-quality TV tuner card that works great in both Windows and Linux, and allows you to record MPEG or AVI videos off cable, VCR, camcrder, or any other video source in your house direct-to-disk at your leisure. Oh, and by the way, there are a few nice cable descrambler hacks available for it. Not to mention, it comes with a nice remote control you can put on your coffee table and use that nice 17" flatscreen LCD as a normal TV.
"If lameness is measured in units of Gore, cluelessness has to be measured in degrees of Timothy." - Me.
Bowie J. Poag
I dunno how usable it will be..Talk about legacy code..If anyone has been following Bullfrog in recent years, you'll know how long they've been wrestling with Black and White. Its most likely a mess, i'd imagine.. Then again, it might benefit from a few thousand pairs of eyes tearing it apart and cleaning it up. A good move.
Bowie J. Poag
Then why are you posting as AC?
Bowie J. Poag
Business must be pretty slow at VA for you to be able to spend your day trolling on Slashdot. Gives VA's recent stock price, I cant say I'm all that surprised.
FYI, I wasn't whining, dippy. I just find it interesting that this study ignored non-code based contributions to Linux.
Go back to work, goon.
Bowie J. Poag
Good to see something like this. However, I have to admit, its a little bit of a letdown. I've got 10MB worth of gear in Red Hat 6.1, but my name didn't show up anywhere. Yes, yes, I know, it's not code, Bowie..Heh
Bowie J. Poag
Oh, look.. Another VA goon posting as AC.
Actually, no, they never did address my "claims". Nor did the address anyone else involved in the project.
You might want to try taking your own advice..Especially when it comes to that little detail you mentioned about "getting some facts before you start spouting off at the mouth."
By the way, to the guy who originally wrote the above response: Thanks, but I dont really need a spokesman. If you dont like what VA is doing to the Linux community, great, I happen to agree with you. I'd even go so far as to agree with you on the concept that they ripped me, AND the other people working on System 12 off pretty badly. Its fairly obvious by now. Just please refrain from using my name to make your point.
Thanks,
Bowie J. Poag
Ahh, finally! A digital video standard that doesn't require you to view a 10-minute Tarzan trailer! :)
Bowie J. Poag
From what I understand, matter which approaches and finally hits the speed of light instantly converts itself into energy. This is basically what happens in black holes -- The rotational axis of a black hole is huge jet of xrays shooting out of the back of the thing..although im not an expert on this sorta stuff..not by a longshot. :)
Bowie J. Poag
OK.... but..
If you have a pole that long, even the most infinitesimally small movement of your hand would cause some distant portion of the pole to exceed the speed of light, and presumably explode into a shower of x-rays.
So, the question now becomes "What portion of the pole remains visible, and of that part which remains visible, what does it look like?"
Bowie J. Poag
Lets suppose you're standing somewhere in outer space, and, for the sake of the story, we dont have to worry about the little details like food, and water, and oxygen to breathe, and all that.
You're standing somewhere in outer space, and in your hand, you're holding a gigantic steel pole, one light-day long. That is, in order to see the entire pole, you have to wait an entire day for the light from the opposite end of the pole to reach your eyes.
You point it away from you, and wait a day. 24 hours later, you see the entire length of the pole in a straight line..from where it begins in your hand, to the other end, billions of miles away.
You now turn in a complete circle in one spot.
From your point of view, what would the pole look like now? The light from the other end of the poll still has a day left go before it reaches your eyes! From someone else's point of view, what would it look like? And why would it look different to an outside observer?
I'll give a free gift to the first person who gives me a decent explanation to this puzzle. I've asked it of 3 different Astronomy teachers, and all three gave me different answers.
Lets hear some ideas!
Bowie J. Poag
As someone already pointed out earlier, the 90's are pretty much over. We're all very, very tired of being "politically correct" and stepping around like a bunch of fucking ballerinas hoping not to step on somebody's precious little toes or say anything that might possibly wound somebody's "inner child". Its retarded. Nobody says what they mean anymore, because they're afraid of what people will "think" of them. Well, I could give two shits less than half a rats ass what guys who get off wearing women's clothing think of me, so here you go:
Welcome to the 00's : Transvestites are freaks, and legitimate journalism doesn't appear in magazines where crap like "tranny fashion" takes the front page story. Wake the fuck up.
Bowie J. Poag