I hope that there is a special version of hell just for "bad" geeks. Both Gates and Paterson belong in it.
What did Patterson do that was so bad?
Didn't he just make a 16-bit capable CP/M clone because he was frustrated with Gary Kildall dragging his feet? He wasn't out to rip off CP/M... he was just tired of waiting for support, amiright?
"Oh, for f***'s sake." If you've ever had a driver that wasn't written just perfect, you have definitely seen the dreaded BSoD"
I had a good laugh a few years back. I put a new memory module in a Linux box and when I booted it up, the text "Something is really F****d Up!" appeared.
What the fuck are those asterisks supposed to be for?
but really, has anyone ever seen XP or 2000 SP3 actually BSOD on a regular basis.
At the moment, I'm on a laptop I bought a few years back, which shipped with XP. Much like Windows 95, it was BSODing on a daily basis within a year, so I put Win2k on it. After about a year, Win2k became just as corrupt and I recently reinstalled it (only days ago). After putting only AdAware, AntiSpyware, Antivir, Opera and all the latest MS updates on it, I got a BSOD while using Opera. I thought maybe it was a problem with the Opera build, so I thought I'd try IE for a bit... and guess what? BSOD. I haven't had any BSODs in the last 2 days, though... so I have that going for me.
Why not invest the excess in something other than 'gadgets'?
I bought my cheap home outright and now, instead of buying gadgets, I save (currently about $50k in stable market investments). Applying this method to your example, in the long run, I come out with the $100k home plus over $200k in liquid investments. You get only the $300k home (having paid interest on your mortgage, losing money, instead of gaining).
And if you're going to cite tax writeoffs as an incentive for a mortgage, don't. You're writing off taxable income, not tax. People with mortgages make it sound like their magicaly making money, and they're not. The tax writeoff is not worth the interest.
Perhaps you should mention that your advice may only be sound for the financially undisciplined.
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Next laptop I get I plan on it being a Transmeta laptop, they seem to be friendly towards linux
TCO still involves the total cost of OWNERSHIP and not merely installation. You don't give yourself enough credit in how much your time is worth. I deal almost exclusively with Windows technologies and bill out at $200/hour.
I made about $10,000 last year... so I guess my time is worth $1.14 an hour. If it takes me 50 hours to install and configure Linux, I still win, yay!
My point is, TCO can be applied to individual consumers, as well as corporations. As such, TCO can vary *dramatically* depending on the user(s) and application(s).
The government tried. Prohibition didn't work because the people actually stood up and acted out against it.
The problem here was federalism. There were dry states leading up to the Prohibition, meaning you could at least move to another state if you wanted. But unfortunately, the federal government pushed it on everybody.
Personally, I'd like to see more diversity in laws amongst the states in such a manner so one could at least move to a better place within the US.
Another example of federal law superceding state law that comes to mind is the relatively recent CAN-SPAM legislation.
Why is the federal government so intrusive? Can't we let states work things out on their own?
I was thinking more along the lines of hardware that is not supported by linux. In particular, I have problems with my laptop. Ubuntu seems to be the only distro that natively supports 1280x760, and regardless, there is a problem with debian distros and the CMS (which might as well be hardware, since it's part of the laptop).
This would seem to predict that people who have something to be proud of have no need of national pride.
I make no such prediction. I am aware that my feelings about national pride are in the severe minority.
National pride is a social imperative that helps keep a country cohesive and working together. The United States would have had a much harder time getting through WWII without it. It generated the amazing cash flow to New York after 9/11. The examples go on and on.
Do you really need national pride to help other people?
My theory about you: in forsaking national pride, you seek to distance yourself from the "common man," because you view him as lazy and ignorant
I don't "seek" to distance myself from the common man. I think putting oneself on a pedestal is an unhealthy and dangerous thing. But you have to realize that some people are just better in some things than others. I lack social skills, physical strength and a number of other things. Does that mean I'm a bad person? I hope not. Should people treat me differently? Perhaps they might treat me accordingly. Should they treat me poorly? I don't think so. The same goes for intelligence.
Is it so wrong to recognize that you are smarter than some people? It doesn't mean you have to belittle people or treat them like idiots. Why must being better than anyone at anything and knowing it translate to being pompous? Sure, I get frustrated with stupidity and ignorance, but that doesn't mean I'm an ass about it. And please, don't picture me as some typical computer geek who thinks he knows it all. On the contrary, I'm an unsuccessful nobody... and not much of a computer geek.
As for laziness, as long as someone is self-reliant and not an unappreciative burden, I don't see a problem with laziness. It's only natural. I think people should be free to be lazy if they so choose.
especially them dern rednecks
I'm going to dig a hole here and share my feelings on this one, however misguided they may seem. I used to be active duty military and I was in a career field that was highly populated by said folk. The issue I had with the beer-swilling, tobacco-chewing, nascar-watching types was a culture clash. These folks were plenty intelligent in many matters, especially job related mechanics, which in many regards they were my superiror. But, regardless of who was better than who at what, we seemed to have some tension from misunderstanding one another as far as lifestyle and motives and such. So... do I get a little bitter and hostile around redneck types? Eventually, it seems. Do I judge them at first sight? I can't seem to help it. Do I treat them like they're subhuman? Absolutely not, because I've met amazing people of all nationalities, races and cultures. But still, I find it difficult not to stereotype, given the fair amount of homogenity in some cultures.
You'll note that I keep bringing up race and it's because I feel that national pride is akin to racial pride, which is why it is a source of some disgust for me. Nationalism may bring people together (like racial pride), but in the process, it also tends to draw lines in the sand.
What a swap: national pride for selfish pride.
How about national pride for global humanitarianism?...and selfish pride;)
Anyway... feel free to shoot holes in my logic. I'm not above being wrong.
Why the hell was that modded "interesting", if not that for someone on/. knows who Schopenhauer is - well, no proof even for that since it's a fortune citing - ?
I, for one, found it interesting that another slashdotter might allude to the silliness of national pride, since, after all, it is taking pride in other people's accomplishments. Personally, I keep my national pride to a miniumum, since I'm no more responsible for the great things America has done than the awful things. Same goes for racial pride. I am not responsible for the great things others have done, nor am I responsible for slavery just because I'm white. I think people should be as proud as their skin color as they are of their hair color. Likewise, there should be no shame.
does that mean you waive all rights to suck up my tax dollars
I don't see, anywhere in the Constitution, the right to be a tax burden. With leftism being so hip these days, people sure act like it's a natural right, though.
I'm a fairly fervant anti-touchpad fellow myself. I even have an obscure thread going on to further the cause (albeit aimed towards subnotebooks), and I wonder if you know of many laptops that come without touchpads?
I just watched Spirited Away last night. Then I went to www.nausicaa.net to find out more info... and then I came to/.
Rather odd.
Anyway... to make this post semi-legit, I figure it's worth mentioning a related 'news' item: Disney's Nausicaa version (with Mark Hamil and Patrick Stewart!) is due to come out on DVD next month.
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I hope that there is a special version of hell just for "bad" geeks. Both Gates and Paterson belong in it.
What did Patterson do that was so bad?
Didn't he just make a 16-bit capable CP/M clone because he was frustrated with Gary Kildall dragging his feet? He wasn't out to rip off CP/M... he was just tired of waiting for support, amiright?
"Oh, for f***'s sake." If you've ever had a driver that wasn't written just perfect, you have definitely seen the dreaded BSoD"
I had a good laugh a few years back. I put a new memory module in a Linux box and when I booted it up, the text "Something is really F****d Up!" appeared.
What the fuck are those asterisks supposed to be for?
I got burned in the stock crash a few years ago
I said "stable market investments", not stocks... or stuck funds.
but really, has anyone ever seen XP or 2000 SP3 actually BSOD on a regular basis.
At the moment, I'm on a laptop I bought a few years back, which shipped with XP. Much like Windows 95, it was BSODing on a daily basis within a year, so I put Win2k on it. After about a year, Win2k became just as corrupt and I recently reinstalled it (only days ago). After putting only AdAware, AntiSpyware, Antivir, Opera and all the latest MS updates on it, I got a BSOD while using Opera. I thought maybe it was a problem with the Opera build, so I thought I'd try IE for a bit... and guess what? BSOD. I haven't had any BSODs in the last 2 days, though... so I have that going for me.
Why not invest the excess in something other than 'gadgets'?
I bought my cheap home outright and now, instead of buying gadgets, I save (currently about $50k in stable market investments). Applying this method to your example, in the long run, I come out with the $100k home plus over $200k in liquid investments. You get only the $300k home (having paid interest on your mortgage, losing money, instead of gaining).
And if you're going to cite tax writeoffs as an incentive for a mortgage, don't. You're writing off taxable income, not tax. People with mortgages make it sound like their magicaly making money, and they're not. The tax writeoff is not worth the interest.
Perhaps you should mention that your advice may only be sound for the financially undisciplined.
Next laptop I get I plan on it being a Transmeta laptop, they seem to be friendly towards linux
Just a tip
TCO still involves the total cost of OWNERSHIP and not merely installation. You don't give yourself enough credit in how much your time is worth. I deal almost exclusively with Windows technologies and bill out at $200/hour.
I made about $10,000 last year... so I guess my time is worth $1.14 an hour. If it takes me 50 hours to install and configure Linux, I still win, yay!
My point is, TCO can be applied to individual consumers, as well as corporations. As such, TCO can vary *dramatically* depending on the user(s) and application(s).
The government tried. Prohibition didn't work because the people actually stood up and acted out against it.
The problem here was federalism. There were dry states leading up to the Prohibition, meaning you could at least move to another state if you wanted. But unfortunately, the federal government pushed it on everybody.
Personally, I'd like to see more diversity in laws amongst the states in such a manner so one could at least move to a better place within the US.
Another example of federal law superceding state law that comes to mind is the relatively recent CAN-SPAM legislation.
Why is the federal government so intrusive? Can't we let states work things out on their own?
There is nothing wrong with Jack Chick that a savage beating and a complete set of broken fingers wouldn't cure.
The best part is that as long as you repent, Chick should theoretically condone said savage beats!
> and corrupt corporations which support it.
WTF?? Oh no, the corporations are out to fuck us all! Come on, they might be evil but it's the government that is corrupt!
Aren't the bribers at least as corrupt as the bribed?
Or they could go with this friendly fellow...
Heck, there's plenty of Christian friendly critters over there!
And they aren't sucky, like Unglued...
Beautiful stars better see.
I was thinking more along the lines of hardware that is not supported by linux. In particular, I have problems with my laptop. Ubuntu seems to be the only distro that natively supports 1280x760, and regardless, there is a problem with debian distros and the CMS (which might as well be hardware, since it's part of the laptop).
I'd say software is a big one, but what about hardware?
Making fun of someone so identifying, just because they personally did not perform the accomplishment in question, is to miss the point entirely.
I'm not trying to make fun of anyone. And I don't feel that I'm missing the point so much as trying to make a point of my own.
Do I really come off as being so warped and negative?
don't trumpet out that tired old, disproven "Apache is more popular than IIS" bullshit
IIS is more popular?
This would seem to predict that people who have something to be proud of have no need of national pride.
...and selfish pride ;)
I make no such prediction. I am aware that my feelings about national pride are in the severe minority.
National pride is a social imperative that helps keep a country cohesive and working together. The United States would have had a much harder time getting through WWII without it. It generated the amazing cash flow to New York after 9/11. The examples go on and on.
Do you really need national pride to help other people?
My theory about you: in forsaking national pride, you seek to distance yourself from the "common man," because you view him as lazy and ignorant
I don't "seek" to distance myself from the common man. I think putting oneself on a pedestal is an unhealthy and dangerous thing. But you have to realize that some people are just better in some things than others. I lack social skills, physical strength and a number of other things. Does that mean I'm a bad person? I hope not. Should people treat me differently? Perhaps they might treat me accordingly. Should they treat me poorly? I don't think so. The same goes for intelligence.
Is it so wrong to recognize that you are smarter than some people? It doesn't mean you have to belittle people or treat them like idiots. Why must being better than anyone at anything and knowing it translate to being pompous? Sure, I get frustrated with stupidity and ignorance, but that doesn't mean I'm an ass about it. And please, don't picture me as some typical computer geek who thinks he knows it all. On the contrary, I'm an unsuccessful nobody... and not much of a computer geek.
As for laziness, as long as someone is self-reliant and not an unappreciative burden, I don't see a problem with laziness. It's only natural. I think people should be free to be lazy if they so choose.
especially them dern rednecks
I'm going to dig a hole here and share my feelings on this one, however misguided they may seem. I used to be active duty military and I was in a career field that was highly populated by said folk. The issue I had with the beer-swilling, tobacco-chewing, nascar-watching types was a culture clash. These folks were plenty intelligent in many matters, especially job related mechanics, which in many regards they were my superiror. But, regardless of who was better than who at what, we seemed to have some tension from misunderstanding one another as far as lifestyle and motives and such. So... do I get a little bitter and hostile around redneck types? Eventually, it seems. Do I judge them at first sight? I can't seem to help it. Do I treat them like they're subhuman? Absolutely not, because I've met amazing people of all nationalities, races and cultures. But still, I find it difficult not to stereotype, given the fair amount of homogenity in some cultures.
You'll note that I keep bringing up race and it's because I feel that national pride is akin to racial pride, which is why it is a source of some disgust for me. Nationalism may bring people together (like racial pride), but in the process, it also tends to draw lines in the sand.
What a swap: national pride for selfish pride.
How about national pride for global humanitarianism?
Anyway... feel free to shoot holes in my logic. I'm not above being wrong.
Why the hell was that modded "interesting", if not that for someone on /. knows who Schopenhauer is - well, no proof even for that since it's a fortune citing - ?
I, for one, found it interesting that another slashdotter might allude to the silliness of national pride, since, after all, it is taking pride in other people's accomplishments. Personally, I keep my national pride to a miniumum, since I'm no more responsible for the great things America has done than the awful things. Same goes for racial pride. I am not responsible for the great things others have done, nor am I responsible for slavery just because I'm white. I think people should be as proud as their skin color as they are of their hair color. Likewise, there should be no shame.
Thanks?
does that mean you waive all rights to suck up my tax dollars
I don't see, anywhere in the Constitution, the right to be a tax burden. With leftism being so hip these days, people sure act like it's a natural right, though.
Democratic societies seem to abhor seeing their sons and daughters killed in war.
And all societies with different government structures don't???
No... with communism and despotism, all you need is some troops in the home city and you're good to go.
I'm a fairly fervant anti-touchpad fellow myself. I even have an obscure thread going on to further the cause (albeit aimed towards subnotebooks), and I wonder if you know of many laptops that come without touchpads?
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I wasn't even addressing that issue. I was commenting directly on the advocating of remaining silent for political correctness.
you're still going to pay a price in suffering that makes it far better to just shut the hell up.
Yeah... it's such a bad idea to speak the truth. How could somebody stoop so low?
I just watched Spirited Away last night. Then I went to www.nausicaa.net to find out more info... and then I came to /.
Rather odd.
Anyway... to make this post semi-legit, I figure it's worth mentioning a related 'news' item: Disney's Nausicaa version (with Mark Hamil and Patrick Stewart!) is due to come out on DVD next month.