With all these hoaxes, it really gets one worried about the future fate of humanity. I mean, look at what some people will actually believe! I had a message forwarded to me before about flesh eating bacteria found in a shipment of bananas "forward this to spread the word and protect yourselves." JESUS CHRIST PEOPLE!! HAS THE WHOLE WORLD GONE NUTS??? Some of these hoaxes are worse than stories in Weekly World News, and yet more people forward these to eachother and actually believe it!
I had it on my server before, but at the request of my employer moved it to a different location due to the high bandwidth usage. You can get it at ftp://198.22.19.4/pub/incoming/canada.rm
I'll host it if you want, I'm on a DS3 and have a celeron 400 with 128 megs of ram, should be sufficient. Just email me with all the details if you're interested.
Everyone knows that the only true perfect geek foods are Jolt Cola and Sushi. A perfect Saturday night is getting a 6-pack of Jolt, some badass AFC Sushi, and sitting back in front of a terminal doing some coding and IRC.
Paul and Linda McCartney did the exact same thing; they were disgusted by the vegetarian meals available on the market so they started making their own.
I'm glad _someone_ can understand what I'm saying. By clicking the mouse for the user, we're not helping them or ourselves in the long run. We're only encouraging people to become less self-sufficient.
You're not understanding what I am saying. I am sure that you tried to read the man pages, and that's a step that most new users don't even take. They see the command prompt and panic because they realize that they're not sure what to do and are therefore very uncomfortable with it. I am not talking about the people who try really hard but fail in UNDERSTANDING the docs, I'm talking about the people who make no effort to even LOCATE the docs. These people are in the majority, and making everything easier to use isn't going to help anything because these people will still be lost.
Seriously, why do we need to cater to people who refuse to learn? Instead we need to motivate people to go out and learn on their own. 90% of the people in this world have the mentality that because someone else knows something that they don't, it is that person's duty to do everything for them. Instead we need to get people to start learning on their own so that they can use what exists already. "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime." What happens right now is, people think that since the man knows how to fish and they don't, he "owes" them enough fish for them to get by.
Well we know form experience that most of the bigger companies are already aware of linux, and therefore continually requesting they port software annoys them (for instance Loki). You can't be sure that they're serious about it until they start asking us. You can bring a horse to water but you can't make it drink.....
The reason why there are so few women in technology is because girls aren't encouraged to do many technical things from a young age on. Although this is a stereotype, it is still very true. There needs to be more encouragement from an early age on, or else they will never (or rarely) get into technological jobs later on in life. There was an excellent article on freshmeat about this very thing a while back.
This philosophy only applies to victimless crimes. It will oviously not work with things like rape, however it does work with things like free speach and alcohol consumption. I am only saying that alcohol consumption increased with prohibition (which is a well known fact), it also increased with the DARE program (also true). I am not saying that it disappeared when prohibition ended, which it did not. However, there was a decrease.
Guns are a completely different issue entirely. Since guns are banned in Britain, you don't here about shootings every day like you do in the US. Another place that doesn't have this problem is Japan because guns are also banned there. For every 100 million people (I believe it's either 100 million or 10 million, I'm pretty sure it's 100 last I checked), Japan has 45,000 in jail, England has 50,000, and the US has 500,000. Now argue that gun control doesn't help....
It is the parents' job to teach the children what is appropriate and what is not. By making such an issue of it only makes kids more curious. Why do you think there is such a problem with underage drinking in this country? It is because of the DARE program and all these other programs that make these things seem more sacred to kids. Once we stop making it such an issue, the problem will go away. Just look at Europe for instance, they don't have these problems because they don't make them such big issues.
Linux isn't going to replace Windows in the near future to the extent that we would like it to, and the answer is simple: most people who use computers for everyday tasks simply don't care how productive it is, by that I mean that they don't care enough to learn something new. It's pretty pathetic actually.
What do you think the future of Linux is? By this I mean, how long before it gets integrated into the mainstream (desktops, homes, etc.)? Furthermore, do you think that the future breakup of Microsoft will have any effect on Linux's popularity? Will it play a role in Corel's future supported platforms (i.e. CorelDRAW for Linux)?
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I guess it would be rather ironic if this got moderated as Offtopic?
All I'm saying is that when our robot gods take over the planet, I'm going to be hiding in my Y2K bunker while the rest of humanity is enslaved.
With all these hoaxes, it really gets one worried about the future fate of humanity. I mean, look at what some people will actually believe! I had a message forwarded to me before about flesh eating bacteria found in a shipment of bananas "forward this to spread the word and protect yourselves." JESUS CHRIST PEOPLE!! HAS THE WHOLE WORLD GONE NUTS??? Some of these hoaxes are worse than stories in Weekly World News, and yet more people forward these to eachother and actually believe it!
I had it on my server before, but at the request of my employer moved it to a different location due to the high bandwidth usage. You can get it at ftp://198.22.19.4/pub/incoming/canada.rm
I'll host it if you want, I'm on a DS3 and have a celeron 400 with 128 megs of ram, should be sufficient. Just email me with all the details if you're interested.
Well let's just say I'd rather have my toilet kernel panic than have my car get a general protection fault.
I guess the next logical step would be to mass produce giant mutant fruit flies the size of cows and then harvest them for food?
Everyone knows that the only true perfect geek foods are Jolt Cola and Sushi. A perfect Saturday night is getting a 6-pack of Jolt, some badass AFC Sushi, and sitting back in front of a terminal doing some coding and IRC.
Paul and Linda McCartney did the exact same thing; they were disgusted by the vegetarian meals available on the market so they started making their own.
Furthermore, how the hell does this qualify as trolling????
I'm glad _someone_ can understand what I'm saying. By clicking the mouse for the user, we're not helping them or ourselves in the long run. We're only encouraging people to become less self-sufficient.
amen.
You're not understanding what I am saying. I am sure that you tried to read the man pages, and that's a step that most new users don't even take. They see the command prompt and panic because they realize that they're not sure what to do and are therefore very uncomfortable with it. I am not talking about the people who try really hard but fail in UNDERSTANDING the docs, I'm talking about the people who make no effort to even LOCATE the docs. These people are in the majority, and making everything easier to use isn't going to help anything because these people will still be lost.
Seriously, why do we need to cater to people who refuse to learn? Instead we need to motivate people to go out and learn on their own. 90% of the people in this world have the mentality that because someone else knows something that they don't, it is that person's duty to do everything for them. Instead we need to get people to start learning on their own so that they can use what exists already. "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime." What happens right now is, people think that since the man knows how to fish and they don't, he "owes" them enough fish for them to get by.
Well we know form experience that most of the bigger companies are already aware of linux, and therefore continually requesting they port software annoys them (for instance Loki). You can't be sure that they're serious about it until they start asking us. You can bring a horse to water but you can't make it drink.....
If only more companies would start going around asking alternative OS users if they would like a port.........
The reason why there are so few women in technology is because girls aren't encouraged to do many technical things from a young age on. Although this is a stereotype, it is still very true. There needs to be more encouragement from an early age on, or else they will never (or rarely) get into technological jobs later on in life. There was an excellent article on freshmeat about this very thing a while back.
The upcoming trial isn't about security, so this is rather irrelevant to that. However it certainly does make a rather nice front.....
Why do we need to go to them to show that we exist? Aren't they dependant on us enough as it is? Seriously now, it makes me sick.
This philosophy only applies to victimless crimes. It will oviously not work with things like rape, however it does work with things like free speach and alcohol consumption. I am only saying that alcohol consumption increased with prohibition (which is a well known fact), it also increased with the DARE program (also true). I am not saying that it disappeared when prohibition ended, which it did not. However, there was a decrease.
So then you believe that more people are being beaten to death with frying pans than there were people being shot when guns were legal?
Guns are a completely different issue entirely. Since guns are banned in Britain, you don't here about shootings every day like you do in the US. Another place that doesn't have this problem is Japan because guns are also banned there. For every 100 million people (I believe it's either 100 million or 10 million, I'm pretty sure it's 100 last I checked), Japan has 45,000 in jail, England has 50,000, and the US has 500,000. Now argue that gun control doesn't help....
It is the parents' job to teach the children what is appropriate and what is not. By making such an issue of it only makes kids more curious. Why do you think there is such a problem with underage drinking in this country? It is because of the DARE program and all these other programs that make these things seem more sacred to kids. Once we stop making it such an issue, the problem will go away. Just look at Europe for instance, they don't have these problems because they don't make them such big issues.
Linux isn't going to replace Windows in the near future to the extent that we would like it to, and the answer is simple: most people who use computers for everyday tasks simply don't care how productive it is, by that I mean that they don't care enough to learn something new. It's pretty pathetic actually.
What do you think the future of Linux is? By this I mean, how long before it gets integrated into the mainstream (desktops, homes, etc.)? Furthermore, do you think that the future breakup of Microsoft will have any effect on Linux's popularity? Will it play a role in Corel's future supported platforms (i.e. CorelDRAW for Linux)?