Didn't anybody read the original article (the one linked to above)? Other kids put up sites wich attacked him and his friends. He retaliated in kind and he is the only one being punished. Why not punish all of them? Oh, I know, because the rest of them were preppy assholes that agreed with the principle of the school. And the principle wanted the kid out of the way.
Or you could do something that I have done many times. Find an artistic talent (of any kind). For me, that's music. I play guitar, electric bass, and drums. Then I write a song about it and beat the hell out of whatever instrument I'm playing (usually guitar). When you get a chance to play in public, be sure you play the songs about people around you. Load and proud. Maybe people won't get it at first, but if you have a decent song (and I believe if you are passionate about it, it will be good) you will get to play again, maybe someday those words will sink into the dumbasses that started the rage in you to begin with. Of course, by then, if you are lucky you will have made a few bucks off of the misery that they caused you, and enjoyed the hell out of it to boot.
Now, I realize there are other artforms that may not be as effective as this. And you don't need to use the names of the people involved. In fact, if you use fictional characters in a song/story/poem/... you have a better chance of penetrating the fog surrounding most people's heads. If you use real names, people will just lock up as soon as they hear a name and won't give your side of the view a shot.
Sure, this solution isn't as instantly gratifying as going after the dicks that caused the misery (and believe me, I had my share of that shit in school, and even now at work), but it does help you deal with it in a constructive way. Not perfect, but it gets me by.
While this is true to some extant, I believe if you read the original article (which is linked to in the above article) you would see that the original Internet postings were done by other students that were saying negative things about him and one of his female friends online. Shouldn't these people be treated the same way? After all, the point of America seems to be trying to homegenize everyone into the same boring slave-like, can't think if you were told to, dumbasses. The only way to do that is to treat everyone like a complete moron. Not just those that don't fit in. Oh wait a minute, those that don't fit in.... ...sounds like everyone that now reads slashdot when we were in high-school.
Is anyone else out there tired of hearing companies say, "Sometime, in the future, between now and the end of all time, we may actually produce a driver for our hardware DVD decoding cards. But in the meantime, please buy our product and use it on Windows." Frankly, I would really like to see a company come out with a beta or alpha driver and then publicize it. I'm starting to think that it's just another way to gather support from the OSS community.
"Hey, I know," nudge, nudge, "let's tell them that we will support DVD playback on Linux. Yeah, that's it. Then we won't ever actually produce anything, but we will have everybody saying that we support open source. Yeah, that would be great." Bah. I haven't had much time to play around with the available open DVD playback systems, but I would really like to see one of the Linux distributors have the guts to include it so that we could see what all the fuss is about. (I know, just do it yourself. Sorry, I really don't have the time.)
The only problem with this is that Bill Gates has set himself in position to take over the Applications business when it is split off. Bill wants Windows on every desktop. Ballmer will be in charge of the OS so he will push everything he can into making Windows stronger, and Gates will be in charge of the Apps, so he will try to develop the apps, while at the same time still pushing Windows as much as possible. Only if the DOJ breaks them up and says that Gates cannot be in charge of the Apps division will there really be a chance that the Apps will be ported to other Operating Systems. Otherwise, Gates and Ballmer are still going to push for the same thing.
Yes, yes YES!!!! You rock. The Hyperion books were definitely my favorite of all time. I especially like the parrallels drawn between thier artificial world (I can't remember what they called the computer world in those books) and the Internet. And how humanity was being duped (they were using humans brains when they were in the transporters as computers). If you just see each human brain as a box out there on the internet that some cracker gets into to run his programs on....
I do think this is one of the things we can learn about ourselves from Sci-Fi. Don't always take thier messages litterally. Look for the parallels between the story, and what is going on around you.
As to the real issue being discussed, I don't really know whether we should terraform Mars or not, I think we need to find out more about what Mars is (under the surface) and what we would have to do to accomplish this. Also, what other things would it trigger. Just think it through.
This is something I found a few months ago and all I could think even at that time was "it's about frickin' time". They aren't very far along, but they are starting in the right direction.
The basic idea of a truly 3D based environment is extremely appealing. I have always wondered though about where it would start, and how it would work. It looks like these guys are on the right track.
I've used MS products a lot and personally feel that in terms of stability, speed and reliability, MS products don't even come close to winning. But, I'm not saying that all things MS suck. Sometimes you have to use Windows to do certain things (my example is that I use Windows for digital recording) even if it isn't the best OS, it's the one with the apps. I don't care for it, and as soon as I find a recording app that does the multi-tracking and MIDI integrating that I need for Linux or *BSD I'll be done with it for good. But I really think you have a huge bias if you think that Windows is more reliable and stable than Linux. Speed can be debated either way depending on what you are doing with each OS (and the app determines your view of speed more than the OS itself). But that's just my opinion
I don't personally think either one is right, but I do think that KDE is further along. I think GNOME had the right idea behind them when they got started, but the fact is that I still can't find a GNOME version that runs worth a crap on any of my machines. I've been told what an idiot I am for this before, but I can run any other desktop I want without having to wait for 45 seconds just to see the desktop (and most all of them I compile from source, including GNOME). I've used XFCE, KDE, FVWM(and FVWM2), AfterStep, Windowmaker....
I know this is going to get me bitchslapped, but I don't really care. If GNOME is so much better, and they are the ones that are right, then prove it with a usuable desktop, not just a bunch of bitchin'. GNOME should exist, but GNOME doesn't need to be shoved down everyone's gullet. Linux is about freedom and choice. My choice is KDE at the moment. Whether you like it or not, it's within my rights to use it. So, who the hell cares who's "right" in your view? You do, and others need to be able to come up with thier own view of what's right, not just be told what's right.
Well, I understand that most businesses hire people that have the certifications before they hire people that have actual experience or knowledge (that's why so many MS based networks are run by people that seemingly barely know what a power switch is supposed to look like), but I still think you can get paid plenty for what you know if you look in the right place.
I enjoy working on computers, and I enjoy doing web development. So, I work on computers every chance I get. My job is as a system/network administrator in a start-up where I get to make pretty much all networking and computer oriented decisions. I am not paid as much as some of my certified bretheren in other companies, but this was something I always wanted to do, create a network from the ground up. And I get pretty much complete control. Now, if I had went out and gotten myself all of these certifications that are out there I would not have gotten this opportunity (because a start-up can't afford the going rate for someone that is certified). I realize that my years of experience here may not count for much in some businesses eyes. But sersiously, I've always been more interested in having a job I can stand going to than making the most money possible. And when I need a little extra money I just do some web development work and/or computer consulting elsewhere. Yes, that is a little more time out of my life, but I'm not afraid to work for my money. In fact, I would much rather work twice as hard as someone else for the same money and be happy with what I am doing than spend half of my day whining about how terrible my job is. Life's too short, and I still get plenty of free time. So, deal with it people. If you like certifications, and your primary goal is to get more money, than a certification may be a good idea, but I have seen way too many certified people be completely incompetent when it comes to real problems in thier chosen field. Certification isn't for me, maybe it is for you.
I've been told I have a very narrow view of things and that I should just go away and shut up before, so I know my view isn't a popular one. Personally I don't care. I was that kid in high-school that always sat at a table alone in the lunch room reading a book. Remember him?!? So, my popularity has never mattered to me, but I can still look myself in the mirror and that is what is important.
I realize that I jumped a little off topic here, but I figured I just as well say it now rather than wait for the inevitable diatribe of "you're trying to hold yourself and Linux back". I don't care of there is a Linux certification, I just think it had better be better than MS's and even then I probably won't do it.
Your problem wasn't from the hardware, it was from the manufacturer. I worked for Gateway for 2 years in the Service department and can tell you one thing DON'T BUY GATEWAY. Especially if you are a power user.
I bought a Gateway as an employee and when I recieved it it instantly stopped working. I fiddled around and booted the hard drive in another machine and it turned out that they had loaded the wrong video driver for the card that I had and that video driver had somehow actually screwed up the original video card. This is my personal Gateway horror story and I can't tell you the number of screw ups I saw come through when I worked there.
If you want a computer pre-built, go somewhere else. Gateway was always low quality, and in the time I was there I could actually tell that the quality was getting worse. I'm sure I will get flak for this if Gateway sees it, but what are they going to do, fire me?!? I quit there because of the mindset that Gateway is the one true way, and that Ted was GOD (the original founder). What a joke. And we laughed just as hard inside the company as people outside the company laugh, believe me.
BTW, I quit there almost three years ago now, so this isn't just a quick "I'm going to get those bastards" type of post. Once I got out and started to see how real computer companies do things (Dell, Micron, Compaq, HP,....) I realized that it was worse than I had thought. Just stay away from Gateway. Judge the Athlon on its own merits, not on Gateway's shoddy work.
OK, here's the thing. You want one choice of everything, you want one desktop environment, one choice of editor, one browser, one of everything. Of course, you say that all distributions should stick to the same thing, but there would be no reason for multiple distributions if they were all exactly the same. Also, if we only had one of everything we would be a Windows clone. And I don't think anyone wants that to happen to Unix/Linux/*BSD. I think that all the "fragmentation" as you call it is what makes the *nix world so enjoyable right now. I got sick of being locked in in the Windows world about four years ago, and so now I use *nix for all of my needs (except for that one machine running BeOS, more out of curiosity than anything).
Anyway, you want *nix to become one standard world, then build yourself some new fangled *nix and call it MONOPOLYNIX and be done with it. You can make sure that you never allow your users any choice of anything, and then you can be happy. I think the choice in *nix right now is awesome, and yes, it is overwhelming at first. But once you get over the initial shock of being able to CHOOSE things, you are able to accomplish so much more with your personalized system than you ever could with the homogenized, "You must do it that way you are told to do it." Windows world. Why take away the choice, when that's what draws so many here in the first place?
The Napster situation is just the beginning of what I would like to "chat" about with Metallica. I suppose most people here are too young to remember, but Metallica used to actually make really good underground metal music (hence the name). Personally, I think since Cliff died, they should have changed the name to PoppyMakeABuckAllica. It sounds a lot more like what they are doing than Metallica does. I know I'm not the old school Metallica fan out there. Someone back me up on this. Where am I going with this? Well, this lawsuit is just the latest in a series of stupid, selfish and monetarily motivated moves on the part of Metallica. The comments by Lars in the article pretty much tell the story. Metallica is no longer a band, but a corporate entity. Bands want to see thier music out there (and yes, I know this from experience). I don't mind if one of the songs I've recorded is swapped about on tapes, MP3s or anything else. I would mind if someone else was claiming that they wrote the song, or that they were the ones that first performed it, but I don't think that is the issue. Bottom line, Metallica just keeps coming up, and will do anything to make a dollar. I personally went out of my way to avoid them when they started putting out radio pop rock. Of course, now that they suck thier music is played everywhere. So I quit listening to the radio except when I am forced to, and guess what, Metallica is all over the web, my favorite hang out, smearing thier marketing feces everywhere telling the world how the business of Metallica is far more important than the music of Metallica. I've got one thing to say to Metallica, not that they would listen: Get over yourselves. Cliff was what made you a kick ass band, and ever since you've been fighting to find out what your music should be. Well, enough. I'm outta here. Gotta go clean my ears out with my guitar amp cranked up to SCREEECHINGLY LOUD!!!!!!!!!!
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Didn't anybody read the original article (the one linked to above)? Other kids put up sites wich attacked him and his friends. He retaliated in kind and he is the only one being punished. Why not punish all of them? Oh, I know, because the rest of them were preppy assholes that agreed with the principle of the school. And the principle wanted the kid out of the way.
Or you could do something that I have done many times. Find an artistic talent (of any kind). For me, that's music. I play guitar, electric bass, and drums. Then I write a song about it and beat the hell out of whatever instrument I'm playing (usually guitar). When you get a chance to play in public, be sure you play the songs about people around you. Load and proud. Maybe people won't get it at first, but if you have a decent song (and I believe if you are passionate about it, it will be good) you will get to play again, maybe someday those words will sink into the dumbasses that started the rage in you to begin with. Of course, by then, if you are lucky you will have made a few bucks off of the misery that they caused you, and enjoyed the hell out of it to boot.
Now, I realize there are other artforms that may not be as effective as this. And you don't need to use the names of the people involved. In fact, if you use fictional characters in a song/story/poem/... you have a better chance of penetrating the fog surrounding most people's heads. If you use real names, people will just lock up as soon as they hear a name and won't give your side of the view a shot.
Sure, this solution isn't as instantly gratifying as going after the dicks that caused the misery (and believe me, I had my share of that shit in school, and even now at work), but it does help you deal with it in a constructive way. Not perfect, but it gets me by.
While this is true to some extant, I believe if you read the original article (which is linked to in the above article) you would see that the original Internet postings were done by other students that were saying negative things about him and one of his female friends online. Shouldn't these people be treated the same way? After all, the point of America seems to be trying to homegenize everyone into the same boring slave-like, can't think if you were told to, dumbasses. The only way to do that is to treat everyone like a complete moron. Not just those that don't fit in. Oh wait a minute, those that don't fit in....
...sounds like everyone that now reads slashdot when we were in high-school.
Is anyone else out there tired of hearing companies say, "Sometime, in the future, between now and the end of all time, we may actually produce a driver for our hardware DVD decoding cards. But in the meantime, please buy our product and use it on Windows." Frankly, I would really like to see a company come out with a beta or alpha driver and then publicize it. I'm starting to think that it's just another way to gather support from the OSS community.
"Hey, I know," nudge, nudge, "let's tell them that we will support DVD playback on Linux. Yeah, that's it. Then we won't ever actually produce anything, but we will have everybody saying that we support open source. Yeah, that would be great." Bah. I haven't had much time to play around with the available open DVD playback systems, but I would really like to see one of the Linux distributors have the guts to include it so that we could see what all the fuss is about. (I know, just do it yourself. Sorry, I really don't have the time.)
The only problem with this is that Bill Gates has set himself in position to take over the Applications business when it is split off. Bill wants Windows on every desktop. Ballmer will be in charge of the OS so he will push everything he can into making Windows stronger, and Gates will be in charge of the Apps, so he will try to develop the apps, while at the same time still pushing Windows as much as possible. Only if the DOJ breaks them up and says that Gates cannot be in charge of the Apps division will there really be a chance that the Apps will be ported to other Operating Systems. Otherwise, Gates and Ballmer are still going to push for the same thing.
Debian's package management is one of the few in the Linux world that actually does this. If it needs something, it just gets it, no muss, no fuss.
Yes, yes YES!!!! You rock. The Hyperion books were definitely my favorite of all time. I especially like the parrallels drawn between thier artificial world (I can't remember what they called the computer world in those books) and the Internet. And how humanity was being duped (they were using humans brains when they were in the transporters as computers). If you just see each human brain as a box out there on the internet that some cracker gets into to run his programs on....
I do think this is one of the things we can learn about ourselves from Sci-Fi. Don't always take thier messages litterally. Look for the parallels between the story, and what is going on around you.
As to the real issue being discussed, I don't really know whether we should terraform Mars or not, I think we need to find out more about what Mars is (under the surface) and what we would have to do to accomplish this. Also, what other things would it trigger. Just think it through.
See my earlier post and check this link:
A 3D based environment in the making.
This is something I found a few months ago and all I could think even at that time was "it's about frickin' time". They aren't very far along, but they are starting in the right direction.
http://threedsia.sourceforge.net
The basic idea of a truly 3D based environment is extremely appealing. I have always wondered though about where it would start, and how it would work. It looks like these guys are on the right track.
Is that something different enough for ya?!
I've used MS products a lot and personally feel that in terms of stability, speed and reliability, MS products don't even come close to winning. But, I'm not saying that all things MS suck. Sometimes you have to use Windows to do certain things (my example is that I use Windows for digital recording) even if it isn't the best OS, it's the one with the apps. I don't care for it, and as soon as I find a recording app that does the multi-tracking and MIDI integrating that I need for Linux or *BSD I'll be done with it for good. But I really think you have a huge bias if you think that Windows is more reliable and stable than Linux. Speed can be debated either way depending on what you are doing with each OS (and the app determines your view of speed more than the OS itself). But that's just my opinion
I don't personally think either one is right, but I do think that KDE is further along. I think GNOME had the right idea behind them when they got started, but the fact is that I still can't find a GNOME version that runs worth a crap on any of my machines. I've been told what an idiot I am for this before, but I can run any other desktop I want without having to wait for 45 seconds just to see the desktop (and most all of them I compile from source, including GNOME). I've used XFCE, KDE, FVWM(and FVWM2), AfterStep, Windowmaker....
I know this is going to get me bitchslapped, but I don't really care. If GNOME is so much better, and they are the ones that are right, then prove it with a usuable desktop, not just a bunch of bitchin'. GNOME should exist, but GNOME doesn't need to be shoved down everyone's gullet. Linux is about freedom and choice. My choice is KDE at the moment. Whether you like it or not, it's within my rights to use it. So, who the hell cares who's "right" in your view? You do, and others need to be able to come up with thier own view of what's right, not just be told what's right.
Well, I understand that most businesses hire people that have the certifications before they hire people that have actual experience or knowledge (that's why so many MS based networks are run by people that seemingly barely know what a power switch is supposed to look like), but I still think you can get paid plenty for what you know if you look in the right place.
I enjoy working on computers, and I enjoy doing web development. So, I work on computers every chance I get. My job is as a system/network administrator in a start-up where I get to make pretty much all networking and computer oriented decisions. I am not paid as much as some of my certified bretheren in other companies, but this was something I always wanted to do, create a network from the ground up. And I get pretty much complete control. Now, if I had went out and gotten myself all of these certifications that are out there I would not have gotten this opportunity (because a start-up can't afford the going rate for someone that is certified). I realize that my years of experience here may not count for much in some businesses eyes. But sersiously, I've always been more interested in having a job I can stand going to than making the most money possible. And when I need a little extra money I just do some web development work and/or computer consulting elsewhere. Yes, that is a little more time out of my life, but I'm not afraid to work for my money. In fact, I would much rather work twice as hard as someone else for the same money and be happy with what I am doing than spend half of my day whining about how terrible my job is. Life's too short, and I still get plenty of free time. So, deal with it people. If you like certifications, and your primary goal is to get more money, than a certification may be a good idea, but I have seen way too many certified people be completely incompetent when it comes to real problems in thier chosen field. Certification isn't for me, maybe it is for you.
I've been told I have a very narrow view of things and that I should just go away and shut up before, so I know my view isn't a popular one. Personally I don't care. I was that kid in high-school that always sat at a table alone in the lunch room reading a book. Remember him?!? So, my popularity has never mattered to me, but I can still look myself in the mirror and that is what is important.
I realize that I jumped a little off topic here, but I figured I just as well say it now rather than wait for the inevitable diatribe of "you're trying to hold yourself and Linux back". I don't care of there is a Linux certification, I just think it had better be better than MS's and even then I probably won't do it.
My opinion, so sue me.
Your problem wasn't from the hardware, it was from the manufacturer. I worked for Gateway for 2 years in the Service department and can tell you one thing DON'T BUY GATEWAY. Especially if you are a power user.
....) I realized that it was worse than I had thought. Just stay away from Gateway. Judge the Athlon on its own merits, not on Gateway's shoddy work.
I bought a Gateway as an employee and when I recieved it it instantly stopped working. I fiddled around and booted the hard drive in another machine and it turned out that they had loaded the wrong video driver for the card that I had and that video driver had somehow actually screwed up the original video card. This is my personal Gateway horror story and I can't tell you the number of screw ups I saw come through when I worked there.
If you want a computer pre-built, go somewhere else. Gateway was always low quality, and in the time I was there I could actually tell that the quality was getting worse. I'm sure I will get flak for this if Gateway sees it, but what are they going to do, fire me?!? I quit there because of the mindset that Gateway is the one true way, and that Ted was GOD (the original founder). What a joke. And we laughed just as hard inside the company as people outside the company laugh, believe me.
BTW, I quit there almost three years ago now, so this isn't just a quick "I'm going to get those bastards" type of post. Once I got out and started to see how real computer companies do things (Dell, Micron, Compaq, HP,
OK, here's the thing. You want one choice of everything, you want one desktop environment, one choice of editor, one browser, one of everything. Of course, you say that all distributions should stick to the same thing, but there would be no reason for multiple distributions if they were all exactly the same. Also, if we only had one of everything we would be a Windows clone. And I don't think anyone wants that to happen to Unix/Linux/*BSD. I think that all the "fragmentation" as you call it is what makes the *nix world so enjoyable right now. I got sick of being locked in in the Windows world about four years ago, and so now I use *nix for all of my needs (except for that one machine running BeOS, more out of curiosity than anything).
Anyway, you want *nix to become one standard world, then build yourself some new fangled *nix and call it MONOPOLYNIX and be done with it. You can make sure that you never allow your users any choice of anything, and then you can be happy. I think the choice in *nix right now is awesome, and yes, it is overwhelming at first. But once you get over the initial shock of being able to CHOOSE things, you are able to accomplish so much more with your personalized system than you ever could with the homogenized, "You must do it that way you are told to do it." Windows world. Why take away the choice, when that's what draws so many here in the first place?
The Napster situation is just the beginning of what I would like to "chat" about with Metallica. I suppose most people here are too young to remember, but Metallica used to actually make really good underground metal music (hence the name). Personally, I think since Cliff died, they should have changed the name to PoppyMakeABuckAllica. It sounds a lot more like what they are doing than Metallica does. I know I'm not the old school Metallica fan out there. Someone back me up on this. Where am I going with this? Well, this lawsuit is just the latest in a series of stupid, selfish and monetarily motivated moves on the part of Metallica. The comments by Lars in the article pretty much tell the story. Metallica is no longer a band, but a corporate entity. Bands want to see thier music out there (and yes, I know this from experience). I don't mind if one of the songs I've recorded is swapped about on tapes, MP3s or anything else. I would mind if someone else was claiming that they wrote the song, or that they were the ones that first performed it, but I don't think that is the issue. Bottom line, Metallica just keeps coming up, and will do anything to make a dollar. I personally went out of my way to avoid them when they started putting out radio pop rock. Of course, now that they suck thier music is played everywhere. So I quit listening to the radio except when I am forced to, and guess what, Metallica is all over the web, my favorite hang out, smearing thier marketing feces everywhere telling the world how the business of Metallica is far more important than the music of Metallica. I've got one thing to say to Metallica, not that they would listen: Get over yourselves. Cliff was what made you a kick ass band, and ever since you've been fighting to find out what your music should be. Well, enough. I'm outta here. Gotta go clean my ears out with my guitar amp cranked up to SCREEECHINGLY LOUD!!!!!!!!!!