Most of us disliked the reviewer a long time ago. The only positive thing I can say about this review is the fact that Katz himself looks like a huge jackass for trying to "lay the smack down" on someone for saying the same shit he's said a billion times over. Of course, it's all a matter of perspective;-).
Tools can, and in most cases (if it's a major enough step) WILL change the society they are developed in/created in/used in. It's a fact. From the time the first caveman figured out he could fight a little better with a club in his hands just with his fists and henced developed a "stronger" culture than that of his neighbors, up to the Internet as a tool creating a more "in touch" society, tools change people and the society that those people live in.
I started having that problem when I took my current job as an IT administrator. Sitting all day isn't healthy, but there are things you can do to prevent the "but rot" problem (I was gaining major pounds for a while, and couldn't sleep at night because my body just wasn't tired).
So, for me the solution was to buy a weight set and force myself to workout every night for at least twenty minutes, plus whatever other exercises I can force myself to do. Not only does it help me sleep better, but I've taken off fifteen pounds in a couple of months and I'm still dropping. It's nice to be able to put my pants on without sucking in my breath in the morning again.;-)
Heh now, that's not completely fair. I watch Days of Our Lives. I don't know of any other soap opera that gets more ridiculous than that one and still seems to be attempting to be serious. Although, I haven't watched that many episodes of other ones (other than wrestling, which is definitely more soap opera for men than it is a sports oriented form of entertainment). Oh yeah, and if you think no one ever gets clotheslined on any other soap opera, you haven't seen some of the "cat fights" on those shows. Almost makes it worth watching.
I think both you and the other poster sort-of misunderstand the motivations. The opposite of geek is not another kind of geek. But what the hell, in the interest of geek-peace, yes.
And I thought that geeks hated wrestling! BTW, I wonder if Linda is pregnant yet? Of course, we all know the real reason Vince is gone is so that he can promote his new baby the XFL.
You do realize that people always rebel against whatever their parents are in to right? The chances of Torvalds' kids growing up as "geeks" are about as good as the chances that a debutantes kids won't go through a "I'm so oppressed" stage in their life. It's just probably not going to happen.
I don't care what anyone says. Windows ME just sounds way way WAY too much like Sodomize ME in my head. At least, the translation to 'real person' from 'marktroid speak' makes it sound exactly the same.
I was gonna ask who pissed in your post toasties this morning, but then I was stupid enough to click on Read the rest of this comment.... and tada, trolltalk. Brilliant troll. You suckered me (yeah, I know, not a real difficult task).
Personally, anyone that tells you exchange administration is 'easier' than Unix solutions is crazy, but you do get that wonderful calendar all tied in with your email client. I've been looking at Unix based web calendars and other solutions, but haven't really found anything that our users will tolerate yet (maybe someone could point me in the right direction? We need a Unix/Linux server with Linux clients solution.).
Time makes all things cheaper. I bought a Pentium II 333 dual with 256 MB of ECC RAM after it was 'non-fashionable' and only paid a total of $1000, and that includes the SCSI controller and three kickass IBM 4 GB disks (now running in RAID!), plus my 16MB TNT vid card and ensonique AudioPCI card. If I bought the same stuff now though, it probably wouldn't cost me over $500.
Man, some of the four-processor capable cases made for the Xeon line are bigger than some coffins. Especially the ones made to support that made phat, RAIDalicious built-in SCSI, multi-drive arrays within the same case. I saw one where the case itself (which had to be purchased with the motherboard, the only case that would fit that motherboard to my understanding) was over 5,000 dollars just because of the massive amount of metal and cooling, not to mention the redundant power supplies for both motherboard and drive arrays. I can't wait to see the room size boxes for a P4 multi-CPU case when they finally do come out.
Wow, it seems like this guy always has interesting ideas to share on any technological or scientific breakthrough/necessity. The really cool thing is that most of the time he manages to be right, or at least on the right path to being right.
Pardon me, I need to go dig out some of my old books;-).
I don't want to fit in at all because no matter what group you fit into people will assume that everything about you is defined by the group-think and you will no longer be percieved as a individual. I saw it over and over again growing up and still see it every day. It's depressing as hell, and I want no part of it.
BTW, having friends doesn't mean you fit in. I'm lucky, I've always managed to find three or four other people that don't 'fit-in' at all and we talk about how ridiculous the entire game is.
Typically, the new-age psycho-analyzers say that you claiming you are trying to think for yourself means you just feel insecure with who you are and that is why you didn't 'fit-in'. Frankly, I'm with you. I didn't fit in because I didn't want to. If fitting in meant drinking, shooting up, and driving your car into a tree (or something equally intelligent), then I could do without it thanks.
If my wife saw you saying this, she would kick your ass too. (Whether it was true or not, she don't put up with people talking shit about her at all. Gotta love them fiery red-heads.)
I was a high school outcast and I would have killed to have been noticed 'less' rather than being considered cool by that bunch of losers that was the 'hip' crowd. If being considered cool meant having them look up to me, I'd sooner chop my own genitals off and eat them in front of a crowd.
Don't think that just because some outcasts really want to 'fit in' it applies to the rest of us. The entire concept of fitting in never appealed to me at all. And it still doesn't.
He answered in the original post, but he couldn't figure out how to create an account so he used that thing known as Anonymous Coward. He still doesn't understand why his response didn't garner more attention.
She hates WalMart and has cooked up some huge conspiracy theory whereby WalMart is going to somehow bring about the end of the world. It is one of the few things that actually makes me laugh at her is when she gets all red faced and ready to beat the shit out of anyone going near a WalMart just because she has this "WalMart will be the destruction of the world as we know it!" thing going on in her head.
True enough, but at least some places don't go out of their way to try and distract you with a light show while they sneak up behind you. I'd much rather they just walk up, throw you over a table and get it over with. This pussyfooting around and 'I feel your pain' bullshit is making me sick. Oh well. That's what America is all about.
Well, at least some of us don't vote because of apathy and on principle.
I never really appreciated politics in any situation (office politics, schoolroom politics, real-life politics (how's that for an oxymoron?)), but as I watched the 'big-time' elections I realized that the people really don't have any say at all in who gets into office. The primaries aren't 'really' primaries. The people don't get to choose who the candidates are going to be for the two big parties, that choice is made long before it is 'put to the vote' in the 'primaries'. I understand it didn't used to be this way, that people in any state could actually have a say in what candidate they wanted to represent their party even if they were a part of the big two. But not now. And if you support a third party candidate you are constantly told, over and over again, "If you vote for your candidate you just as well vote for the most evil of the two big candidates." (Which in this case is Bush. People know that if you are voting for a third party candidate (and don't get me started on how sick it is that we have to call the other six or seven candidates 'third party'), you would fear having Bush in office so much that you would rather swallow your pride and vote in Gore than face 4 years of Bush's maniacle bullshit.) So we are worn down and told that we don't have a choice, which, sadly enough, is basically true. We don't have a choice. We either vote for the lesser of the two evils, or we are 'wasting our vote' or worse, 'just as well be supporting the other guy'.
So we get pissed off at how innefectual it all seems. We can't make a difference. We can't have our voice heard. And we are treated like absolute scum because we don't have millions of dollars to throw in the right direction. We need to be 'protected' from what used to be considered rights. We shouldn't have the right to speak out against something, we shouldn't have the right to speak out for something (unless the 'moral majority' supports it), and we most certainly should just sit and chew our cud like a contented cow when we are told that they are going to remove another of our rights to 'protect the children'. And what can we do about this? We can either do nothing (and be told we are even more evil than before), or we can go vote for the candidate of the big two that will take away the least amount of rights.
The apathy is for a reason, and the reason is based on principle. So the two are tied together completely. It pisses me off to no end that no matter what I do I will be told I am an idiot and I have no right to complain. I have no right to complain if I don't vote (I have never understood this). And I have even less of a right to complain if I do vote (even if I didn't vote for the winner) because then I am supporting what has become a corrupt and evil system. It isn't about 'who will do right?, it is about 'who can pay the most for TV time?' or 'who can bullshit the best?' or....
What happened to the days when people were elected based on qualifications? I don't really think this whole 'president' thing was thought of as being a chance for the most elite of the elite to get patted on the back (as it has turned into), but was supposed to be a chance to put a common man into control of the country so that the common man could have his views looked after properly. But instead, we now have life-long politicians that are hand fed money from the moment they are born deciding our fate for us, taking away rights, stealing our money, and telling us what evil, naughty, terrible people we are for saying that we should want to protect our 'rights'! Why the hell do we need to protect our rights? After all, if we wanted rights, we would have money so we could buy them!
Fuck the system, then promptly run to the hospital and get tested for every STD known to mankind. I'll be you'd be suprised what would turn up. Seriously though, this is just a bunch of crap. The shit they shuffle around every four years means nothing. It means absolutely zero. What is happening in America is going to keep happening. It will continue to be a slow and steady progression into a protected country, where we are so protected that we won't even have the right to stand up in public for fear we might block someone's view and make them feel bad. God bless America! A perfect sentiment, considering that God (or at least the 'Christian' concept of God) isn't any more real than the 'protection' that the government is trying to propogate in its constant trampling of our rights. What a joke.
Um, innocent until proven guilty? Oh wait, I thought we still had rights.
Funny how in an age of technology rights don't matter at all. If someone hit an old lady with a car the same make as mine, could the government seize my car until they proved that I didn't do it? It seems like that's what they are doing to this guy. Why do they get to sieze your equipment until they 'prove' that you didn't do anything wrong? Something just doesn't seem right about that.
Well, in all actuality they aren't anything 'modern' as in the last two weeks. But I kind of like the Star Wars Pod Racing thingy (yeah I know, everyond else says it's lame as hell cause the graphics aren't perfect or some such). I also enjoyed the Tekken games (for some reason they are a little more enjoyable than the Mortal Kombat clan). And the last few Zelda games are pretty cool I guess (although I haven't yet gotten ahold of the newest one yet, on backorder).
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Most of us disliked the reviewer a long time ago. The only positive thing I can say about this review is the fact that Katz himself looks like a huge jackass for trying to "lay the smack down" on someone for saying the same shit he's said a billion times over. Of course, it's all a matter of perspective;-).
Have you studied history at all?
Tools can, and in most cases (if it's a major enough step) WILL change the society they are developed in/created in/used in. It's a fact. From the time the first caveman figured out he could fight a little better with a club in his hands just with his fists and henced developed a "stronger" culture than that of his neighbors, up to the Internet as a tool creating a more "in touch" society, tools change people and the society that those people live in.
I started having that problem when I took my current job as an IT administrator. Sitting all day isn't healthy, but there are things you can do to prevent the "but rot" problem (I was gaining major pounds for a while, and couldn't sleep at night because my body just wasn't tired).
So, for me the solution was to buy a weight set and force myself to workout every night for at least twenty minutes, plus whatever other exercises I can force myself to do. Not only does it help me sleep better, but I've taken off fifteen pounds in a couple of months and I'm still dropping. It's nice to be able to put my pants on without sucking in my breath in the morning again.;-)
Heh now, that's not completely fair. I watch Days of Our Lives. I don't know of any other soap opera that gets more ridiculous than that one and still seems to be attempting to be serious. Although, I haven't watched that many episodes of other ones (other than wrestling, which is definitely more soap opera for men than it is a sports oriented form of entertainment). Oh yeah, and if you think no one ever gets clotheslined on any other soap opera, you haven't seen some of the "cat fights" on those shows. Almost makes it worth watching.
I think both you and the other poster sort-of misunderstand the motivations. The opposite of geek is not another kind of geek. But what the hell, in the interest of geek-peace, yes.
And I thought that geeks hated wrestling! BTW, I wonder if Linda is pregnant yet? Of course, we all know the real reason Vince is gone is so that he can promote his new baby the XFL.
I realize I'm feeding a troll, but...
You do realize that people always rebel against whatever their parents are in to right? The chances of Torvalds' kids growing up as "geeks" are about as good as the chances that a debutantes kids won't go through a "I'm so oppressed" stage in their life. It's just probably not going to happen.
I suppose it's possible to "play with the source", but I doubt that it would be much fun, not to mention it would probably be messy.
I don't care what anyone says. Windows ME just sounds way way WAY too much like Sodomize ME in my head. At least, the translation to 'real person' from 'marktroid speak' makes it sound exactly the same.
I was gonna ask who pissed in your post toasties this morning, but then I was stupid enough to click on Read the rest of this comment.... and tada, trolltalk. Brilliant troll. You suckered me (yeah, I know, not a real difficult task).
Personally, anyone that tells you exchange administration is 'easier' than Unix solutions is crazy, but you do get that wonderful calendar all tied in with your email client. I've been looking at Unix based web calendars and other solutions, but haven't really found anything that our users will tolerate yet (maybe someone could point me in the right direction? We need a Unix/Linux server with Linux clients solution.).
Time makes all things cheaper. I bought a Pentium II 333 dual with 256 MB of ECC RAM after it was 'non-fashionable' and only paid a total of $1000, and that includes the SCSI controller and three kickass IBM 4 GB disks (now running in RAID!), plus my 16MB TNT vid card and ensonique AudioPCI card. If I bought the same stuff now though, it probably wouldn't cost me over $500.
Man, some of the four-processor capable cases made for the Xeon line are bigger than some coffins. Especially the ones made to support that made phat, RAIDalicious built-in SCSI, multi-drive arrays within the same case. I saw one where the case itself (which had to be purchased with the motherboard, the only case that would fit that motherboard to my understanding) was over 5,000 dollars just because of the massive amount of metal and cooling, not to mention the redundant power supplies for both motherboard and drive arrays. I can't wait to see the room size boxes for a P4 multi-CPU case when they finally do come out.
Wow, it seems like this guy always has interesting ideas to share on any technological or scientific breakthrough/necessity. The really cool thing is that most of the time he manages to be right, or at least on the right path to being right.
Pardon me, I need to go dig out some of my old books;-).
I actually had to explain the Golden Showers comment to my wife last night. Damn, she is such an innocent. (Hehe, but I'm working on that problem.)
I don't want to fit in at all because no matter what group you fit into people will assume that everything about you is defined by the group-think and you will no longer be percieved as a individual. I saw it over and over again growing up and still see it every day. It's depressing as hell, and I want no part of it.
BTW, having friends doesn't mean you fit in. I'm lucky, I've always managed to find three or four other people that don't 'fit-in' at all and we talk about how ridiculous the entire game is.
Boy, I'm glad I wasn't the only one.
Typically, the new-age psycho-analyzers say that you claiming you are trying to think for yourself means you just feel insecure with who you are and that is why you didn't 'fit-in'. Frankly, I'm with you. I didn't fit in because I didn't want to. If fitting in meant drinking, shooting up, and driving your car into a tree (or something equally intelligent), then I could do without it thanks.
If my wife saw you saying this, she would kick your ass too. (Whether it was true or not, she don't put up with people talking shit about her at all. Gotta love them fiery red-heads.)
I was a high school outcast and I would have killed to have been noticed 'less' rather than being considered cool by that bunch of losers that was the 'hip' crowd. If being considered cool meant having them look up to me, I'd sooner chop my own genitals off and eat them in front of a crowd.
Don't think that just because some outcasts really want to 'fit in' it applies to the rest of us. The entire concept of fitting in never appealed to me at all. And it still doesn't.
He answered in the original post, but he couldn't figure out how to create an account so he used that thing known as Anonymous Coward. He still doesn't understand why his response didn't garner more attention.
My wife would KICK YOUR ASS!
She hates WalMart and has cooked up some huge conspiracy theory whereby WalMart is going to somehow bring about the end of the world. It is one of the few things that actually makes me laugh at her is when she gets all red faced and ready to beat the shit out of anyone going near a WalMart just because she has this "WalMart will be the destruction of the world as we know it!" thing going on in her head.
Shh, don't tell her, but I still shop there.
LONESTAR!
Oh god, I love that movie. Spaceballs forever!
True enough, but at least some places don't go out of their way to try and distract you with a light show while they sneak up behind you. I'd much rather they just walk up, throw you over a table and get it over with. This pussyfooting around and 'I feel your pain' bullshit is making me sick. Oh well. That's what America is all about.
Well, at least some of us don't vote because of apathy and on principle.
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I never really appreciated politics in any situation (office politics, schoolroom politics, real-life politics (how's that for an oxymoron?)), but as I watched the 'big-time' elections I realized that the people really don't have any say at all in who gets into office. The primaries aren't 'really' primaries. The people don't get to choose who the candidates are going to be for the two big parties, that choice is made long before it is 'put to the vote' in the 'primaries'. I understand it didn't used to be this way, that people in any state could actually have a say in what candidate they wanted to represent their party even if they were a part of the big two. But not now. And if you support a third party candidate you are constantly told, over and over again, "If you vote for your candidate you just as well vote for the most evil of the two big candidates." (Which in this case is Bush. People know that if you are voting for a third party candidate (and don't get me started on how sick it is that we have to call the other six or seven candidates 'third party'), you would fear having Bush in office so much that you would rather swallow your pride and vote in Gore than face 4 years of Bush's maniacle bullshit.) So we are worn down and told that we don't have a choice, which, sadly enough, is basically true. We don't have a choice. We either vote for the lesser of the two evils, or we are 'wasting our vote' or worse, 'just as well be supporting the other guy'.
So we get pissed off at how innefectual it all seems. We can't make a difference. We can't have our voice heard. And we are treated like absolute scum because we don't have millions of dollars to throw in the right direction. We need to be 'protected' from what used to be considered rights. We shouldn't have the right to speak out against something, we shouldn't have the right to speak out for something (unless the 'moral majority' supports it), and we most certainly should just sit and chew our cud like a contented cow when we are told that they are going to remove another of our rights to 'protect the children'. And what can we do about this? We can either do nothing (and be told we are even more evil than before), or we can go vote for the candidate of the big two that will take away the least amount of rights.
The apathy is for a reason, and the reason is based on principle. So the two are tied together completely. It pisses me off to no end that no matter what I do I will be told I am an idiot and I have no right to complain. I have no right to complain if I don't vote (I have never understood this). And I have even less of a right to complain if I do vote (even if I didn't vote for the winner) because then I am supporting what has become a corrupt and evil system. It isn't about 'who will do right?, it is about 'who can pay the most for TV time?' or 'who can bullshit the best?' or
What happened to the days when people were elected based on qualifications? I don't really think this whole 'president' thing was thought of as being a chance for the most elite of the elite to get patted on the back (as it has turned into), but was supposed to be a chance to put a common man into control of the country so that the common man could have his views looked after properly. But instead, we now have life-long politicians that are hand fed money from the moment they are born deciding our fate for us, taking away rights, stealing our money, and telling us what evil, naughty, terrible people we are for saying that we should want to protect our 'rights'! Why the hell do we need to protect our rights? After all, if we wanted rights, we would have money so we could buy them!
Fuck the system, then promptly run to the hospital and get tested for every STD known to mankind. I'll be you'd be suprised what would turn up. Seriously though, this is just a bunch of crap. The shit they shuffle around every four years means nothing. It means absolutely zero. What is happening in America is going to keep happening. It will continue to be a slow and steady progression into a protected country, where we are so protected that we won't even have the right to stand up in public for fear we might block someone's view and make them feel bad. God bless America! A perfect sentiment, considering that God (or at least the 'Christian' concept of God) isn't any more real than the 'protection' that the government is trying to propogate in its constant trampling of our rights. What a joke.
Um, innocent until proven guilty? Oh wait, I thought we still had rights.
Funny how in an age of technology rights don't matter at all. If someone hit an old lady with a car the same make as mine, could the government seize my car until they proved that I didn't do it? It seems like that's what they are doing to this guy. Why do they get to sieze your equipment until they 'prove' that you didn't do anything wrong? Something just doesn't seem right about that.
Well, in all actuality they aren't anything 'modern' as in the last two weeks. But I kind of like the Star Wars Pod Racing thingy (yeah I know, everyond else says it's lame as hell cause the graphics aren't perfect or some such). I also enjoyed the Tekken games (for some reason they are a little more enjoyable than the Mortal Kombat clan). And the last few Zelda games are pretty cool I guess (although I haven't yet gotten ahold of the newest one yet, on backorder).