It occurs to me that man has lived on this Earth in one form or another for millions of years, and in those millions of years, have had computers for only the last 60 or so.
Networks have been in heavy use for about 30 years, and only in the last 10 has there been an upsurge is general access to computer networks (the Internet).
Somehow I think you would be able to survive in a hotel without broadband. You've made it this far.
I barely read your story but I get the gist that you want some easy way of knowing if a hotel has broadband or not.
Until the day comes when hotels begin advertising it commonly in some manner, why don't you fucking ask them yourself when you go to make reservations?
I've never heard of Lindo, but I have heard of Ladino, which is early modern Spanish that was used by the Sephardic Jews that subsequently changing (slightly) under the influence of Hebrew.
Ladino was the Romance dopplegänger to Yiddish, which has almost the same basic kind of story except that it's based on some of the Southern Hochdeutcsh dialects.
Anyways, I've read differently about Columbus, obviously, than you have. I think we'll have to agree to disagree since I don't intend to read any more about him ever again in my life.
I'm willing to leave it at "It's possible, I wasn't there, I don't care, won't ever know."
I was thinking of attending, but since the registration is so prohibitive and I am not willing to do 26 hours of driving (from Kansas City to MI and back) just to *try* to sneak in if I am to flame you in real life, I must opt out.
Columbus was searching for India on behalf of the Spanish crown (though Columbus himself was not Spanish, he was either Italian or Portugese, I can't remember. I think he was a Genoan).
And even though he was looking for something else, he discovered central American territories and, yes, did rape and capture the people living there. The diseases weren't a purposeful attack on the Americans, I'm sure, but decimated thousands anyway.
I have to agree later European explorers did all the nasty things too-- but Columbus was the first European under the sponsoship of a crown to commit the nasty deeds above.
I don't know about you, but I love having to plan an entire night for installing a window manager or web browser or database.
Ya know, it gives me time to pause and reflect on life while I'm searching for a million billion obscure libs, then attempting to compile them, the app, and of course parsing through dozens of conf files and changing a single setting nested within thousands of lines obfuscated crap.
I know I'd feel like a real weeny if all I had to do was download, decompress, install, and run a program. Mozilla is so much more satisfying to use when you download and compile it yourself, rather than using a silly binary!
Oh what gayness is in the Mac and Windows space. Even FreeBSD should be ashamed at its ports collection. Give me Linux any day like a real man.
Eat it up, you Slashdot janitor whores. I belt it tasted nice and bitter like one of my loads after a night of beer, coffee, and cigarettes running that Linuxless news bite on SimCity 4.
I never said they were. They did get the *BSD userland and libraries running on Mach (Darwin), though, but what I was referring to in desktop-readyness was Aqua and Quartz running on top of Darwin.
It was a balmy night in August, 1983, that Jobs held yet another beach party, this one with a special theme: who could come up with a mascot for the Mac development team? Of course the Apple II team was there and tensions, as always, were high. That didn't deter the Mac team from bringing their "pet," Clara, a cow they'd been raising on the Apple campus since birth.
Clara was birthed by the Mac team when they'd held a party on the Apple campus and had hired a bull-breeder as entertainment. All night long, the bull-breeder studded Hercules, his prize bull, with an assortment of cows. As the festivities continued on throughout the night, a strange moaning was coming from one of the trailers. One of the cows he'd brought with him was, unbeknownst to the bull-breeder, pregnant! The Mac development team, being the resourceful hackers they were, helped give birth to the calf, the mother losing its life in the process. The bull-breeder was so taken by the Mac dev team's efforts he let them keep the cow, which they named Clara.
Now, at the August 1983 beach party, the Mac team lobbied for Jobs to adopt Clara as the development mascot of the Macintosh. The Apple II team, spurned and bitter because of dwindling sales and neglect at the hand of Jobs, had brought their own mascot-- Cletus, a vicious Rotweiler they'd bought from a ruddy-faced streetman in the ghetto of Cupertino for $25. Cletus was a frothing, flea-and-mange ridden terror that barked at the least provocation. The Apple II team fed it raw goat meat and corrupted 5.25 floppies to make it mean. They also kicked it and made sure its chain was too tight at all time. Here at the party was their chance for revenge at Jobs and his favorite Mac development team.
As the night wore on, both the Apple II and Mac teams got drunker and drunker before Jobs called for a company vote on the mascot. What met the company's faces was something none of them could have imagined, however.
In their drunken, stoned stupor, the embittered Apple II team had snuck into Clara's trailer and cut the rear end of off Clara! Drugging her with ether to staunch her cries, they had used an electic chainsaw and cut her back legs and rectum cleanly off and taken them to the bonfire to cook and eat. They'd even fed some to the drunk Mac dev team! After they'd done this they forced their Cletus the foaming Rotweiler into the gaping hole in Clara's rear end. Eating away at his first real meal in months, Cletus became lodged in Clara's colon and couldn't break free. So when the Mac dev team opened Clara's trailer and led their pet down the ramp, they were met with a bloody, gut-strewn mess and a weird, unnatural animal call of "moof!"
The entire company was sickened by this and soon the sand was dotted with puddles of vomit. Cries of "moof, moof!" filled the air as the joined dog-cow trundled terribly along the beach, seizuring with each step, vomiting an icky mass of hair and blood, with a glazed look in its cow eyes. With a final shudder, the dog-cow fell and died, and the party-goers surrounded the putrid mess of bovine/canine flesh. Of course it didn't take long for the Mac dev team to discover the Apple II team's treachery and a bloody brawl ensued over the death of Clara. By the end of the night, the cow, the dog, and the Apple II team were simple piles of broken, bloody bones.
In light of the events that night, Jobs had no other choice to commemorate the tragic events that had unfurled and therefore made Apple's development mascot the dog-cow, "Clarus," a merging of the two animals names-- Cletus and Clara.
And that, for those who didn't know, is the origin of Clarus the dog-cow. Every time you click on a Mac OS easter-egg that utters "moof!" you can look back to the terrible events that August, 1983 night at the Apple beach party that brought you the Clarus, the dog-cow.
See, Vladinator (of Geekizoid) and all of the Adequacy editors were so jealous of my Scoop skills (I am 90% done with my customizations and graphics in 1/3 the time, and it looks better then eithers' sites) and so afraid of the competition I may represent (not just yet, fellas, you're jumping the gun) that they hacked my site into a sputtering, gurgling Error 500 / ISE monster.
So now what? Well, I am just gonna sit back and take it very patiently. For now.
Whoa to those who stand in my way, for nothing can stop me now, and vengeance will be akin to Hell to you.
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Hello Mr. Dodd,
It occurs to me that man has lived on this Earth in one form or another for millions of years, and in those millions of years, have had computers for only the last 60 or so.
Networks have been in heavy use for about 30 years, and only in the last 10 has there been an upsurge is general access to computer networks (the Internet).
Somehow I think you would be able to survive in a hotel without broadband. You've made it this far.
Cheers.
Hi.
I barely read your story but I get the gist that you want some easy way of knowing if a hotel has broadband or not.
Until the day comes when hotels begin advertising it commonly in some manner, why don't you fucking ask them yourself when you go to make reservations?
in't it?
"Get some priorities."
I know who not to donate money to next time.
No.
18 and up, please. I am not going back to jail (for something as stupid as jailbait).
I've never heard of Lindo, but I have heard of Ladino, which is early modern Spanish that was used by the Sephardic Jews that subsequently changing (slightly) under the influence of Hebrew.
Ladino was the Romance dopplegänger to Yiddish, which has almost the same basic kind of story except that it's based on some of the Southern Hochdeutcsh dialects.
Anyways, I've read differently about Columbus, obviously, than you have. I think we'll have to agree to disagree since I don't intend to read any more about him ever again in my life.
I'm willing to leave it at "It's possible, I wasn't there, I don't care, won't ever know."
And the Jews are relevant because? They've been universally hated and chased about since the Romans knocked them for a loop right out of Israel.
Pox infested blankest mean nothing. The fact that Europeans set foot on Amerindian soil is contamination enough.
I was thinking of attending, but since the registration is so prohibitive and I am not willing to do 26 hours of driving (from Kansas City to MI and back) just to *try* to sneak in if I am to flame you in real life, I must opt out.
Consider this a rain check.
It's all laid out here in Stepson's Trollaxor.com diary.
Columbus was searching for India on behalf of the Spanish crown (though Columbus himself was not Spanish, he was either Italian or Portugese, I can't remember. I think he was a Genoan).
And even though he was looking for something else, he discovered central American territories and, yes, did rape and capture the people living there. The diseases weren't a purposeful attack on the Americans, I'm sure, but decimated thousands anyway.
I have to agree later European explorers did all the nasty things too-- but Columbus was the first European under the sponsoship of a crown to commit the nasty deeds above.
I really hope you're not defending Columbus.
I thought it was traditionally accepted that Columbus did the discovering.
He discovered new and interesting peoples with whom he could enslave, sicken, murder, and rape.
Great man, great man. Right up there with Sharon and Stalin.
I don't know about you, but I love having to plan an entire night for installing a window manager or web browser or database.
Ya know, it gives me time to pause and reflect on life while I'm searching for a million billion obscure libs, then attempting to compile them, the app, and of course parsing through dozens of conf files and changing a single setting nested within thousands of lines obfuscated crap.
I know I'd feel like a real weeny if all I had to do was download, decompress, install, and run a program. Mozilla is so much more satisfying to use when you download and compile it yourself, rather than using a silly binary!
Oh what gayness is in the Mac and Windows space. Even FreeBSD should be ashamed at its ports collection. Give me Linux any day like a real man.
Up my ass.
Nowhere, that's where!
Eat it up, you Slashdot janitor whores. I belt it tasted nice and bitter like one of my loads after a night of beer, coffee, and cigarettes running that Linuxless news bite on SimCity 4.
no no. i haven't laughed so hard at anything on slashdot in months.
lol
is a fucking faggot.
Come on, chrisd, mod me down you dickless asshole-licker!
My odometer turned over 88,000 miles today. Oh, and I ran my waste disposal with a penny in it by accident.
This belongs on the front page! At least according to what else is there nowadays.
Sheesh.
Hi there. Maybe you missed my point. Mac OS X is technically considered a *nix.
It ships on a mainstream PC.
*nix on the desktop that works. At least much better than Linux.
Please reread ths thread from the parent I replied to.
Moron.
YAPWMP (Yet another person who missed the point)
Darwin is a *nix. Mac OS X is Darwin with several proprietary add-ons running on Darwin.
Mac OS X comes installed on every Mac as the primary OS and has been shipping since a year ago.
Ergo, Mac OS X is *nix on the desktop, created after 4 years of work on NeXTSTEP.
What don't you get?
I never said they were. They did get the *BSD userland and libraries running on Mach (Darwin), though, but what I was referring to in desktop-readyness was Aqua and Quartz running on top of Darwin.
Funny, it took Apple just 4 years to do something that *nix has been trying at for over a decade (if you count Linux especially).
Morons.
That's confidential. Or something.
Most likely Rob will actually have to come up with a saleable product if he wants to stay out of tenement apartments.
Tenement Funster ?
It's a well known fact that Apple, since its inception, has been a haven for "free thinkers" and "progressive thought," heralded by none other than famous acid-tripping Steve Jobs and his hippy buddies from California. It was on one of the famous beach parties, notorious for getting out of hand, that Clarus was born.
It was a balmy night in August, 1983, that Jobs held yet another beach party, this one with a special theme: who could come up with a mascot for the Mac development team? Of course the Apple II team was there and tensions, as always, were high. That didn't deter the Mac team from bringing their "pet," Clara, a cow they'd been raising on the Apple campus since birth.
Clara was birthed by the Mac team when they'd held a party on the Apple campus and had hired a bull-breeder as entertainment. All night long, the bull-breeder studded Hercules, his prize bull, with an assortment of cows. As the festivities continued on throughout the night, a strange moaning was coming from one of the trailers. One of the cows he'd brought with him was, unbeknownst to the bull-breeder, pregnant! The Mac development team, being the resourceful hackers they were, helped give birth to the calf, the mother losing its life in the process. The bull-breeder was so taken by the Mac dev team's efforts he let them keep the cow, which they named Clara.
Now, at the August 1983 beach party, the Mac team lobbied for Jobs to adopt Clara as the development mascot of the Macintosh. The Apple II team, spurned and bitter because of dwindling sales and neglect at the hand of Jobs, had brought their own mascot-- Cletus, a vicious Rotweiler they'd bought from a ruddy-faced streetman in the ghetto of Cupertino for $25. Cletus was a frothing, flea-and-mange ridden terror that barked at the least provocation. The Apple II team fed it raw goat meat and corrupted 5.25 floppies to make it mean. They also kicked it and made sure its chain was too tight at all time. Here at the party was their chance for revenge at Jobs and his favorite Mac development team.
As the night wore on, both the Apple II and Mac teams got drunker and drunker before Jobs called for a company vote on the mascot. What met the company's faces was something none of them could have imagined, however.
In their drunken, stoned stupor, the embittered Apple II team had snuck into Clara's trailer and cut the rear end of off Clara! Drugging her with ether to staunch her cries, they had used an electic chainsaw and cut her back legs and rectum cleanly off and taken them to the bonfire to cook and eat. They'd even fed some to the drunk Mac dev team! After they'd done this they forced their Cletus the foaming Rotweiler into the gaping hole in Clara's rear end. Eating away at his first real meal in months, Cletus became lodged in Clara's colon and couldn't break free. So when the Mac dev team opened Clara's trailer and led their pet down the ramp, they were met with a bloody, gut-strewn mess and a weird, unnatural animal call of "moof!"
The entire company was sickened by this and soon the sand was dotted with puddles of vomit. Cries of "moof, moof!" filled the air as the joined dog-cow trundled terribly along the beach, seizuring with each step, vomiting an icky mass of hair and blood, with a glazed look in its cow eyes. With a final shudder, the dog-cow fell and died, and the party-goers surrounded the putrid mess of bovine/canine flesh. Of course it didn't take long for the Mac dev team to discover the Apple II team's treachery and a bloody brawl ensued over the death of Clara. By the end of the night, the cow, the dog, and the Apple II team were simple piles of broken, bloody bones.
In light of the events that night, Jobs had no other choice to commemorate the tragic events that had unfurled and therefore made Apple's development mascot the dog-cow, "Clarus," a merging of the two animals names-- Cletus and Clara.
And that, for those who didn't know, is the origin of Clarus the dog-cow. Every time you click on a Mac OS easter-egg that utters "moof!" you can look back to the terrible events that August, 1983 night at the Apple beach party that brought you the Clarus, the dog-cow.
Nice fucking post.
and as i sit here and wait to hit "submit" i am reminded that my site has no post-wait limits. *sigh* I hate slashdot.
n/t
Today, Trollaxor.com was supposed to go live.
Is it?
NO!
Why?
A conspiracy against me.
See, Vladinator (of Geekizoid) and all of the Adequacy editors were so jealous of my Scoop skills (I am 90% done with my customizations and graphics in 1/3 the time, and it looks better then eithers' sites) and so afraid of the competition I may represent (not just yet, fellas, you're jumping the gun) that they hacked my site into a sputtering, gurgling Error 500 / ISE monster.
So now what? Well, I am just gonna sit back and take it very patiently. For now.
Whoa to those who stand in my way, for nothing can stop me now, and vengeance will be akin to Hell to you.