So somebody sends out annoying emails. Perhaps they even do some squirrely things to do so. But good god, man -- it's an email. Throwing someone into a place reserved for killers and rapists and then summarily depriving them of all modern forms of communication might make you feel better about your overly self-important sense of time, but that does not justify the evil of the deed.
Repeat after me: your life, just like mine and most everyone else's, is inherently meaningless. It has not been somehow made even less valuable because you had to hit the delete key. Spam is annoying. Spam is nothing more than that -- it does not deserve "hard jail time". We live in a world veering towards a police state quickly enough as is -- and the inability to take a deep breath just because you got an email for something you don't want need not push us there faster.
Hmm. The knight inside the hall said, ""The Grail cannot pass beyond the Great Seal. That is the boundry, and the price of immortality." I've always taken that to mean that the grail cannot leave, and that anyone who drinks from it even once is immortal *within* the boundaries of the hall -- that is, they do not age while within it. I suppose either of our interpretations works.
Indiana was only immortal in the actual hall of the grail. That is why the knight who guarded the grail was able to stay alive for so long, but never leave the hall -- the grail's gift of immortality did not extend past the seal on the floor.
Radiohead is a hit-per-album band? Goodness, man. I'm not flaming you -- you're entitled to your opinion -- but please, pick up a copy of Ok Computer and listen to it through a few times. Only two songs *ever* made it on the radio, and I only heard them a handful of times.
I don't dig the other artists mentioned, but Radiohead is probably closer to Pink Floyd in releasing concept albums than any of the other artists on the list. I'm sketchy on the whole forcing-people-to-hear-it-all thing, but there is certainly *some* point to what these guys are saying. They've created something (or at least attempted to), and they may have a right to have it heard *as* that.
Warum sprechen Sie Deutsch hier? Es ist klar, dass Sie konnen Englisch. Glauben Sie dass schreiben auf Deutsch machen Sie kuhl? Oder ist es noch etwas?
I definitely do NOT want total strangers bugging me while I'm trying to do something on my TiBook anymore than I'd want them to yammer away on a cel phone while I'm trying to watch a movie. Somebody hurt this moron.
So...because you don't want this, it's a bad thing? Is anyone forcing you to download and isntall it? Simple solution: don't run it and you won't be bothered when you're busy with whatever McTask that is so important. Problem solved.
Why so violent over someone designing something potentially neat?
Companies need money to operate. By and large, that money comes from your buying their products. If you think their products crash too much, stop buying them -- don't waste my tax dollar on more legislation that will simply be "overlooked" when it comes to a corporation that has enough of your cash to pay for someone to look the other way.
1. Periods come at the ends of sentences, even if you have those fancy quo-ta-tation marks.
2. Using "fsck" instead of "fuck" is lame.
3. The proper term is fuckwit (fsckwit if being lame, see point 2). It implies that the person being insulted has little or no intelligence or metal power ("wit"). A whit is an informal measurement term for something very small. Now, perhaps you meant he was only a fuck to a small degree?
4. Writing an insulting post on Slashdot because someone made a mistake is ridiculous, and makes you look even more stupid than the original poster. For example, look at this post -- see? Good. Now don't do it again.
So you're saying that Microsoft takes a long view of difficult situations, doesn't jump onto a bandwagon, isn't afraid to hold firm to its convictions in the face of bullying by the American government, and understands that security doesn't always boil down to just throwing the biggest guns you have at a problem and hoping it goes away?
Lately (the past few weeks), there have been a number of.gifs that you cannot see, linked to the search page. No word on why they're there, or WTF they are supposed to be.
Knoppix actually works quite well. You won't be able to do the lilo setup, but grub works just fine -- I'd highly reccomend it over trying to set things up with cygwin, which is sometimes a bit funky about gcc and glibc versions.
We aren't depriving them of options. However, idiocy and laziness are not things to be rewarded; at some point, you need to move out of your parents basement and start facing the world on your own feet, metaphorically speaking. If you want to do it differently, go ahead -- but that means *you'll* have to do it differently.
Perhaps I am elitist. I believe that most people, aside from being horrendously lazy, are relatively bright and capable. I believe that wanting Somebody Else To Make It Easy is a major problem facing us all, and wanting SuSe or RedHat to shield you from the compiling something to be just like you want it to be is endemic of that problem.
So keep on living in that no-responsibility shell. Eventually, this push towards "easy" instead of "correct" will be complete, and you won't have to think or learn, ever. It won't matter if you're running Windows or Linux -- because goodness, if you care to put effort into something, you must be fanatical!
If you decide to pay for the "convinience" of a boxed distro, you're going to have to accept that everything might not be exactly as you want it. You might not realize or care about some things, but if you make the decision to not think about compiling (obscure? to who?), you live with the consequences of that decision.
It's kind of like buying a car with an automatic transmission rather than one with a manual gearbox. The full potential of the vehicle is not realized, but it's easier for a "newbie". If someone wants the full power that the engine can deliver, they should buy a manual, and learn the "obscure" procedure for driving it.
*refrains from making the obvious "side effect of liberalism" crack*
Quite a dive, and I still have one of those little "Gone to Pee" drink things in my wallet from there. At 17 (I mean, "At 21! Really!"), it was nifty to hang with the rest of the office (@stake) and share a few drinks. I didn't get enough of a chance to do that back in Boston.
I have (briefly) met the Cap'n, at H2k. He was trying to get boys to come to his room for "massages"; I stayed away from him for the rest of the convention.
Admirably good hacker != cool person. (Not sure whether I'd call John "admirably good" or not, but his propositions to people at H2k did strike me as a bit creepy. Of course, H2k also had an "orgy" that flopped -- or at least I assume it did since the organizers were selling T-Shirts the next day to recoup their losses -- and a stick of dynamite thrown from the roof of the hotel.)
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Nice attitude. I'm glad that you're comfortable being so wrapped up in yourself that the murder of another human being would bring you happiness.
So somebody sends out annoying emails. Perhaps they even do some squirrely things to do so. But good god, man -- it's an email. Throwing someone into a place reserved for killers and rapists and then summarily depriving them of all modern forms of communication might make you feel better about your overly self-important sense of time, but that does not justify the evil of the deed.
Repeat after me: your life, just like mine and most everyone else's, is inherently meaningless. It has not been somehow made even less valuable because you had to hit the delete key. Spam is annoying. Spam is nothing more than that -- it does not deserve "hard jail time". We live in a world veering towards a police state quickly enough as is -- and the inability to take a deep breath just because you got an email for something you don't want need not push us there faster.
Oh, right. Discussion of movies isn't good anymore. Just watch and then buy the related merchandise. Sorry about that...
You should also pick up The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemmingway.
Hmm. The knight inside the hall said, ""The Grail cannot pass beyond the Great Seal. That is the boundry, and the price of immortality." I've always taken that to mean that the grail cannot leave, and that anyone who drinks from it even once is immortal *within* the boundaries of the hall -- that is, they do not age while within it. I suppose either of our interpretations works.
Indiana was only immortal in the actual hall of the grail. That is why the knight who guarded the grail was able to stay alive for so long, but never leave the hall -- the grail's gift of immortality did not extend past the seal on the floor.
Yeah! We'll show DirectTV that if they abuse the legal system and rape people in the ass, we'll willingly cough up the KY Jelly!
I don't dig the other artists mentioned, but Radiohead is probably closer to Pink Floyd in releasing concept albums than any of the other artists on the list. I'm sketchy on the whole forcing-people-to-hear-it-all thing, but there is certainly *some* point to what these guys are saying. They've created something (or at least attempted to), and they may have a right to have it heard *as* that.
oh, and why are speaking german Cray MCP?
You, apparently, do not.
Warum sprechen Sie Deutsch hier? Es ist klar, dass Sie konnen Englisch. Glauben Sie dass schreiben auf Deutsch machen Sie kuhl? Oder ist es noch etwas?
So...because you don't want this, it's a bad thing? Is anyone forcing you to download and isntall it? Simple solution: don't run it and you won't be bothered when you're busy with whatever McTask that is so important. Problem solved.
Why so violent over someone designing something potentially neat?
Companies need money to operate. By and large, that money comes from your buying their products. If you think their products crash too much, stop buying them -- don't waste my tax dollar on more legislation that will simply be "overlooked" when it comes to a corporation that has enough of your cash to pay for someone to look the other way.
2. Using "fsck" instead of "fuck" is lame.
3. The proper term is fuckwit (fsckwit if being lame, see point 2). It implies that the person being insulted has little or no intelligence or metal power ("wit"). A whit is an informal measurement term for something very small. Now, perhaps you meant he was only a fuck to a small degree?
4. Writing an insulting post on Slashdot because someone made a mistake is ridiculous, and makes you look even more stupid than the original poster. For example, look at this post -- see? Good. Now don't do it again.
While waiting for your kernel to recompile you can skullfuck your computer Actually, that feature has been present since 2.4.17.
Yeah, I guess you're right.
Lately (the past few weeks), there have been a number of .gifs that you cannot see, linked to the search page. No word on why they're there, or WTF they are supposed to be.
Or the desire to support text-only browsers. :p
Knoppix actually works quite well. You won't be able to do the lilo setup, but grub works just fine -- I'd highly reccomend it over trying to set things up with cygwin, which is sometimes a bit funky about gcc and glibc versions.
When you call vi "crust old smelly", it isn't even a challenge. Go crash Word, troll.
Perhaps I am elitist. I believe that most people, aside from being horrendously lazy, are relatively bright and capable. I believe that wanting Somebody Else To Make It Easy is a major problem facing us all, and wanting SuSe or RedHat to shield you from the compiling something to be just like you want it to be is endemic of that problem.
So keep on living in that no-responsibility shell. Eventually, this push towards "easy" instead of "correct" will be complete, and you won't have to think or learn, ever. It won't matter if you're running Windows or Linux -- because goodness, if you care to put effort into something, you must be fanatical!
*sigh*
If you decide to pay for the "convinience" of a boxed distro, you're going to have to accept that everything might not be exactly as you want it. You might not realize or care about some things, but if you make the decision to not think about compiling (obscure? to who?), you live with the consequences of that decision.
It's kind of like buying a car with an automatic transmission rather than one with a manual gearbox. The full potential of the vehicle is not realized, but it's easier for a "newbie". If someone wants the full power that the engine can deliver, they should buy a manual, and learn the "obscure" procedure for driving it.
*refrains from making the obvious "side effect of liberalism" crack*
Is "uki" the diminutive in Japanese? If so, that's a really cool idea for a name -- worth passing along to the mozilla devs, at least.
Quite a dive, and I still have one of those little "Gone to Pee" drink things in my wallet from there. At 17 (I mean, "At 21! Really!"), it was nifty to hang with the rest of the office (@stake) and share a few drinks. I didn't get enough of a chance to do that back in Boston.
I have (briefly) met the Cap'n, at H2k. He was trying to get boys to come to his room for "massages"; I stayed away from him for the rest of the convention. Admirably good hacker != cool person. (Not sure whether I'd call John "admirably good" or not, but his propositions to people at H2k did strike me as a bit creepy. Of course, H2k also had an "orgy" that flopped -- or at least I assume it did since the organizers were selling T-Shirts the next day to recoup their losses -- and a stick of dynamite thrown from the roof of the hotel.)
How much?