I suppose you don't like well designed and laid-out websites...perhaps you would prefer a giant text file of info
What does that have to do with external entities trying to 'manage my experience'?
I like a well designed and laid out book, but I don't want it dynamically changing based on how some external entity thinks I should peruse it. I prefer to use an index or table of context rather than have the book try to divine my intent.
Likewise with a web site. What on the net REQUIRES 'management of user experiences?'. Banking? I could find my account page just fine if they'd cut the cruft and make it lean and mean instead of fat and bloated. Shopping? I know what I want when I go to the site... I don't need junk flashed in my face. Reading the news? Likewise, I don't need some half-assed AI smacking me in the face with stuff I could just as easily find using a search or a table of contents or an index.
I have personally resigned the phrase 'begs the question' to the trash heap of vulgar language, and unless I'm talking to a man of letters and not the general public, I don't use the phrase. It's 'more proper' usage is all but useless in the 'real world' .
It's too bad, but such is life and language. The vulgar consistantly take words with precise and definate meanings and sully them. I guess what I'm saying is that to try to fight that kind of degredation is an exercise in futility and never ending frustration, and is best avoided.
It raises the question. Begging the question means something completely different.
Not any more, Poindexter. The definition has changed. Languages have a tendency to do that, just as pedants have a tendency to want to see their language cast in stone.
so my little crusade has won another small victory.
No way, man. I'm the MASTER of the mind fuck. You're just a crusader. You think he changed his sig because of your mod point and your 'tisk tisk'? No way, dude. This guy went and changed his frickin' SIG, and it was not due to you stomping your little feet but due to ME thrusting the sword... and twisting.
What a douche. What you need some help in is achieving some class and some self-respect.
I'm goddamned sick and tired of the schemes. Everyone has their goddamned hand out on this thing, and I'll not hesitate to piss on anyone who acts like a dickhead.
don't know that there are other options out there with which they can do all the things they do now.
And more! Linux is WAY better at giving you options and stuff to do.
Like last week, my printer stopped working on my Slackware box, for some reason. Yeah, baby, I was in Fat City! I got to read man pages, learn a LOT about CUPS, for almost three hours of sheer unadulterated bliss! Windows, on the other hand, is not half as much fun. You just plug it in, and then what? I just worked. No tweaking? No man pages? No research on the net and with five inch thick books? Feh.
My girlfriend and I had countless hours of inspired convesation about how we really don't need to use Word or Excel to do the work on the.doc and.xls files our bosses send us. We can open our documents in Open Office, and it looks pretty good! Not EXACTLY what the boss wanted, but close enough, and it's FREE! And it's FUN dealing with those imported Word tables! Endless hours of joy cutting and pasting and re-formatting.
Oh, but it's the games in Linux which are the best. Getting OpenGL to work on my Slackware box... ahhhh, the memories. Kodak moments, all. And the dependencies! Wow, how much fun is THAT? My nipples are getting hard just thinking about it! Sure, half the games that supposedly worked on Linux I never could get to run, but the fun is in the journey, not the destination.
So, my friend, you are wrong. It's not that you "can do all the things they do now". The truth is, you end up doing that, and SO MUCH MORE!
but when's the firmware update coming that supports Ogg.
When it stops being cool. They want all the cool kids to use ones first, and after they have sold all that they can to the cool kids, they'll support ogg and go for the smelly, maladjusted, tape-on-the-glasses market.
Last time I did the numbers, I believe it came out to 7,000 or so people die every day in America. The way we were blubbering and pleading to God for mercy for the couple thousand who died in 9/11... I mean, more people died of NATURAL causes in American on that September day then due to the bombing.
So relax, do the math, and don't get all caught up in the hysteria.
Boy, have I. I just powered down my Slackware box and powered up my new XT box this past week, as a matter of fact.
See, the printer stopped working on my Slack install. I spent several hours to no avail.
It was the last straw. I'm a busy man. I work 37.5 hours writing software, and while I was willing to dick around with OS's "in my spare time" when I was younger, I've since lost my gumption or perhaps my sense of humor.
Fax in Slack? What a pain in the ass. Then there was the time my APC UPS wasn't talking to Slack. Never could get it to work. Finally rigged the goddammed Slackware box up so it knew power was out by polling an old modem.
Yeah, I know, I know, I picked Slackware, so what did I expect. You caught me at a bad time, when I've succombed to the dark side. Perhaps I should have tried Ubuntu. But my girlfriend got sick of excuses as to why she couldn't print, or use Excel or Word. I got sick of MAKING excuses and learning WAY to much about the OS when I just wanted a platform to do the Internet, and run my work. That, I've got. We'll see how long I can keep the goblins out of my new install.
Actually the "first post" fad is fad that may never die!
It will never die as long as there are maladjusted, closeted homosexuals interested in appealing to and impressing other maladjusted, closeted homosexuals in a sad attempt to gain attention and the opportunity to give head.
Damn, I knew we shouldnt have had Microsoft program HAL
Yeah, 'cuz if it was Linux, the controller card for the cargo bay door wouldn't be recognized, they'd have to refer to the spec sheets to make sure they weren't over-torquing the motors, and they would have to launch VIM to tweak the config files, all the while having two or three man pages open along with a couple of poorly written doorstops masquerading as system manuals wedged open. But they would be 'leet.
"Come on... SEVEN! Baby needs new funding! The shooter is hot! Come on.... MAKE THE POINT! Ohhhh, loser. Crapped out. Let's try again. Come on... SEVEN!"
Yeah! How dumb can Google be? The first day they offer their beta service, and what do they go for first? Windows! Go figure! They're not going to make any money with THAT kind of thinking! Everybody KNOWS it's the Linux community which is the one to go to when you are a for-profit entity.
I don't care. The ad industry has gotten so obnoxious and full of itself, I want to see it die, and I don't care what it takes with it.
I know this is probably not in my own best interest, but, like I said, I don't care. When I get this pissed off about a thing, sometimes logic goes out the window, and what will happen to the 'free internet' is secondary to my desire to see slimeballs like that double-click guy flushed down the crapper.
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How come no one ever says "I love porn!"
Because our society has conditoned people to believe that only "no good shits" like porn, and nobody wants to be viewed as a "no good shit".
I suppose you don't like well designed and laid-out websites...perhaps you would prefer a giant text file of info
What does that have to do with external entities trying to 'manage my experience'?
I like a well designed and laid out book, but I don't want it dynamically changing based on how some external entity thinks I should peruse it. I prefer to use an index or table of context rather than have the book try to divine my intent.
Likewise with a web site. What on the net REQUIRES 'management of user experiences?'. Banking? I could find my account page just fine if they'd cut the cruft and make it lean and mean instead of fat and bloated. Shopping? I know what I want when I go to the site... I don't need junk flashed in my face. Reading the news? Likewise, I don't need some half-assed AI smacking me in the face with stuff I could just as easily find using a search or a table of contents or an index.
"So cookies are a really good thing for managing the user's experience" says a USA Today markedroid.
Clueless. Absolutly clueless. This goes straight to the heart of the matter. They can't understand why people don't want their 'experience managed'.
I can manage my own goddamned experience, thanks anyway. Keep your filthy paws offa me.
I hear you, and certainly commiserate.
I have personally resigned the phrase 'begs the question' to the trash heap of vulgar language, and unless I'm talking to a man of letters and not the general public, I don't use the phrase. It's 'more proper' usage is all but useless in the 'real world' .
It's too bad, but such is life and language. The vulgar consistantly take words with precise and definate meanings and sully them. I guess what I'm saying is that to try to fight that kind of degredation is an exercise in futility and never ending frustration, and is best avoided.
It raises the question. Begging the question means something completely different.
Not any more, Poindexter. The definition has changed. Languages have a tendency to do that, just as pedants have a tendency to want to see their language cast in stone.
so my little crusade has won another small victory.
No way, man. I'm the MASTER of the mind fuck. You're just a crusader. You think he changed his sig because of your mod point and your 'tisk tisk'? No way, dude. This guy went and changed his frickin' SIG, and it was not due to you stomping your little feet but due to ME thrusting the sword... and twisting.
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What a douche. What you need some help in is achieving some class and some self-respect.
I'm goddamned sick and tired of the schemes. Everyone has their goddamned hand out on this thing, and I'll not hesitate to piss on anyone who acts like a dickhead.
On the icon bar on the main page, you can see Tux strip. I don't need that kind of imagery, thanks anyway, Taco.
don't know that there are other options out there with which they can do all the things they do now.
.doc and .xls files our bosses send us. We can open our documents in Open Office, and it looks pretty good! Not EXACTLY what the boss wanted, but close enough, and it's FREE! And it's FUN dealing with those imported Word tables! Endless hours of joy cutting and pasting and re-formatting.
And more! Linux is WAY better at giving you options and stuff to do.
Like last week, my printer stopped working on my Slackware box, for some reason. Yeah, baby, I was in Fat City! I got to read man pages, learn a LOT about CUPS, for almost three hours of sheer unadulterated bliss! Windows, on the other hand, is not half as much fun. You just plug it in, and then what? I just worked. No tweaking? No man pages? No research on the net and with five inch thick books? Feh.
My girlfriend and I had countless hours of inspired convesation about how we really don't need to use Word or Excel to do the work on the
Oh, but it's the games in Linux which are the best. Getting OpenGL to work on my Slackware box... ahhhh, the memories. Kodak moments, all. And the dependencies! Wow, how much fun is THAT? My nipples are getting hard just thinking about it! Sure, half the games that supposedly worked on Linux I never could get to run, but the fun is in the journey, not the destination.
So, my friend, you are wrong. It's not that you "can do all the things they do now". The truth is, you end up doing that, and SO MUCH MORE!
No it's not. It jives with my understanding.
Technically, they could sick the cops
Technically, that would be sic
but when's the firmware update coming that supports Ogg.
When it stops being cool. They want all the cool kids to use ones first, and after they have sold all that they can to the cool kids, they'll support ogg and go for the smelly, maladjusted, tape-on-the-glasses market.
I refuse to accept being blown up
Don't worry, you won't.
Last time I did the numbers, I believe it came out to 7,000 or so people die every day in America. The way we were blubbering and pleading to God for mercy for the couple thousand who died in 9/11... I mean, more people died of NATURAL causes in American on that September day then due to the bombing.
So relax, do the math, and don't get all caught up in the hysteria.
Secondly, have you used Linux lately?
Boy, have I. I just powered down my Slackware box and powered up my new XT box this past week, as a matter of fact.
See, the printer stopped working on my Slack install. I spent several hours to no avail.
It was the last straw. I'm a busy man. I work 37.5 hours writing software, and while I was willing to dick around with OS's "in my spare time" when I was younger, I've since lost my gumption or perhaps my sense of humor.
Fax in Slack? What a pain in the ass. Then there was the time my APC UPS wasn't talking to Slack. Never could get it to work. Finally rigged the goddammed Slackware box up so it knew power was out by polling an old modem.
Yeah, I know, I know, I picked Slackware, so what did I expect. You caught me at a bad time, when I've succombed to the dark side. Perhaps I should have tried Ubuntu. But my girlfriend got sick of excuses as to why she couldn't print, or use Excel or Word. I got sick of MAKING excuses and learning WAY to much about the OS when I just wanted a platform to do the Internet, and run my work. That, I've got. We'll see how long I can keep the goblins out of my new install.
Actually the "first post" fad is fad that may never die!
It will never die as long as there are maladjusted, closeted homosexuals interested in appealing to and impressing other maladjusted, closeted homosexuals in a sad attempt to gain attention and the opportunity to give head.
Damn, I knew we shouldnt have had Microsoft program HAL
Yeah, 'cuz if it was Linux, the controller card for the cargo bay door wouldn't be recognized, they'd have to refer to the spec sheets to make sure they weren't over-torquing the motors, and they would have to launch VIM to tweak the config files, all the while having two or three man pages open along with a couple of poorly written doorstops masquerading as system manuals wedged open. But they would be 'leet.
Here's my impression of NASA:
"Come on... SEVEN! Baby needs new funding! The shooter is hot! Come on.... MAKE THE POINT! Ohhhh, loser. Crapped out. Let's try again. Come on... SEVEN!"
Ahh, take your thorazine. And by the way, it's almost time for Wapner.
I think his name was "LaFayette", which explains why he went by "Ron".
Ah. I see. For a second, I thought his mom gave him a weird name.
L Ron Hubbard didn't wait thousands of
What kind of parent names her child 'L'. No wonder he came up with all those whacky ideas later in life.
Actually, I always thought his name was "Elron"
Yeah! How dumb can Google be? The first day they offer their beta service, and what do they go for first? Windows! Go figure! They're not going to make any money with THAT kind of thinking! Everybody KNOWS it's the Linux community which is the one to go to when you are a for-profit entity.
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That's all I've got to say. That app is AWESOME.
The guys at MapQuest have got to be feeling like total losers these days. It's hard to believe I once thought MapQuest was cool.
I don't care. The ad industry has gotten so obnoxious and full of itself, I want to see it die, and I don't care what it takes with it.
I know this is probably not in my own best interest, but, like I said, I don't care. When I get this pissed off about a thing, sometimes logic goes out the window, and what will happen to the 'free internet' is secondary to my desire to see slimeballs like that double-click guy flushed down the crapper.
Pipe Wrench?