Hey everybody, let's prepare for the millenium by wallowing in antiquated sterotypes!!!
What a nutcase. I wonder if she really believes all the crap she's spewing, or if she's just trying to cash in (looking, no doubt, to capture the same audience as those Intel commercials that tell you getting a Pentium III will speed up the Internet).
What will future sociologists make of this book? Incidentally, have any of you ever seen some of the hysteria surrounding the last fin de siecle? I bet this looks just as hilarious to our grandkids.
Hopefully you'd be able to do this only through a special BIOS mode. That way, you'd have to reboot from the console to do the Flashdance on your CPU.;) Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
Who gives a shit if it "wins"? All I want is to run Linux and open-source software on it. If the company goes belly-up, I'll still be happily compiling the latest code from CVS. World domination is an O.K. goal, but Quinn's desktop domination is all I ask.;) Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
You've really hit the nail on the head. What's so great about history? History is littered with instances of one stupid little group persecuting another one for no better reason than their existing as distinct groups. I've studied history and seen enough prejudice, subjection, and genocide to make me sick for life.
Strangely, all these petty differences don't seem to matter to people on the 'Net. Is it because we are more educated, younger, and more idealistic than society at large--in other words, because of simple demographics? --or is it because of the very nature of the medium, which makes you smart and critical by letting you select what you want to read, and allows you to communicate with individuals instead of groups, removed from a cultural context?
I'm betting it's both. At any rate, I like the present better than any other time in history.
PS: Read Kurt Vonnegut's latest novel, Timequake, for a more detailed and eloquent desconstruction of the idea of learning from history than I can hope to give. It's a fast read--only about an hour long. It's not the best Vonnegut, but it's worth the time. Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
I wholeheartedly agree. In fact, I think it would be better in general to filter articles by author rather than by poster. That way we can all attend to what we like and avoid conversations like this one. Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
Ya know, your comparison to fast food is a good one. It's even more interesting to me that you complain about comparisons of computers to TVs. One of my pet peeves is the tendency of certain users--especially Mac users--to equate computers with appliances. They wail, "My computer should be as easy to use as my TV!" Well, damn it, it's not a TV. It's not an appliance at all! It's a general-purpose information-processing engine, capable of performing any operation that can be expressed algorithmically. An appliance is a rigid, Turing-incomplete machine useful for one thing only. If your computer is acting like an appliance, there's something seriously wrong with it. The whole point of computers is to let you think outside the box. Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
It's an ironic but unequivocal sign that Linux has arrived: All the mindless and mercenary hangers-on who blindly followed Microsoft for a decade are trying to follow us, because "the market is with us". The good news is that these people are not a threat to our jobs because they are generally incompetent. The bad news is that they will malign Linux because it requires a frontal lobe to configure. The even worst news is that the brighter among them will manage to get a system working, then configure and administer it in such a half- assed way as to make Linux look bad: memory-hogging, insecure, devoid of a good desktop . . . It's a pity. One thing I would like to see, actually, is a Linux distro that comes secure out of the box (read: no damn inet services started by default!)
Anyway, the industry can't move forward on its belly. It's our responsibility to exceed these people and do things right, as we've been doing for years--and, in a sadly high number of cases, to clean up their mistakes (but never to take the blame). Maybe someday there won't be such a drastic shortage of IT workers, and their asses will be tossed out the door. In the meantime, somebody has to bear the torch . . .
Oh damn. I just looked again, and all the developers' jobs are in Germany. Triple doh! Anyway, I'm sure they'll find ample talent. Linux is pretty damn big in Germany.
Wait a minute . . . France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Malasia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand . . . there are no jobs in the U.S.! Doh and double doh! I like living here to much to give it up, at least for a country whose language I don't speak fluently (i.e. I would consider Mexico. Oye Miguel, ?Hay trabajo en la UNAM pa' los aficionados gringos del Linux?;).
The East Asian connection is interesting. I wonder why they have so many bases there. Is it a matter of providing on-site support?
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So please be more judicious next time, and post your and Katz's articles separately. I was hoping never to see this guy's name again, let alone to have to wade through his regurgitated spoo to read something decent by Cmdr. Taco. Globbing Katz in with others defeats the purpose of filtering by author. Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
Not so! It's going to be contiguous with The PJ's. Lotsa cheap humor and good animation for your Tuesday night supplementary nacho worship. Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
Of course it is, you silly! This is the way the world works. An idea is conceived and incubated by a few unrecognized geniuses, then its time comes and it hatches out for the world to see, then it grows explosively, and then it becomes entrenched as the dominant paradigm. We're in the first steps of the penultimate stage. Whenever something's in that stage, it becomes almost unbearably hip. Just look at the popularization of the Internet!
Now, what I want to know is, Why would anyone complain about open source code gaining popularity? :P Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
I liked this article a lot. It's nice to have someone genuinely insightful and articulate writing for the site (as opposed to the buzzword-filled glorification of the obvious that is Katz). I also appreciate Thieme's impeccable grammar and spelling. He's a good writer, a bit verbose at times, but quite understandable. His style is evocative and sometimes even poetic.
I have to say, though, I disagree with this whole remote viewing thread as well. It undermines the credibility of the article, and even that of the author himself. Remote viewing is pure superstition, and it disturbs me that my nation's government is wasting money on it. (Then again, the Pentagon wastes money on much more extravagant things like multi-billion-dollar killing machines.) The closest anyone will ever come to the goal of remote viewing uses not the pseudo-mystical "protocols" of mental "deep-sea diving", which vanish whenever you try to analyse or verify them scientifically, but the wells-specified and very real protocols of the MBONE. Peace, --Q Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
and managed to destroy it, and then managed to refuse to let anyone else develop the technology.
Repeat after me, folks: Proprietary systems are bad. This is a perfect example of proprietary software's abuses. Apple is the premier proprietary computer company of the world. At least Microsoft tries to dictate only the software you use. Apple wants to tell you what software and what hardware to use, and if you don't like it, be damned.
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Let's see . . . They control your hardware with an iron fist, running the same clone companies they once considered fostering out of business like Palpatine running down Jedis*. They make an operating system with a GUI that forces you to think inside the box, then refuse to release the source code, so that you can't modify it to suit your needs. And then they try to co-opt the free software movement by offering the nasty guts of their new operating system to the world so we can debug it for them for free and they can continue to peddle it for big bucks, without contributing a red cent or a man-minute to free software development themselves.
Do I want to buy a portable from these folks? I don't think so. The Palm OS being closed- source is bad enough. Letting the control freaks at Apple rule my Palm would suck rotten monkey feces.
Cheers,
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The idea would be to type as if on an invisible keyboard floating in the air in front of you, and have the gloves pick up enough information to determine which "virtual key" you are hitting with each stroke.
Of course, I don't see how this could work unless you were also doing very sophisticated sensing of your position in space (e.g. with sensors on your legs) since you would be in constant motion. I guess you'd need some goggles to see the dang keys of the virtual keyboard, too . . . Beer recipe: free! #Source Cold pints: $2 #Product
Still, they've always been good about publishing protocol information (5 years ago, way before it was "cool", I asked about it and the president of handykey faxed me the protocol, which eventually led to an X driver...)
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What a nutcase. I wonder if she really believes all the crap she's spewing, or if she's just trying to cash in (looking, no doubt, to capture the same audience as those Intel commercials that tell you getting a Pentium III will speed up the Internet).
What will future sociologists make of this book? Incidentally, have any of you ever seen some of the hysteria surrounding the last fin de siecle? I bet this looks just as hilarious to our grandkids.
Retro 1990s style Q
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All I want is an anatomically correct Princess "Heiaiwana" Leia blow-up doll. ;)
--Q
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How about, "Your momma, the Monica Lewinsky of Linux"?
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Hopefully you'd be able to do this only through a special BIOS mode. That way, you'd have to reboot from the console to do the Flashdance on your CPU. ;)
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Who gives a shit if it "wins"? All I want is to run Linux and open-source software on it. If the company goes belly-up, I'll still be happily compiling the latest code from CVS. World domination is an O.K. goal, but Quinn's desktop domination is all I ask. ;)
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Strangely, all these petty differences don't seem to matter to people on the 'Net. Is it because we are more educated, younger, and more idealistic than society at large--in other words, because of simple demographics? --or is it because of the very nature of the medium, which makes you smart and critical by letting you select what you want to read, and allows you to communicate with individuals instead of groups, removed from a cultural context?
I'm betting it's both. At any rate, I like the present better than any other time in history.
PS: Read Kurt Vonnegut's latest novel, Timequake, for a more detailed and eloquent desconstruction of the idea of learning from history than I can hope to give. It's a fast read--only about an hour long. It's not the best Vonnegut, but it's worth the time.
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Escape from the Matrix. Choose Linux.
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Yeah, she was cute back in '84, but I prefer someone who matures with age.
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I wholeheartedly agree. In fact, I think it would be better in general to filter articles by author rather than by poster. That way we can all attend to what we like and avoid conversations like this one.
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Rob, you rule.
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Ya know, your comparison to fast food is a good one. It's even more interesting to me that you complain about comparisons of computers to TVs. One of my pet peeves is the tendency of certain users--especially Mac users--to equate computers with appliances. They wail, "My computer should be as easy to use as my TV!" Well, damn it, it's not a TV. It's not an appliance at all! It's a general-purpose information-processing engine, capable of performing any operation that can be expressed algorithmically. An appliance is a rigid, Turing-incomplete machine useful for one thing only. If your computer is acting like an appliance, there's something seriously wrong with it. The whole point of computers is to let you think outside the box.
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Anyway, the industry can't move forward on its belly. It's our responsibility to exceed these people and do things right, as we've been doing for years--and, in a sadly high number of cases, to clean up their mistakes (but never to take the blame). Maybe someday there won't be such a drastic shortage of IT workers, and their asses will be tossed out the door. In the meantime, somebody has to bear the torch . . .
Patience.
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Doh, doh, doh!
Signituration fault: core dumped.
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Wait a minute . . . France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Malasia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand . . . there are no jobs in the U.S.! Doh and double doh! I like living here to much to give it up, at least for a country whose language I don't speak fluently (i.e. I would consider Mexico. Oye Miguel, ?Hay trabajo en la UNAM pa' los aficionados gringos del Linux? ;).
The East Asian connection is interesting. I wonder why they have so many bases there. Is it a matter of providing on-site support?
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*Sniff sniff*
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I smell passwords!
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So please be more judicious next time, and post your and Katz's articles separately. I was hoping never to see this guy's name again, let alone to have to wade through his regurgitated spoo to read something decent by Cmdr. Taco. Globbing Katz in with others defeats the purpose of filtering by author.
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Not so! It's going to be contiguous with The PJ's. Lotsa cheap humor and good animation for your Tuesday night supplementary nacho worship.
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Now, what I want to know is, Why would anyone complain about open source code gaining popularity?
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I have to say, though, I disagree with this whole remote viewing thread as well. It undermines the credibility of the article, and even that of the author himself. Remote viewing is pure superstition, and it disturbs me that my nation's government is wasting money on it. (Then again, the Pentagon wastes money on much more extravagant things like multi-billion-dollar killing machines.) The closest anyone will ever come to the goal of remote viewing uses not the pseudo-mystical "protocols" of mental "deep-sea diving", which vanish whenever you try to analyse or verify them scientifically, but the wells-specified and very real protocols of the MBONE. Peace, --Q
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Repeat after me, folks: Proprietary systems are bad. This is a perfect example of proprietary software's abuses. Apple is the premier proprietary computer company of the world. At least Microsoft tries to dictate only the software you use. Apple wants to tell you what software and what hardware to use, and if you don't like it, be damned.
The only difference between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs is that Gates succeeded.
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Do I want to buy a portable from these folks? I don't think so. The Palm OS being closed- source is bad enough. Letting the control freaks at Apple rule my Palm would suck rotten monkey feces.
Cheers,
*Call it the Clone Wars. ;)
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Of course, I don't see how this could work unless you were also doing very sophisticated sensing of your position in space (e.g. with sensors on your legs) since you would be in constant motion. I guess you'd need some goggles to see the dang keys of the virtual keyboard, too . . .
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Sweet! What an enlightened guy. Where can we get the driver? Is it one of those XInputExtensions not included with the pre-compiled XFree86 releases? Reply by e-mail if you like, but I bet a lot of other Slashdotters would be interested, too.
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All hail Discordia,
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