The term "B-movie" never meant "bad". It may have implied it, but all it meant was the lower budget movies that were shown in a theatre after the "A-movie" (i.e. the feature).
Exactly. This is probably like every other motivational sales memo you've ever seen.
"[competitor] is the enemy. Make sure you never forget that, and focus on how bad they are and how good we are at [whatever we do]."
I don't see what the big deal is. Some middle-manager salesman guy writes that Linux is *the* threat, and all of a sudden this is MS' stance on the matter?
If you honestly consider Scott Adams a geek icon, you have some serious problems.
(now if you're talking about the Scott Adams that helped define the interactive fiction genre, that's something different, but scratching out badly drawn cartoons for 10 years until they're about as funny as Garfield doesn't qualify one for cultural icon status).
That blows my mind. I mean, if someone asked slashdot "With all the cool new flavors of Doritos, does cool ranch have a future?" and I replied, "Yes, it does, because I (and people like me) like cool ranch. And you replied "With the advent of eXtreme Doritos there is no reason you should ever eat cool ranch." That's horseshit. Again, to be clear, I don't give a shit if you overlap your windows, or eat cool ranch doritos. The idea that "we" (whoever that is) should take that option away because you don't happen to see a need for it is horseshit too.
I think you're missing out on who the "we" is here. The "we" would refer to someone designing a window manager UI that disposed of this feature, and thought it was inefficient or whatever.
In other words, someone decided to see if they could experiment and come up with a window manager that managed windows for you, and gave you a different kind of control over how they were created.
I love experiments like these. This reminds me of the Acme editor for Plan 9 - it was a multiwindowed (MDI-ish) editor that used tiled buffer windows, and had an internal set of heuristics for determining how to manipulate them. (The Acme window manager was part of the Plan 9 UI, which was cloned for X under the name Wily, if you want to check it out -- using it however, requires a through understanding of it's UI.)
This is not some grand conspiracy to take freedom away from all users on the planet. These sorts of things never are, desipite eliciting melodramatic responses such as yours.
1) On @Home, with thier awesome news servers, getting porn is a 10-second to 1-minute job. It's not like you have to spend an hour or two hunting the shit down. If it took the same effort as getting images off the web, I know I wouldn't bother. Time isn't an issue.
2) I was responding to a post that expressed incredulity that someone had made a joke about the term Gang-Banger meaning "Someone who Gang-Bangs". Because the tone of his incredulity was serious, I simply responded with (what I thought) was a facetious explanation as to why.
Really, if you're going to insult people, at least have the decency to log in.
Twit.
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2) Those people probably only laughed becuase they thought that what you were saying was true.
1) As I pointed out, to someone who is actually familiar with the story codes, it sounds and looks nothing like one.
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In order for that joke to have actually been funny, it would have to be true (or, at least, the people who were to find it funny would have to belive it was -- at least you fooled the moderators).
I had given you credit and had assumed you actually knew this, which lead me to belive that you were stating that the subject of the joke was true (that XP was indeed an a.s.s.* story code, which it is not).
Referential jokes like this are only funny because they are true -- for example, I'm sure there are going to be some riff's on AD&D's eXperience Point system in this thread, which might garner a deserved chuckle or two (which is all you were aiming for). But the presentation of the material isn't what's funny in these cases -- it's the fact that the acronym XP is showing up somewhere else. Take that fact away, and it's not funny, no matter how you present it.
Yes, but you're forgetting the arena in which this term is being used -- that is, porn-saturated geeks.
We can't help but make the association after flipping through 100 megs of dogfart's images (I get them from alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.facials - I'm sure they're xposted elsewhere though).
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The term "B-movie" never meant "bad". It may have implied it, but all it meant was the lower budget movies that were shown in a theatre after the "A-movie" (i.e. the feature).
WTF, why is the "No Score +1 Bonus" checkbox not working for me....
fucking mozilla...
Exactly. This is probably like every other motivational sales memo you've ever seen.
"[competitor] is the enemy. Make sure you never forget that, and focus on how bad they are and how good we are at [whatever we do]."
I don't see what the big deal is. Some middle-manager salesman guy writes that Linux is *the* threat, and all of a sudden this is MS' stance on the matter?
He's probably right, but that's beside the point.
Strange Little Girls worked beautifully for me, using grip. Didn't even notice.
If you honestly consider Scott Adams a geek icon, you have some serious problems.
(now if you're talking about the Scott Adams that helped define the interactive fiction genre, that's something different, but scratching out badly drawn cartoons for 10 years until they're about as funny as Garfield doesn't qualify one for cultural icon status).
"Keep using whatever email reader you've always used. You're not supposed to switch to this."
I think you mean, " You're not supposed to switch to this.". Makes more sense in the context to me, anyway.
oh please, have you ever tried to write C++ in notepad?
if you're doing any programming in any language, you should have an editor suited to that task.
If you think that vim is nice for lisp editing, try emacs.
Being able to send the current expression to the lisp interpreter with a keystroke to see if it evaluates correctly is awesome once gotten used to
That blows my mind. I mean, if someone asked slashdot "With all the cool new flavors of Doritos, does cool ranch have a future?" and I replied, "Yes, it does, because I (and people like me) like cool ranch. And you replied "With the advent of eXtreme Doritos there is no reason you should ever eat cool ranch." That's horseshit. Again, to be clear, I don't give a shit if you overlap your windows, or eat cool ranch doritos. The idea that "we" (whoever that is) should take that option away because you don't happen to see a need for it is horseshit too.
I think you're missing out on who the "we" is here. The "we" would refer to someone designing a window manager UI that disposed of this feature, and thought it was inefficient or whatever.
In other words, someone decided to see if they could experiment and come up with a window manager that managed windows for you, and gave you a different kind of control over how they were created.
I love experiments like these. This reminds me of the Acme editor for Plan 9 - it was a multiwindowed (MDI-ish) editor that used tiled buffer windows, and had an internal set of heuristics for determining how to manipulate them. (The Acme window manager was part of the Plan 9 UI, which was cloned for X under the name Wily, if you want to check it out -- using it however, requires a through understanding of it's UI.)
This is not some grand conspiracy to take freedom away from all users on the planet. These sorts of things never are, desipite eliciting melodramatic responses such as yours.
BTW, any advice for getting a wife to play computer games, when she won't even play cards or chess with you?
;)
Where do you play?
You should hang out on the
Quake3World TA Forums -- alot of cool people hanging around playing.
Someone there has been doing shoutcast broadcasts of TA OGL matches, even. Drop by sometime.
You shouldn't.
mozilla@madoka:~$ crontab -l
5 0 * * *
mozilla@madoka:~$ cat
#!/bin/sh
umask 002
cd
rm -rf *
wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest
tar -zxf mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
chown -R mozilla:mozilla mozilla
chmod -R g+w mozilla
Doesn't everyone do this?
The GPL qualifies as an EULA.
You sir, write awesome trolls.
You've made my day brighter just by being there.
Thank you.
That works fine, thanks.
Renders great as far as I can see.
Now I get to enjoy the glory that is MSN.com.
1) On @Home, with thier awesome news servers, getting porn is a 10-second to 1-minute job. It's not like you have to spend an hour or two hunting the shit down. If it took the same effort as getting images off the web, I know I wouldn't bother. Time isn't an issue.
2) I was responding to a post that expressed incredulity that someone had made a joke about the term Gang-Banger meaning "Someone who Gang-Bangs". Because the tone of his incredulity was serious, I simply responded with (what I thought) was a facetious explanation as to why.
Doesn't work on my RH 7.1 box, with a current nightly build.
What does IE's User-Agent string look like? I'll try subbing that in and see.
Really, if you're going to insult people, at least have the decency to log in.
Twit.
2) Those people probably only laughed becuase they thought that what you were saying was true.
1) As I pointed out, to someone who is actually familiar with the story codes, it sounds and looks nothing like one.
In order for that joke to have actually been funny, it would have to be true (or, at least, the people who were to find it funny would have to belive it was -- at least you fooled the moderators).
I had given you credit and had assumed you actually knew this, which lead me to belive that you were stating that the subject of the joke was true (that XP was indeed an a.s.s.* story code, which it is not).
Referential jokes like this are only funny because they are true -- for example, I'm sure there are going to be some riff's on AD&D's eXperience Point system in this thread, which might garner a deserved chuckle or two (which is all you were aiming for). But the presentation of the material isn't what's funny in these cases -- it's the fact that the acronym XP is showing up somewhere else. Take that fact away, and it's not funny, no matter how you present it.
*sigh*
I meant my top-level post, Einstien.
Yes, but you're forgetting the arena in which this term is being used -- that is, porn-saturated geeks.
We can't help but make the association after flipping through 100 megs of dogfart's images (I get them from alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.facials - I'm sure they're xposted elsewhere though).
Dammit, I was beat to the joke.
Someone mod me down as redundant, please.
Am I the only on that had the image of mulitple porn actors being retrained for web development?
Probably, I guess. *sigh*
I'm a regular reader of ASSM and thier web archive, and I don't think I've ever seen the code 'XP' used in that context.
'WS' is the code for Watersports. If one of the codes warrants an 'Extreme' quantifier, usually 'extreme' is just used as a prefix.
The only codes I can see in which the string 'XP' appear in are 'experimental' and the 'no explicit sex', umm, warning I guess (heh).
If you want to see for yourself, ASSM has a subject-line search engine on ASSTR - here.