Hmmm, Where is Linux (Linus) from? Sure he's in Oregon now, but if we are to rely on M$ to 'defend' our homeland while we outsource any job that would give an American a reason to study software, to places like China no less, we'll reap what we're sowing...The road to Dante's fictious hell will be littered with blue screens and, "Windows Update has found (another) 40 critical updates! Your system will now reboot."
I work on the edge between IT and corporate/executive sphere and while I'm generally pro open markets,when they're fair. However it seems the upper executive class holds itself immune from market trends.
They don't recognize that they're eroding the middle class and thereby the market for their products...like those small town people across America that lost their manufacturing jobs because they started to shop Wal-Mart and eroded the market for the products their factories were making...
There's also that little picadillo of history that when people are out of work, they have a tendency to take a more critical look at their 'leaders'
It would be wonderful for some open source standard whereby meta-information could be overlaid on HTML such that document position (for 'anchoring' your commentary in the context you created) would allow you to keep your marked-up copy as such, it should automatically 'wrap' the appropriate citation info around any selected text, and then 'carry' that citation into it's appropriate location in your source doc.
I've been a tech writer for years and entities from Sun to the local universities and utility companies all fail to implement systems of this sort for various reasons...often technical, more often political and financial.
I picked up a copy a few months ago at a used shop on the Oregon coast and got bored with it in the first twenty pages. I've read everything he's done, and this is certainly quality work, but the story didn't hook me like Burning Chrome's and Neuromancer (even Idoru and Virtual Light...)
I'll dig the dang thing up and read it and post on Monday, lucky for you drecks I just got laid off and have some time for binge reading.
I ~can~ tell you that it's set in the near-present and the apparent protagonist is some kind of international marketing savant. I think my crawling skin at the prospect of spending the next 300 pages with this person made me move on...
I must say it was cool to ride out the last two months of 2002 with this volume sitting on my desk.
Quit all your wars immediately. While you're at it, quit your religion and any professional sporting club that you follow like a sardine. Quit blowing things up for cripes sake. or anyone elses sake...
We all remember the Mir with it's space growths in weird areas, right?
And the jury's still out on "life on mars" past or present, single cell, or bug-eyed and tripedal.
Now wrap your imagination round this scenario.
A virus that kills algae indiscriminately. dump that in one of our oceans, and kill the base of the food chain.
Let's ship cheap, light electronics up there that can do analysis and beam back data that won't sink our ship.
There's nothing alive on mars, and if there was, something killed it off like those 99% of all known species that we've identified that share a single attribute: extinction.
Maybe it's because of the bombings and anthrax that you good christians like to mail around.
Also, the fact that everyone with a religion, (you included) "rolls their own" and then immediately discriminates (note the spelling) against other "untrue" religions (note your comment on scientology).
Ever consider that you just might be a drooling moron? And that everything you believe at a fundamental level is a lie that hs rubberbabybuggybumpered to you across the ages with every garden variety wacko (you, King James, etc.) re-interpreting it to support their petty despotism?
This country was founded by religious wackos running from other religious wackos.
Evolve, son, you get 70 years. This is heaven. Don't kill anyone else.
Remember: religion is crutch for people too scared to realize they were born with wings. I said that.
I decided to try the same thing a couple years ago on a tired p166 (S series - mind you, no MMX extensions here!) clocked to 200. I also had a couple drives at 1 gig and 540 megs. Not being one to take the easy route, and enjoying "first on the block" DSL download speeds, I grabbed Redhat and Debian, despite hearing that Debian could be, er, less than intuitive to the new user. I did my homework, maintained a good solid pipe to the user materials on both distros, and found that Debian actually provided the best starter platform. It forced me to break with my years of windows complacency and actually learn whatinhell the the OS was going to do and what I'd better do to make it fly. Granted, I'd already suffered through years of Dos, all the Windows os'es (from 2 on, sorry to say...) Mac, Unix and, whatever those trash 80s ran on...
Do yourself a favor and get a good (O'Reilly?!? look for recommendations in the archives here) and learn it ground up. If the install is spoon fed to you, you're just another Win NT guy that ran a Linux install app...
Like I said, my 2 cents...
Those swine were askin' for it - trafficking the opiate of the masses n'all.
Think I'll go push the DA to file against, oh every church, synegogue, mosque, and any other religous type organization under RICO, of course. If I can't have my delusion which rests in a fictionless plant, they certainly can't use this "cop in the sky" bit to weasel out of property taxes...
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Hmmm, Where is Linux (Linus) from? Sure he's in Oregon now, but if we are to rely on M$ to 'defend' our homeland while we outsource any job that would give an American a reason to study software, to places like China no less, we'll reap what we're sowing...The road to Dante's fictious hell will be littered with blue screens and, "Windows Update has found (another) 40 critical updates! Your system will now reboot."
Well, apparently some poorly spelled words r xceptible in in cidnee....
Sorry I'm even offer topic....
Waaaaaay cheaper!
I work on the edge between IT and corporate/executive sphere and while I'm generally pro open markets,when they're fair. However it seems the upper executive class holds itself immune from market trends.
They don't recognize that they're eroding the middle class and thereby the market for their products...like those small town people across America that lost their manufacturing jobs because they started to shop Wal-Mart and eroded the market for the products their factories were making...
There's also that little picadillo of history that when people are out of work, they have a tendency to take a more critical look at their 'leaders'
Can we start the revolution yet?
It would be wonderful for some open source standard whereby meta-information could be overlaid on HTML such that document position (for 'anchoring' your commentary in the context you created) would allow you to keep your marked-up copy as such, it should automatically 'wrap' the appropriate citation info around any selected text, and then 'carry' that citation into it's appropriate location in your source doc.
I've been a tech writer for years and entities from Sun to the local universities and utility companies all fail to implement systems of this sort for various reasons...often technical, more often political and financial.
I do believe it's possible, whoever...
I picked up a copy a few months ago at a used shop on the Oregon coast and got bored with it in the first twenty pages. I've read everything he's done, and this is certainly quality work, but the story didn't hook me like Burning Chrome's and Neuromancer (even Idoru and Virtual Light...)
I'll dig the dang thing up and read it and post on Monday, lucky for you drecks I just got laid off and have some time for binge reading.
I ~can~ tell you that it's set in the near-present and the apparent protagonist is some kind of international marketing savant. I think my crawling skin at the prospect of spending the next 300 pages with this person made me move on...
I must say it was cool to ride out the last two months of 2002 with this volume sitting on my desk.
Quit all your wars immediately. While you're at it, quit your religion and any professional sporting club that you follow like a sardine. Quit blowing things up for cripes sake. or anyone elses sake...
We all remember the Mir with it's space growths in weird areas, right?
And the jury's still out on "life on mars" past or present, single cell, or bug-eyed and tripedal.
Now wrap your imagination round this scenario.
A virus that kills algae indiscriminately. dump that in one of our oceans, and kill the base of the food chain.
Let's ship cheap, light electronics up there that can do analysis and beam back data that won't sink our ship.
There's nothing alive on mars, and if there was, something killed it off like those 99% of all known species that we've identified that share a single attribute: extinction.
Peace, fellow plankton.
Maybe it's because of the bombings and anthrax that you good christians like to mail around.
Also, the fact that everyone with a religion, (you included) "rolls their own" and then immediately discriminates (note the spelling) against other "untrue" religions (note your comment on scientology).
Ever consider that you just might be a drooling moron? And that everything you believe at a fundamental level is a lie that hs rubberbabybuggybumpered to you across the ages with every garden variety wacko (you, King James, etc.) re-interpreting it to support their petty despotism?
This country was founded by religious wackos running from other religious wackos.
Evolve, son, you get 70 years. This is heaven. Don't kill anyone else.
Remember: religion is crutch for people too scared to realize they were born with wings. I said that.
I decided to try the same thing a couple years ago on a tired p166 (S series - mind you, no MMX extensions here!) clocked to 200. I also had a couple drives at 1 gig and 540 megs. Not being one to take the easy route, and enjoying "first on the block" DSL download speeds, I grabbed Redhat and Debian, despite hearing that Debian could be, er, less than intuitive to the new user. I did my homework, maintained a good solid pipe to the user materials on both distros, and found that Debian actually provided the best starter platform. It forced me to break with my years of windows complacency and actually learn whatinhell the the OS was going to do and what I'd better do to make it fly. Granted, I'd already suffered through years of Dos, all the Windows os'es (from 2 on, sorry to say...) Mac, Unix and, whatever those trash 80s ran on... Do yourself a favor and get a good (O'Reilly?!? look for recommendations in the archives here) and learn it ground up. If the install is spoon fed to you, you're just another Win NT guy that ran a Linux install app... Like I said, my 2 cents...
Those swine were askin' for it - trafficking the opiate of the masses n'all. Think I'll go push the DA to file against, oh every church, synegogue, mosque, and any other religous type organization under RICO, of course. If I can't have my delusion which rests in a fictionless plant, they certainly can't use this "cop in the sky" bit to weasel out of property taxes...