For these situations its more of an issue of scalability. COBOL scales well on a single machine. But when you're running the biggest box IBM makes and you're barely able to keep up (IE, you have 24 hours to work in and you're using all of them) you're running into problems. Also the fact that it wasn't designed in an object oriented manner causes issues, because when they change any piece of code they have to retest the entire program.
Have you worked in the software industry or are you just talking out of a random orifice? I won't argue with COBOL as a language (I've used worse), but more as an environment for solving large scale business problems.
My argument was not against COBOL, but FedEx for using antiquated practices that risk not solving their problems reliably to save a few bucks here or there in the short term, ignoring the long term repercussions of their actions.
For example, if they had bit the bullet and bought new furniture 5-10 years ago, they would have saved money. They are paying a lot more to refurbish their old furniture than they would invested in new furniture that would not require work today. I know this because I used to do tech support at the company that sold and refurbished the furniture.
Or take my friend's application. FedEx put out a bid for new software. My friend and other companies put their proposals out on the table. Sure, some of the solutions were terrible (required private hard networks across the country, etc.) I saw well designed, light weight, easy to manage proposals. Would have required an initial investment, but would have saved a fortune in support costs over the long term. But because of political issues, etc. they stuck with what they had. Then again, I'm happy about that one because my friend can sit happy for the next few years, despite any economic problems elsewhere in the industry.
I'm sorry but I have a lot of trouble with FedEx being cited as the second "credible" company on this list. I know for a fact that FedEx's call centers are running programs written in FoxPro on DOS. Does that make FoxPro a great language? Even the author of the program (who wrote it in college in his free time while working there) would wouldn't agree to that, despite the fact that they're still paying him to support an app that they refuse to pay the money necessary to replace.
I also know that FedEx still has huge monolithic apps written in COBOL on IBM mainframes, since I get nice descriptions of them from my professor on Monday and Wednesday nights (he works there during the day). COBOL, people, COBOL.
I'll make a blanket statement as a Memphian who knows entirely too many people who are either employed by the company or serve as vendors to it: FedEx is a big slow giant that made a lot of decisions in a hurry that it doesn't want to pay to take back. For example, they just built a nice new world headquarters that consists of some of the most modern buildings in this part of the country (ok, not saying a _whole_ lot, but still) and what do they furnish them with? Yup, the furniture they bought in the '70s and '80s.
So when someone says "FedEx uses ____" I tend to ignore that fact and move on. Not every decision they've made is bad, but very few have anything to do with the technical merits of the choices given.
Ummm. Have you read the comments here before??? Even in this thread regarding the article people are still rasing the same questions and still ignoring the FSF's justifications. They forget about this thing called morality. Or they wrongly associate morality with some sort of Southern Baptist right wing political movement.
I respect the FSF for having a philosophy and sticking to it. They're not saying you have to do anything. They are saying that they would prefer if you called it GNU/Linux, they are saying why they would prefer you to call it it that, and they are inviting you to think about it.
I recommend people actually sit down and think about what consitutes ethics. Look at Aristotle, Kant, Mill, somebody. "because it makes sense to me right now" is not a good justification for any action.
When I first read the subject of this, I thought it said Simian Imaging phone. I thought this was one of those fancy phones for picture taking monkeys and I knew that this had to be part of the evil Ximian conspiracy for the advancement of all apes and ape-like creatures.
You know, the one where they help shape Gnome into a desktop so easy to use that a spidermonkey could take over my job. I thought with a phone for that same monkey, he could soon take over a CxO (where x = E,T,F,O,etc.) position. But then I guess things like Enron would be a little bit easier to catch early on.
Hear that screaming from upstairs? Yeah, sounds like Pooky the CFO is shredding documents again.
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They actually manufacture chutes for small single engine aircraft, where this could actually help. They fly relatively slowly and go down a lot more often than airliners.
But for airliners, even if it would be possible, it probably wouldn't help anything. Think about all the recent plane crashes you have read about or seen on TV. How many of them were due to simple things like engine failure, etc? If the jets are still running, a chute isn't gonna do much. Besides imagine going from cruising speed+ and tossing out a chute. The decelleration would probably kill most people in the plane.
Also if you look, the people aren't landing in the car or bus, they are jumping out in the vehicle with the top cut off, riding in it for a while and then bailing. And I wouldn't consider what they are doing as safe.
I can completely associate your story. With me it was a Tandy 1000 when I was 7, and a 486 SX 25Mhz box when I was about 11 or 12. Since then my parents still call me when they buy a new PC or when they have questions, and every time I come home I hear my dad scream "Miiiiiike. Come here." I have to thank him, though because if it weren't for him I wouldn't be the geek I am today. *sniff* He showed me around DOS until my thrist for knowledge kicked in and he really didn't keep up.
More appropriately it would be "I feel a whisper in my ghost." And then in English there would be a comment about how my wires are messed up, but in the Japanese version the english subtitles would make a crack about how it must be that time of the month.
First off illnesses/are/ a bit different. Not all illnesses are preventable, nor are they all associated with vices. My grandfather who was aparently a really interesting guy (worked on the Redstone Rocket and did work with various early computers) died a year before the first kidney transplant of Nephritis. I supposedly am a lot like him according to my mother and grandmother, but I'll never really understand that because I never got to meet him.
And as for your very basic safeguards theory, how many people do you know get a full background check and medical exam from any sexual partner they have? I just have a serious problem with people who take this sheltered moral high ground stance on the issue and still associate the disease with "queers, drug addicts, and other dirty people" (not quoting you. but the effects of your argument lead to attitudes like this). I used to volunteer at a local organization that deals with parents and children affected by HIV and AIDS. You'd be suprised. There are plenty of white upperclass "good christian" people with AIDS that just don't talk about it. And its attitudes like this that keep them from talking about it.
As for being effectively prevented, thats a lie. It can be effectively slowed down, but sex happens, heroin happens, childbirth (which actually constitutes a large number of cases) happens.
I apologise for somewhat attacking you, but I'm shocked that this kind of attitude can be supported this strongly (you've been modded up to a 5) in 2002. And rather than mod you down I think it would be more appropriate to explain my disagreement somewhat. You sound like people in the sixties talking about cancer when it was considered a "dirty disease".
Along the same lines, I've wondered about the security of the keyless entry systems in cars. Going up and manually checking a key to see if it works is a little more dangerous, since you would be seen walking from car to car in a parking lot, but driving up and down the rows in a large parking lot like a Walmart or a mall would be a lot easier. The only reason I think of this is that my friend once got in a car and started it before he realized that it wasn't his, but it was a Taurus that was the same color blue.
To be honest though I have no clue about keyless entries except that some use radio signals and some are infrared. Then again, I don't have one so I really don't have to worry. I'm sure someone in the Slashdot audience knows more about this and can provide a little information.
I remember when I was 7 years old. I was probably one of the last kids on the block to get a Nintendo. It was Christmas and my parents finally gave in and bought one for me.
Probably one of my most vivid memories of that time period was not playing the game myself, but my parents addiction to the game. For two people who thought video games were silly, they got very competative, very quickly. All of a sudden my bed time was enforced to the minute and moments after hitting the bed, I could hear the sounds of frustration and rubbing a new high score or number of lines in the spouse's face from my living room downstairs.
Even a couple winters ago, we went on a trip with some of my younger cousins who had a game boy color. Very quickly heated debates between my mom dad, and myself broke out as to who's turn it was to play that magical piece of purple plastic. I, of course, whooped up on them. Boo yeah!
The game is great. There are two scores to pay attention to: lines and actual score. There's the A game and the B game. And besides all that it exposed children to great music in the form of blips and bleeps. Too bad my Nintendo died last year. I think the only video games that have brought my family together like that are the old Sierra games like (Space | King's | Police) Quest on our Tandy 1000 and Myst.
My decision isn't based on performance. They both are "fast enough" for me. I used to use ReiserFS a while back and it was great. Then I installed Redhat 7.3 on a machine and used ext3 so I didn't have to mess with anything. Yes tinkering is fun... but when I feel like it. Sometimes its nice to have stuff Just Work. Haven't had any problems since and have had a few random power outages.
Also I like the idea that I can read the drive with an ext2 driver from an older kernel or from FreeBSD just in case. In case of what? I don't know, but somehow it makes me feel better.
Too bad they didn't have this in time for the 4th of July! Laser light show and fireworks at the same time, and by the military no less. What's more American than that?
Funny, from bash if I 'time ls' or 'time dir' or 'time/usr/bin/ls' (so I'm not using the bash builtin) I get 0.03 sec user time and 0.02 sec system time. Real time, of course varies depending on when you run it, but goes from 0.04 to 0.08 sec for all of them on my system. Anyway I'm not going to notice 2-4 hundredths of a second, and I doubt you would either.
And wait a minute, you're using CDE and you think making a 2 line batch file is "a pain". Hmmmm. They even give you a sample batch file and a sample bash script in the/usr/X11R6/bin directory. 'man XWin' gives you all the options the XWin.exe server takes, or you can just 'startx' and it'll run with openbox as its window manager.
Rootless is something I miss, but not enough to use a commercial piece of software when I have an option that is free.
I've used it on win2k on a daily basis for over a month now. It runs nicely in full screen mode, which you can Alt-Tab out of. You can also run it in a window, but that's just what I prefer. Make sure you run xwinclip too so you can copy and paste between X and Winders. I've tried a couple commercial Win32 X Servers and although this doesn't have some of the fancy features, I find it more stable.
I've never understood why people needed a roaming browser profile. I would think either you didn't need it, or you needed to have more data "roaming" than just your browser config/bookmarks, etc.
Have you thought about NFS (or I guess SAMBA or something else) for your home directory? That way you can share all your config files. I find keeping my.bashrc,.emacs, etc. in synch more annoying than setting up a browser. Then again, I don't really use bookmarks, I used to just set up a page with all the links I usually use and set it as my home page. Now, I set up a PHP script that XSLTs XBEL to HTML so I use the bookmarks in Galeon and upload the XBEL file every now and then.
I don't know if anyone else noticed but the company who did the little image explaining how it worked was called XPLANE.
Now in the spirit of capitalism (not allowing this XPLANE company get a monopoly on cheezy diagrams) and the tradition of Riki Ricardo of "I Love Lucy", I propose its time some of us get together and start our own company named SPLANE. Our motto could be that "We got some SPLANE'n to do" or maybe just "Bobaloo".
First off I don't think that was a grammatical mistake. I think he was expanding the topic of discussion intentionally. What's more interesting to talk about anyway, a trailer for a movie about a book every geek has read multiple times or the death of a legendary musician who helped to redefine the role of the bass in rock music?
As for the topic of discussion, what exactly is the topic supposed to be. I believe the previous discussion ends up defining the topic more than a headline does anyway. Besides, its not like there are ever any literary discussions or even film discussions worth much around here. Nobody even dares to interpret a work. The deepest they go is to just make sweeping good/bad distinctions. Take the "on topic" comments here. They're not about the quality of the trailer, the pertinence to the book, or even the role of the Who in Rock History. They're quick one liners and talk about how Quicktime/Apple/Sorensen suck.
This may be news for Nerds, but don't kid yourself: it's news for Computer Nerds. Music Nerds, Film Nerds, Book Nerds, etc. aren't included in that statement. But when I say that I'm not upset with Slashdot itself, or the editors, or even the posters (well... not all of the posters:-). It's their site, to post whatever the hell they want to on. We're free to start our own communities if we want (I have), and they're not responsible to provide everything for us.
Despite the humor factor of MC Hammer, I think a real suggestion for a theme song would be the Breeder's "Divine Hammer". It would also work well since they just released their new album Title TK. Although, I admit I haven't heard it yet.
Man I can't believe it. Not only did the trailers give away so much about the movie, but this guy actually wrote out the entire story a while back, way before the movie came out, and totally ruined it for me. What an ass hole. I pretty much knew exacly what was going to happen before I even saw it.
But watching it on the sceen was so much better than actually having to use my imagination. The orcs in my mind had little jaggies, because I couldn't render all of them well in real time. It's so much easier just to borrow someone else's imagination and not think so much. Man my brain hurts from having to type so many words. I need a better cooling system for me head.
I think United Linux is bad because it seems to be selling its product based on fear. It plays up this "lack of interoperability" angle on Linux and works by creating fear that Linux is hard to deploy, use, and maintain. And it hits us where it hurts, the CTOs. Linux is just starting to get a reputation for being an easy, cheap, and robust way to get things done. This marketing strategy can only set us back 2 years as far as corporate mindset is concerned. This is a very bad thing especially right now, when its a lot easier to sell Linux to a corporation because it has both the buzzword factor to appease CTOs and management, and it has the low cost factor to appease CFOs and other financial types.
Saying "Linux is hard to use. But we're not nearly as hard as the other guys." is not going to sell their product, it's only going to decrease interest in Linux in general.
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For these situations its more of an issue of scalability. COBOL scales well on a single machine. But when you're running the biggest box IBM makes and you're barely able to keep up (IE, you have 24 hours to work in and you're using all of them) you're running into problems. Also the fact that it wasn't designed in an object oriented manner causes issues, because when they change any piece of code they have to retest the entire program.
Have you worked in the software industry or are you just talking out of a random orifice? I won't argue with COBOL as a language (I've used worse), but more as an environment for solving large scale business problems.
My argument was not against COBOL, but FedEx for using antiquated practices that risk not solving their problems reliably to save a few bucks here or there in the short term, ignoring the long term repercussions of their actions.
For example, if they had bit the bullet and bought new furniture 5-10 years ago, they would have saved money. They are paying a lot more to refurbish their old furniture than they would invested in new furniture that would not require work today. I know this because I used to do tech support at the company that sold and refurbished the furniture.
Or take my friend's application. FedEx put out a bid for new software. My friend and other companies put their proposals out on the table. Sure, some of the solutions were terrible (required private hard networks across the country, etc.) I saw well designed, light weight, easy to manage proposals. Would have required an initial investment, but would have saved a fortune in support costs over the long term. But because of political issues, etc. they stuck with what they had. Then again, I'm happy about that one because my friend can sit happy for the next few years, despite any economic problems elsewhere in the industry.
I'm sorry but I have a lot of trouble with FedEx being cited as the second "credible" company on this list. I know for a fact that FedEx's call centers are running programs written in FoxPro on DOS. Does that make FoxPro a great language? Even the author of the program (who wrote it in college in his free time while working there) would wouldn't agree to that, despite the fact that they're still paying him to support an app that they refuse to pay the money necessary to replace.
I also know that FedEx still has huge monolithic apps written in COBOL on IBM mainframes, since I get nice descriptions of them from my professor on Monday and Wednesday nights (he works there during the day). COBOL, people, COBOL.
I'll make a blanket statement as a Memphian who knows entirely too many people who are either employed by the company or serve as vendors to it: FedEx is a big slow giant that made a lot of decisions in a hurry that it doesn't want to pay to take back. For example, they just built a nice new world headquarters that consists of some of the most modern buildings in this part of the country (ok, not saying a _whole_ lot, but still) and what do they furnish them with? Yup, the furniture they bought in the '70s and '80s.
So when someone says "FedEx uses ____" I tend to ignore that fact and move on. Not every decision they've made is bad, but very few have anything to do with the technical merits of the choices given.
I dunno about you but I'd love to hear a room full of cellphones play John Cage's 4'33" (4 mins 33 seconds of silence).
Ummm. Have you read the comments here before??? Even in this thread regarding the article people are still rasing the same questions and still ignoring the FSF's justifications. They forget about this thing called morality. Or they wrongly associate morality with some sort of Southern Baptist right wing political movement.
I respect the FSF for having a philosophy and sticking to it. They're not saying you have to do anything. They are saying that they would prefer if you called it GNU/Linux, they are saying why they would prefer you to call it it that, and they are inviting you to think about it.
I recommend people actually sit down and think about what consitutes ethics. Look at Aristotle, Kant, Mill, somebody. "because it makes sense to me right now" is not a good justification for any action.
To contort some Costello lyrics:
:-(.
"I was seriously thinking about hiding the computer
when the switch broke 'cause its old.
Elvis, you're saying things I can hardly believe.
I really think its getting out of control..."
I could go on, but this is just rediculous. I'm gonna have a sore neck tomorrow from shaking my head in dismay all night.
Now the debate as to whether I want to drive all the way to Atlanta to see him in November
"They say you better listen to the voice of reason. They don't give you any choice 'cause they think that its treason." --Elvis Costello
When I first read the subject of this, I thought it said Simian Imaging phone. I thought this was one of those fancy phones for picture taking monkeys and I knew that this had to be part of the evil Ximian conspiracy for the advancement of all apes and ape-like creatures.
You know, the one where they help shape Gnome into a desktop so easy to use that a spidermonkey could take over my job. I thought with a phone for that same monkey, he could soon take over a CxO (where x = E,T,F,O,etc.) position. But then I guess things like Enron would be a little bit easier to catch early on.
Hear that screaming from upstairs?
Yeah, sounds like Pooky the CFO is shredding documents again.
They actually manufacture chutes for small single engine aircraft, where this could actually help. They fly relatively slowly and go down a lot more often than airliners.
But for airliners, even if it would be possible, it probably wouldn't help anything. Think about all the recent plane crashes you have read about or seen on TV. How many of them were due to simple things like engine failure, etc? If the jets are still running, a chute isn't gonna do much. Besides imagine going from cruising speed+ and tossing out a chute. The decelleration would probably kill most people in the plane.
Also if you look, the people aren't landing in the car or bus, they are jumping out in the vehicle with the top cut off, riding in it for a while and then bailing. And I wouldn't consider what they are doing as safe.
Mod this guy +1 Funny. He just made my evening.
People take themselves entirely too seriously.
I can completely associate your story. With me it was a Tandy 1000 when I was 7, and a 486 SX 25Mhz box when I was about 11 or 12. Since then my parents still call me when they buy a new PC or when they have questions, and every time I come home I hear my dad scream "Miiiiiike. Come here." I have to thank him, though because if it weren't for him I wouldn't be the geek I am today. *sniff* He showed me around DOS until my thrist for knowledge kicked in and he really didn't keep up.
More appropriately it would be "I feel a whisper in my ghost." And then in English there would be a comment about how my wires are messed up, but in the Japanese version the english subtitles would make a crack about how it must be that time of the month.
First off illnesses /are/ a bit different. Not all illnesses are preventable, nor are they all associated with vices. My grandfather who was aparently a really interesting guy (worked on the Redstone Rocket and did work with various early computers) died a year before the first kidney transplant of Nephritis. I supposedly am a lot like him according to my mother and grandmother, but I'll never really understand that because I never got to meet him.
And as for your very basic safeguards theory, how many people do you know get a full background check and medical exam from any sexual partner they have? I just have a serious problem with people who take this sheltered moral high ground stance on the issue and still associate the disease with "queers, drug addicts, and other dirty people" (not quoting you. but the effects of your argument lead to attitudes like this). I used to volunteer at a local organization that deals with parents and children affected by HIV and AIDS. You'd be suprised. There are plenty of white upperclass "good christian" people with AIDS that just don't talk about it. And its attitudes like this that keep them from talking about it.
As for being effectively prevented, thats a lie. It can be effectively slowed down, but sex happens, heroin happens, childbirth (which actually constitutes a large number of cases) happens.
I apologise for somewhat attacking you, but I'm shocked that this kind of attitude can be supported this strongly (you've been modded up to a 5) in 2002. And rather than mod you down I think it would be more appropriate to explain my disagreement somewhat. You sound like people in the sixties talking about cancer when it was considered a "dirty disease".
Ahh, but bugzilla don't allow slashdot links. But the magic of copy and paste works. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126611
Along the same lines, I've wondered about the security of the keyless entry systems in cars. Going up and manually checking a key to see if it works is a little more dangerous, since you would be seen walking from car to car in a parking lot, but driving up and down the rows in a large parking lot like a Walmart or a mall would be a lot easier. The only reason I think of this is that my friend once got in a car and started it before he realized that it wasn't his, but it was a Taurus that was the same color blue.
To be honest though I have no clue about keyless entries except that some use radio signals and some are infrared. Then again, I don't have one so I really don't have to worry. I'm sure someone in the Slashdot audience knows more about this and can provide a little information.
I remember when I was 7 years old. I was probably one of the last kids on the block to get a Nintendo. It was Christmas and my parents finally gave in and bought one for me.
Probably one of my most vivid memories of that time period was not playing the game myself, but my parents addiction to the game. For two people who thought video games were silly, they got very competative, very quickly. All of a sudden my bed time was enforced to the minute and moments after hitting the bed, I could hear the sounds of frustration and rubbing a new high score or number of lines in the spouse's face from my living room downstairs.
Even a couple winters ago, we went on a trip with some of my younger cousins who had a game boy color. Very quickly heated debates between my mom dad, and myself broke out as to who's turn it was to play that magical piece of purple plastic. I, of course, whooped up on them. Boo yeah!
The game is great. There are two scores to pay attention to: lines and actual score. There's the A game and the B game. And besides all that it exposed children to great music in the form of blips and bleeps. Too bad my Nintendo died last year. I think the only video games that have brought my family together like that are the old Sierra games like (Space | King's | Police) Quest on our Tandy 1000 and Myst.
My decision isn't based on performance. They both are "fast enough" for me. I used to use ReiserFS a while back and it was great. Then I installed Redhat 7.3 on a machine and used ext3 so I didn't have to mess with anything. Yes tinkering is fun... but when I feel like it. Sometimes its nice to have stuff Just Work. Haven't had any problems since and have had a few random power outages.
Also I like the idea that I can read the drive with an ext2 driver from an older kernel or from FreeBSD just in case. In case of what? I don't know, but somehow it makes me feel better.
Too bad they didn't have this in time for the 4th of July! Laser light show and fireworks at the same time, and by the military no less. What's more American than that?
Funny, from bash if I 'time ls' or 'time dir' or 'time /usr/bin/ls' (so I'm not using the bash builtin) I get 0.03 sec user time and 0.02 sec system time. Real time, of course varies depending on when you run it, but goes from 0.04 to 0.08 sec for all of them on my system. Anyway I'm not going to notice 2-4 hundredths of a second, and I doubt you would either.
/usr/X11R6/bin directory. 'man XWin' gives you all the options the XWin.exe server takes, or you can just 'startx' and it'll run with openbox as its window manager.
And wait a minute, you're using CDE and you think making a 2 line batch file is "a pain". Hmmmm.
They even give you a sample batch file and a sample bash script in the
Rootless is something I miss, but not enough to use a commercial piece of software when I have an option that is free.
I've used it on win2k on a daily basis for over a month now. It runs nicely in full screen mode, which you can Alt-Tab out of. You can also run it in a window, but that's just what I prefer. Make sure you run xwinclip too so you can copy and paste between X and Winders. I've tried a couple commercial Win32 X Servers and although this doesn't have some of the fancy features, I find it more stable.
I've never understood why people needed a roaming browser profile. I would think either you didn't need it, or you needed to have more data "roaming" than just your browser config/bookmarks, etc.
.bashrc, .emacs, etc. in synch more annoying than setting up a browser. Then again, I don't really use bookmarks, I used to just set up a page with all the links I usually use and set it as my home page. Now, I set up a PHP script that XSLTs XBEL to HTML so I use the bookmarks in Galeon and upload the XBEL file every now and then.
Have you thought about NFS (or I guess SAMBA or something else) for your home directory? That way you can share all your config files. I find keeping my
I don't know if anyone else noticed but the company who did the little image explaining how it worked was called XPLANE.
Now in the spirit of capitalism (not allowing this XPLANE company get a monopoly on cheezy diagrams) and the tradition of Riki Ricardo of "I Love Lucy", I propose its time some of us get together and start our own company named SPLANE. Our motto could be that "We got some SPLANE'n to do" or maybe just "Bobaloo".
First off I don't think that was a grammatical mistake. I think he was expanding the topic of discussion intentionally. What's more interesting to talk about anyway, a trailer for a movie about a book every geek has read multiple times or the death of a legendary musician who helped to redefine the role of the bass in rock music?
:-). It's their site, to post whatever the hell they want to on. We're free to start our own communities if we want (I have), and they're not responsible to provide everything for us.
As for the topic of discussion, what exactly is the topic supposed to be. I believe the previous discussion ends up defining the topic more than a headline does anyway. Besides, its not like there are ever any literary discussions or even film discussions worth much around here. Nobody even dares to interpret a work. The deepest they go is to just make sweeping good/bad distinctions. Take the "on topic" comments here. They're not about the quality of the trailer, the pertinence to the book, or even the role of the Who in Rock History. They're quick one liners and talk about how Quicktime/Apple/Sorensen suck.
This may be news for Nerds, but don't kid yourself: it's news for Computer Nerds. Music Nerds, Film Nerds, Book Nerds, etc. aren't included in that statement. But when I say that I'm not upset with Slashdot itself, or the editors, or even the posters (well... not all of the posters
Despite the humor factor of MC Hammer, I think a real suggestion for a theme song would be the Breeder's "Divine Hammer". It would also work well since they just released their new album Title TK. Although, I admit I haven't heard it yet.
Man I can't believe it. Not only did the trailers give away so much about the movie, but this guy actually wrote out the entire story a while back, way before the movie came out, and totally ruined it for me. What an ass hole. I pretty much knew exacly what was going to happen before I even saw it.
But watching it on the sceen was so much better than actually having to use my imagination. The orcs in my mind had little jaggies, because I couldn't render all of them well in real time. It's so much easier just to borrow someone else's imagination and not think so much. Man my brain hurts from having to type so many words. I need a better cooling system for me head.
I think United Linux is bad because it seems to be selling its product based on fear. It plays up this "lack of interoperability" angle on Linux and works by creating fear that Linux is hard to deploy, use, and maintain. And it hits us where it hurts, the CTOs. Linux is just starting to get a reputation for being an easy, cheap, and robust way to get things done. This marketing strategy can only set us back 2 years as far as corporate mindset is concerned. This is a very bad thing especially right now, when its a lot easier to sell Linux to a corporation because it has both the buzzword factor to appease CTOs and management, and it has the low cost factor to appease CFOs and other financial types.
Saying "Linux is hard to use. But we're not nearly as hard as the other guys." is not going to sell their product, it's only going to decrease interest in Linux in general.
but do they have a psychotic arm for my former nazi scientist?