Umm, saint. I'm just curious(this is not a flame by the way and don't take it as one) how you can pass college classes if you can't capitalize your Is and proper nouns.
Warning warning!!! This is NOT A FLAME!!!!!
in addition to my dearth of capitalization, i apparently use wholly too few punctuation marks and emoticons. i apologize profusely.
(actually, it's a holdover from the old bbs days... i never bothered using capitalization when i was sysop chatting with users, and so unless i'm writing something likely to have at least moderate longevity, i don't bother.)
disclaimer: this is not a flame. it'll probably sound like one, but it's not. it's a serious question.
mr katz --
are you under some sort of contractual obligation to post these editorials? n number of articles per month, something like that?
i'm just curious, because some of them are pretty good. this one, for example, is pretty well written and documented. but sometimes, like when you were discussing "mage: the ascension," a ten year old role playing game, it seemed like you were just grasping at straws.
i do a bit of writing myself, and i don't like to think that my style varies as wildly as yours. but i remember when i was in college, if i was compelled to write a paper for a class i wasn't particularly enjoying, i could often churn out pages of dry shite that would meet the requirements of the assignment without actually conveying anything of value or merit.
so it's not a flame, but the question is: do you have to write some of this stuff to meet a deadline, or do you just have particularly off days sometimes where you'll throw anything at all up on slashdot and call it good?
Also, what about the average computer user - who has two buttons? They have to throw out their mouse and try to find a piece of hardware that is barely made?!
you know, now i don't remember what happened to the hockey puck i had on this imac...
When was the last time I called tech support?
I can't really even remember.
when was the last time someone reading this page worked in tech support? i'm in a call center right now, and i'd be willing to bet there's two or three dozen people reading slashdot right along with me right now.
When/what was the last computer I bought?
when was the last time a self-proclaimed geek was involved in the production of a computer or a piece of software? and what are the odds that he or she reads slashdot too?
computers aren't an object for the 133t 386 users like you any more. they've changed culture. not always in good ways. that's why these stories are plenty applicable to the "news for nerds" headline.
for some reason, this article reminded me a lot of the death of traditionaal one phone line bbses. i ran one for about three years in the early nineties, until the web cam down and crushed all of us. how did it happen? the same way that the xcf is dying.
its okay to be a geek now.
the people who wanted to kick my ass in high school are all on the web. bored housewives are hunting for tracks on napster. grandkids are sending email back and forth to their grandparents. and you don't have to go to some basement room full of unix workstations to talk about computer stuff any more.
it's a bit odd, but try sitting in a diner during the breakfast hour some time and not hearing a conversation about computers. and it's not just the geeks like us, its forklift drivers and waitresses and everyone else. places like the xcf (and like bbses, which is why i was reminded), were refuges for people who were into computing. now everyone is, to at least a slight degree. why bother having a refuge any more? there's nothing left to drive people in.
it's sort of tough to get knowledgable tech oriented employees to work for six bucks an hour in retail. just a thought. that's why it seems like every time you go to a compusa or best buy or something you end up talking to a half-bright thumb wrestler from the bayou.
not to say that the training is adequate for these poor bastards, but there _is_ a reason they're so dumb.
A color LCD of usable brightness (another huge drain on battery life) is going to output a certain amount of energy
i agree, but i for one (and i'm sure there are others out there) would be happy to get a greyscale screen if i could get an increase in battery power for it. are there any decent laptops out there with black and white screens?
A simple plastic case, a la floppy disks,
would do wonders for their longevity. Was this another plot by the music and motion picture industries to screw us, or what?
...which would be why my cd-rom is a caddy load. it's cheap, it's easy, and i've *never* scratched a cd in it. a pity that caddies are so obsolete.
We're all Linux users, and we know that Windows 2000 is a horror, and was developed under insane conditions.
actually, i'm a mac user, you arrogant prick. i'm getting rather sick of the "if it ain't linux, it ain't shit" attitude that sweeps this place. just because i don't use a *nix as my primary environment doesn't make me a gravy-drooling moron.
Well, because then they'll have an actual *reason* to call it MacOS X.
there was a port of x windows to mac... it was called MacX, and surprisingly enough was often accidentally used as a box shot in catalogs when they meant "Mac OS X Server." let's hear it for the gratuitously confusing apple naming scheme.
"this is our _new_ powerbook g3, hereby known as the g3-with-the-silverish-edging-on-the-hinges."
Slashdot Mirror
NY and LA are a bit too far of a trip for me to see the movie. TIA
i went to see it last night here in sunny buffalo, new york. it's good to be in such a cultured city.
*snicker*
--saint----
Umm, saint. I'm just curious(this is not a flame by the way and don't take it as one) how you can pass college classes if you can't capitalize your Is and proper nouns. Warning warning!!! This is NOT A FLAME!!!!!
in addition to my dearth of capitalization, i apparently use wholly too few punctuation marks and emoticons. i apologize profusely.
(actually, it's a holdover from the old bbs days... i never bothered using capitalization when i was sysop chatting with users, and so unless i'm writing something likely to have at least moderate longevity, i don't bother.)
--saint----
disclaimer: this is not a flame. it'll probably sound like one, but it's not. it's a serious question.
mr katz --
are you under some sort of contractual obligation to post these editorials? n number of articles per month, something like that?
i'm just curious, because some of them are pretty good. this one, for example, is pretty well written and documented. but sometimes, like when you were discussing "mage: the ascension," a ten year old role playing game, it seemed like you were just grasping at straws.
i do a bit of writing myself, and i don't like to think that my style varies as wildly as yours. but i remember when i was in college, if i was compelled to write a paper for a class i wasn't particularly enjoying, i could often churn out pages of dry shite that would meet the requirements of the assignment without actually conveying anything of value or merit.
so it's not a flame, but the question is: do you have to write some of this stuff to meet a deadline, or do you just have particularly off days sometimes where you'll throw anything at all up on slashdot and call it good?
--saint----
Well, unfortunatly Windows comes w/too much worthless shit as well unless you choose a custom install
how dare you say that about phone dialer and microsoft netmeeting?
*cough*
--saint----
Also, what about the average computer user - who has two buttons? They have to throw out their mouse and try to find a piece of hardware that is barely made?!
you know, now i don't remember what happened to the hockey puck i had on this imac...
--saint----
Who says Linux has no place on the desktop.
the people who make the computer buying decisions in any home. the kids, who want to be able to play games on mom and dad's new machine.
c'mon, loki, i'm pulling for you here.
--saint----
When was the last time I called tech support? I can't really even remember.
when was the last time someone reading this page worked in tech support? i'm in a call center right now, and i'd be willing to bet there's two or three dozen people reading slashdot right along with me right now.
When/what was the last computer I bought?
when was the last time a self-proclaimed geek was involved in the production of a computer or a piece of software? and what are the odds that he or she reads slashdot too?
computers aren't an object for the 133t 386 users like you any more. they've changed culture. not always in good ways. that's why these stories are plenty applicable to the "news for nerds" headline.
--saint----
It's Mac users like that that give us all a bad name.
hear hear. i'm posting this from work in a tech support call center. ever try to walk a newbie mac user through checking their network settings?
sigh.
"the computer for the rest of us" seems to be "the computer for people who have no curiosity about how things work."
--saint----
for some reason, this article reminded me a lot of the death of traditionaal one phone line bbses. i ran one for about three years in the early nineties, until the web cam down and crushed all of us. how did it happen? the same way that the xcf is dying.
its okay to be a geek now.
the people who wanted to kick my ass in high school are all on the web. bored housewives are hunting for tracks on napster. grandkids are sending email back and forth to their grandparents. and you don't have to go to some basement room full of unix workstations to talk about computer stuff any more.
it's a bit odd, but try sitting in a diner during the breakfast hour some time and not hearing a conversation about computers. and it's not just the geeks like us, its forklift drivers and waitresses and everyone else. places like the xcf (and like bbses, which is why i was reminded), were refuges for people who were into computing. now everyone is, to at least a slight degree. why bother having a refuge any more? there's nothing left to drive people in.
--saint----
Maybe opera will help, but could they be moving any slower?
sure. they could move the people from the macintosh port over to the *nix one.
okay, okay, i'll stop bitching...
--saint----
it's sort of tough to get knowledgable tech oriented employees to work for six bucks an hour in retail. just a thought. that's why it seems like every time you go to a compusa or best buy or something you end up talking to a half-bright thumb wrestler from the bayou.
not to say that the training is adequate for these poor bastards, but there _is_ a reason they're so dumb.
--saint----
A color LCD of usable brightness (another huge drain on battery life) is going to output a certain amount of energy
i agree, but i for one (and i'm sure there are others out there) would be happy to get a greyscale screen if i could get an increase in battery power for it. are there any decent laptops out there with black and white screens?
--saint----
A simple plastic case, a la floppy disks, would do wonders for their longevity. Was this another plot by the music and motion picture industries to screw us, or what?
...which would be why my cd-rom is a caddy load. it's cheap, it's easy, and i've *never* scratched a cd in it. a pity that caddies are so obsolete.
--saint----
We're all Linux users, and we know that Windows 2000 is a horror, and was developed under insane conditions.
actually, i'm a mac user, you arrogant prick. i'm getting rather sick of the "if it ain't linux, it ain't shit" attitude that sweeps this place. just because i don't use a *nix as my primary environment doesn't make me a gravy-drooling moron.
--saint----
Actually, I think a home computer from 10 years ago would hit %100 cpu utilization and choke on current DSL or cable bandwidth.
'fraid not. my main machine is a quadra 700, a mac from nine years ago with a 68040 processor. works just fine with a cable modem.
--saint----
by the time he got to the z80, though, things were sure cooking.
--saint----
Well, because then they'll have an actual *reason* to call it MacOS X.
there was a port of x windows to mac... it was called MacX, and surprisingly enough was often accidentally used as a box shot in catalogs when they meant "Mac OS X Server." let's hear it for the gratuitously confusing apple naming scheme.
"this is our _new_ powerbook g3, hereby known as the g3-with-the-silverish-edging-on-the-hinges."
--saint----
Q: how do you keep a pentium from crashing?
A: pry the "/" key off of the keyboard!
--saint----