Of course most of the sites about linux have been alarmingly unfriendly, basically boiling down to RTFM. With this kind of support for linux from the linux community, no wonder some people shy away.
Most of the measures established in the cold war for survival were merely for morale purposes. Their bottom line was not to keep people alive but make them think that they would survive.
Hardly a competitor unless I can install OSX on intel architecture. There's no way I'm going out to buy new hardware just to run an operating system based on something I can get for free for the hardware I already own.
It's simpler to bash MS users for being stupid, it helps keep their minds closed from using something that may actually teach them something and introduce them to alternatives.
Just because you can submit an article doesn't mean that it has to be real. Give it some headline that's sure to grab any slashsheep's attention like "Senate Finance Committee Mulls Linux Alternatives" and fill it up with some gay sex story involving the slashdot editors and links to goatse.cx
Slashdot and Microsoft have a lot in common with the guys I came across in high school and college. They hated queers and constantly talked about them and joked about their sexual practices but if you asked them if they were gay they got all pissed off. Slashdot's that way with Microsoft, lately I've been wondering if I've been reading MSNBC's newsfeed rather than something about open source programming and operating systems with nerdly news peppered generously throughout.
Humanity is interested in space exploration, it's just that the people in charge can not find the profitability in space exploration.
In the beginning space exploration was about showing off how powerful one's defense industry could be to the point that America proved it could put a man on the moon and therefore also establish a lunar base from which to lob missles at the former USSR.
The science of the lunar missions and the subsequent Mars missions were simply funded by the excess money generated by the defense industry to make space exploration seem legitimate in the first place with the veil of scientific inquiry.
Back in the good old days of space exploration (late fifties to mid seventies) there was profit in space exploration. Sadly today NASA works on a shoestring (for space exploration) budget making things which could realize the dreams of mankind just dreams.
Come on, fire has had a virtual monopoly for millions of years and in fact it was actually first developed after a thunderstorm when Urrgh realized that the sky burned a tree. Urrgh didn't realize that it was electricity in the thunderstorm that started the fire, he figured the fire was already pre-installed on the tree.
People throughout the ages have said it's all about electricity and if it wasn't for electricity there wouldn't be fire. So electricity languished as a mere hobby for scientists while fire enjoyed wide use among humankind.
Only in the past two or three hundred years has electricity been recognized and implemented in an efficient fashion to overtake fire's marketshare!
Lord of the Rings is just about hype but Star Wars is nowhere near being hype? IMO talking about "hype" for LotR is tantamount to saying this is a flash in the pan bereft of any aesthetic merit.
George Lucas promised to film the prequels back to back and release one each year for three years. What's fat minivan dad up to now? Five years until he does another prequel? What? Lucas doesn't want to produce a piece of shit and needs to take his time creating special effects and developing plot which still falls far short? Effects in TPM were no better than what was seen in Harry Potter, the plot was non-existent despite Lucas' PR making spoof posters of "Plot Does Matter". Peter Jackson has created an awe inspiring movie with a richly textured plot which effectively conveys themes of friendship and sacrifice incorporating fantastic visuals and effects which enhance the movie without taking center stage or obviously being computer generated.
Lord of the Rings is news for nerds, whether on film or paper, and it still doesn't have a topic devoted entirely to this phenomenon. Lord of the Rings is highly deserving of this, and in light of 1999, moreso than Star Wars.
OMG!!!! I sooooo hope that they rename "Two Towers" to something else out of respect for the people who died on September 11th when those uruk-hai flew Smaug into them!!! Maybe "Frodo's Happy Fun Quest Part II" or "Gollum Strikes Back" or "Pippin and the Multicolored Dream Sphere"!!!
...someone would donate computers with operating systems and hardware, which are relevant beyond some artistic niche market, to students then there wouldn't be any need to reteach students how to use Windows or Linux. Otherwise there'll be a generation of kids frustrated that their mac knowledge can only go so far in a wintel dominated marketplace.
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Of course most of the sites about linux have been alarmingly unfriendly, basically boiling down to RTFM. With this kind of support for linux from the linux community, no wonder some people shy away.
Does this mean that for years I've been pronouncing "vi" as "vie" instead of the correct "six"?
They are and you won't have any banners either.
Most of the measures established in the cold war for survival were merely for morale purposes. Their bottom line was not to keep people alive but make them think that they would survive.
Ooh, call them "luser". Great way to get people interested in linux by insulting them.
Hardly a competitor unless I can install OSX on intel architecture. There's no way I'm going out to buy new hardware just to run an operating system based on something I can get for free for the hardware I already own.
It's simpler to bash MS users for being stupid, it helps keep their minds closed from using something that may actually teach them something and introduce them to alternatives.
Just because you can submit an article doesn't mean that it has to be real. Give it some headline that's sure to grab any slashsheep's attention like "Senate Finance Committee Mulls Linux Alternatives" and fill it up with some gay sex story involving the slashdot editors and links to goatse.cx
It's not public??? What about GNU/GPL????
I thought this was slashdot I was reading (despite the spate of ten Microsoft posts a day last week).
Slashdot and Microsoft have a lot in common with the guys I came across in high school and college. They hated queers and constantly talked about them and joked about their sexual practices but if you asked them if they were gay they got all pissed off. Slashdot's that way with Microsoft, lately I've been wondering if I've been reading MSNBC's newsfeed rather than something about open source programming and operating systems with nerdly news peppered generously throughout.
Last two stories? Which ones are those?
Crocodile Dundee and Young Einstein?
If you want to be literal, yes it was a sled.
What Charles Foster Kane was really asking for on his deathbed was his innocence.
Humanity is interested in space exploration, it's just that the people in charge can not find the profitability in space exploration.
In the beginning space exploration was about showing off how powerful one's defense industry could be to the point that America proved it could put a man on the moon and therefore also establish a lunar base from which to lob missles at the former USSR.
The science of the lunar missions and the subsequent Mars missions were simply funded by the excess money generated by the defense industry to make space exploration seem legitimate in the first place with the veil of scientific inquiry.
Back in the good old days of space exploration (late fifties to mid seventies) there was profit in space exploration. Sadly today NASA works on a shoestring (for space exploration) budget making things which could realize the dreams of mankind just dreams.
It doesn't change the fact that they're American blacks, not British black folk.
Come on, fire has had a virtual monopoly for millions of years and in fact it was actually first developed after a thunderstorm when Urrgh realized that the sky burned a tree. Urrgh didn't realize that it was electricity in the thunderstorm that started the fire, he figured the fire was already pre-installed on the tree.
People throughout the ages have said it's all about electricity and if it wasn't for electricity there wouldn't be fire. So electricity languished as a mere hobby for scientists while fire enjoyed wide use among humankind.
Only in the past two or three hundred years has electricity been recognized and implemented in an efficient fashion to overtake fire's marketshare!
They've already done this with oxygen bars.
That's from an episode in 1996, most assuredly not an episode from the last two or three seasons which are just running out the clock.
You're expecting too much of slashdot. What are you going to demand next? Correct spelling and grammar?
The games will be ported to Windows eventually, with or without permission, and then you can use WINE to play them on linux.
The X-Box isn't much of an alternative considering there are only five games out for it and the PS2 does everything better than the X-Box.
Lord of the Rings is just about hype but Star Wars is nowhere near being hype? IMO talking about "hype" for LotR is tantamount to saying this is a flash in the pan bereft of any aesthetic merit.
George Lucas promised to film the prequels back to back and release one each year for three years. What's fat minivan dad up to now? Five years until he does another prequel? What? Lucas doesn't want to produce a piece of shit and needs to take his time creating special effects and developing plot which still falls far short? Effects in TPM were no better than what was seen in Harry Potter, the plot was non-existent despite Lucas' PR making spoof posters of "Plot Does Matter". Peter Jackson has created an awe inspiring movie with a richly textured plot which effectively conveys themes of friendship and sacrifice incorporating fantastic visuals and effects which enhance the movie without taking center stage or obviously being computer generated.
Lord of the Rings is news for nerds, whether on film or paper, and it still doesn't have a topic devoted entirely to this phenomenon. Lord of the Rings is highly deserving of this, and in light of 1999, moreso than Star Wars.
Whatever "plagerism" is. Perhaps "plagiarism" instead.
OMG!!!! I sooooo hope that they rename "Two Towers" to something else out of respect for the people who died on September 11th when those uruk-hai flew Smaug into them!!! Maybe "Frodo's Happy Fun Quest Part II" or "Gollum Strikes Back" or "Pippin and the Multicolored Dream Sphere"!!!
Phoo! Who needs 32 bit graphics! Get nethack and give that to someone this holiday season.
...someone would donate computers with operating systems and hardware, which are relevant beyond some artistic niche market, to students then there wouldn't be any need to reteach students how to use Windows or Linux. Otherwise there'll be a generation of kids frustrated that their mac knowledge can only go so far in a wintel dominated marketplace.