Whew. Thanks for the disclaimer.
BTW, the work in question packs a lot of heat as a purely existentialist piece.
Furthermore, calling it the most ridiculous book ever written does injustice to quite a few crapheaps of note, e.g. most of amazon.com.
In summary: neener-neener on you, Your Anonymity.
This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER . . . it is my responsibility to enforce all the laws that haven't been passed yet. It is also my responsibility to alert each and every one of you to the potential consequences of various ordinary everyday activities you might be performing which could eventually lead to The Death Penalty (or affect your parent's credit rating). Our criminal institutions are full of little creeps like you who do wrong things . . . and many of them were driven to these crimes by a horrible force called MUSIC!
Our studies have shown that this horrible force is so dangerous to society at large that laws are being drawn up at this very moment to stop it forever! Cruel and inhuman punishments are being carefully described in tiny paragraphs so they won't conflict with the Constitution (which, itself, is being modified in order to accomodate THE FUTURE).
Och, no, I'm mindless.
Now, I can't explain your hysterical laughter, nor would I be so crass as to belabor the hidden point here, but there is an oblique reference to a sketch that I've only seen in Live at the Hollywood Bowl.
No, not the one where the Renaissance German Philosophers lose in fooball to the Classical Greek Philosophers.
No, you don't.
You have to be root and deliberately set parameters in places like/etc/fstab to support what you want to do.
The real point is that there is an established model that is documented and understood for setting up a system under GNU/Linux.
Windows is finally awakening to the requirement, and knowledge is finally getting spread through the likes of Non Admin.
The real difference is one of attitude:
Windows: user == sheep
GNU/Linux: user == shepherd
May seem a pretty penny, but I can vouch for the value added. Great documentation, great support. All hardware working, drivers tweaked. In particular, there was a just-in-case recovery partition on my dual-boot Windows/RedHat configuration.
Now, granted, when I needed to install a newer Windows, some...things...happened, but that problem was rooted in Washington, not Georgia.:)
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Report to Conference Room C.
You will be seated in the comfy chair and be forced to endure what initially appears to be a finite PowerPoint presentation, but you will eventually realize is a Kafka-esque random crapflooder. It is loaded with current buzzwords about some n-tier solution, somehow integrating all 621 languages on 99 bottles, which project will become your life, assuming you scream in the proper musical sequence from a certain Partridge Family episode, which will turn off the presentation and unlock the door.
Good luck.
What about the light-sensitive panel, cleverly disguised as a wall, behind Steven, that has been collecting everything shown on the screen for the last __ years?
Or are we still keeping that on the down-low?
Elmer must've got up early and munched a wot of waxative to pump out dat kinda FUD.
A more full treatment of the TFA topic can be found in Coase's Penguin.
From the abstract:
In this paper I explain that while free software is highly visible, it is in fact only one example of a much broader social-economic phenomenon. I suggest that we are seeing is the broad and deep emergence of a new, third mode of production in the digitally networked environment. I call this mode "commons-based peer-production," to distinguish it from the property- and contract-based models of firms and markets. Its central characteristic is that groups of individuals successfully collaborate on large-scale projects following a diverse cluster of motivational drives and social signals, rather than either market prices or managerial commands.
My personal spin is that, just as the printing press broke down the medieval market on literacy, so the GPL will increasingly educate the masses. Props to RMS, the modern Gutenberg.
I requested restraint on the part of the/. editors. "Less is more," foolishly spake I. Paraphasing Keidas, "Tidalwaves couldn't save the world from slashdotifornication"
Go ahead, flame me like I was SpanishInquisition, or something...
Gosh, Will, you're swell.
You're way cooler than that sap, Ben.
Golly, but this GennNToo stuff is really keen.
I wish M____ S___ would just dry up, sometimes.
</if Beaver Cleaver could have been a h4x0r>
No graphical subsystem. We do not provide X11. This requires major work, and is not likely to change in the near future.
Poor network support. While the drivers work, the user mode tools do not exist in POSIX form. This is being worked on. In the meantime, we are making available some Win32 text-mode tools, but these require you to install a minimal Win32 subsystem.
No configuration tools. The NT kernel is designed to be controlled via the registry. While we do provide a minimal registry editor, it is unfortunately rather difficult to use for non-experts to do any kind of configuration. We are considering various options here, the most likely candidate being a/proc-like filesystem as an interface to the registry.
No partitioning tools. We don't (yet) have fdisk, so all partitioning must be done before installation.
GUIs come, and GUIs go, but the CLI goes on forever. Emacs.
Networking is of course critical.
The thought of an emacs customization buffer supporting the Windows registry is at least seven kinds of perverse.:)
The partitioning tools are the least concern. If it's a multi-boot, and you have to provide a licensed XP (regardless of whether you agree, do uphold the law), you probably aren't starting wholly from scratch on this project.
The really interesting thing to do with this would be to give the NT kernel a User Mode Linux wrapper, and then let the little NT byotch-process run all of its little hardware drivers. I would love to flex my HP 11g duplex laser printer under my 'regular' Gentoo boot...
It's really all about convergence: law, science, politics, advertising.
And you thought this internet would reveal truth, as opposed to obfuscating it.
Nothin' bounces like a reality check!
Slashdot Mirror
Whew. Thanks for the disclaimer.
BTW, the work in question packs a lot of heat as a purely existentialist piece.
Furthermore, calling it the most ridiculous book ever written does injustice to quite a few crapheaps of note, e.g. most of amazon.com.
In summary: neener-neener on you, Your Anonymity.
Props to Solomon in Ecclesiastes:
...there is no new thing under the sun.
Can we admit that it really has all been done before, and just get over ourselves?
(emphasis mine)
Och, no, I'm mindless.
Now, I can't explain your hysterical laughter, nor would I be so crass as to belabor the hidden point here, but there is an oblique reference to a sketch that I've only seen in Live at the Hollywood Bowl.
No, not the one where the Renaissance German Philosophers lose in fooball to the Classical Greek Philosophers.
Oh, I'm
sure
that MS
would
make
their
patent
all fruity
and
call it
a kiwi,
with sufficient
sophistry
to stand erect
in court.
No, you don't. /etc/fstab to support what you want to do.
You have to be root and deliberately set parameters in places like
The real point is that there is an established model that is documented and understood for setting up a system under GNU/Linux.
Windows is finally awakening to the requirement, and knowledge is finally getting spread through the likes of Non Admin.
The real difference is one of attitude:
Windows: user == sheep
GNU/Linux: user == shepherd
May seem a pretty penny, but I can vouch for the value added. Great documentation, great support. All hardware working, drivers tweaked. In particular, there was a just-in-case recovery partition on my dual-boot Windows/RedHat configuration. :)
Now, granted, when I needed to install a newer Windows, some...things...happened, but that problem was rooted in Washington, not Georgia.
Let's see, Enigma Man. :)
Sounds like people living in glass houses calling the a spade a kettle, or does my metaphorical blender require calibration?
Well, the Prism54 card with WEP was a little challenging, but surmountable. Props to Gentoo!
Here I KW from the FAQ:
Report to Conference Room C.
You will be seated in the comfy chair and be forced to endure what initially appears to be a finite PowerPoint presentation, but you will eventually realize is a Kafka-esque random crapflooder.
It is loaded with current buzzwords about some n-tier solution, somehow integrating all 621 languages on 99 bottles, which project will become your life, assuming you scream in the proper musical sequence from a certain Partridge Family episode, which will turn off the presentation and unlock the door.
Good luck.
Me, too. Who do these astronauts think they are, professional athletes?
Now, underneath all that whitewash, what do you really think, JC?
Your concept of a 'meta review' site accepts the null hypothesis that an unbiased review is possible.
It's all good, until you mix in the people...
What about the light-sensitive panel, cleverly disguised as a wall, behind Steven, that has been collecting everything shown on the screen for the last __ years?
Or are we still keeping that on the down-low?
Is a "truly unique" object better than a false non-singleton?
</pedantic>
There is much humor to be found in the written word...
Bill, in the portfolio, with the MSFT.
A more full treatment of the TFA topic can be found in Coase's Penguin.
From the abstract:
My personal spin is that, just as the printing press broke down the medieval market on literacy, so the GPL will increasingly educate the masses.
Props to RMS, the modern Gutenberg.
I requested restraint on the part of the /. editors.
"Less is more," foolishly spake I.
Paraphasing Keidas, "Tidalwaves couldn't save the world from slashdotifornication"
Go ahead, flame me like I was SpanishInquisition, or something...
Gosh, Will, you're swell.
You're way cooler than that sap, Ben.
Golly, but this GennNToo stuff is really keen.
I wish M____ S___ would just dry up, sometimes.
</if Beaver Cleaver could have been a h4x0r>
Don't you need to emerge sys-tools/apt first? Or is there an rmp for that?
I emailed the on-duty editor with a plea of "less is more", but that effort was apparently washed away in a crapflood.
It's really all about convergence: law, science, politics, advertising.
And you thought this internet would reveal truth, as opposed to obfuscating it.
Nothin' bounces like a reality check!