Anything that you, yourself, create is going to be shitty and rather stupid -not to mention poorly done. You are NOT going to be able to make a film on a par of The Godfather, you're NOT going to be able to make an album on a par with Dark Side Of The Moon, you are NOT going to be able to make a book along the lines of The Tommyknockers.
People who have created those works were able to because THAT IS THEIR LIFE. We have to work, and most people are fucking incredibly untalented.
Whatever else you believe, mass media is the ONLY MEDIA that there is. The only alternatives to the mass media is shitty doodles and folky warbling. Which is to say even worse fucking crap.
I'm not sure why Be failed I didn't follow it all that closely; but at least part of it (as I remember) had to do with a combination of wishy-washy decisions about supporting either the x86 or mac (where they started) platforms. Going back and forth on wether they would continue support or not.
There were other similar fumbles made too, as far as I remember.
I do not know if you fall into the former catagory or not (I recognize your name, but can't recall any specific posts I may or may not have taken exception to), but at the moment you are falling into the latter. It is a fetish for the new.
If I have a fetish for the 'new' it's for 'new capability', and new applications of technology. I understand what you mean by that term and I agree that favoring something new and unproven just because it is new is asinine indeed.
However, what I object to is the mindset that says that just because someone does not want to adapt a new way of doing things (eg being able to format email) that no-one else should be able to either.
As I've said, my gripe isn't with the existence of old programs and methodologies: it's with the fetishizing of them at the expense of new capabilities.
Windows only goes back 20 years, whereas unix goes back 35.
The slashdot mindset is to enshrine the commandline tools (of thirtyfive years ago) just because they are the commandline tools of thiryfive years ago.
No, slashdot ludditism has far less to do with windows and far more to do with what the unix hater's handbook called "the cult of unix".
It's amazing that for being essentially a humor book they described that phenomenon so accurately; it's even more amazing that the sad cult is still thriving today on this very site.
I responded that the mutt users I have encountered have exhibited luddite tendencies
Email has progressed to the point where most modern email programs hold the capability to handle either text or html formatting. The desire of a very vocal minority of users screaming for the majority to not use a useful feature is in fact a classic example of luddite behavior.
Your comparison of comment ratings sounds like someone who is more interested in conformity and groupthink than in honest debate or -heaven forfend- critical analysis of the prevailing (luddite) mindset.
enjoy your pong on your c64 all you like, but don't be surprised when your cries of "OMG U USED HTML" place you squarely in my killfile/spamfilters.
or that matter, in what way does my using mutt make me a Luddite? In the way that every time I come across some mutt user it's always in the context of bitch bitch bitch line wrap bitch bitch bitch 80 colums bitch bitch bitch html formatted.
For my part, I'm sick of people bitching about my posts just because I don't cater to their fetish for 1980's technology.
See? This is a large part of why linux isn't mainstream yet. You have far too many luddites who have far too much influence and want to pretend it's still 1979.
1gb of hard disk space makes every meg precious. Then you won't want to use a desktop enviroment at all. In fact, you might want to consider using one of the BSD's instead; NetBSD would probably work great on such an old system.
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Linux is fractured between two dominant desktop enviorments; which is hindering it's market penetration.
So, therefore, why don't we merge gnome into kde so that we have one major desktop enviroment with two 'sub-desktops' (the original kde and gnome) that users can choose between?
Don't be so quick to scoff, after emacs absorbed vi its' user base increased, and I think that with a little thought and planning the same could happen for linux, too.
"Closed" games can afford touches such as artists and writers. In theory I have to applaud the OSS developers for having the chutzpah to take on such an dauntingly hopeless task as making an OSS game; but the quality speaks for itself.
Before someone decides I'm an anti-OSS troll, let me say that OSS has made some wonderful servers and if it weren't for the free tools I'd have never been able to try my hand at programming. It's as simple as the fact that quality art and quality writing don't grow on trees...as we can plainly see.
It takes $$$ and lots of it to create a Halo, a Counterstrike or a Sims. That's just how it is.
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People who cannot tell the difference between decent and "non-decent" (indecent?) music are the ones happily listening to what's currently in style.
:)
But, at least we can agree that most (maybe not all, but most) indie bands need "a few bands" to become vaguely listenable.
Don't forget to go out now and then and buy what they're selling!
Anything that you, yourself, create is going to be shitty and rather stupid -not to mention poorly done. You are NOT going to be able to make a film on a par of The Godfather, you're NOT going to be able to make an album on a par with Dark Side Of The Moon, you are NOT going to be able to make a book along the lines of The Tommyknockers.
People who have created those works were able to because THAT IS THEIR LIFE. We have to work, and most people are fucking incredibly untalented.
Whatever else you believe, mass media is the ONLY MEDIA that there is. The only alternatives to the mass media is shitty doodles and folky warbling. Which is to say even worse fucking crap.
I'm not sure why Be failed
I didn't follow it all that closely; but at least part of it (as I remember) had to do with a combination of wishy-washy decisions about supporting either the x86 or mac (where they started) platforms. Going back and forth on wether they would continue support or not.
There were other similar fumbles made too, as far as I remember.
poke around your lynx.cfg and you'll find that there are options to view pictures via an external viewer.
;)
That's how I used to view porn during the late 90's.
For a geek-oriented site (his, not /.) that's not a very good showing, unless the other 87% is lynx.
I'm posting from KDE
I do not know if you fall into the former catagory or not (I recognize your name, but can't recall any specific posts I may or may not have taken exception to), but at the moment you are falling into the latter. It is a fetish for the new.
If I have a fetish for the 'new' it's for 'new capability', and new applications of technology. I understand what you mean by that term and I agree that favoring something new and unproven just because it is new is asinine indeed.
However, what I object to is the mindset that says that just because someone does not want to adapt a new way of doing things (eg being able to format email) that no-one else should be able to either.
As I've said, my gripe isn't with the existence of old programs and methodologies: it's with the fetishizing of them at the expense of new capabilities.
Windows only goes back 20 years, whereas unix goes back 35.
The slashdot mindset is to enshrine the commandline tools (of thirtyfive years ago) just because they are the commandline tools of thiryfive years ago.
No, slashdot ludditism has far less to do with windows and far more to do with what the unix hater's handbook called "the cult of unix".
It's amazing that for being essentially a humor book they described that phenomenon so accurately; it's even more amazing that the sad cult is still thriving today on this very site.
He asked if using mutt made him a luddite
I responded that the mutt users I have encountered have exhibited luddite tendencies
Email has progressed to the point where most modern email programs hold the capability to handle either text or html formatting. The desire of a very vocal minority of users screaming for the majority to not use a useful feature is in fact a classic example of luddite behavior.
Your comparison of comment ratings sounds like someone who is more interested in conformity and groupthink than in honest debate or -heaven forfend- critical analysis of the prevailing (luddite) mindset.
enjoy your pong on your c64 all you like, but don't be surprised when your cries of "OMG U USED HTML" place you squarely in my killfile/spamfilters.
or that matter, in what way does my using mutt make me a Luddite?
In the way that every time I come across some mutt user it's always in the context of bitch bitch bitch line wrap bitch bitch bitch 80 colums bitch bitch bitch html formatted.
For my part, I'm sick of people bitching about my posts just because I don't cater to their fetish for 1980's technology.
See? This is a large part of why linux isn't mainstream yet. You have far too many luddites who have far too much influence and want to pretend it's still 1979.
and stuff.
1gb of hard disk space makes every meg precious.
Then you won't want to use a desktop enviroment at all. In fact, you might want to consider using one of the BSD's instead; NetBSD would probably work great on such an old system.
Linux is fractured between two dominant desktop enviorments; which is hindering it's market penetration.
So, therefore, why don't we merge gnome into kde so that we have one major desktop enviroment with two 'sub-desktops' (the original kde and gnome) that users can choose between?
Don't be so quick to scoff, after emacs absorbed vi its' user base increased, and I think that with a little thought and planning the same could happen for linux, too.
kekeke
am i rite?
"Closed" games can afford touches such as artists and writers. In theory I have to applaud the OSS developers for having the chutzpah to take on such an dauntingly hopeless task as making an OSS game; but the quality speaks for itself.
Before someone decides I'm an anti-OSS troll, let me say that OSS has made some wonderful servers and if it weren't for the free tools I'd have never been able to try my hand at programming. It's as simple as the fact that quality art and quality writing don't grow on trees...as we can plainly see.
It takes $$$ and lots of it to create a Halo, a Counterstrike or a Sims. That's just how it is.
I have the iso for RC5, is 2.0 basically the same or are there any major fixes done to it?
the spelling is intentional. IE "go usa. get a brain morans."
No one is telling you that you cannot use Novell Enterprise Desktop Linux as a server, however; this is the difference.
In the case of Novell, it's the same OS, just packaged with different features and holding a different support contract.
So XP Pro includes a copy of IIS for what reason, then? I mean, if that's not what it's meant for.