Yes, except using "geek" in that sense fell out of popular use in the 1940's. But if Best Buy were selling their service in the flapper era, then yes, it would be pretty stupid to use that term.
However, it has other meanings, which are perfectly acceptable in polite conversation
Yeah, and "faggot" can also be used to refer to a bundle of kindling. But I would be pretty stupid to name my software that and expect serious people to adopt it.
They didn't have to use that name or acronym. They could have just as easily called it GNU Graphic Editing Program and called it "GEP", or any other number of more appropriate name/acronyms. Obviously they thought they were being cute.
I've never worked there, but I suspect that making software naming decisions after a night of smoking weed and watching Pulp Fiction is probably not the kind of thing they do over at Adobe. That's one of the reasons people take *their* software seriously.
"Gimp" (at least in American English) is a seriously derogatory term for someone who is crippled. Apparently, some idiot thought that using that as a acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program would just be HILARIOUS.
I actually used to teach a class where I wanted to use it. But the name stopped me. A real shame. Wish someone would fork it with a name that isn't so childish and offensive. They can improve it all they like, but no one is ever going to take it seriously with that name.
I don't think it's the Euro that's the problem. Sounds like it's the pound. Looks like the U.S. dollar has been growing against the pound pretty consistently in recent months.
I'm sorry, I missed the part of the Constitution that said "All provisions and amendments of this document are to be suspended during any period when the President says the country is at war."
No, I resent the fact that it's 2012 and there isn't a SINGLE respected university in the U.S. offering any online degrees--not one. All that's out there are the diploma mills, whose "degrees" aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
Why the heck does IBM need to cut so many jobs? They're actually doing rather well by all business standards.
Because that's how companies up their short-term profits these days, of course. Any CEO knows that you don't boost profits by making stuff and selling it or any of that nonsense, you just cut costs by firing more workers and making the existing workers pick up the slack (hey, where are they going to go in this economy?). And it's all about the short-term profits. Up those numbers for next quarter and you get a bonus. Sure, it may hurt your company in the long-term, but you'll be long gone with your golden parachute by them. And that's what being a CEO is all about.
Ran "Guaranteed employment through Dec. 31, 2013 and offers participants 70% of their pay for working 60% of their schedule" through Google's Bullshit Translator and got back "We'll promise to keep you on for another year if you'll agree to a 30% pay cut."
Harvard and MIT aren't going to directly affiliate with this for the same reason that other big-name universities still refuse to offer online-only degrees after all these years--because both they and their accrediting institutions are controlled by entrenched faculty who have big egos and don't want to risk being put out of a job. Professor McHotShit wants you in his class in person, kissing his ass and ensuring that he can never be replaced by videos.
Our guys have been asleep at the wheel for the last 10 years. I'm pretty sure at this point that most of the U.S. Justices don't even know there *is* a 4th Amendment, much less what it says.
That's part of the problem with Linux. Anytime it looks like a particular distro might achieve some actual mainstream success (like with Ubuntu), everyone starts complaining about this-or-that problem with it and it forks off into a million different competing distros, just adding to the already-confusing morass.
And Linux fans wonder why Windows and Mac stay on top.
I loved that guy in "The Last Dragon"
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Considering how effective the U.S. government has been at "persuading" countries around the world to implement carbon copies of its IP legislation (not to mention getting them to extradite their own citizens for U.S. IP violations), I wouldn't get too comfortable if I were you.
I'm getting a distinct sense lately that we may be coming to the end of the era of innovation and the beginning of an era where it's essentially impossible to invent anything or innovate in any way unless you have a powerful corporate sponsor backing you. Unless you have a sponsor with a big patent collection of their own and deep pockets, how can the little guy possibly hope to defend himself against a bevy of lawsuits that cover even the most trivial or obvious of ideas these days?
Oracle here isn't even saying that their code was stolen, they're suing a company for writing their own code that implements the same *SYNTAX* as theirs.
Think of it as an age where the Wright brothers have just pulled their plane to a stop only to be greeted by an army of process servers serving them with dozens of expensive patent lawsuits on the shape of the prop, the design of the stick, even the IDEA of a "craft that flies."
No offense, but every Asian country I've ever been to was loaded with CD's and DVD's of popular music and movies. Some, like China, were filled with mostly *bootleg* CD's and DVD's too (not that I can fault them for that, since so much is officially banned there). Just because you don't buy them (and will no doubt tell us all at great length why you don't even *OWN* a TV), doesn't mean that pop culture is somehow a plague solely limited to the U.S.
It's sad that Wozniak was always hindered by his inability to be a bullshit artist. It's just not in his nature to kiss ass or blow smoke. You ask his opinion and he gives it, without any regard as to whether or not it's what you want to hear.
Unfortunately this quality, which should be considered a virtue, is usually considered a handicap in the corporate world.
Sadly, most Apple fans these days don't consider Steve Wozniak the co-founder of Apple. They think Steve Jobs said "Let there be light" and then created everything Apple by himself. And I wish I were joking.
Well, people used to bad-mouth the Bear Patrol back when it started too. But I submit to you that we haven't had a single person killed in a U.S. city by a bear since it began. You can't argue with success.
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Yes, except using "geek" in that sense fell out of popular use in the 1940's. But if Best Buy were selling their service in the flapper era, then yes, it would be pretty stupid to use that term.
However, it has other meanings, which are perfectly acceptable in polite conversation
Yeah, and "faggot" can also be used to refer to a bundle of kindling. But I would be pretty stupid to name my software that and expect serious people to adopt it.
Well said, sir.
They didn't have to use that name or acronym. They could have just as easily called it GNU Graphic Editing Program and called it "GEP", or any other number of more appropriate name/acronyms. Obviously they thought they were being cute.
I've never worked there, but I suspect that making software naming decisions after a night of smoking weed and watching Pulp Fiction is probably not the kind of thing they do over at Adobe. That's one of the reasons people take *their* software seriously.
"Gimp" (at least in American English) is a seriously derogatory term for someone who is crippled. Apparently, some idiot thought that using that as a acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program would just be HILARIOUS.
I actually used to teach a class where I wanted to use it. But the name stopped me. A real shame. Wish someone would fork it with a name that isn't so childish and offensive. They can improve it all they like, but no one is ever going to take it seriously with that name.
I don't think it's the Euro that's the problem. Sounds like it's the pound. Looks like the U.S. dollar has been growing against the pound pretty consistently in recent months.
I'm sorry, I missed the part of the Constitution that said "All provisions and amendments of this document are to be suspended during any period when the President says the country is at war."
No, I resent the fact that it's 2012 and there isn't a SINGLE respected university in the U.S. offering any online degrees--not one. All that's out there are the diploma mills, whose "degrees" aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
Why the heck does IBM need to cut so many jobs? They're actually doing rather well by all business standards.
Because that's how companies up their short-term profits these days, of course. Any CEO knows that you don't boost profits by making stuff and selling it or any of that nonsense, you just cut costs by firing more workers and making the existing workers pick up the slack (hey, where are they going to go in this economy?). And it's all about the short-term profits. Up those numbers for next quarter and you get a bonus. Sure, it may hurt your company in the long-term, but you'll be long gone with your golden parachute by them. And that's what being a CEO is all about.
Ran "Guaranteed employment through Dec. 31, 2013 and offers participants 70% of their pay for working 60% of their schedule" through Google's Bullshit Translator and got back "We'll promise to keep you on for another year if you'll agree to a 30% pay cut."
Harvard and MIT aren't going to directly affiliate with this for the same reason that other big-name universities still refuse to offer online-only degrees after all these years--because both they and their accrediting institutions are controlled by entrenched faculty who have big egos and don't want to risk being put out of a job. Professor McHotShit wants you in his class in person, kissing his ass and ensuring that he can never be replaced by videos.
They should build a historical themepark set in the time when Timothy Hutton was considered an A-list actor.
Scan reveal Ötzi asshole who no respected bro?
Our guys have been asleep at the wheel for the last 10 years. I'm pretty sure at this point that most of the U.S. Justices don't even know there *is* a 4th Amendment, much less what it says.
A lot of those features were considered quite innovative for Linux in the late-90's.
That's part of the problem with Linux. Anytime it looks like a particular distro might achieve some actual mainstream success (like with Ubuntu), everyone starts complaining about this-or-that problem with it and it forks off into a million different competing distros, just adding to the already-confusing morass.
And Linux fans wonder why Windows and Mac stay on top.
Great performance.
We'll, I can't prove a negative, so why don't you give me a link to any interview before the mid-80's where Lucas even mentioned Joseph Campbell?
Considering how effective the U.S. government has been at "persuading" countries around the world to implement carbon copies of its IP legislation (not to mention getting them to extradite their own citizens for U.S. IP violations), I wouldn't get too comfortable if I were you.
I'm getting a distinct sense lately that we may be coming to the end of the era of innovation and the beginning of an era where it's essentially impossible to invent anything or innovate in any way unless you have a powerful corporate sponsor backing you. Unless you have a sponsor with a big patent collection of their own and deep pockets, how can the little guy possibly hope to defend himself against a bevy of lawsuits that cover even the most trivial or obvious of ideas these days?
Oracle here isn't even saying that their code was stolen, they're suing a company for writing their own code that implements the same *SYNTAX* as theirs.
Think of it as an age where the Wright brothers have just pulled their plane to a stop only to be greeted by an army of process servers serving them with dozens of expensive patent lawsuits on the shape of the prop, the design of the stick, even the IDEA of a "craft that flies."
No offense, but every Asian country I've ever been to was loaded with CD's and DVD's of popular music and movies. Some, like China, were filled with mostly *bootleg* CD's and DVD's too (not that I can fault them for that, since so much is officially banned there). Just because you don't buy them (and will no doubt tell us all at great length why you don't even *OWN* a TV), doesn't mean that pop culture is somehow a plague solely limited to the U.S.
It's sad that Wozniak was always hindered by his inability to be a bullshit artist. It's just not in his nature to kiss ass or blow smoke. You ask his opinion and he gives it, without any regard as to whether or not it's what you want to hear.
Unfortunately this quality, which should be considered a virtue, is usually considered a handicap in the corporate world.
Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak
Sadly, most Apple fans these days don't consider Steve Wozniak the co-founder of Apple. They think Steve Jobs said "Let there be light" and then created everything Apple by himself. And I wish I were joking.
Well, people used to bad-mouth the Bear Patrol back when it started too. But I submit to you that we haven't had a single person killed in a U.S. city by a bear since it began. You can't argue with success.