Hmm... since you saw it a month ago, and you also visit Slashdot, you are actually the reason that Slashdot hasn't posted this article until now, as it's YOUR job to send in news. So please do us all a favor and shut the fuck up!
Uhm - here's a hint:
On some DVD's there are actually a DVD PLAYER (by gosh, that's a piece of SOFTWARE). This player is bundled with the movie, just in case the person using the DVD doesn't have a player installed on her/his computer.
Now, maybe you shouldn't be using such foul language, when you're obviously describing yourself.
I can imagine the spam already:
"Now YOU can help defeat the chess WORLD CHAMPION. All you need to do, is install this little program, send 5 US$ to this account number: Denmark 7656-3924414, juggle three roasted chickens and a frozen turkey. If YOUR computer is the one, to come up with the winning move, you will get ONE FREE TRIP to PARIS, France*.
So, go download the program, by clicking on this link, and YOU COULD WIN not only A FREE TRIP TO PARIS, but also A FREE PENIS ENLARGEMENT by looking at erotic pictures.
*only elligible for people living on Champs Elysse Paris, France"
I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and say to all the above repliers:
You are all interpreting him wrong.
As you have all pointed out, the services == daemons, but I doubt his point is, that he wants to be able to enable/disable daemons in an easy to use GUI-tool.
Considder this scenario:
Aunt Petunia got on the latest trend, and bought herself a brand new Athlon XP system, and installed Linux on it (let's say Mandrake, as everybody and their dead dog are raving about it's usability). Being a smart distro, Mandrake automagically sets the USE_AMD_ENHANCMENTS (or what have you) flags, and the USE_CREATIVE_AUDIGY_ENHANCEMENTS etc., so her new computer is up and running perfectly and it optimized for her computer at kernel level (the distro recompiles her kernel during the install procedure).
Three years down the road, aunt Petunia decides she wants a new computer.
"Everybody on alt.w3.d16.l1n00x says I can just put my harddrive into my new computer, so I'll just do that instead of installing Mandrake again."
So, she puts her harddrive into the new system, but it won't work, because her new computer is an Obscurium Pendulum Mobilum, and it doesn't work with USE_AMD_ENHANCMENTS and USE_CREATIVE_AUDIGY_ENHANCEMENTS.
Now she can't use her other system to fix the problem, because there aren't any easy to use tools for her to update her kernel. End result? She's screwed. Which is nice, because we all know - aunt Petunia hasn't gotten any since she was but a lass, but she's still stuck with a new computer, she can't use.
Now - I know I'm off by a mile or so in this little story (except for aunt Petunias sexlife), but the point is - why SHOULDN'T she be allowed to play around with her kernel? It's HER kernel - it's not yours, it's not mine, it's HERS! What are you all afraid of? That by making it simple for aunt Petunia to reconfigure her kernel, you'll lose your status as "l337 k3|\|31 ]-[@(k3r5"?
Everybody is whining about "we want to get linux to the desktop" or "why don't people understand, that linux is better than windows?" Here's a clue-by-four (stolen from Joe Greco in an email about Moron Spammer, Bernard Shifman):
People won't switch from one thing to another, unless they get more at the trade-in. Want them to dump windows? Tell them what they get AS A BONUS, when switching to linux - like compiling your very own kernel. If the engine blows? Who cares - the system keeps backups of previously working kernels and automagically switches back to the previous edition (one step back at a time), if the bits hits the fan and tells you in polite languge: "you fucked up, try again".
They don't care about stuff like "this is way more secure than Windows" because aunt Petunia never had a virus. Well - she did, but no one told her, and to be honest "what's the harm? It's not like anybody died or anything."
Safety doesn't sell, if it doesn't save lives or prevents loss of life. Neet new features DOES sell - as witnessed by the effects of Microsofts campaigns. "OOH, now I can print out my letters in cyrillic - yay - must have!"
In other words: If someone wants to build a smart interface for reconfiguring the kernel, you have two options.
Listen carefully, I shall say this only once. I 'ave a massage:
1) Put out.
2) Butt out.
There are no other choices. Don't want to use it? Fine, don't - it's a free world (well, most of it anyway, except for some third world countries and the US of A), but don't put down people who wants to make things more accessible.
Not right away (IMHO), but as a poster stated earlier, it would probably be a nice combination - ride these things into town, use the segway to go shopping and ride to/from the pick-up.
"one needs a system that will work in the U.S. Where the cars are"
Now, before anyone starts flaming this poor guy for being "americanist" (or what ever you call it), please bear in mind that the US actually has around 30% of all the cars in the world. For a country that only has >5% of the worlds population, that's quite a lot.
Reality show? Just how much reality is involved with Big Brother? Reality implies, that it's something that happens all the time all around the world, but other than that tv-show, how many times have you heard about 10 people being locked away in a secluded house for 100 days with no possible venue of privacy?
The closest to that I can come up with is when the cardinals elects a new pope, but that's not on tv.
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Judging by the newsgroup alt.its.possessive.has.no.apostrophe, you might be right, but trying to convince people that "its (possessive)" has no apostrophe by posting a link to a poster that clearly states that "it's (possessive)" _has_ an apostrophe isn't really the brightest thing to do, is it?
Now - personally I have no idea which rule is the correct one (I don't even know when to place a comma in english), but I still think it's less than ideal. You don't go around telling people, that Hitler was a nice guy who didn't want people to die, while linking to a gruesome description and depiction of Die Endlösung.
"I knew that some ignorant/unlearned person would criticise me on the grounds that what I said didn't match the poster."
Then why didn't you link to an appropriate text instead?
Judge: "And why do you want those names, addresses and email addresses?"
MS: "You see, we are sure, that alot of those people are possible terrorists. If they aren't, why would they be using a hacker operating system?"
Judge: "You have a point there. Where do I sign?"
I think you aren't getting the point of Open Source. Open Source means that the source code is open. It does not mean, that if you use an Open Sourced language/compiler, you have to forego your copyrights; for that to happen, the licence for the language/compiler would have to state exactly that, and I doubt that any language/compiler has that clause in its licence.
Well, some will call a border skirmish a war, some won't - but for the people caught in the middle, does it really matter?
Who cares if wars haven't reached the scale of WW1 and WW2? Someone said we have had peace for 50+ years, and that's just not true. Unless you happen to live in a cushy 1st world country hell bent on saying "we're not at war", but then you're probably just living in ignorance:-)
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Hmm ... since you saw it a month ago, and you also visit Slashdot, you are actually the reason that Slashdot hasn't posted this article until now, as it's YOUR job to send in news. So please do us all a favor and shut the fuck up!
So true. Joseph R. McCarthy springs to mind when you mention oppressive regimes.
Well - the game's not called Freelancer, but that's basically what you would be - isn't it?
Uhm - here's a hint:
On some DVD's there are actually a DVD PLAYER (by gosh, that's a piece of SOFTWARE). This player is bundled with the movie, just in case the person using the DVD doesn't have a player installed on her/his computer.
Now, maybe you shouldn't be using such foul language, when you're obviously describing yourself.
You should also look out for flying queens and rooks ... they tend to get airborn, when I play against one of my nephews.
Damnit - you stole my joke you punk!
I can imagine the spam already:
"Now YOU can help defeat the chess WORLD CHAMPION. All you need to do, is install this little program, send 5 US$ to this account number: Denmark 7656-3924414, juggle three roasted chickens and a frozen turkey. If YOUR computer is the one, to come up with the winning move, you will get ONE FREE TRIP to PARIS, France*.
So, go download the program, by clicking on this link, and YOU COULD WIN not only A FREE TRIP TO PARIS, but also A FREE PENIS ENLARGEMENT by looking at erotic pictures.
*only elligible for people living on Champs Elysse Paris, France"
I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and say to all the above repliers:
You are all interpreting him wrong.
As you have all pointed out, the services == daemons, but I doubt his point is, that he wants to be able to enable/disable daemons in an easy to use GUI-tool.
Considder this scenario:
Aunt Petunia got on the latest trend, and bought herself a brand new Athlon XP system, and installed Linux on it (let's say Mandrake, as everybody and their dead dog are raving about it's usability). Being a smart distro, Mandrake automagically sets the USE_AMD_ENHANCMENTS (or what have you) flags, and the USE_CREATIVE_AUDIGY_ENHANCEMENTS etc., so her new computer is up and running perfectly and it optimized for her computer at kernel level (the distro recompiles her kernel during the install procedure).
Three years down the road, aunt Petunia decides she wants a new computer.
"Everybody on alt.w3.d16.l1n00x says I can just put my harddrive into my new computer, so I'll just do that instead of installing Mandrake again."
So, she puts her harddrive into the new system, but it won't work, because her new computer is an Obscurium Pendulum Mobilum, and it doesn't work with USE_AMD_ENHANCMENTS and USE_CREATIVE_AUDIGY_ENHANCEMENTS.
Now she can't use her other system to fix the problem, because there aren't any easy to use tools for her to update her kernel. End result? She's screwed. Which is nice, because we all know - aunt Petunia hasn't gotten any since she was but a lass, but she's still stuck with a new computer, she can't use.
Now - I know I'm off by a mile or so in this little story (except for aunt Petunias sexlife), but the point is - why SHOULDN'T she be allowed to play around with her kernel? It's HER kernel - it's not yours, it's not mine, it's HERS! What are you all afraid of? That by making it simple for aunt Petunia to reconfigure her kernel, you'll lose your status as "l337 k3|\|31 ]-[@(k3r5"?
Everybody is whining about "we want to get linux to the desktop" or "why don't people understand, that linux is better than windows?" Here's a clue-by-four (stolen from Joe Greco in an email about Moron Spammer, Bernard Shifman):
People won't switch from one thing to another, unless they get more at the trade-in. Want them to dump windows? Tell them what they get AS A BONUS, when switching to linux - like compiling your very own kernel. If the engine blows? Who cares - the system keeps backups of previously working kernels and automagically switches back to the previous edition (one step back at a time), if the bits hits the fan and tells you in polite languge: "you fucked up, try again".
They don't care about stuff like "this is way more secure than Windows" because aunt Petunia never had a virus. Well - she did, but no one told her, and to be honest "what's the harm? It's not like anybody died or anything."
Safety doesn't sell, if it doesn't save lives or prevents loss of life. Neet new features DOES sell - as witnessed by the effects of Microsofts campaigns. "OOH, now I can print out my letters in cyrillic - yay - must have!"
In other words: If someone wants to build a smart interface for reconfiguring the kernel, you have two options.
Listen carefully, I shall say this only once. I 'ave a massage:
1) Put out.
2) Butt out.
There are no other choices. Don't want to use it? Fine, don't - it's a free world (well, most of it anyway, except for some third world countries and the US of A), but don't put down people who wants to make things more accessible.
Not right away (IMHO), but as a poster stated earlier, it would probably be a nice combination - ride these things into town, use the segway to go shopping and ride to/from the pick-up.
"Can you imagine pepole defiling the little cars?"
Riding in the cars: 1£
Can of spray paint: 2£
2 big gulps: 2£
Being caught on video pissing and painting on a car, and being exposed on national television: PRICELESS!
"one needs a system that will work in the U.S. Where the cars are"
Now, before anyone starts flaming this poor guy for being "americanist" (or what ever you call it), please bear in mind that the US actually has around 30% of all the cars in the world. For a country that only has >5% of the worlds population, that's quite a lot.
Yes, but unless it's absolutely failsafe (which we all know is impossible to achieve), "crashing" a computer takes on a whole new meaning.
:-/
I like the idea as well, but - it does hold some daunting/fearsome problems as well
"The Eden Project is basically a big green house."
No, it's transparant - the only green part about it is the plantlife.
What you really mean is:
"The Eden Project is basically a big greenhouse", but that's something else altogether.
Reality show? Just how much reality is involved with Big Brother? Reality implies, that it's something that happens all the time all around the world, but other than that tv-show, how many times have you heard about 10 people being locked away in a secluded house for 100 days with no possible venue of privacy?
The closest to that I can come up with is when the cardinals elects a new pope, but that's not on tv.
Judging by the newsgroup alt.its.possessive.has.no.apostrophe, you might be right, but trying to convince people that "its (possessive)" has no apostrophe by posting a link to a poster that clearly states that "it's (possessive)" _has_ an apostrophe isn't really the brightest thing to do, is it?
Now - personally I have no idea which rule is the correct one (I don't even know when to place a comma in english), but I still think it's less than ideal. You don't go around telling people, that Hitler was a nice guy who didn't want people to die, while linking to a gruesome description and depiction of Die Endlösung.
"I knew that some ignorant/unlearned person would criticise me on the grounds that what I said didn't match the poster."
Then why didn't you link to an appropriate text instead?
According to that cartoon you're wrong, and the poster is correct:
:-)
"Possessive
The cat's feet are out of the bag.
Also correct."
So - if you wanted to make a fool out of yourself in public, you succeeded admirably.
If you wanted to tell people not to use an apostrophe in possessive, then you posted a wrong link.
Maybe you should read the links you post next time
That's quite a memory you have there snake_dad.
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And if you're too bored to search for jerw134, this is the relevant thread:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=26121&cid=2
Well, considering the impact of Shoemaker-Levy 9, I think it's safe to assume, that we can't ignite Jupiter with our puny weapons.
Such as millimiles?
Yes - it's a pun(k).
That's what? 2 buildings and a public outhouse?
Yes, it's a joke.
New Jersey statistics:
Area, 7,836 sq mi (20,295 sq km).
Pop. (1995 est.) 7,945,000;
Judge: "And why do you want those names, addresses and email addresses?"
MS: "You see, we are sure, that alot of those people are possible terrorists. If they aren't, why would they be using a hacker operating system?"
Judge: "You have a point there. Where do I sign?"
I think you aren't getting the point of Open Source. Open Source means that the source code is open. It does not mean, that if you use an Open Sourced language/compiler, you have to forego your copyrights; for that to happen, the licence for the language/compiler would have to state exactly that, and I doubt that any language/compiler has that clause in its licence.
que?
Well, some will call a border skirmish a war, some won't - but for the people caught in the middle, does it really matter?
:-)
Who cares if wars haven't reached the scale of WW1 and WW2? Someone said we have had peace for 50+ years, and that's just not true. Unless you happen to live in a cushy 1st world country hell bent on saying "we're not at war", but then you're probably just living in ignorance