This is a serial after all, after the great childrens cinematic tradition of the 40's and 50's. The genre dictates that every episode end in a cliffhanger. If CC pulled the story together and actually resolved something, it would only be entertaining for that episode and then people would stop watching. Interest in the underlying premise is built by adding new plots and more complexity. Unfortunate, but that's just the way a serial works.
Langley is a Linux guy, Byers is a BSD or a Sun guy, and I'd bet dimes to donuts that Frohike still uses either CPM or a VAX and still does some pretty cool kung-fu with it.
That is, if I'm right and Langley is the blond guy. If not, switch Langley and Byers around.
Three Rings for the Kernel-kings under the sky, Seven for the Debian-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Microsoft Men doomed to die, LinuxOne for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mountain View, CA where the Shadows lie. LinuxOne to ruin them all, LinuxOne to fail them, LinuxOne to bring them all and in the darkness blind them.... In the Land of Mountain View where the Shadows and bad IPOs lie.
Hm. I've seen ads in peoples.sigs here for homepages, t-shirts, ISP's, ans scads of other things. Why should a one-liner about a religion draw so much ire?
Let's be tolerant of others, shall we children? That means Christians too.
Honestly, people read too much Sci-fi. Identical twins are nature's clones, they share the exact same DNA.
Have you ever met a twin who was an android? Did the two twins get double the work done in half the time? Did you ever meet a twin who was not an individual? Would you consider harvesting organs from your twin?
Cloning is not a bad idea, other than the fact it might make the human gene pool very shallow, but all these "potential applications" of the "technology" are stupid.
Usenet's architecture is radically different from that of the www, and in that sense will always be useful. The www is centralised, where one (or more) web servers handle the information requests of all users.
Usenet is de-centralised, and all articles (usually) get replicated to all servers. This makes retrieving the information that much easier.
If/. was on usenet, the conversation would move much more briskly, and it wouldn't take 10 minutes to post a comment!
I was present at the "unending September" of 1993, the year newbies started joining usenet in hordes.
I watched soc.culture.japan turn from a place where meaningful discussion about culture and language was exchanged by such notables as Jim Breen and Ken Lunde, to a place where 13-year-olds kept posting requests for: "HoT aSz JaPaNeeZ GEEsha CHIX!!" and adverts for asian porn. The forum died.
So you say these same people are now leaving? Allelujah! I'm going back!
PS, usenet will always remain alive because of the sheer raw cerebral power of alt.religion.kibilogy
After all the fame and fortune is gone, Linux will still be the same as it was before the fame and fortune.
I heartily disagree. Linux was, is, and always will be a little better than it was the day before.
I for one think, like Rome, Linux's sun will set. But I also believe that its philosophical legacy will come to be the "Liberal Democracy" of the software world: Ubiquitous, and many-formed.
Ah. The soft, gentle lowing of the addict at pasture...
TV IS the drug of the US. And like most Americans, it seems to have taught you that anyone who doesn't watch TV and LOVE TV is some kind of psychological mutant to be feared and ridiculed.
S'true. Win2K absolutely rocks with regard to language support. I have my entire mp3 collection labelled in the character set of each song's country of origin, and they all list correctly together on the command line
Sounds great. Lower all those stupid trade barriers, and all of India will know the pride of working in a foreign-owned factory! Progress and prosperity HERE WE COME!
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This is a serial after all, after the great childrens cinematic tradition of the 40's and 50's. The genre dictates that every episode end in a cliffhanger. If CC pulled the story together and actually resolved something, it would only be entertaining for that episode and then people would stop watching. Interest in the underlying premise is built by adding new plots and more complexity. Unfortunate, but that's just the way a serial works.
Langley is a Linux guy, Byers is a BSD or a Sun guy, and I'd bet dimes to donuts that Frohike still uses either CPM or a VAX and still does some pretty cool kung-fu with it.
That is, if I'm right and Langley is the blond guy. If not, switch Langley and Byers around.
No. But we rule Slashdot. Nyah nyah nyah.
Well, his corpse was anyway.
William gibson not only knows little about computers ("He invented internet!"), he doesn't know his counterculture either.
That "Invisigoth" character made me fall out of my chair and wet myself.
The 2-parter about the mysterious blond was far better.
"C'mon! Daddy needs a new sword of wounding!"
That he doesn't offer it to the Fox network. Fox'd kill it faster than you can say "Harsh Realm".
Seven for the Debian-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Microsoft Men doomed to die,
LinuxOne for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mountain View, CA where the Shadows lie.
LinuxOne to ruin them all, LinuxOne to fail them,
LinuxOne to bring them all and in the darkness blind them....
In the Land of Mountain View where the Shadows and bad IPOs lie.
-- Seth Cohn
(Lifted from the LinuxOne flame archive.)
I mean, he doesn't live here on Earth does he?
Let's be tolerant of others, shall we children? That means Christians too.
Have you ever met a twin who was an android? Did the two twins get double the work done in half the time? Did you ever meet a twin who was not an individual? Would you consider harvesting organs from your twin?
Cloning is not a bad idea, other than the fact it might make the human gene pool very shallow, but all these "potential applications" of the "technology" are stupid.
Usenet is de-centralised, and all articles (usually) get replicated to all servers. This makes retrieving the information that much easier.
If
I watched soc.culture.japan turn from a place where meaningful discussion about culture and language was exchanged by such notables as Jim Breen and Ken Lunde, to a place where 13-year-olds kept posting requests for: "HoT aSz JaPaNeeZ GEEsha CHIX!!" and adverts for asian porn. The forum died.
So you say these same people are now leaving? Allelujah! I'm going back!
PS, usenet will always remain alive because of the sheer raw cerebral power of alt.religion.kibilogy
Let the development of DVCSS continue, they can't arrest all of us.
Rip DVD, rewrite on writable DVD.
I heartily disagree. Linux was, is, and always will be a little better than it was the day before.
I for one think, like Rome, Linux's sun will set. But I also believe that its philosophical legacy will come to be the "Liberal Democracy" of the software world: Ubiquitous, and many-formed.
I wish you would please find another forum to post to. You really are a jackass.
An MBA student explained to me at length what Linux is. She had learned about it in marketing class. Yeeks.
I don't understand why everyone thinks this is such a good thing. I think this is a travesty.
Remember, encryption be damned, if it's digital it can be duplicated perfectly.
If I don't have the key to the DVD I just purchased, I don't really own it, do I?
And now having said this, the slashdot universe will cease to exist.
TV IS the drug of the US. And like most Americans, it seems to have taught you that anyone who doesn't watch TV and LOVE TV is some kind of psychological mutant to be feared and ridiculed.
S'true. Win2K absolutely rocks with regard to language support. I have my entire mp3 collection labelled in the character set of each song's country of origin, and they all list correctly together on the command line
I propose the Lakshmi file system. The root could be a "god" (your choice), and each subdirectory could be one of many "arms".
Sounds great. Lower all those stupid trade barriers, and all of India will know the pride of working in a foreign-owned factory! Progress and prosperity HERE WE COME!
Turbolinux, OTOH, has done a superb job localising Linux into Japanese and Simplified Chinese. Even bloody fdisk is in Chinese (If you can imagine!)