Nah, geeks are cooler than nerds, everyone knows that. Haha.
Actually the definitions of 'geek', 'nerd' and 'anorak' are pretty much interchangable when used by "normal" people, and how we can complain, when it's their word for US?
And don't get me started on the Jargon File, or major flamebait will ensue...
Slow news day? Everyone knows it was the Wilhelm scream- it's talked about all the time on StarWars.com and most geeks do know about it.
Or were you using the word 'geek' in some new media sense that means 'cool hapenning person who knows a little bit more about some mainstream things than other people'?????
Geeks are geeks, man! You wouldn't touch us with a barge pole! We smell! We have no friends! We know how to rewire and repair things that ordinary people can't even identify!
I'm not saying anything about the superiority of one system over another. I'm saying that home users tend at least in my (naive or idiotic according to one poster) opinion, those who own x86 tend to be the ones playing games and encoding lots of (illegal) video, while those who own Apple are web browsing, writing letters and stuff like that.
Of course there will be exceptions, and I WAS only talking about home users, not professionals.
The bottom line is, I wonder why it's so exciting (that we have to post it on slashdot) that Apples are going superleetfast, when Apple owners don't need speed (in my idiotic and/or naive "13 year old" opinion).
" He forgot that there are people in the world different from the guys at his LAN party and his mom's friends.
There are lots more uses for computers than browsing the web, playing games, and making DivX rips of netflix DVDs, but, hey, your world is pretty small when you're 13."
I am extremely confused by your comment, because all the statements in it are wrong. Please reply with the source of this misinformation so I can correct their computer records.
"You sir are incredibly ill-informed. You confuse the needs of the home-fiddler with the needs of the media professional"
I wasn't talking about the so-called "media professional". Since this is slashdot, (and I doubt that those high and mighty "media professionals" make up much of a percentage of the readership) I was talking about home users.
Home users encode things like dvd rips, anime fansubs, holiday videos etc. Here, not only does x86 rule the roost, but (very sadly) the OS used is Windows. There has always been poor support for video editing and encoding, subtitling etc. under linux and the BSDs.
" Most of the people editing the audio and video you're encoding on your x86 are using macs."
I know what you mean, because I was talking about people doing DVD rips and anime fansubs rather than professionals, and true, lots of professionals use macs, but:
a) editing (especially mpeg2 "on an iframe" editing) takes virtually no cpu power b) I was only talking about home users, even if that meant I was ignoring professional people, to whom the superleetspeed Apples could be advantageous.
Does anyone even care about the leetness of their speed with Apple stuff? I always thought the sort of people who used "the other computer" were more interested in doing normal everyday things that don't require much cpu power: word processing, email, web etc. Most of the people encoding audio and video and playing games are running x86.
graspee
ps sorry if this is taken as flamebait, it's not meant to be.
If you were trying to cater to all people, you missed me. I don't believe there are deities, you insensitive clod. You could let me set $DEITY to "fuck" I suppose.
Or if you were just trying to look geeky for the sake of it, then BLERG. Excuse me while I am sick.
I, on the other side, am a Linux programmer. We've worked together on a few projects, and there were differences in the way we looked at solving problems that were sometimes almost insurmountable. "
Oh wow! They should make this into a buddy cop movie with Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker! It would be hilarious!
"Care to explain the offside law? Or tell us what top job a Swede holds in England? Want to tell us what's bigger over here, Frasier, Friends, Scrubs, Sienfeld or Will and Grace? Want to tell me what the most famous football terrace in Britain's called?"
Oh my God! I thought all this time I had been living in the UK! Apparently I haven't because I'm not a sports-loving popular culture-guzzling idiot.
(I couldn't answer any of the above questions. Well, not with correct answers anyway).
If this isn't a troll then it would make a good one...
Anyway, even if Doom 3 is a fantastic game, the Mac will still have a lack of games; one extra isn't going to make much difference.
I suppose you could say that there will be lots of Doom 3-engined FPS coming out after that, but they won't necessarily appear on the Mac, even if the engine is there and available. The company might lack Mac playtesters if nothing else.
"I will now sit back and prepare to be assaulted by people who can show me otherwise."
Well, there's the old debate over the "abort" in "abort, retry, cancel?" which is well known for sparking criticisms of political incorrectness. I don't think any group has ever made a serious motion for it to be changed, but there are certainly a lot of internet discussions on the topic, see for example here:
Slashdot Mirror
Hey, now I'm an idiot, naive, 13 years old, out of my fucking mind, living in my mother's basement, and pa-fucking-thetic.
It's quite a persona people are building up for me. When do I get sent on my super secret mission with this new identity?
graspee
Nah, geeks are cooler than nerds, everyone knows that. Haha.
Actually the definitions of 'geek', 'nerd' and 'anorak' are pretty much interchangable when used by "normal" people, and how we can complain, when it's their word for US?
And don't get me started on the Jargon File, or major flamebait will ensue...
graspee
Slow news day? Everyone knows it was the Wilhelm scream- it's talked about all the time on StarWars.com and most geeks do know about it.
Or were you using the word 'geek' in some new media sense that means 'cool hapenning person who knows a little bit more about some mainstream things than other people'?????
Geeks are geeks, man! You wouldn't touch us with a barge pole! We smell! We have no friends! We know how to rewire and repair things that ordinary people can't even identify!
And we know what a fucking Wilhelm scream is!
graspee
I'm not saying anything about the superiority of one system over another. I'm saying that home users tend at least in my (naive or idiotic according to one poster) opinion, those who own x86 tend to be the ones playing games and encoding lots of (illegal) video, while those who own Apple are web browsing, writing letters and stuff like that.
Of course there will be exceptions, and I WAS only talking about home users, not professionals.
The bottom line is, I wonder why it's so exciting (that we have to post it on slashdot) that Apples are going superleetfast, when Apple owners don't need speed (in my idiotic and/or naive "13 year old" opinion).
graspee
" He forgot that there are people in the world different from the guys at his LAN party and his mom's friends.
There are lots more uses for computers than browsing the web, playing games, and making DivX rips of netflix DVDs, but, hey, your world is pretty small when you're 13."
I am extremely confused by your comment, because all the statements in it are wrong. Please reply with the source of this misinformation so I can correct their computer records.
graspee
"You sir are incredibly ill-informed. You confuse the needs of the home-fiddler with the needs of the media professional"
I wasn't talking about the so-called "media professional". Since this is slashdot, (and I doubt that those high and mighty "media professionals" make up much of a percentage of the readership) I was talking about home users.
Home users encode things like dvd rips, anime fansubs, holiday videos etc. Here, not only does x86 rule the roost, but (very sadly) the OS used is Windows. There has always been poor support for video editing and encoding, subtitling etc. under linux and the BSDs.
graspee
" Most of the people editing the audio and video you're encoding on your x86 are using macs."
I know what you mean, because I was talking about people doing DVD rips and anime fansubs rather than professionals, and true, lots of professionals use macs, but:
a) editing (especially mpeg2 "on an iframe" editing) takes virtually no cpu power
b) I was only talking about home users, even if that meant I was ignoring professional people, to whom the superleetspeed Apples could be advantageous.
graspee
Does anyone even care about the leetness of their speed with Apple stuff? I always thought the sort of people who used "the other computer" were more interested in doing normal everyday things that don't require much cpu power: word processing, email, web etc. Most of the people encoding audio and video and playing games are running x86.
graspee
ps sorry if this is taken as flamebait, it's not meant to be.
" In the matrix though ... the CGI stuff just kinda looked, well, computer generated"
Well fucking duh!
graspee
Ok, i consider myself brought to justice. ;)
graspee
"for $DEITY's sake"
If you were trying to cater to all people, you missed me. I don't believe there are deities, you insensitive clod. You could let me set $DEITY to "fuck" I suppose.
Or if you were just trying to look geeky for the sake of it, then BLERG. Excuse me while I am sick.
graspee
He didn't misspell his name. There should not be an apostrophe in "Perens" as he used it as the subject of the sentence.
graspee
"GNOME allows proprietary, non free non GPL applications.
... KDE does not". Sounds like Gnome is more about the freedom to me.
KDE does not.
It is KDE that is really more free, and progresses Free Software."
Reading that I think you've re-defined freedom. "Gnome allows
graspee
on the "connections" tab.
I added these 2 servers and searched for 'a' and found a bunch of files but then the program crashed.
;)
oh well, it is version 0.1. I think we've been spoiled a lot by 0.1 versions of programs actually working.
a lot of the trouble is that there isn't much indication that the program is doing anything at any time...
graspee
"It won't help you because BT itself doesn't trust what the client says, it still sends only as fast as it's getting."
So explain how I get 230K/s download with only 10K/s upload using the ABC client?
graspee
"I have a friend who's a Windows programmer.
I, on the other side, am a Linux programmer. We've worked together on a few projects, and there were differences in the way we looked at solving problems that were sometimes almost insurmountable. "
Oh wow! They should make this into a buddy cop movie with Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker! It would be hilarious!
graspee
"Care to explain the offside law? Or tell us what top job a Swede holds in England? Want to tell us what's bigger over here, Frasier, Friends, Scrubs, Sienfeld or Will and Grace? Want to tell me what the most famous football terrace in Britain's called?"
Oh my God! I thought all this time I had been living in the UK! Apparently I haven't because I'm not a sports-loving popular culture-guzzling idiot.
(I couldn't answer any of the above questions. Well, not with correct answers anyway).
graspee
"But I forgot that you're a fucking genius who exists in a vacuum. "
Hey, actually you'd have have to be pretty damn clever to exist in a vacuum, there not being any air and all...
graspee
"They're heavily investing into R&D and have a roadmap in front of them which will drive innovation on Java-equipped desktop clients."
How can you type bollocks like this with a straight face?
graspee
" In a hospital like situation, where a machine does one thing and is expected to do one thing. Why does it need to be upgraded?"
Well, when the inspector comes round you really need the machine that goes "Bing!".
graspee
"With extensions, people get the features they want, and people who don't want them can rest easy. Works well for the birds."
Birds are coding extensions for Mozilla now?
Those cunning oiseaux!
Hitchcock was right- lock all your doors and windows, and hope they don't have blasters.
graspee
" What on earth's a 'collorary'?"
I think it's what you get when you spend all day programming while drinking coffee, smoking and eating doughnuts.
graspee
If this isn't a troll then it would make a good one...
Anyway, even if Doom 3 is a fantastic game, the Mac will still have a lack of games; one extra isn't going to make much difference.
I suppose you could say that there will be lots of Doom 3-engined FPS coming out after that, but they won't necessarily appear on the Mac, even if the engine is there and available. The company might lack Mac playtesters if nothing else.
graspee
"I will now sit back and prepare to be assaulted by people who can show me otherwise."
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Well, there's the old debate over the "abort" in "abort, retry, cancel?" which is well known for sparking criticisms of political incorrectness. I don't think any group has ever made a serious motion for it to be changed, but there are certainly a lot of internet discussions on the topic, see for example here:
http://66.102.11.104/search?q=cache:59CPdrHscLo
graspee