All flights are temporarily grounded due to a severe slashdotting. You may move about the cabin until the disturbance subsides, but please refrain from smoking. Thank you.
Yes, I know it's probably redundant, but if this joke has been posted here then the original is already at -1 and I didn't get a chance to enjoy it again. No culture, no sense of humour, no cuisine... no wonder you people wig out over Monty Python and pizza.
Well, everybody seems to be bashing the snot out of Trident the company, so I'll probably just get buried in the noise. But... a few years back, when sound cards were a genuine pain in the ass to support under Linux, Trident Microsystems was one of the few to release complete details of their chipset (4DWave DX/NX), and even wrote and donated an open source driver to the ALSA project. So, maybe their video cards weren't as perfect as you all seem to want, but you need to quit slamming the company. Because in fact, they were one of the early "good guys" with Linux.
Based on that experience, I'll probably buy the video card. So long as it includes a Linux driver.
When my home state was still a territory, the river that separates it from one of its neighbour states changed course. That boundary dispute is still in the courts more than a century later.
So those of you who think you've recently moved, don't rush out and buy new stationery just yet....
Look, the United States Postal Service does a damn good job for the money. Bitch if you want about the thirty-seven cents, but why don't you try hiring a cab to hand-deliver your envelope door-to-door and maybe that'll give some idea what the service is really worth. The USPS has been getting a bum rap for decades now for doing nothing less than a fantastic job with shit for a budget.
The USPS is also a serious proponent of Linux, having deployed more than 5400 Linux boxes internally to do address scanning and recognition. Google for "Linux USPS", it's the first unsponsored link.
I'm trying real hard here to think how the USPS could fuck up the Internet any worse than Adelphia or Qwest, and if there is something more nefarious that they could've done, it escapes me.
I am afraid you have mistakenly given credit to the FCC for many of the accomplishments of the ITU (International Telecommunications Union). The ITU has been regulating communications and promoting standards since 1865, almost twice as long as the FCC.
You know these guys aren't the brightest bulbs in the chandelier when they booked this conference in Tucson, Arizona in the middle of the fscking summer, and smack dab in the middle of their local monsoon season to boot. Can't be anything more conducive to negotiating a delicate compromise than being locked in a room that's108 degrees, 94 percent humidity, and the power's off because of a lightning strike.
I guess we can hope they'll all strangle each other before the week is out.
When I first saw this news over on C|Net, the first thing that came into my mind was that the RIAA had DoS'ed their own website to make the "hackers" look even more malicious as the "RIAA Protection Bill" wends its way through congress. Nothing like being the victim of a crime to garner more post-9/11 sympathy from our gun-shy, privacy-trampling, constitution-overthrowing government.
And I will believe that's exactly what happened until someone gets arrested for it. And even then I will have my doubts. These people, the RIAA, are a black hearted lot.
UF Book I: User Friendly the Comic Strip - $12.95 UF Book II: Evil Geniuses in a Nutshell - $12.95 UF Book III: The Root of All Evil - $12.95
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Because any fscking dork can code, but it takes a mondo sense of humor to create.
Yes, you have chosen a career that carries less esteem than the guy who holds up the "SLOW" sign in construction zones. What you will be doing is less understood than if you became a Tarot Card reader, and less appreciated than a digital rectal examination. You will be expected to be everywhere at once, but when you arrive your presence will be unwelcome. Things you will never see again: knowledgeable assistants, clueful cow-orkers, pay raises, vacations, your wife, and your kids. Well actually, they're not really your kids... remember that overseas Peoplesoft rollout three summers ago and how you were wondering why your boss didn't go with you?
Look, it's not too late to change majors and embark on the path to a respectful profession like being a corporate attorney for the MPAA or RIAA.
I dislike them because I feel that they too often choose to defend the rights of the very worst segment of our society. Now I didn't say that is a bad thing, because if we do not offer equal protection under the law for even the worst among us, then the rest of us are doomed. And I understand that. But it is reason enough for me to personally dislike what they do much of the time.
There are many people and organizations that I admire and yet dislike. They are not mutually exclusive states of mind, even here in the western world.
Well, it's about time. Not that I particularly like the ACLU, I generally don't. But they have a good track record of picking battles that can be won. And then winning them. And the DMCA is definitely one foe that deserves to lose, spectacularly.
You can also buy the book from the Food Network website. When I got my copy, they were running a limited time special on autographed copies if you bought three or more items.. so mine has Alton's scribblegram on the inside frontspiece. This month it's a free apron with three items, and they're also featuring a complete collection of Good Eats on DVD.
I often wonder why I don't weigh 600 pounds sometimes.
"of the more than 35,000 movie screens operating in the United States today, only 60 are digitally equipped, largely because of the technology's $150,000 price tag".
Heck, at $4.00 for a cup of soda and $7.50 for a candy bar, the local theatre ought to be going digital before lunchtime tomorrow, eh?
Depressing glimpses of a bleak future. Corporatism... worse than any previous manifestation of socialism, communism, capitalism, or imperialism. In the future, the people will own nothing, everything will be rented from the new state, i.e. the corporations. The rental agreement terms will only be favorable to the corporation, and you will be prohibited by law from negotiating better terms. The terms can be unilaterally altered at any time by the corporation, however. Violating the rental terms will be the new capital crime, harming the corporation's profits will be the next generation's equivalent to murder.
I'll be more than happy to sell them space in advance. Once I'm dead I don't really care what's written on some stupid piece of granite sunk in the dirt above my casket. My wife and kids might think differently, but hey... it;s my frigging death. Sheesh, get a life, family.
So just send me the check. I got a vacation coming up and I could use the extra bucks.
If any auto manufacturer were going to pick a version of Windows to deploy in a product, Win98 is the one I'd be most comfortable with. That's where I got off the Windows upgrade treadmill myself. Win98SE is what sits on my second partition, it works just fine for all the reasons I've got it out there, and if I buy software that runs under Win98 I can be pretty confident it will run under WINE as well. Otherwise, it goes back to the store as broken.
So where Volvo's at right now, they could theoretically jump over to Linux for less than pocket change. Hey, they're European, givem a chance, they'll figure it out....
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Just in case it may have escaped your attention, Microsoft's legal department has been somewhat busy with other issues for the past year and a half.
Also, communist Russia has fallen and there's now only two Beatles left.
I wonder how long it'll be before the RIAA and the MPAA get it shut down for facilitating piracy?
What do I think of American culture?
I think it would be a good idea.
Yes, I know it's probably redundant, but if this joke has been posted here then the original is already at -1 and I didn't get a chance to enjoy it again. No culture, no sense of humour, no cuisine... no wonder you people wig out over Monty Python and pizza.
Well, everybody seems to be bashing the snot out of Trident the company, so I'll probably just get buried in the noise. But... a few years back, when sound cards were a genuine pain in the ass to support under Linux, Trident Microsystems was one of the few to release complete details of their chipset (4DWave DX/NX), and even wrote and donated an open source driver to the ALSA project. So, maybe their video cards weren't as perfect as you all seem to want, but you need to quit slamming the company. Because in fact, they were one of the early "good guys" with Linux.
Based on that experience, I'll probably buy the video card. So long as it includes a Linux driver.
I can see why they want to go paperless. I was just through Iowa a few weeks ago, and they've completely decimated their timber forest.
That also explains the corn cobs in the gas station restrooms, I'd wager.
I've been blaming my weight gain on candy bars and junk food. What a relief to find out it's actually just more gravity!
And maybe the shrinking waistband in all my pants is due somehow to the warping effect the extra gravity is having on space?
When my home state was still a territory, the river that separates it from one of its neighbour states changed course. That boundary dispute is still in the courts more than a century later.
So those of you who think you've recently moved, don't rush out and buy new stationery just yet....
My employer is hosting an extremely intricate and rather sizeable home-grown honeypot solution.
It was supposed to be our corporate web server, but our sysadmin is a dolt.
Look, the United States Postal Service does a damn good job for the money. Bitch if you want about the thirty-seven cents, but why don't you try hiring a cab to hand-deliver your envelope door-to-door and maybe that'll give some idea what the service is really worth. The USPS has been getting a bum rap for decades now for doing nothing less than a fantastic job with shit for a budget.
The USPS is also a serious proponent of Linux, having deployed more than 5400 Linux boxes internally to do address scanning and recognition. Google for "Linux USPS", it's the first unsponsored link.
I'm trying real hard here to think how the USPS could fuck up the Internet any worse than Adelphia or Qwest, and if there is something more nefarious that they could've done, it escapes me.
I am afraid you have mistakenly given credit to the FCC for many of the accomplishments of the ITU (International Telecommunications Union). The ITU has been regulating communications and promoting standards since 1865, almost twice as long as the FCC.
http://www.itu.int/aboutitu/overview/history.html
You know these guys aren't the brightest bulbs in the chandelier when they booked this conference in Tucson, Arizona in the middle of the fscking summer, and smack dab in the middle of their local monsoon season to boot. Can't be anything more conducive to negotiating a delicate compromise than being locked in a room that's108 degrees, 94 percent humidity, and the power's off because of a lightning strike.
I guess we can hope they'll all strangle each other before the week is out.
When I first saw this news over on C|Net, the first thing that came into my mind was that the RIAA had DoS'ed their own website to make the "hackers" look even more malicious as the "RIAA Protection Bill" wends its way through congress. Nothing like being the victim of a crime to garner more post-9/11 sympathy from our gun-shy, privacy-trampling, constitution-overthrowing government.
And I will believe that's exactly what happened until someone gets arrested for it. And even then I will have my doubts. These people, the RIAA, are a black hearted lot.
UF Book I: User Friendly the Comic Strip - $12.95
UF Book II: Evil Geniuses in a Nutshell - $12.95
UF Book III: The Root of All Evil - $12.95
http://www.computergear.com/usfriencarbo.html
Because any fscking dork can code, but it takes a mondo sense of humor to create.
l.t 10 - Goat
10 - 19 - Sheep
20 - 29 - Dog
[...]
50 -- Penguin.
Well.... am I right?
Yes, you have chosen a career that carries less esteem than the guy who holds up the "SLOW" sign in construction zones. What you will be doing is less understood than if you became a Tarot Card reader, and less appreciated than a digital rectal examination. You will be expected to be everywhere at once, but when you arrive your presence will be unwelcome. Things you will never see again: knowledgeable assistants, clueful cow-orkers, pay raises, vacations, your wife, and your kids. Well actually, they're not really your kids... remember that overseas Peoplesoft rollout three summers ago and how you were wondering why your boss didn't go with you?
Look, it's not too late to change majors and embark on the path to a respectful profession like being a corporate attorney for the MPAA or RIAA.
I dislike them because I feel that they too often choose to defend the rights of the very worst segment of our society. Now I didn't say that is a bad thing, because if we do not offer equal protection under the law for even the worst among us, then the rest of us are doomed. And I understand that. But it is reason enough for me to personally dislike what they do much of the time.
There are many people and organizations that I admire and yet dislike. They are not mutually exclusive states of mind, even here in the western world.
Well, it's about time. Not that I particularly like the ACLU, I generally don't. But they have a good track record of picking battles that can be won. And then winning them. And the DMCA is definitely one foe that deserves to lose, spectacularly.
This is Slashdot, right? Then how come there's no recipe been posted yet for Natalie Portman's Hot Grits? Are youse guys slipping?
I gotta go tend a Beowulf cluster of recipe servers, wake me when Slashdot returns to normal.
[...], and those that just say fuck it and carve their path in life.
We have those now, they're called inmates.
You can also buy the book from the Food Network website. When I got my copy, they were running a limited time special on autographed copies if you bought three or more items.. so mine has Alton's scribblegram on the inside frontspiece. This month it's a free apron with three items, and they're also featuring a complete collection of Good Eats on DVD.
I often wonder why I don't weigh 600 pounds sometimes.
http://www.foodtv.com/marketplace/index/
"of the more than 35,000 movie screens operating in the United States today, only 60 are digitally equipped, largely because of the technology's $150,000 price tag".
Heck, at $4.00 for a cup of soda and $7.50 for a candy bar, the local theatre ought to be going digital before lunchtime tomorrow, eh?
Depressing glimpses of a bleak future. Corporatism... worse than any previous manifestation of socialism, communism, capitalism, or imperialism. In the future, the people will own nothing, everything will be rented from the new state, i.e. the corporations. The rental agreement terms will only be favorable to the corporation, and you will be prohibited by law from negotiating better terms. The terms can be unilaterally altered at any time by the corporation, however. Violating the rental terms will be the new capital crime, harming the corporation's profits will be the next generation's equivalent to murder.
George Orwell was one helluva an optimist.
I'll be more than happy to sell them space in advance. Once I'm dead I don't really care what's written on some stupid piece of granite sunk in the dirt above my casket. My wife and kids might think differently, but hey... it;s my frigging death. Sheesh, get a life, family.
So just send me the check. I got a vacation coming up and I could use the extra bucks.
If any auto manufacturer were going to pick a version of Windows to deploy in a product, Win98 is the one I'd be most comfortable with. That's where I got off the Windows upgrade treadmill myself. Win98SE is what sits on my second partition, it works just fine for all the reasons I've got it out there, and if I buy software that runs under Win98 I can be pretty confident it will run under WINE as well. Otherwise, it goes back to the store as broken.
So where Volvo's at right now, they could theoretically jump over to Linux for less than pocket change. Hey, they're European, givem a chance, they'll figure it out....