You know, mods, whenever I ask a real question, I get modded down, but whenever I'm being a butthead, I get +5, Informative. Goatse must have hit his Karma cap years ago.
Here is my previous post in simple straightforward English for you slower, *stupider* mods:
What steps would you recommend a young creative genius like myself take in order to get started in your noble profession, Mister Ellis? Thank you for your assistance. And I was wondering (this being geeky Slashdot and all) what computer equipment do you use? I am interested in computers, and like to speak with people who have actual work experience and intelligent informed opinions, unlike the moronic mods who keep marking me as a troll when I ask a simple question which has five small words in it. By the way, I am wearing the Rei Rei dress and booties right now. Be sure to check your email for glossies.
Best Regards, Lord Michael Midas Masq, Esq.
I trust this is satisfactory for even the stupidest of moderators.
Also, on a more personal note, it asserts my long-running suspicion that the stock market is... i had a technical term for this, what was it... oh, yes. Fucked in the head.
LOL!! I have long sought the perfect post, and this may be it!
Of course, my judgment is slightly clouded from my own retirement plans being permanently cancelled by mean old mister market.... and the alcohol my last three dollars bought me
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I'm counting Apple as our new Ace in the Hole.
It's good for developers to support ANYTHING besides Win32, but I'd rather have developers starting with Linux, and then porting to OSX, UNIX, and Windows - for the simple reason that OSX is VERY sweet, but doesn't encourage cross-platform coding (at least from what I've seen of their dev tools). Same with Windows. People who write for Windows tend not to care if it runs on any other OS, their focus is only on their own system, and this closes down their future options should they change their mind, or if they are successful and want to expand. My experience is that this is true with Macheads as well, and Apple Corporate doesn't seem at all interested in bringing OSX apps over to Linux, just getting them from Linux over to OSX....
It's best to use strictly open standards which allow for easy cross-platform portability if you're at all interested in supporting other OSes. I've talked to guys who said "If I had only thought of that BEFORE I wrote the whole thing in VisualBasic (or whatever)..." Being able to write your code using open tools and thus support three or more platforms from basically the same codebase (like Opera) is very very cool.
But yeah, OSX is definitely a VeryGoodThing. It's nice to have Apple join the party, and it's interesting to watch how Apple Legal interacts with the OpenSource movement. Apple has a lot of strengths and a lot of things to bring to the table - if they decide to get into the game in a big way and deal a few hands themselves. Hopefully, they keep heading in the "right" direction (openness and sharing). They may get a gold star from the teacher yet.
... why we love talking about Linux so much - It's so damn USER-FRIENDLY compared to other geek pursuits!
We present a monotonic expression for the Ricci flow, valid in all dimensions and without curvature assumptions. It is interpreted as an entropy for a certain canonical ensemble. Several geometric applications are given. In particular, (1) Ricci flow, considered on the space of riemannian metrics modulo diffeomorphism and scaling, has no nontrivial periodic orbits (that is, other than fixed points); (2) In a region, where singularity is forming in finite time, the injectivity radius is controlled by the curvature; (3) Ricci flow can not quickly turn an almost euclidean region into a very curved one, no matter what happens far away. We also verify several assertions related to Richard Hamilton's program for the proof of Thurston geometrization conjecture for closed three-manifolds, and give a sketch of an eclectic proof of this conjecture, making use of earlier results on collapsing with local lower curvature bound.
So which one of your examples is this? He's not yelling fire in a crowded theater... He originally tried to tell the company their theater was on fire, and when they refused to give a damn, he decided to tell the people inside the theater about the fire.
That's when they Cease and Desisted him, and told him that the burning theater was their little secret.
Personally, I'd wanna know, but hey, I'm obviously not normal. Stay asleep if you want, everybody. It's still a free country - but you better check back with me tomorrow just in case.
This isn't meant as a troll, but I'm sure many of the more... sensitive... Mac users will take it as such anyway.
This speed boost is great for the x86 world. Speed keeps getting better. Intel and AMD keep competing and leapfrogging each other to greater heights. My sorrow is that Apple's offerings really are *years behind* right now. I know, I know, speed doesn't matter when Macs are slower, but when Macs had the speed advantage, the Mac users claimed speed was all-important and there was no problem attacking the PC users based on their sorry speed. Mac users, like everyone else in the world it seems, aren't objective - if the PowerBook is thinner, they claim size (ahem) is important. When the PC world shows us the Superthin Vaio, we say that Size doesn't matter, it's how you use it (ahem again). And that's the problem; that's why Apple doesn't feel the need to force speed increases out of Moto and IBM to keep up with the Joneses - Mac users are so damn faithful, that they don't apply any market pressure to Apple to force them to compete! Instead, the "Mac Faithful" DEFEND Apple's weaknesses, allowing Apple to slack off in the processor department.
Next time a MacZealot defends Apple's 1 Ghz processors on a slow bus, tell him that he's NOT helping Apple. The way to help Apple is to absolutely demand faster processors, and threaten to switch to x86 if they don't deliver. If we give Apple a "Get out of Jail Free card" with regards to processor speed, we'll NEVER be competitive with Intel.
And yes, I've heard the RUMORS about the IBM chips. They'll still be far behind this, RISC or not.
Strangely, that CNN-approved translation differs from how the rest of the world translates it.
A better translation is "No Saddam, No US Puppet Government, now we can become a true muslim nation"
Apparently, Saddam was the head of something called the Ba'ath party which was a socialist type thing which didn't give any funding to Muslim churches and greatly restricted the people's freedom to practice their religion. Saddam has recently loosened up, however, in an attempt to keep his popularity, so he's made public displays of himself celebrating holy days as a devout muslim, which fools nobody but the Americans.
But there WILL be a US puppet government, no matter what Bush promised them on "FreedomRadio" when the US took over Iraqi airwaves. Poor saps.
Anyone hear any more about the recent US-led massacre of Talibanis in Afghanistan? Nope. Didn't think so. That puppet government's REALLY doing well for itself - the opium trade is back in full swing, this time under the watchful eye of the CIA.
"Dolt Alert???" If you're going to flame me, you've got to do better than that. Responding to your pathetic AC flame isn't even worth the 10 seconds of my time it's taking to write this.
Try to contribute something that's not completely worthless next time, mmkay?
His ulterior motive most of the time seems to be to piss off Gates.
Very true.
He has an inferiority complex.
No, no, no. Ellison's the cockiest bastard I ever saw. He's aggressive, competitive, and likes to crush the other guys he plays "capitalism" with. He just always targets Bill, because he's already beaten everybody else, and Bill has screwed him over in the past. He doesn't have an inferiority complex at all, he just likes to bet on (and support) the little guy (which against Microsoft is everyone else), so that if (and when) they weaken Microsoft, he can watch Bill stumble, stagger, and fall to the ground bleeding. And then he himself can administer the coup de grace. Nothing would give him more pleasure.
MS wants to get people used to having a MS badged device in their home. One that just works, doesn't bluescreen etc, so that people are comfortable with it.
You're pretty anal, AC. Everybody with a grade 2 edumacation knows exactly what Ellison means here. Used in that CONTEXT, it's obvious. His *ideas* were *effectively communicated* using the word decimate; everybody except the inflexible dictionary nerds here at Slashdot got it. Which means the people he intended the message for GOT THE MESSAGE LOUD AND CLEAR.
*Your* seeming inability to understand it, despite your insanely high IQ (heh heh), is pedantic at best.
I'm running StarOffice at work (unfortunately on Windows98), and yes, it's slow to load on Win98 as well. Noticeably slower than Word and Excel launching on the same box - but I hear Microsoft's got the Office.dlls already loaded on startup or something like that, to improve startup times (and give an unfair advantage?)...
We have NO problems with Open Office, except for slow launch speeds, and that you can Open a Word or Excel doc, you can save word and excel docs, and they open fine in Open Office again, but when Word and Excel users open them, the formatting is slightly screwed... so we print everything to Acrobat and send that to our customers.
At work, we're already standardized on Mozilla, and we're going Open and Star Office, and next our geeks gonna start migrating from our NT server to Linux - once he figures out Samba, that is...
And then... Linux on the desktop, the final frontier!
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You know, mods, whenever I ask a real question, I get modded down, but whenever I'm being a butthead, I get +5, Informative. Goatse must have hit his Karma cap years ago.
Here is my previous post in simple straightforward English for you slower, *stupider* mods:
What steps would you recommend a young creative genius like myself take in order to get started in your noble profession, Mister Ellis? Thank you for your assistance. And I was wondering (this being geeky Slashdot and all) what computer equipment do you use? I am interested in computers, and like to speak with people who have actual work experience and intelligent informed opinions, unlike the moronic mods who keep marking me as a troll when I ask a simple question which has five small words in it. By the way, I am wearing the Rei Rei dress and booties right now. Be sure to check your email for glossies.
Best Regards,
Lord Michael Midas Masq, Esq.
I trust this is satisfactory for even the stupidest of moderators.
and these aren't joke questions. They're serious.
1.0 How do I become you?
2.0 If I become you, do I have to use Windows?
So what's the list? Gimme some leads!
I'm NOT an AOL user, but I am a shareholder. And thanks for bringing up such a painful subject.
Insult to injury, that comment.
Until this very minute, I had no idea that Carpentry Geeks existed.
I'm still not over emacs vs. vi, I don't think I can handle DeWalt vs. Makita right now.
Also, on a more personal note, it asserts my long-running suspicion that the stock market is... i had a technical term for this, what was it... oh, yes. Fucked in the head.
.. and the alcohol my last three dollars bought me
LOL!! I have long sought the perfect post, and this may be it!
Of course, my judgment is slightly clouded from my own retirement plans being permanently cancelled by mean old mister market..
I'm counting Apple as our new Ace in the Hole.
It's good for developers to support ANYTHING besides Win32, but I'd rather have developers starting with Linux, and then porting to OSX, UNIX, and Windows - for the simple reason that OSX is VERY sweet, but doesn't encourage cross-platform coding (at least from what I've seen of their dev tools). Same with Windows. People who write for Windows tend not to care if it runs on any other OS, their focus is only on their own system, and this closes down their future options should they change their mind, or if they are successful and want to expand. My experience is that this is true with Macheads as well, and Apple Corporate doesn't seem at all interested in bringing OSX apps over to Linux, just getting them from Linux over to OSX....
It's best to use strictly open standards which allow for easy cross-platform portability if you're at all interested in supporting other OSes. I've talked to guys who said "If I had only thought of that BEFORE I wrote the whole thing in VisualBasic (or whatever)..." Being able to write your code using open tools and thus support three or more platforms from basically the same codebase (like Opera) is very very cool.
But yeah, OSX is definitely a VeryGoodThing. It's nice to have Apple join the party, and it's interesting to watch how Apple Legal interacts with the OpenSource movement. Apple has a lot of strengths and a lot of things to bring to the table - if they decide to get into the game in a big way and deal a few hands themselves. Hopefully, they keep heading in the "right" direction (openness and sharing). They may get a gold star from the teacher yet.
So which one of your examples is this? He's not yelling fire in a crowded theater... He originally tried to tell the company their theater was on fire, and when they refused to give a damn, he decided to tell the people inside the theater about the fire.
That's when they Cease and Desisted him, and told him that the burning theater was their little secret.
Personally, I'd wanna know, but hey, I'm obviously not normal. Stay asleep if you want, everybody. It's still a free country - but you better check back with me tomorrow just in case.
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www.whatreallyhappened.com is interesting.
Don't use PDF. ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS use plain-text.
Anything else would be uncivilized.
This isn't meant as a troll, but I'm sure many of the more... sensitive ... Mac users will take it as such anyway.
This speed boost is great for the x86 world. Speed keeps getting better. Intel and AMD keep competing and leapfrogging each other to greater heights. My sorrow is that Apple's offerings really are *years behind* right now. I know, I know, speed doesn't matter when Macs are slower, but when Macs had the speed advantage, the Mac users claimed speed was all-important and there was no problem attacking the PC users based on their sorry speed. Mac users, like everyone else in the world it seems, aren't objective - if the PowerBook is thinner, they claim size (ahem) is important. When the PC world shows us the Superthin Vaio, we say that Size doesn't matter, it's how you use it (ahem again). And that's the problem; that's why Apple doesn't feel the need to force speed increases out of Moto and IBM to keep up with the Joneses - Mac users are so damn faithful, that they don't apply any market pressure to Apple to force them to compete! Instead, the "Mac Faithful" DEFEND Apple's weaknesses, allowing Apple to slack off in the processor department.
Next time a MacZealot defends Apple's 1 Ghz processors on a slow bus, tell him that he's NOT helping Apple. The way to help Apple is to absolutely demand faster processors, and threaten to switch to x86 if they don't deliver. If we give Apple a "Get out of Jail Free card" with regards to processor speed, we'll NEVER be competitive with Intel.
And yes, I've heard the RUMORS about the IBM chips. They'll still be far behind this, RISC or not.
Heh. Modded down in under 5 minutes. That's gotta be a new record.
Strangely, that CNN-approved translation differs from how the rest of the world translates it.
A better translation is "No Saddam, No US Puppet Government, now we can become a true muslim nation"
Apparently, Saddam was the head of something called the Ba'ath party which was a socialist type thing which didn't give any funding to Muslim churches and greatly restricted the people's freedom to practice their religion. Saddam has recently loosened up, however, in an attempt to keep his popularity, so he's made public displays of himself celebrating holy days as a devout muslim, which fools nobody but the Americans.
But there WILL be a US puppet government, no matter what Bush promised them on "FreedomRadio" when the US took over Iraqi airwaves. Poor saps.
Anyone hear any more about the recent US-led massacre of Talibanis in Afghanistan? Nope. Didn't think so. That puppet government's REALLY doing well for itself - the opium trade is back in full swing, this time under the watchful eye of the CIA.
Wake up
Jeezus! I submitted this the day it came out, and was rejected. WTF?
I had better text and links, too. I'm way disappointed in the "Editors". They chose the VCR entry over the Betamax entry, and way late to boot.
From now on, I'm submitting stuff like 5 times until one of the dozen numbskulls there actually reads the submission before he killfiles it.
Not that it's even a good story, but hell, it would have been better if it wasn't already a week old dead issue on their forum.
Well, I find Mozilla is faster on Linux than Windows....
(no need to mention more stable)
Hmmm....
Start Bar / Programs / Startup / MICROSOFT OFFICE STARTUP
"Dolt Alert???" If you're going to flame me, you've got to do better than that. Responding to your pathetic AC flame isn't even worth the 10 seconds of my time it's taking to write this.
Try to contribute something that's not completely worthless next time, mmkay?
His ulterior motive most of the time seems to be to piss off Gates.
Very true.
He has an inferiority complex.
No, no, no. Ellison's the cockiest bastard I ever saw. He's aggressive, competitive, and likes to crush the other guys he plays "capitalism" with. He just always targets Bill, because he's already beaten everybody else, and Bill has screwed him over in the past. He doesn't have an inferiority complex at all, he just likes to bet on (and support) the little guy (which against Microsoft is everyone else), so that if (and when) they weaken Microsoft, he can watch Bill stumble, stagger, and fall to the ground bleeding. And then he himself can administer the coup de grace. Nothing would give him more pleasure.
One that just works, doesn't bluescreen, people are comfortable with it...
GEEK ALERT!!!
You're pretty anal, AC. Everybody with a grade 2 edumacation knows exactly what Ellison means here. Used in that CONTEXT, it's obvious. His *ideas* were *effectively communicated* using the word decimate; everybody except the inflexible dictionary nerds here at Slashdot got it. Which means the people he intended the message for GOT THE MESSAGE LOUD AND CLEAR.
*Your* seeming inability to understand it, despite your insanely high IQ (heh heh), is pedantic at best.
Hey another big misused word! GEEK GEEK!!
You probably argue emacs vs vi, too. So do I.
emacs rulez!
I'm running StarOffice at work (unfortunately on Windows98), and yes, it's slow to load on Win98 as well. Noticeably slower than Word and Excel launching on the same box - but I hear Microsoft's got the Office .dlls already loaded on startup or something like that, to improve startup times (and give an unfair advantage?)...
We have NO problems with Open Office, except for slow launch speeds, and that you can Open a Word or Excel doc, you can save word and excel docs, and they open fine in Open Office again, but when Word and Excel users open them, the formatting is slightly screwed... so we print everything to Acrobat and send that to our customers.
At work, we're already standardized on Mozilla, and we're going Open and Star Office, and next our geeks gonna start migrating from our NT server to Linux - once he figures out Samba, that is...
And then... Linux on the desktop, the final frontier!
I'm actually like this ALL the time.
Just call me Tyler Durden
You're ALL the sock puppet. Now SHUT UP, I wanna hear about this new Enlightenment. It's gonna ROCK.
MOD PARNENT DOWN!!! I checked it out on Gooogle, and it's not true!!!!!!!!1
I'm not the sock puppet, YOU'RE the sock puppet.