Last November, while I had no electricity, I was smoking a bowl and listeing to Art Bell on my crank-up AM radio. Art had some Indian (native american) dude who was talking about his idea of God.
Somehow, during one of my deep inhilations, the conversation between Art and Red Elk (I think that was his name) turned to UFO's, as is often the case on the Art Bell show. Someone called in describing a triangular device that floated in the sky silently.
This set the mood for my discovery of the Universes shape. It is rather like a donut, but only when viewed from a distance, which we aren't able to do, unless you buy some of this shit I get from.. nevermind.
Anyways, triangles are the key to understanding the whole thing. Where the sphere idea came from I do not know, but it seems fairly obvious to me: Triangles make up everything, and everything is a donut. Untold numbers of triangles whose sides meet to make one giant donut! Yeah! Whos with me? Lets burn one and then work on explaining why toast always lands butter-side down.
(Most of this post is based in reality, I just seriously doubt anyone would believe that a pot-head without electricity could imagine this sort of thing on his own)
No thank you. If The End comes, I'm killing as many as I can. Food will be in short supply, so I might as well rid us of as many mouths a possible.
Rape is high on my todo list also: need to get busy recreating man-kind.
Once its safe to crawl back out into the open, I'll need to spread as many lies as possible too. I'll need to start laying down the foundation for mankinds' new religion too. Lots of fun work to do.
In the begining, FamedLamer created the heavens and the Earth^H^H^H^H^H LamerOrb....
As a drag racing fan, I have to tell you: If you want to go fast, buy or build a race car. Stop fiddling with those little things that are made for getting you back and forth to work and build a great big V8.
If people don't start using these old V8's up, the rednecks are never going to stop driving 74 chevelles because they can always get parts.
Drag racing is all about burning up a motor every couple of weeks.. its mans' answer to pollution. Stop playing with those sewing machines and do it right.. use a V8. Keep throwing money at it till you have a 4 second car, and I'll come and watch you on the weekends, I promise.
Why are you using Linux if IT DOES NOT WORK FOR YOU?
Obviously, you just enjoy having something to be mad about. If Windows works, use that. If DOS works, by all means, USE THAT. If a hobby-OS (dare I say it? Yes! A KERNEL WITH SOME STUFF) does not meet your needs, stop whining and use something else. I don't see anyone in Home Depot demanding a full refund for the hammer they bought last week because it wont turn screws. Use the tool the fits the job or find another job to do.
Linux is a kernel. Its developed by people who just want to develop a kernel. Red Hat, Mandrake, and all those are Corporations who are feeding the world garbage, and then selling them more garbage to go with it (but hey, it comes with support!).
As said before, after all this time, you people STILL dont GET Linux.
Gee, did it ever occur to you that Linux wasn't written so that Big Corporations could make money selling bloated software to other Big Corporations?
If the big companies want to use Linux, let them, its not like they have to pay for it or anything. But come on, they can't sit around demanding a cash-engine so they can get totally rich while kernel hackers end up with a part-time job for said Corporations.
Gee, do you think that maybe, just maybe, those big companies should hire thier own developers and have them roll the code that fits thier needs, rather than ride around in limos wishing the unpaid kernel hackers would quit being so snotty with thier own creations and make something that will get the Corporations even richer? Corporate America loves to take, but gives back so little (inlcuding crappy binary drivers).
And what makes you believe that the FreeBSD developers would be willing to sweat for these same corporations?
As was said earlier, after all this time, you people STILL dont GET Linux (which is not a platform by the way, its a KERNEL).
This may all be true, and wanting to save resources are a fantastic idea, just as battling Big Brothers' love of industry (read: money) over nature...
BUT- It seems to me that, if more of these wack-jobs would get themselves into some science classes and study up on ways to create renewable fuels or, better efficiency from solar products, this whole problem would go away.
I guess it's just allot more fun to be a pain in the worlds' rear and play rock-stars in Trees than it is to get educated and make a REAL difference.
Hippies- We really need the tornadoe-on-a-can to toss these people into... they require SO MUCH attention. Oddly, the person who builds the first 90% efficient electric motor or somthing similar will probably win the Nobel, which just happens to come with a lot of attention.
Why have controlled studies of the effectiveness of consumable opinion. It's dumb. Some guy writes a book about how he prefers to think, and suddenly we need a Senate committee hearing on his books' effectiveness. I don't see a reason to do a study on something that you are not being forced to read. If you don't like it, don't buy it, but you don't have to go marching about proclaiming "foul" because you don't like someone elses thinking, be a real intellectual and write your own damned book hot-shot.
Meanwhile: I intend to check this book out since I never rest at improving myself and never take issue with someone elses' ideas, if they are grounded in reality and help the with the betterment of The Tribe.
This stuff is of great interest to me, and appearantly a lot of other people who read/.
My issue is in the fact that we keep destroying these interesting sites before they can be visited by all.
There should be something done by the site maintainers to provide as little fluff as possible, while making the details interesting enough for us to read. Why waste all your alloted monthly bandwidth to put videos up when a nicely written briefing would do just as well?
I really hate the innerweb. All this wonderfull information inundated in a flood of ignorant pictures, sounds, and videos, only because its not convenient to read... oh no, we need moving pictures and sound to take us someplace that we don't have the damned gumption to go on our own.
What a sick society of Ark-B passengers we have become.
I almost agree with you. Let them copy-protect every thing I hate about pop-culture, I don't care.
Bach, Handel (Ah! The Mesiah is The Ultimate Laugh at society), Ravel, Mozart! All freely distrubted in paper form! Find some good musicians and you've an outing that pleases both the mind and the ear.
But wait! The dumbing down of the world requires electronic noise to be considered an art form. If sensationalism does not continue on, we have no hope of being Rock Stars ourselves, and without hope, there must be a great upheaval among the working class to regain "freedom" (read: we want to be rich and powerful for no other reason than we want it).
So I maintain that copy-protection MUST be refined to the point that there is no way for "art" to be stolen. Otherwise, there is no dream for a fad that brings huge sums of money to lamen with knowledge of 4 chords and pyrotechnics.
Those who pay for entertainment are those without the ability to find beauty within themselves.
I listen to RADIO for FREE where I find excellent baroque (as well as that crappy "pops" junk) played daily, without commercial interuption. When in the mood for something live, cheap tickets to the symphony are slightly cheaper than the cost of a CD, but the experience last forever.
It is my own opinion that popular culture is based on consumtion of perishables, by perishables.
I'd say its safe to assume that you are all awake.
Since I got an electronics degree first, I knew of the Impending Capacitor Doom for some time now.
Since at least one person has expressed interest in a new mothrboard, but is now hesitant due the the Impentinf Capacitor Doom, let me just set the record straight:
In 90% of the cases, you will upgrade your equipment to play the next Carmack-born game engine before your electrolyte breaks down.
And before you all start demanding Tantalums from the motherboard makers, please remember that commodoty hardware is the only reason why the internet took off in the first place.
Upgrade! Upgrade! Upgrade! Your going to do it one way or another.
I need this for my PC so I can DOCK my browser to the left or right of my screen AND auto-hide the thing when I'm doing other stuff.
A small-screen browser on a big screen means I can devote more of my desktop to real work AND still see pictures and stuff. Thats an idea whos time has come.
An example of what he's talking about.
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I run a modest webhosting business. Someone else runs a large, popular webhosting business who's name is very close to mine (two letters in the name are reversed). I have never ran any other webhosting business, while the other company has been doing this for years (under other names). This company registerd thier name 6 months after I registered mine, so they can be considered a copy-cat outfit. (i wont give my name, because that would be in bad taste, but as an example, assume I registered abchosting.com while the other guy registered acbhosting.com).
Anyways, a search for abchosting on google would give you acbhosting as the first result because the admin "accidently" mispelled acbhosting on several pages on his site. He also linked to that page from several different domains that he owns and therefore was ranked higher than my site.
PageRank sucks for this reason, and thats what the guy is complaining about.
As a consumer, I'd like everyone to know that my patronage of slashdot is thinning. I once read slashdot often, now I read rarely.
I'm not a warezd00d. It is safe to say that I do not care about these things, and frankly, I'm growing quite tired of having it beaten into my skull.
I caught on a long time ago: The "Entertainment Industry" is rubbish, built on the ruins of the idles' minds. So, I don't "partake" unless I'm at a friends' and they're buying. I win, entertainment industry looses.
Now, I realize that/. operates in a niche market of said industry and that I should respect others' need to make an issue of all these things that are an obvious waste, but now, after reading my Umpteenth article about this sort of thing, I feel I simply must, as a forced-by-banner-ads-consumer, say something about it.
The sign says "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.".
I sir, am a nerd, and all of this Entertainment Industry junk does not matter to me.
If I am to continue viewing your prepaid-paid advertising, I would respectfully request you live up to your own advertising and stop catering to pseudo-nerds (warezd00dz).
Please, change the advertisement to something more fitting, like:
Slashdot Microsoft sucks. nVidia wins. Warez 0wnz. THEY want to take away our kiddie pr0n.
Create your IE-only site and I'll look at, and possibly click on, your competitors banner ads.
I can't believe that someone with the title of "Web Designer" could be so blatantly lazy as to not design for all browsers, especially considering how easy it is to do.
How many times does "How can we use linux here?" have to be asked before it is no longer allowed on slashdot?
Next up, Microsoft is rumored to be doing something wrong.
Re:Nothing "Wrong" what Transgaming are doing here
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Of course Transgamings Business Model is wrong. They should simply re-sell Windows games - either to Windows users or to Linux users bundling WineX and some installation glue a la codeweavers.
Thank you for thinking. This is an excellent idea.
Do you get frustrated when your friends grandparents call because they can't find thier start button?
You will.
How about working for a complete corporate machine who knows nothing of computers and wants you to keep the server working AND fix counterstrike on thier box?
Get away from this industry. Computers rock as a hobby, but not as a job. There are just too many cert-monkeys runing around, all being led by management types who need to be hit by the Clue-by-Four several hundred times.
Go to college, take business and P.e. and get drunk as much as you can. That'll give you "interpersonal skills" that are regarded so highly AND a business degree... Instant Management. If you become really good and telling people what they want to hear, you could make upper management and get filthy rich.
Slashdot Mirror
Last November, while I had no electricity, I was smoking a bowl and listeing to Art Bell on my crank-up AM radio. Art had some Indian (native american) dude who was talking about his idea of God.
Somehow, during one of my deep inhilations, the conversation between Art and Red Elk (I think that was his name) turned to UFO's, as is often the case on the Art Bell show. Someone called in describing a triangular device that floated in the sky silently.
This set the mood for my discovery of the Universes shape. It is rather like a donut, but only when viewed from a distance, which we aren't able to do, unless you buy some of this shit I get from.. nevermind.
Anyways, triangles are the key to understanding the whole thing. Where the sphere idea came from I do not know, but it seems fairly obvious to me: Triangles make up everything, and everything is a donut. Untold numbers of triangles whose sides meet to make one giant donut! Yeah! Whos with me? Lets burn one and then work on explaining why toast always lands butter-side down.
(Most of this post is based in reality, I just seriously doubt anyone would believe that a pot-head without electricity could imagine this sort of thing on his own)
No thank you. If The End comes, I'm killing as many as I can. Food will be in short supply, so I might as well rid us of as many mouths a possible.
Rape is high on my todo list also: need to get busy recreating man-kind.
Once its safe to crawl back out into the open, I'll need to spread as many lies as possible too. I'll need to start laying down the foundation for mankinds' new religion too. Lots of fun work to do.
In the begining, FamedLamer created the heavens and the Earth^H^H^H^H^H LamerOrb....
Ugh.
As a drag racing fan, I have to tell you: If you want to go fast, buy or build a race car. Stop fiddling with those little things that are made for getting you back and forth to work and build a great big V8.
If people don't start using these old V8's up, the rednecks are never going to stop driving 74 chevelles because they can always get parts.
Drag racing is all about burning up a motor every couple of weeks.. its mans' answer to pollution. Stop playing with those sewing machines and do it right.. use a V8. Keep throwing money at it till you have a 4 second car, and I'll come and watch you on the weekends, I promise.
I do not understand your comments or how they relate to the article.
Agenda pushing?
Oh please dear god make it stop.
Why are you using Linux if IT DOES NOT WORK FOR YOU?
Obviously, you just enjoy having something to be mad about. If Windows works, use that. If DOS works, by all means, USE THAT. If a hobby-OS (dare I say it? Yes! A KERNEL WITH SOME STUFF) does not meet your needs, stop whining and use something else. I don't see anyone in Home Depot demanding a full refund for the hammer they bought last week because it wont turn screws. Use the tool the fits the job or find another job to do.
Linux is a kernel. Its developed by people who just want to develop a kernel. Red Hat, Mandrake, and all those are Corporations who are feeding the world garbage, and then selling them more garbage to go with it (but hey, it comes with support!).
As said before, after all this time, you people STILL dont GET Linux.
Gee, did it ever occur to you that Linux wasn't written so that Big Corporations could make money selling bloated software to other Big Corporations?
If the big companies want to use Linux, let them, its not like they have to pay for it or anything. But come on, they can't sit around demanding a cash-engine so they can get totally rich while kernel hackers end up with a part-time job for said Corporations.
Gee, do you think that maybe, just maybe, those big companies should hire thier own developers and have them roll the code that fits thier needs, rather than ride around in limos wishing the unpaid kernel hackers would quit being so snotty with thier own creations and make something that will get the Corporations even richer? Corporate America loves to take, but gives back so little (inlcuding crappy binary drivers).
And what makes you believe that the FreeBSD developers would be willing to sweat for these same corporations?
As was said earlier, after all this time, you people STILL dont GET Linux (which is not a platform by the way, its a KERNEL).
This may all be true, and wanting to save resources are a fantastic idea, just as battling Big Brothers' love of industry (read: money) over nature...
BUT- It seems to me that, if more of these wack-jobs would get themselves into some science classes and study up on ways to create renewable fuels or, better efficiency from solar products, this whole problem would go away.
I guess it's just allot more fun to be a pain in the worlds' rear and play rock-stars in Trees than it is to get educated and make a REAL difference.
Hippies- We really need the tornadoe-on-a-can to toss these people into... they require SO MUCH attention. Oddly, the person who builds the first 90% efficient electric motor or somthing similar will probably win the Nobel, which just happens to come with a lot of attention.
Why?
Why have controlled studies of the effectiveness of consumable opinion. It's dumb. Some guy writes a book about how he prefers to think, and suddenly we need a Senate committee hearing on his books' effectiveness. I don't see a reason to do a study on something that you are not being forced to read. If you don't like it, don't buy it, but you don't have to go marching about proclaiming "foul" because you don't like someone elses thinking, be a real intellectual and write your own damned book hot-shot.
Meanwhile: I intend to check this book out since I never rest at improving myself and never take issue with someone elses' ideas, if they are grounded in reality and help the with the betterment of The Tribe.
This stuff is of great interest to me, and appearantly a lot of other people who read /.
My issue is in the fact that we keep destroying these interesting sites before they can be visited by all.
There should be something done by the site maintainers to provide as little fluff as possible, while making the details interesting enough for us to read. Why waste all your alloted monthly bandwidth to put videos up when a nicely written briefing would do just as well?
I really hate the innerweb. All this wonderfull information inundated in a flood of ignorant pictures, sounds, and videos, only because its not convenient to read... oh no, we need moving pictures and sound to take us someplace that we don't have the damned gumption to go on our own.
What a sick society of Ark-B passengers we have become.
I don't sm^Hpell so good.
I almost agree with you. Let them copy-protect every thing I hate about pop-culture, I don't care.
Bach, Handel (Ah! The Mesiah is The Ultimate Laugh at society), Ravel, Mozart! All freely distrubted in paper form! Find some good musicians and you've an outing that pleases both the mind and the ear.
But wait! The dumbing down of the world requires electronic noise to be considered an art form. If sensationalism does not continue on, we have no hope of being Rock Stars ourselves, and without hope, there must be a great upheaval among the working class to regain "freedom" (read: we want to be rich and powerful for no other reason than we want it).
So I maintain that copy-protection MUST be refined to the point that there is no way for "art" to be stolen. Otherwise, there is no dream for a fad that brings huge sums of money to lamen with knowledge of 4 chords and pyrotechnics.
RADIO? HELLO? I SAID RADIO!
Those who pay for entertainment are those without the ability to find beauty within themselves.
I listen to RADIO for FREE where I find excellent baroque (as well as that crappy "pops" junk) played daily, without commercial interuption. When in the mood for something live, cheap tickets to the symphony are slightly cheaper than the cost of a CD, but the experience last forever.
It is my own opinion that popular culture is based on consumtion of perishables, by perishables.
I'd say its safe to assume that you are all awake.
Since I got an electronics degree first, I knew of the Impending Capacitor Doom for some time now.
Since at least one person has expressed interest in a new mothrboard, but is now hesitant due the the Impentinf Capacitor Doom, let me just set the record straight:
In 90% of the cases, you will upgrade your equipment to play the next Carmack-born game engine before your electrolyte breaks down.
And before you all start demanding Tantalums from the motherboard makers, please remember that commodoty hardware is the only reason why the internet took off in the first place.
Upgrade! Upgrade! Upgrade! Your going to do it one way or another.
I need this for my PC so I can DOCK my browser to the left or right of my screen AND auto-hide the thing when I'm doing other stuff.
A small-screen browser on a big screen means I can devote more of my desktop to real work AND still see pictures and stuff. Thats an idea whos time has come.
Hush up and drink this cool-aid I made you....
I run a modest webhosting business. Someone else runs a large, popular webhosting business who's name is very close to mine (two letters in the name are reversed). I have never ran any other webhosting business, while the other company has been doing this for years (under other names). This company registerd thier name 6 months after I registered mine, so they can be considered a copy-cat outfit. (i wont give my name, because that would be in bad taste, but as an example, assume I registered abchosting.com while the other guy registered acbhosting.com).
Anyways, a search for abchosting on google would give you acbhosting as the first result because the admin "accidently" mispelled acbhosting on several pages on his site. He also linked to that page from several different domains that he owns and therefore was ranked higher than my site.
PageRank sucks for this reason, and thats what the guy is complaining about.
Hi.
/. operates in a niche market of said industry and that I should respect others' need to make an issue of all these things that are an obvious waste, but now, after reading my Umpteenth article about this sort of thing, I feel I simply must, as a forced-by-banner-ads-consumer, say something about it.
As a consumer, I'd like everyone to know that my patronage of slashdot is thinning. I once read slashdot often, now I read rarely.
I'm not a warezd00d. It is safe to say that I do not care about these things, and frankly, I'm growing quite tired of having it beaten into my skull.
I caught on a long time ago: The "Entertainment Industry" is rubbish, built on the ruins of the idles' minds. So, I don't "partake" unless I'm at a friends' and they're buying. I win, entertainment industry looses.
Now, I realize that
The sign says "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.".
I sir, am a nerd, and all of this Entertainment Industry junk does not matter to me.
If I am to continue viewing your prepaid-paid advertising, I would respectfully request you live up to your own advertising and stop catering to pseudo-nerds (warezd00dz).
Please, change the advertisement to something more fitting, like:
Slashdot
Microsoft sucks. nVidia wins. Warez 0wnz. THEY want to take away our kiddie pr0n.
And I counter:
Create your IE-only site and I'll look at, and possibly click on, your competitors banner ads.
I can't believe that someone with the title of "Web Designer" could be so blatantly lazy as to not design for all browsers, especially considering how easy it is to do.
I can't imagine these people actually enjoy this sort of thing...
It's put on mainly for your lifeless trailer-dwellers.
How many times does "How can we use linux here?" have to be asked before it is no longer allowed on slashdot?
Next up, Microsoft is rumored to be doing something wrong.
Thank you for thinking. This is an excellent idea.
Once a month, some MCSE comes along and asks this questions and it gets posted. Why?
Why don't these jerks stop playing Counterstrike and spend some time learning something?
Replacing Windows is easy, if you already use linux. I mean, what cluefull linux user doesn't already know this stuff?
Ugh. I'm getting so tired of
Do you get frustrated when your friends grandparents call because they can't find thier start button?
You will.
How about working for a complete corporate machine who knows nothing of computers and wants you to keep the server working AND fix counterstrike on thier box?
Get away from this industry. Computers rock as a hobby, but not as a job. There are just too many cert-monkeys runing around, all being led by management types who need to be hit by the Clue-by-Four several hundred times.
Go to college, take business and P.e. and get drunk as much as you can. That'll give you "interpersonal skills" that are regarded so highly AND a business degree... Instant Management. If you become really good and telling people what they want to hear, you could make upper management and get filthy rich.
Thats a fact. God I'm sick of hearing about Microsoft.
Does anyone really care? Yay, now I can get crappy internet connection if I EVER fly.
Just think how much the Judicial system could make if they arrested every webmaster that distributed Gator.