I once heard a song by Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie called Every OS Sucks, where Linux users were described as 'elitist nerdy shmucks'. Sadly this is true for much of the 'community'. Too many consider themselves better than the rest of the world because they run Linux. Can you believe that? It's just a computer operating system, but somehow they think that it makes them better than those people who run systems such as Microsoft Windows! Elitism drives people away, as does saying "RTFM" or belittling people who choose a different distro from yourself.
Exactly. There is no better way to drive people away than to act like a know-it-all asshole. In open source culture such as Linux and applications for Linux, we should be very careful to be more personable. "RTFM" does certainly apply to some people, however, when a linux newbie is trying to find out how to compile an application, saying "RTFM" doesn't help anyone. Send him a link to a specific man page, or maybe give him a short answer, but when you know nothing about the OS and are presented with the mountains of literature that goes along with it, Reading TFM will take forever, and isn't practical. If the people in the know will help out those who aren't, more users will come and more of them will become more advanced, and some will even contribute to Linux itself which will benefit us all.
Atkins = regulated carbs. If you ever read the book, the New Diet Revolution, you would know that Dr. Atkins proposes eating very low amount of carbs, around 20 grams per day, until weight loss ensues. Then, after you begin to lose weight, you increase the number of daily carbohydrates by 5 grams per week. So that eventually, you find your carb level, usually somewhere around 80 grams per day, about 2, 2.5 potatoes.
If you never eat any carbs, especially the healthy kind like grains and oats, you will destroy your liver and other digestion related organs. Atkins never said eat no carbs, he just said eat managed amounts. He's right too, it's the only diet that truly works.
This story proves the RIAA's real motives
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How does something gain value? There are a few ways, but the best way for something that's readily available to gain value is to manufacture scarcity. That's right, make people think they can't get the stuff anywhere else, and all of the sudden you can charge them an arm and a leg for it.
This is what the RIAA has done, and continues to do. This is why the RIAA wants to make mp3 sharing illegal, unless of course you're paying them for songs on their labels. You see, if we can share any music we ever find, on a label or not, popular band or garage band, then the manufactured scarcity of good music is destroyed, and therefore it loses it's monetary value. When that happens, the bands will start making all the money off of touring or other means, because with all that competition they'll actually have to earn their money, and that will in turn put the RIAA and those big labels out of business because they won't be needed. Who needs sony's promotion when people just want to see your concert because they heard all your mp3's?
I could go on and on about this, but I just wanted to say a quick word or two because reading this article really made me see that this little theory of mine is pretty close to what's actually happening. AG and it's community really did open my eyes up to music I never would have appreciated before, and some of the band names I had never heard of and haven't heard of since. There's great music out there by all sorts of people and the only reason the RIAA, labels, or anyone for that matter can make money from a lot of the crap bands (like the lip-synching N-SYNC) is because they unethically (and hopefully one day illegally) control the market so that people can't get access to other, more original, artists.
I see your point, but at the same time, I'm sure the percentage not using IE is not "small". I don't know the exact numbers, but even if it were as low as 10%, that's still a lot of people, a lot of which will be pissed off that your site doesn't work when they see it.
Look, everyone knows Mandrake doesn't want to join United Linux, and why? Because they want to make money, and not share it with anyone else. It would be nice to see Red Hat follow a strict Linux standard, and Mandrake to do so as well (since they tend to follow Red Hat) but that probably won't happen because they are constantly trying to include things that will make people buy their distro and sign up for their services rather than just the same old standard stuff. That's the reason, and everyone knows it, Mandrake is just blowing smoke.
Most technological companies these days have project managers that are in fact from a technical background. One of my goals is to be one such project manager possibly, and so I'm taking my computer engineering undergraduate degree off to graduate school so that I can get a masters in business administration. Companies that wish to be successful will hire people with similar backgrounds, whether it be from work experience or education. I don't know what to do about your company, but I know hiring engineering managers who've never attended a math course over the 200 level is bad, bad policy.
My only comment is that people will just move to something else. For these changes to happen, DSL, Cable, and all other internet providers will have to do this metering system, and that will piss way too many people off.
Burns said the change was necessary because ICANN has exceeded its authority, does not operate in an open fashion, and is dangerously unaccountable to Internet users, businesses and other key interest groups.
Perfect. So when the government takes over, it still won't be accountable to internet users, it will be slightly accountable to the businesses that contribute the most, and it will be at the whim of the special interest groups. This is just what the internet needs.
Did you all read the honorable mentions? Google stands to make some good money off of the ideas and implementations these folks have come up with. I'm assuming that all entries now are owned by Google, and man they might have some really cool new features after seeing the projects that were submitted. I only hope that they give at least some royalties to the developers.
Seriously, United Linux? Seems sort of lame to me. I'd go for something like Can of Whoop Ass Linux or A-Team Linux but I'm sorry there name just sucks.
If the pictures are fake, then what's the problem? Having legal ramifications for running a public, uncensored community that can post whatever they want is one thing, I mean we don't want kiddie porn to happen, but come on, there's no harm in a little Gimping around the 'net. I mean damn, look at the Mr. T Vs. Series... that's some serious laughter inducing stuff. People need to take it easy.
It seems like they won't be able to hold out from Microsoft forever, but I sure hope they do, becasue EA makes the greatest sports games, especially John Madden Football, and XBox will really be hurting without them.
Well for me it does. I work for a certain company that's trying to use smart cards in a certain product that shouldn't use smart cards but buzzword loving project managers don't want to use anything else... so anyway, I guess this will mean we have to scrap the whole smart card idea and start over on something else...
You know, I forgot about the Jobs-esque-ness of Robbins, but you're right, he was like a mix of Jobs and Gates. Gates has business-speak down pat, but Robbins in that movie was more concept/philosophy oriented, like Jobs. As a "mac lover" though, I prefer to think of the evil lead character as more of a Bill Gates.
One thing you forgot: local school administrators are fucking morons 99% of the time. Most of them in fact are greedy motherfuckers who only exist as political affirmative action because they would never have been put in place by actual elections. I don't buy the bullshit about not being able to "rearrange" money. They could have put the money into teacher bonuses or something useful.
All this ranting is pointless though. Education will never get better until teachers make more than garbage men or tractor trailer drivers. When any idiot can go to college and get a teaching degree, and then get hired for $25000 per year, there is no such thing as good education.
FIRST teacher salaries need to be doubled. THEN more people will enlist in education majors. NEXT education degrees will become harder and harder to get, because there will be more competition. FINALLY we will start having great, smart, well paid teachers because EDUCATION STARTS WITH THE EDUCATOR.
It's absoFUCKINGlutely ridiculous that most of the people teaching these days are even teachers. More than half of the education majors I talked to in college admitted to taking elementary or secondary ed because they "thought math was gross." That's FUCKING insane. If we don't have logical, intelligent, ABLE TO DO FUCKING BASIC MATH people teaching our kids, how do we ever expect them to learn anything?
WOW, I like this profane shit, sorry PM, I'll stop being a poser.
I can't remember the title, but it's the one where they spy on this kid and take his code to make their software.... the guy from Shawshank redemption plays the Bill Gates type character, and some nutjob plays the "hero" computer guy. Anyway, Microsoft really is as evil as the movies say, huh?
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I once heard a song by Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie called Every OS Sucks, where Linux users were described as 'elitist nerdy shmucks'. Sadly this is true for much of the 'community'. Too many consider themselves better than the rest of the world because they run Linux. Can you believe that? It's just a computer operating system, but somehow they think that it makes them better than those people who run systems such as Microsoft Windows! Elitism drives people away, as does saying "RTFM" or belittling people who choose a different distro from yourself.
Exactly. There is no better way to drive people away than to act like a know-it-all asshole. In open source culture such as Linux and applications for Linux, we should be very careful to be more personable. "RTFM" does certainly apply to some people, however, when a linux newbie is trying to find out how to compile an application, saying "RTFM" doesn't help anyone. Send him a link to a specific man page, or maybe give him a short answer, but when you know nothing about the OS and are presented with the mountains of literature that goes along with it, Reading TFM will take forever, and isn't practical. If the people in the know will help out those who aren't, more users will come and more of them will become more advanced, and some will even contribute to Linux itself which will benefit us all.
That's soooo wrong, and dangerous
Atkins = regulated carbs. If you ever read the book, the New Diet Revolution, you would know that Dr. Atkins proposes eating very low amount of carbs, around 20 grams per day, until weight loss ensues. Then, after you begin to lose weight, you increase the number of daily carbohydrates by 5 grams per week. So that eventually, you find your carb level, usually somewhere around 80 grams per day, about 2, 2.5 potatoes.
If you never eat any carbs, especially the healthy kind like grains and oats, you will destroy your liver and other digestion related organs. Atkins never said eat no carbs, he just said eat managed amounts. He's right too, it's the only diet that truly works.
How does something gain value? There are a few ways, but the best way for something that's readily available to gain value is to manufacture scarcity. That's right, make people think they can't get the stuff anywhere else, and all of the sudden you can charge them an arm and a leg for it.
This is what the RIAA has done, and continues to do. This is why the RIAA wants to make mp3 sharing illegal, unless of course you're paying them for songs on their labels. You see, if we can share any music we ever find, on a label or not, popular band or garage band, then the manufactured scarcity of good music is destroyed, and therefore it loses it's monetary value. When that happens, the bands will start making all the money off of touring or other means, because with all that competition they'll actually have to earn their money, and that will in turn put the RIAA and those big labels out of business because they won't be needed. Who needs sony's promotion when people just want to see your concert because they heard all your mp3's?
I could go on and on about this, but I just wanted to say a quick word or two because reading this article really made me see that this little theory of mine is pretty close to what's actually happening. AG and it's community really did open my eyes up to music I never would have appreciated before, and some of the band names I had never heard of and haven't heard of since. There's great music out there by all sorts of people and the only reason the RIAA, labels, or anyone for that matter can make money from a lot of the crap bands (like the lip-synching N-SYNC) is because they unethically (and hopefully one day illegally) control the market so that people can't get access to other, more original, artists.
I see your point, but at the same time, I'm sure the percentage not using IE is not "small". I don't know the exact numbers, but even if it were as low as 10%, that's still a lot of people, a lot of which will be pissed off that your site doesn't work when they see it.
Look, everyone knows Mandrake doesn't want to join United Linux, and why? Because they want to make money, and not share it with anyone else. It would be nice to see Red Hat follow a strict Linux standard, and Mandrake to do so as well (since they tend to follow Red Hat) but that probably won't happen because they are constantly trying to include things that will make people buy their distro and sign up for their services rather than just the same old standard stuff. That's the reason, and everyone knows it, Mandrake is just blowing smoke.
So when is he going to travel the full distance? (not necessarily on the equator, but at least a respectably close path in related distance)
Most technological companies these days have project managers that are in fact from a technical background. One of my goals is to be one such project manager possibly, and so I'm taking my computer engineering undergraduate degree off to graduate school so that I can get a masters in business administration. Companies that wish to be successful will hire people with similar backgrounds, whether it be from work experience or education. I don't know what to do about your company, but I know hiring engineering managers who've never attended a math course over the 200 level is bad, bad policy.
Hillarious!
My only comment is that people will just move to something else. For these changes to happen, DSL, Cable, and all other internet providers will have to do this metering system, and that will piss way too many people off.
Burns said the change was necessary because ICANN has exceeded its authority, does not operate in an open fashion, and is dangerously unaccountable to Internet users, businesses and other key interest groups.
Perfect. So when the government takes over, it still won't be accountable to internet users, it will be slightly accountable to the businesses that contribute the most, and it will be at the whim of the special interest groups. This is just what the internet needs.
Seriously... doesn't this announcement come at a strange time, when IBM plans to phase out it's IDE hard drives in the short term...
I would be it's #1 supporter if that was the case
Did you all read the honorable mentions? Google stands to make some good money off of the ideas and implementations these folks have come up with. I'm assuming that all entries now are owned by Google, and man they might have some really cool new features after seeing the projects that were submitted. I only hope that they give at least some royalties to the developers.
Seriously, United Linux? Seems sort of lame to me. I'd go for something like Can of Whoop Ass Linux or A-Team Linux but I'm sorry there name just sucks.
If the pictures are fake, then what's the problem? Having legal ramifications for running a public, uncensored community that can post whatever they want is one thing, I mean we don't want kiddie porn to happen, but come on, there's no harm in a little Gimping around the 'net. I mean damn, look at the Mr. T Vs. Series... that's some serious laughter inducing stuff. People need to take it easy.
Obviously I was posting in a humorous fashion, albeit childish. Thanks for LOL'ing.
I've never seen that before
It seems like they won't be able to hold out from Microsoft forever, but I sure hope they do, becasue EA makes the greatest sports games, especially John Madden Football, and XBox will really be hurting without them.
Well for me it does. I work for a certain company that's trying to use smart cards in a certain product that shouldn't use smart cards but buzzword loving project managers don't want to use anything else... so anyway, I guess this will mean we have to scrap the whole smart card idea and start over on something else...
Good one! :-)
So if I download the ISO's and install RH7.3, they'll send me $10?
haha, well, looks like that strategy didn't work! Of course, it didn't help that Tim Robbins was the spitting image of Bill Gates either.
You know, I forgot about the Jobs-esque-ness of Robbins, but you're right, he was like a mix of Jobs and Gates. Gates has business-speak down pat, but Robbins in that movie was more concept/philosophy oriented, like Jobs. As a "mac lover" though, I prefer to think of the evil lead character as more of a Bill Gates.
One thing you forgot: local school administrators are fucking morons 99% of the time. Most of them in fact are greedy motherfuckers who only exist as political affirmative action because they would never have been put in place by actual elections. I don't buy the bullshit about not being able to "rearrange" money. They could have put the money into teacher bonuses or something useful.
All this ranting is pointless though. Education will never get better until teachers make more than garbage men or tractor trailer drivers. When any idiot can go to college and get a teaching degree, and then get hired for $25000 per year, there is no such thing as good education.
FIRST teacher salaries need to be doubled. THEN more people will enlist in education majors. NEXT education degrees will become harder and harder to get, because there will be more competition. FINALLY we will start having great, smart, well paid teachers because EDUCATION STARTS WITH THE EDUCATOR.
It's absoFUCKINGlutely ridiculous that most of the people teaching these days are even teachers. More than half of the education majors I talked to in college admitted to taking elementary or secondary ed because they "thought math was gross." That's FUCKING insane. If we don't have logical, intelligent, ABLE TO DO FUCKING BASIC MATH people teaching our kids, how do we ever expect them to learn anything?
WOW, I like this profane shit, sorry PM, I'll stop being a poser.
I can't remember the title, but it's the one where they spy on this kid and take his code to make their software.... the guy from Shawshank redemption plays the Bill Gates type character, and some nutjob plays the "hero" computer guy. Anyway, Microsoft really is as evil as the movies say, huh?
This guy has a database of predefined emotions.