"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1.Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."
Douglas Adams - The Salmon of Doubt,
Apparently a lot of slashdotters are aproaching forty
landlord:"I want you to build my house on quicksand"
architect:"But it's unsafe! People get the Blue Gas-Bubble of Death every day in these quicksands! Alligators come and snatch you from behind! I suggest you build on rock"
landlord:"Quicksand is supported by a large company. Rock isn't, I want quicksand"
More complex than worms? So you're saying the number of genes determines a living things complexity? Hmm, let's count something else. I've got four basepairs, the worm has got four basepairs, I'd say -based on the 'counting' argument- I'm as complex as the worm. Maybe you can count something else and the worm will be the most complex. Time to got to work and do somthing useless.
Isn't this exactly how Bill Gates started with DOS? Cheating obviously is a valuable skill, so make cheating hard, the best cheaters will survive and only get better. Maybe the next richest man of the world will come from that class!
I'm just looking at winXP beta 2, looks like something my mother can use on her own, without the need to call me frequently, because everything complicated is well hidden. It does not look like something designed for geeks though.
M$ might be making a serious mistake with XP. I expect everybode who uses his/her computer for anything else besides word processing/email/internet/games will be forced to use another OS:-)
I think the govt is forgetting what it is for, and that is serving public interest. I fail to see how public interest is being served here.
In my opinion the ability to communicate is a public good, and should be protected as such. Next thing they'll be selling is the frequencies I use when I speak. And I'll have a very small device attached to my throat that prohibits me to speak when I forgot to pay my bills.
KH If anyone ever finds out what the govt is for, it will immediately be replaced by something even more inexplicable and bizarre
They'll have a lot of information on the population. That really is a lot, you know. So they'll have to organize it be able to use it.
Just behave illogically and they'll have a lot of trouble putting a label on you. Sounds like fun to me! More rules to escape from. That's a national pasttime for us. This is a country where even all kinds of drugs are easily obtained. Rules mean nothing here, you have to duck them elegantly.
Slashdot Mirror
"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1.Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."
Douglas Adams - The Salmon of Doubt,
Apparently a lot of slashdotters are aproaching forty
USA TODAY: Is there a scenario by which you would at some point consider porting Microsoft applications into Linux?
BG: There's no consideration of that at this point.
Famous Last Words
well, you've got a point there.
Oh my god!!!
A woman on slashdot!
Ok, I'll bite. Comments like this are probably what keeps a lot of women away from /. Follow the
link
, and think about it.
Actually, imagine this discussion:
landlord:"I want you to build my house on quicksand"
architect:"But it's unsafe! People get the Blue Gas-Bubble of Death every day in these quicksands! Alligators come and snatch you from behind! I suggest you build on rock"
landlord:"Quicksand is supported by a large company. Rock isn't, I want quicksand"
that's why we endure these IS architects.
load "linux",8,1?
more something like like:
LOAD "LUNIX",8,1
and you'll see this
http://lng.sourceforge.net/
yes, and there's are a lot more literate programming tools around.
Personnly I'm charmed by Donald Knuth 's WEB, it uses TeX as a nice bonus.
Good, you got my point. Hey, I needed less words to say the same. And now I'll go out for dinner, to do something usefull for a change.
KH
More complex than worms? So you're saying the number of genes determines a living things complexity? Hmm, let's count something else. I've got four basepairs, the worm has got four basepairs, I'd say -based on the 'counting' argument- I'm as complex as the worm. Maybe you can count something else and the worm will be the most complex.
Time to got to work and do somthing useless.
Isn't this exactly how Bill Gates started with DOS? Cheating obviously is a valuable skill, so make cheating hard, the best cheaters will survive and only get better. Maybe the next richest man of the world will come from that class!
when walking on thin ice you might as well dance
I'm just looking at winXP beta 2, looks like something my mother can use on her own, without the need to call me frequently, because everything complicated is well hidden. It does not look like something designed for geeks though.
:-)
M$ might be making a serious mistake with XP. I expect everybode who uses his/her computer for anything else besides word processing/email/internet/games will be forced to use another OS
KH
when walking on thin ice you might as well dance
I think the govt is forgetting what it is for, and that is serving public interest. I fail to see how public interest is being served here.
In my opinion the ability to communicate is a public good, and should be protected as such. Next thing they'll be selling is the frequencies I use when I speak. And I'll have a very small device attached to my throat that prohibits me to speak when I forgot to pay my bills.
KH
If anyone ever finds out what the govt is for, it will immediately be replaced by something even more inexplicable and bizarre
they just want to protect their realdoll.com stocks. KH1.0 -- when walking on thin ice you might as well dance
They'll have a lot of information on the population. That really is a lot, you know. So they'll have to organize it be able to use it.
Just behave illogically and they'll have a lot of trouble putting a label on you. Sounds like fun to me! More rules to escape from. That's a national pasttime for us. This is a country where even all kinds of drugs are easily obtained. Rules mean nothing here, you have to duck them elegantly.
%-Q