One of the main worries is the enforcement of standards in browsers. If browsers just enforced correct html...
Maybe XML will help. But until then you just cannot enforce ppl to use correct html.
The only thing you can do is create attention for it.
Perhaps a top 100 worst standards sites, per site type.. you need a lot of room for the baddies, would help..
Who was it again, that said, the beauty of standards is there is so many to choose from?
We need to teach the masses... What better way then to nail them in public.
Greetz SlashDread
Re:eyecandy speed usenet vs slashdot
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In computer times, the difference is huge. I get like all headers from 20 newsgroups, in the same time slashdots frontpage loads (and I have a 512Kb pipe) In usability it doesnt mean diddly however. Unless slashdot is really slashdotted, but that doesnt happen very often.
The PC got so damn big, not because IBM makes nice boxes, not because MS makes great software. Not because of its usability in the office.
It became so big, because WE the hobbiests choose it as our fav. platform. We could add hardware we liked, we could write software we liked, we could fiddle and poke and learn and play. And as a side effect, good software appeared.
PC's will NEVER die, because WE the hobbiests want em. Where else can we hack?
Maybe the transmeta appliance will work for me, but I want one with loads of hardware options, and programmability.
The hobby market IS the driving force, not the office market, IMHO.
I dunno, but without interstellar travel, it all seems so hopelessly, well, short distant. We need to cross the stellar oceans. But that lightspeed thingie eh, bah.
First of all, Sci-Fi probably is the most underestimated, and over-estimated genre at the same there is. Underestimated by the people who do not read (SF) an think SF is about Princess Leia and the seven lightsabre's. Over-estimated by the people who think Neil's Cryptonomicon is a bible. Highly over-estimated by Sir Arthur C. Clarke who does not let an oppurtunity go to point out he more or less invented sattelites in geostationary orbit, in a science fiction novel. Or me, having to agree with Neil and Arthur:)
But Science Fiction is a big name. Fantasy, Gothic horror even, and other genres are often intermingled. So here is my list of workable genres, all more or less related to the Big S and F.
Historical Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein
IMHO not only the first SF, but also a Great Story. The plot of man-created machine revolting against his creator, is still a main motiv. Consider Asimov's Robots.
Jules G. Verne 1828 - 1905 Voyages Extraordinaires
Jules Verne wrote a whole slew of fantastic travel stories, including travel to the inner of the earth, the moon, 20.000 miles under the sea and lots lots more. Thou most of his technical ideas he got elsewhre, a must read. A major changer of views in the world in his days.
Fantasy Lewis Caroll 1832 - 1892 Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass Again, bordercross, but.. but.. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
`Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jujub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!'
He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought-- So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought.
Nuff said.:)
J.R.R. Tolkien 1892 - 1973 The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings I admit. I'm border crossing here. But am I? Look around you on th net; we have trolls, flames, rings, wizards, the hi tech world is full of magic:)
40's 50's American SF All of Asimov:) but do read the three first Foundation books.
R.A. Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, The Moon is a Harch Mistress A controversial but highly interesting author. This is a Geek with Guns awright.
F. Herbert 1920-1986 Dune A Masterpeice, good movie too:)
Modern Stuff, Cyberpunk
Clive Barker Books of Blood, Weaveworld, Imagica Perhaps 12 y/o is a little early for Clive, but his fantasy/horror stuff is unmatched.
Walter Jon Williams Voice Of The Whirlwind, Metropolitan, City on Fire Some very well written modern Science Fantasy cyberpunk adventure. I admit, my own definition, but this is what it is!
William Gibson Neuromancer, Johnny Mnemonic Last but least king of Cyberpunk Gibson. fast paced, ultra realistic, prophetical hard core SF. Boy I love it:)
I dont pretend to be the least complete, there are many lists, but this list is mine.
"Which is in breach of the (entirely immoral, but entirely enforceable) license under which the DVDs are sold." entirely enforceable... You mean a company can make its own markets? Not care about things like open market agreements? I think not. Sure they can try.., they can tell you you SHOULD, but agreeing on rediculous license terms is in no way a LEGAL bond. Sure you can ask me to stand on my head whistling Uncle Sam goes to the market, before i can unwrap your widget. Try suing me when I DONT. However. Any artificial boundary made by a company to keep artificial prices high is probably UN-enforceble in court of law. So before any court cases have been fought, In europe, or in this case in Norway, any statement about licenses being legally enforceble is not prooven. Such licenses have to abide the REAL laws see, they also should allow for fair use of the software, customers have rights too you know. Im quite sure standing on your head would not be seen as a fair license, and would not hold up in court. Probably not even in the US, although the US legal system seems biased towards big money. (From my narrow European point of view) There is also no way MPA could stop me if I bought a DVD in the states + a US DVD player.. I think its fair use to descamble CCS if _only_ to spare you the idiotic purchase of another technical identical DVD player. Screw the MPA, they deserve it. If not legally, bloody well morally. Hugs SlashDread
Their just out to smoke screen obfuscurate the OS community to hide the fact they have quantum code breaking machenis which will break ány exsisting crypto. Better yet, by submitting inferior crypto, you hold back development of better stuff.
Greats SlashDread Proof to me, their NOT out to get me
Its just not possible to define properly. You cannot copycat the Chanel dress, but you can darn well make a _very_ similar one, and there is nobody who can stop you. True artists dont care of course, people buy a CHANEL dress, not a copy, and the true artist knows, his NEXT design will be even better.
Yes, Apple deserves to be able to protect their GUI. _If_ you define the GUI as the total of theme+window manager. In Apples case this means, theme+window manager+kernel.
Does Apple have the right to protect a 'theme'? No, it does not. There are countless references to this, unless the copycat _duplicates_ an art _exactly_, this is when copyrights kick in, "design" an sich, is not protected. Relevant court material can probably be found in the Apple vs Microsoft "look and feel" case.
Is it funny that Apple can protect their hardware looks, but not their software looks?
Not really, just on the surface perhaps, but the fact is, Hardware lookalikes will directly impact Apple sales, this can be prooven. Software lookalikes will have NO IMPACT whatsoever on Apple sales, UNLESS the COMPLETE OS will be copied. I cannot imagine an Apple Artist buying a windowz workstation, JUST because theres an aqua theme. Its therefore utterly stupid to fight themes.
It also contradicts the recent Apple "willingness and flirtations" with Open Source. It therefore is not even from a marketing viewpoint sensible. What? Open Sourcing the (parts of) OS but sueing on a theme?? Get a grip.
(This should get through the ThickBoned Head of Marketing guru Jobs.)
You know, you are part right, but dead wrong too. People who pass tests are like people who frag level 7 in "bring em on" mode. Sure there not the king of the clan, but they do know the game.
Most tests have too little variation, or are just too damn easy. Brain fact pumping then works. We thus should make, independent, open sourced, tests. With LOTS of questions, and variation.
Passing tests also is a rightfull yardstick; you probably do understand the concepts. And in any real world job, you can throw away 60% of what you learned in ANY test anyway, and learn about 500% more stuff you DO need.
Even your own self esteem will get a boost from passing a test, and at least, it will show some less known facts to you, if the results are public, that you didnt know before. Who knows, you might learn a new trick, pony.
First as a nerd, with a crush on open source, and a healthy appetite for money, I have to say you guys are my heroes. Having said that, what is your design philosophy? Since youre name is VA Linux, one could expect you do not fabrice systems with MS HCL's in hand, on the other side, would you support installation of, for example, HURD? And on a side note... any plans for a Amsterdam branch?:)
Terminal servers promise tremendous easy of running windows clients, god knows we need that.. So having one for Linux is a real real good thing, made me wish we had an open source TS.
But the first level is the wrongest. Why in earths name does Kurtz think some 'topics' are less funny then others? Humor is not about topics, its about plots, punchlines and timing. Jokes about poop, we do not seem to think funny anymore after age 12 orso. Unless we of course listen to Stand Up comedy, then its ok. Topics DO NOT matter.
Humor "at the expense of others.." Kurtz calls it, namely the poor ignorant users out there. This is of course totally a non-issue. Humor ALWAYS is at the expense of _someone_. The best humor, some people argue, is therefore humor at the expense of one-self. Moronic over-friendlyness if you ask me, but sure. UF by the way, often pokes fun at GEEKS, not users I might add.
Now humor is, at the expense of geeks, quite common in the tech strips, if someone is made looking silly on a regular basis, its the geek/internet community. Who else would be willing to kill each other over a discussion of vi vs emacs? (Yeah look that up Kurtz, you 2 week trained tech support monkey) Tech support. Geeks are incredible funny. Users too, the dumb ones are even funnier.
Do you ever watch standup comedy? Well heres a good one from the Nutty Professor : Your mother is so fat, her waist size is "equator"
Now if you read this, I doubt that you laugh. But given the correct psyched up standup comedy acting athmosphere, the right timing of the standupper, and you will cry out on the floor laughing.
Do all Mothers in the universe have to unite and write nasty letters to Disney? Do mothers in general feel offended? I think not, unless they have a serious mental problem.
So do users identify themselfes with the UF (l)users? I bet they dont..
So what is Kurtz problem? UF isnt making fun of racial diffences, which would be politically incorrect. It sometimes makes fun of users, it sometimes makes fun of managers, it often makes fun of marketeers. This is cruel? Kurtz still is a luser me thinks.. a bad one too, despite his two week trained tech support job. After all, he feels himself attacked by these anti user jokes.
I got two words on the cruel bit, or the "I think Jokes at the expense of others arent very friendly, Its Just Plain Wrong" Attitude : Grow Up.
Its a strip, like many others, for a sub-group of humanity, this sub group thinks its funny. Some dont. Who cares.
Humor IS in exsistance to poke fun AT. At yourself, a phenomena, or at others.
Another one of those BS comment : It took me a while to figure it out, but when I write PvP I try to remember one important fact: jokes about computer games aren't funny. However, jokes about the people that play computer games are. Where is this wisdom carved in stone? Could Kurtz enlighten us all? So we will never be not funny? The key word seems to be "people" here, so to be funny there should be some "people" involved?
Sense of Humor, as a final note, I think is a product of character, and "taste". Taste being formed by expierence, hence your humor changes over time.
Rant on Kurtz, its good to have people spread opnions, even shortsighted ones. And if you dont like out little, serve-chilled, snack of a daily static, well, dont hit CTRL-D.
ps Kurtz, it might be good for your geek-culture touch, to try read BOFH once. Promise me you will not laugh. Greetingz SlashDread
There is two kind og newbies, the user newbies, and the tech newbies. User newbies, yeah your argument holds, they dont RTFM. But who cares? If some techie takes the time, gets management backup, he could set up a no-questions asked windows look alike productivety workhorse. The tech newbies are your target here. Desillioned Windows hackers. Frustrated NT Admins. They need a better Oracle server. They need it quickly, but will read the fucking manual. They will get scaredoff by compiling, so there needs to be heaps of docs here to look for.
What is usefull for tech newbies? The HOWTO's are. The FAQs are. The apps docs and man pages are. The Linux Documentation Project is. The distro docs are. Whats missing? Maybe a huge knoledge base would help. Good helpdesk logging systems can provide lots of usefull stuff, maybe a Open Source Linux Helpdesk would be a good thing.
I like a movie as well as the guy next door, but it always have seen rather odd to me that we must have a special purpose/not so special purpose apparatus to view vid on our comps.
Sure it was a nice push to the sales of vid, but it was doomed to fail. There is no record button for my grandmy to use, so that rules out the video replacement.
It doesnt store my open source;) MP3 collection so to me it is a lot more useless then my Yamaha 4-2-6
My SCSI ultraplex 40x player can perfectly play MPG's. Or dvd rippoff's for that matter.
So what added value is there for DVD? An itsy bitsy better display on the telly? A few less silver disks for 1 movie?
And as a trade off, im using highly restricted, highly dangerous (what if I move to belgium? will my DVD player still work?) "intellectual property protected" (what the heck IS that anyways? I cannot have an idea similar to yours?)
And I cant record with it. So its bound to make things more expensive for me. Im backing up all my CD collection on wav and MP3. Im really sick and tired of scratching yet another 20$ disk.
I just want a massive recording device, and yes, it would be nifty if it did vid and compdata and the software was for sale on that. But is has to record.
Slashdot Mirror
One of the main worries is the enforcement of standards in browsers. If browsers just enforced correct html...
Maybe XML will help.
But until then you just cannot enforce ppl to use correct html.
The only thing you can do is create attention for it.
Perhaps a top 100 worst standards sites, per site type.. you need a lot of room for the baddies, would help..
Who was it again, that said, the beauty of standards is there is so many to choose from?
We need to teach the masses... What better way then to nail them in public.
Greetz SlashDread
In computer times, the difference is huge. I get like all headers from 20 newsgroups, in the same time slashdots frontpage loads (and I have a 512Kb pipe)
In usability it doesnt mean diddly however. Unless slashdot is really slashdotted, but that doesnt happen very often.
Hugs SlashDread
Awight, so im really stupid in the morning :)
:0
Still, we now KNOW there biased
Hugs SlashDread
The problem is not that it is biased -persé-
The problem is, it -might-, and we might never know.
Any org could be (and most likely WILL be, perhaps even uncounscious of it), biased towards its founding members.
Therefore these numbers, even if they would be statistacally correct, can NOT be trusted.
Greetz SlashDread
The PC got so damn big, not because IBM makes nice boxes, not because MS makes great software. Not because of its usability in the office.
It became so big, because WE the hobbiests choose it as our fav. platform. We could add hardware we liked, we could write software we liked, we could fiddle and poke and learn and play.
And as a side effect, good software appeared.
PC's will NEVER die, because WE the hobbiests want em. Where else can we hack?
Maybe the transmeta appliance will work for me, but I want one with loads of hardware options, and programmability.
The hobby market IS the driving force, not the office market, IMHO.
Greetz SlashDread
I dunno, but without interstellar travel, it all seems so hopelessly, well, short distant.
We need to cross the stellar oceans. But that lightspeed thingie eh, bah.
Hugz SlashDread
Hrmph, I should have used the preview button.
Apologies SlashDread
Awright, moan, this is a NICE thread!
:)
:)
:)
:) but do read the three first Foundation books.
:)
:)
First of all, Sci-Fi probably is the most underestimated, and over-estimated genre at the same there is.
Underestimated by the people who do not read (SF) an think SF is about Princess Leia and the seven lightsabre's. Over-estimated by the people who think Neil's Cryptonomicon is a bible. Highly over-estimated by Sir Arthur C. Clarke who does not let an oppurtunity go to point out he more or less invented sattelites in geostationary orbit, in a science fiction novel. Or me, having to agree with Neil and Arthur
But Science Fiction is a big name.
Fantasy, Gothic horror even, and other genres are often intermingled.
So here is my list of workable genres, all more or less related to the Big S and F.
Historical
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein
IMHO not only the first SF, but also a Great Story. The plot of man-created machine revolting against his creator, is still a main motiv. Consider Asimov's Robots.
Jules G. Verne 1828 - 1905
Voyages Extraordinaires
Jules Verne wrote a whole slew of fantastic travel stories, including travel to the inner of the earth, the moon, 20.000 miles under the sea and lots lots more. Thou most of his technical ideas he got elsewhre, a must read. A major changer of views in the world in his days.
Fantasy
Lewis Caroll 1832 - 1892
Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
Again, bordercross, but.. but..
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
`Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jujub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!'
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought--
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
Nuff said.
J.R.R. Tolkien 1892 - 1973
The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings
I admit. I'm border crossing here. But am I? Look around you on th net; we have trolls, flames, rings, wizards, the hi tech world is full of magic
40's 50's American SF
All of Asimov
R.A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, The Moon is a Harch Mistress
A controversial but highly interesting author. This is a Geek with Guns awright.
F. Herbert 1920-1986
Dune
A Masterpeice, good movie too
Modern Stuff, Cyberpunk
Clive Barker
Books of Blood, Weaveworld, Imagica
Perhaps 12 y/o is a little early for Clive, but his fantasy/horror stuff is unmatched.
Walter Jon Williams
Voice Of The Whirlwind, Metropolitan, City on Fire
Some very well written modern Science Fantasy cyberpunk adventure. I admit, my own definition, but this is what it is!
William Gibson
Neuromancer, Johnny Mnemonic
Last but least king of Cyberpunk Gibson. fast paced, ultra realistic, prophetical hard core SF. Boy I love it
I dont pretend to be the least complete, there are many lists, but this list is mine.
HugZ SlashDread
And this is new how?
Since when is journalism about thruth, unbiased reporting?
Surely it died with the advertisers..
Ever read the NY Times? Seen the articles where they accuse themselves? quite hilarious, if it wasnt so scary.
Hugs SlashDread
"Which is in breach of the (entirely immoral, but entirely enforceable) license under which the DVDs are sold." entirely enforceable... You mean a company can make its own markets? Not care about things like open market agreements? I think not. Sure they can try.., they can tell you you SHOULD, but agreeing on rediculous license terms is in no way a LEGAL bond. Sure you can ask me to stand on my head whistling Uncle Sam goes to the market, before i can unwrap your widget. Try suing me when I DONT. However. Any artificial boundary made by a company to keep artificial prices high is probably UN-enforceble in court of law. So before any court cases have been fought, In europe, or in this case in Norway, any statement about licenses being legally enforceble is not prooven. Such licenses have to abide the REAL laws see, they also should allow for fair use of the software, customers have rights too you know. Im quite sure standing on your head would not be seen as a fair license, and would not hold up in court. Probably not even in the US, although the US legal system seems biased towards big money. (From my narrow European point of view) There is also no way MPA could stop me if I bought a DVD in the states + a US DVD player.. I think its fair use to descamble CCS if _only_ to spare you the idiotic purchase of another technical identical DVD player. Screw the MPA, they deserve it. If not legally, bloody well morally. Hugs SlashDread
He! Nice flame! Of course you are not a young white techno-savvy male eh? As I have NO EVIDENCE for that :-D
Greetz SlashDread
To me, that actually is scary...
Greetz SlashDread
Hahaha! beautifull! :)
This is no doubt the best troll I have seen in years, it even deserves a semi-serious reply
Ever heard of love-thy-neighbour? thou robber-baron ultra-capitalist pig!
hehehe Greets SlashDread, the original Geek lefty
Power to the people! Well enough to run our comps anyway please. Please?
If Tarantino is gonna make it, heres the flic's title :
"Geeks with Guns"
"Pulp Geeks"
"Reservoir Geeks"
eep..
Greetz SlashDread
Their just out to smoke screen obfuscurate the OS community to hide the fact they have quantum code breaking machenis which will break ány exsisting crypto. Better yet, by submitting inferior crypto, you hold back development of better stuff.
Greats SlashDread
Proof to me, their NOT out to get me
Its just not possible to define properly. You cannot copycat the Chanel dress, but you can darn well make a _very_ similar one, and there is nobody who can stop you.
True artists dont care of course, people buy a CHANEL dress, not a copy, and the true artist knows, his NEXT design will be even better.
Hugs SlashDread
Yes, Apple deserves to be able to protect their GUI. _If_ you define the GUI as the total of theme+window manager. In Apples case this means, theme+window manager+kernel.
Does Apple have the right to protect a 'theme'?
No, it does not. There are countless references to this, unless the copycat _duplicates_ an art _exactly_, this is when copyrights kick in, "design" an sich, is not protected.
Relevant court material can probably be found in the Apple vs Microsoft "look and feel" case.
Is it funny that Apple can protect their hardware looks, but not their software looks?
Not really, just on the surface perhaps, but the fact is, Hardware lookalikes will directly impact Apple sales, this can be prooven.
Software lookalikes will have NO IMPACT whatsoever on Apple sales, UNLESS the COMPLETE OS will be copied. I cannot imagine an Apple Artist buying a windowz workstation, JUST because theres an aqua theme. Its therefore utterly stupid to fight themes.
It also contradicts the recent Apple "willingness and flirtations" with Open Source. It therefore is not even from a marketing viewpoint sensible. What? Open Sourcing the (parts of) OS but sueing on a theme?? Get a grip.
(This should get through the ThickBoned Head of Marketing guru Jobs.)
Greetz SlashDread
You know, you are part right, but dead wrong too.
People who pass tests are like people who frag level 7 in "bring em on" mode. Sure there not the king of the clan, but they do know the game.
Most tests have too little variation, or are just too damn easy. Brain fact pumping then works.
We thus should make, independent, open sourced, tests. With LOTS of questions, and variation.
Passing tests also is a rightfull yardstick; you probably do understand the concepts. And in any real world job, you can throw away 60% of what you learned in ANY test anyway, and learn about 500% more stuff you DO need.
Even your own self esteem will get a boost from passing a test, and at least, it will show some less known facts to you, if the results are public, that you didnt know before. Who knows, you might learn a new trick, pony.
Hugs SlashDread
It isnt? You mean that their is some list of Universal Obscenity?
Their is this issue: I dont agree.
Greetz SlashDread
(from the REAL Holland, The Netherlands, where porn=free speech.)
First as a nerd, with a crush on open source, and a healthy appetite for money, I have to say you guys are my heroes. :)
Having said that, what is your design philosophy? Since youre name is VA Linux, one could expect you do not fabrice systems with MS HCL's in hand, on the other side, would you support installation of, for example, HURD?
And on a side note... any plans for a Amsterdam branch?
Greetz SlashDread
Terminal servers promise tremendous easy of running windows clients, god knows we need that..
So having one for Linux is a real real good thing, made me wish we had an open source TS.
Greetz SlashDread
But the first level is the wrongest. Why in earths name does Kurtz think some 'topics' are less funny then others? Humor is not about topics, its about plots, punchlines and timing.
Jokes about poop, we do not seem to think funny anymore after age 12 orso. Unless we of course listen to Stand Up comedy, then its ok. Topics DO NOT matter.
Humor "at the expense of others.." Kurtz calls it, namely the poor ignorant users out there. This is of course totally a non-issue. Humor ALWAYS is at the expense of _someone_. The best humor, some people argue, is therefore humor at the expense of one-self. Moronic over-friendlyness if you ask me, but sure. UF by the way, often pokes fun at GEEKS, not users I might add.
Now humor is, at the expense of geeks, quite common in the tech strips, if someone is made looking silly on a regular basis, its the geek/internet community.
Who else would be willing to kill each other over a discussion of vi vs emacs? (Yeah look that up Kurtz, you 2 week trained tech support monkey)
Tech support. Geeks are incredible funny.
Users too, the dumb ones are even funnier.
Do you ever watch standup comedy? Well heres a good one from the Nutty Professor : Your mother is so fat, her waist size is "equator"
Now if you read this, I doubt that you laugh. But given the correct psyched up standup comedy acting athmosphere, the right timing of the standupper, and you will cry out on the floor laughing.
Do all Mothers in the universe have to unite and write nasty letters to Disney? Do mothers in general feel offended? I think not, unless they have a serious mental problem.
So do users identify themselfes with the UF (l)users? I bet they dont..
So what is Kurtz problem? UF isnt making fun of racial diffences, which would be politically incorrect. It sometimes makes fun of users, it sometimes makes fun of managers, it often makes fun of marketeers. This is cruel? Kurtz still is a luser me thinks.. a bad one too, despite his two week trained tech support job. After all, he feels himself attacked by these anti user jokes.
I got two words on the cruel bit, or the "I think Jokes at the expense of others arent very friendly, Its Just Plain Wrong" Attitude :
Grow Up.
Its a strip, like many others, for a sub-group of humanity, this sub group thinks its funny. Some dont. Who cares.
Humor IS in exsistance to poke fun AT. At yourself, a phenomena, or at others.
Another one of those BS comment :
It took me a while to figure it out, but when I write PvP I try to remember one important fact: jokes about computer games aren't funny. However, jokes about the people that play computer games are.
Where is this wisdom carved in stone? Could Kurtz enlighten us all? So we will never be not funny?
The key word seems to be "people" here, so to be funny there should be some "people" involved?
Sense of Humor, as a final note, I think is a product of character, and "taste". Taste being formed by expierence, hence your humor changes over time.
Rant on Kurtz, its good to have people spread opnions, even shortsighted ones. And if you dont like out little, serve-chilled, snack of a daily static, well, dont hit CTRL-D.
ps Kurtz, it might be good for your geek-culture touch, to try read BOFH once. Promise me you will not laugh.
Greetingz SlashDread
There is two kind og newbies, the user newbies, and the tech newbies.
User newbies, yeah your argument holds, they dont RTFM. But who cares? If some techie takes the time, gets management backup, he could set up a no-questions asked windows look alike productivety workhorse.
The tech newbies are your target here. Desillioned Windows hackers. Frustrated NT Admins. They need a better Oracle server. They need it quickly, but will read the fucking manual. They will get scaredoff by compiling, so there needs to be heaps of docs here to look for.
What is usefull for tech newbies? The HOWTO's are. The FAQs are. The apps docs and man pages are. The Linux Documentation Project is. The distro docs are. Whats missing? Maybe a huge knoledge base would help.
Good helpdesk logging systems can provide lots of usefull stuff, maybe a Open Source Linux Helpdesk would be a good thing.
Greetz SlashDread
So why the heck is anyone using these things?
;) MP3 collection so to me it is a lot more useless then my Yamaha 4-2-6
I like a movie as well as the guy next door, but it always have seen rather odd to me that we must have a special purpose/not so special purpose apparatus to view vid on our comps.
Sure it was a nice push to the sales of vid, but it was doomed to fail. There is no record button for my grandmy to use, so that rules out the video replacement.
It doesnt store my open source
My SCSI ultraplex 40x player can perfectly play MPG's. Or dvd rippoff's for that matter.
So what added value is there for DVD? An itsy bitsy better display on the telly? A few less silver disks for 1 movie?
And as a trade off, im using highly restricted, highly dangerous (what if I move to belgium? will my DVD player still work?) "intellectual property protected" (what the heck IS that anyways? I cannot have an idea similar to yours?)
And I cant record with it. So its bound to make things more expensive for me. Im backing up all my CD collection on wav and MP3. Im really sick and tired of scratching yet another 20$ disk.
I just want a massive recording device, and yes, it would be nifty if it did vid and compdata and the software was for sale on that.
But is has to record.
Hugs SlashDread
SO did you, or anyone you know of, actually spoofed their boss by using Linux instead of Windows?
Sincerely SlashDread