The snippet shows a very high quality of well-edited writing. Your editor gets a hug and Hershey's kiss. Two spelling mistakes in your intro, however, get you a boot to the head. Running a spell-checker is NOT enough. A spell-checker won't tell you that you used the word "fought" where you meant to use "bought" and what all.
Such frequent mistakes are a hallmark of your writing on Slashdot, and undermine your credibility as a professional writer. If something is really worth saying, it's worth taking the time to say it clearly.
Basically, if YOU don't take the time to read your own writing, why should I?
For the amount of satisfaction we all get from your site (even the 'angry' posters - perhaps especially), congratulations.
I have no doubt, in all seriousness, that Slashdot, and the notorious "/. effect" will be prominent features of the socio-technological landscape for many years, if not generations, to come. (until, that is, the world is razed by y2k-enraged appliances)
Your appearance in Wired is a fruit (the first of many, i'm sure) of nothing more or less than your own sincere efforts and dogged persuit of your own dreams. If I could leave a mark 1/100th as bold...
We may be seeing some more interesting headgear in the military future, as well as body-armor, to protect the soldier AND the information/communication electronics contained within.
The day of the foot-soldier will return, as a one-man tank, a-la Heinleins's Starship Troopers (NOT the movie).
Wherein the details of peoples private lives are difficult to hide. This makes people simultaneously careful of what they do and careful of what they accuse others of doing.
Courtesy and subtlety are beautiful, powerful things.
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"My source is yours" "cat love|grep|you|more" "you mv me" "Let's fsck!" "rm -rf/" "him || me" "kill -9 your boyfriend" "chgrp yours myheart" "mt/dev/me" "!wait" "exit" "alias love='you'" "you && me"
do not presume to know what illnesses I have overcome through the grace of God
You've lived a BAD life, haven't you? (At least that's what they told you, and you believed them, because you were feeling lost, alone and unloved, and were willing to sacrifice your self-esteem in return for group approval).
And now that you have come to see your self-denigration as a WISE and LOVING and WONDERFUL thing, you want to share it with everyone else. Because you want them to be happy too? Nope. Because if you can drag them down to your 'humble' and 'repentant' level, you'll gain more approval from your new friends, and your faith in the brand new lie that is your life will be strengthened.
Oh the joy! Show us the way!
If the life you've lived is so bad, go to the cops and turn yourself in. If you're feeling unwashed, take a good hot shower and change your fscking underwear.
This explains the 'property rights' reference in your other response to my other post.
Hmph. I don't know what the present legalities of fetal property rights are, but I imagine that the rights hinge upon the successful birth of the child.
As far as "feet being stuck in" and whatnot, well, I'm afraid that these are just the kinds of questions that pious peeple raise for shock value. I'm aware that extreemly late term abortions have been and will be performed, but they are by far the exception and not the rule. I've seen the horrifying pictures of late term abortions and I don't like them any more than anyone else, but I do not agree with legislating women's medical decision-making in order to prevent these events.
Picketing, shooting and bombing abortion clinics ensures that more women will wait (through fear) until late term before working up the nerve/desperation to have an abortion.
So just, like, chill, dude, and, like, everything will be, like, cool, eh?
When the exits the body of the mother, and the umbilical cord is severed, that baby becomes his/her/it's own entity, and a legal entity of the United States(TM), all rights reserved. If the child is dead before this occurs, through intentional action or fate, it is a private matter of the mother's, and NOT a matter of state.
RPM is a tool, released under the GPL. Red Hat designed it, and then gave it up for grabs. It works, and people use it. It's freely downloadable to anyone and everyone. Utilities exist to translate RPM's into tgz's and whatever other formats there are, for those who wish.
The programs come out as 'RPM only' simply because that's what some developers like to use. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth!
If you feel really strongly about this issue, you can make a mission of converting all these binary RPM to tgz's or whatever, and send them back to the developer's to be put up for download by anyone. I'm sure they'd appreciate the help!
Detractors will moan, but they'll have to think a while to find a reason. Your chapter covers things nicely, like a tight, cleverly coded program. Good reading.
*****************
So who's working on the new open source ITS system/kernel? A real-live Linux-killer fer shure!
I don't understand this stuff at all, so I'll keep it short. SETI's search for extraterrestrial signals has been disappointing thus far. Could they be searching for the wrong type of signal?
How, if possible, would one detect distant communications signals based on an advanced form of the chaotic system described in the article?
Take a vow or something to stop sending the machine back. Instead, have them talk you through removing the modem card itself, sending THAT back and then having them send you a new one. The more you 'split the cases' and what not, the more comfortable you'll feel with the computer as a whole.
Nice job helping the wife. Earned you 'Big Brave Hunter' status for a while, I'll bet, and that's always a good thing!;)
Dial up the isp number via minicom and try logging in manually. Sometimes the chat script is expecting "login: " when the prompt actually says "username: ".
You should also (by logging in manually with minicom) check to verify that you are using the proper username and password.
I've been running an earlier version of TurboLinux (1.2?) on one of my machines (main distro is SuSE 5.3) and found it to be a VERY thoughtful distribution. It uses Red Hat merely as a point of departure, and does a lot to help the user along. Red Hat distros always leave me feeling a tad 'stranded' after install.
Parcel out the less-critical/unknown tapes out to various interested parties or institutions, with the understanding that a serious effort be made to upgrade the storage.
If all else fails, draw up a full-color glossy ad and sell 'em off to the SF nuts in the back of STARLOG, complete with velvet-lined display case and commemorative plaque. Oh, and when the display case is opened, you get a cheap, tinny-sounding rendition of the first few bars of "2001".
This sounds a lot like what the QuakeWorld developers did a long time ago. They made net quake *totally* playable over 28kb modems.
And what was that bit near the beginning about 'postcards'? Is that their *PATENTED* term for a network packet, or just a typo? Hmph.
BOTTOM LINE:
Nobody's doomed. Things'll work out fine. These folks will either have a legitimate technological advance to offer (doubt it), or they'll tread carefully so as not to draw undue attention from the open source crowd while they pick the pockets of game companies and consumers who don't know any better.
When duty calls, the open source community will protect its interests in high style. If we have to pass a (Red?) hat, we will, but I *REALLY* doubt anything will come of this.
Most indy bands will mail you a cd for $6.99. Usually less. Wow! Be the first on your block to spend a week downloading an entire cd's worth of songs from some band you don't even know!
Their "build a website for us lazy bums" contest is pretty lame too. They invest $250 (1 rio and $50 credit) and get god know how many free man hours of web site development and FREE ADVERTISING. Build a sight for your local pet store and they'll pay you $1000!
Be sure to check out their grueling Tour Schedule! Yowch! Hope the van can last that long!
I'll definately download the free song to see what this band of jokers sounds like. **UPDATE** Hey! Wait! I just did (I love the way you can play an mp3 while it's still downloading) and it's...darn good. Damn. I was really hoping they'd suck. Nicely produced, but not over-done, and some fine guitar playing. Sheeeit! Refreshing suprise from the sequenced badboy over-sampled rap I was expecting.
Aw heck. Maybe I'm just old, bitter, and jealous that I didn't do this first.
Good question! I was 29 or 30 or so at the time (34 now) and thought I was in for an enjoyable ride. I lost patience with his eternal rambling about 'Phaedrus' and whatall and dumped the book about 3/4 of the way through. I'm sure some would say "Well that's not fair, you missed the best part!" Too bad for me, is all I can say. I'll get over it.
I probably do have some 'issues' with self-proclaimed intellectuals. I'll get a look at his new book (from the library) to see how he tries to justify his worth as an 'intellectual' to himself, his family, his dog and society.
I'm aware that "Zen..." is considered a very 'grownup' book, but I think this is largely due to its density and obscurity, and a few good soundbites here and there. I remember my brother being assigned that book when he was a kid. Sheesh.
The life lessons and wisdom in 'Huckleberry Finn' FAR outweigh anything I saw in "Zen..".
But of course, *I* am not an intellectual, so how could I *possibly* know any better? Gotta have the worker drones too, eh?
Slashdot Mirror
The snippet shows a very high quality of well-edited writing. Your editor gets a hug and Hershey's kiss. Two spelling mistakes in your intro, however, get you a boot to the head. Running a spell-checker is NOT enough. A spell-checker won't tell you that you used the word "fought" where you meant to use "bought" and what all.
Such frequent mistakes are a hallmark of your writing on Slashdot, and undermine your credibility as a professional writer. If something is really worth saying, it's worth taking the time to say it clearly.
Basically, if YOU don't take the time to read your own writing, why should I?
All that aside, good luck with the book!
Respectfully,
Kent
...I could code as well as I wank!
OSS = Oh Shit am i Stupid!
OSS = Open Sound System
http://www.se.opensound.com/linux-x86.html
os = operating system (generic)
OS = ?
Open Source = Open Source
Go back, search and replace, and away you go! Boost your Linux Credibility instantly!
Just hope you don't die from it! ;)
For the amount of satisfaction we all get from your site (even the 'angry' posters - perhaps especially), congratulations.
I have no doubt, in all seriousness, that Slashdot, and the notorious "/. effect" will be prominent features of the socio-technological landscape for many years, if not generations, to come. (until, that is, the world is razed by y2k-enraged appliances)
Your appearance in Wired is a fruit (the first of many, i'm sure) of nothing more or less than your own sincere efforts and dogged persuit of your own dreams. If I could leave a mark 1/100th as bold...
Way to fscking go!
We may be seeing some more interesting headgear in the military future, as well as body-armor, to protect the soldier AND the information/communication electronics contained within.
The day of the foot-soldier will return, as a one-man tank, a-la Heinleins's Starship Troopers (NOT the movie).
Kewl! Where do I sign?
This stuff will get designed anyways, one way or another. The sooner we get a grip on these devices, the sooner we can learn to thwart them.
Wherein the details of peoples private lives are difficult to hide. This makes people simultaneously careful of what they do and careful of what they accuse others of doing.
Courtesy and subtlety are beautiful, powerful things.
"My source is yours" /" /dev/me"
"cat love|grep|you|more"
"you mv me"
"Let's fsck!"
"rm -rf
"him || me"
"kill -9 your boyfriend"
"chgrp yours myheart"
"mt
"!wait"
"exit"
"alias love='you'"
"you && me"
Surely there's more...
cypherpunks cypherpunks cypherpunks cypherpunks cypherpunks cypherpunks cypherpunks cypherpunks cypherpunks cypherpunks cypherpunks cypherpunks cypherpunks cypherpunks cypherpunks cypherpunks cypherpunks cypherpunks cypherpunks cypherpunks cypherpunks cypherpunks cypherpunks cypherpunks cypherpunks
(you get the idea)
I don't think Slashdot posts any articles that haven't been 'cypherpunks' enabled.
Ah yes. This explains it all:
do not presume to know what illnesses I have overcome through the grace of God
You've lived a BAD life, haven't you? (At least that's what they told you, and you believed them, because you were feeling lost, alone and unloved, and were willing to sacrifice your self-esteem in return for group approval).
And now that you have come to see your self-denigration as a WISE and LOVING and WONDERFUL thing, you want to share it with everyone else. Because you want them to be happy too? Nope. Because if you can drag them down to your 'humble' and 'repentant' level, you'll gain more approval from your new friends, and your faith in the brand new lie that is your life will be strengthened.
Oh the joy! Show us the way!
If the life you've lived is so bad, go to the cops and turn yourself in. If you're feeling unwashed, take a good hot shower and change your fscking underwear.
TOMORROW'S ANOTHER DAY!
This explains the 'property rights' reference in your other response to my other post.
Hmph. I don't know what the present legalities of fetal property rights are, but I imagine that the rights hinge upon the successful birth of the child.
As far as "feet being stuck in" and whatnot, well, I'm afraid that these are just the kinds of questions that pious peeple raise for shock value. I'm aware that extreemly late term abortions have been and will be performed, but they are by far the exception and not the rule. I've seen the horrifying pictures of late term abortions and I don't like them any more than anyone else, but I do not agree with legislating women's medical decision-making in order to prevent these events.
Picketing, shooting and bombing abortion clinics ensures that more women will wait (through fear) until late term before working up the nerve/desperation to have an abortion.
So just, like, chill, dude, and, like, everything will be, like, cool, eh?
When the exits the body of the mother, and the umbilical cord is severed, that baby becomes his/her/it's own entity, and a legal entity of the United States(TM), all rights reserved. If the child is dead before this occurs, through intentional action or fate, it is a private matter of the mother's, and NOT a matter of state.
RPM is a tool, released under the GPL. Red Hat designed it, and then gave it up for grabs. It works, and people use it. It's freely downloadable to anyone and everyone. Utilities exist to translate RPM's into tgz's and whatever other formats there are, for those who wish.
The programs come out as 'RPM only' simply because that's what some developers like to use. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth!
If you feel really strongly about this issue, you can make a mission of converting all these binary RPM to tgz's or whatever, and send them back to the developer's to be put up for download by anyone. I'm sure they'd appreciate the help!
Buttface!
Detractors will moan, but they'll have to think a while to find a reason. Your chapter covers things nicely, like a tight, cleverly coded program. Good reading.
*****************
So who's working on the new open source ITS system/kernel? A real-live Linux-killer fer shure!
;)
I don't understand this stuff at all, so I'll keep it short. SETI's search for extraterrestrial signals has been disappointing thus far. Could they be searching for the wrong type of signal?
How, if possible, would one detect distant communications signals based on an advanced form of the chaotic system described in the article?
-kent
Take a vow or something to stop sending the machine back. Instead, have them talk you through removing the modem card itself, sending THAT back and then having them send you a new one. The more you 'split the cases' and what not, the more comfortable you'll feel with the computer as a whole.
;)
Nice job helping the wife. Earned you 'Big Brave Hunter' status for a while, I'll bet, and that's always a good thing!
Dial up the isp number via minicom and try logging in manually. Sometimes the chat script is expecting "login: " when the prompt actually says "username: ".
You should also (by logging in manually with minicom) check to verify that you are using the proper username and password.
I'll betcha it's one of these 3 things
(no ppp in kernel, chat error, bad password)
I've been running an earlier version of TurboLinux (1.2?) on one of my machines (main distro is SuSE 5.3) and found it to be a VERY thoughtful distribution. It uses Red Hat merely as a point of departure, and does a lot to help the user along. Red Hat distros always leave me feeling a tad 'stranded' after install.
Parcel out the less-critical/unknown tapes out to various interested parties or institutions, with the understanding that a serious effort be made to upgrade the storage.
If all else fails, draw up a full-color glossy ad and sell 'em off to the SF nuts in the back of STARLOG, complete with velvet-lined display case and commemorative plaque. Oh, and when the display case is opened, you get a cheap, tinny-sounding rendition of the first few bars of "2001".
Kewl!
They're just patenting the IDEA of solving the hard problem(s).
Why I oughta...
This sounds a lot like what the QuakeWorld developers did a long time ago. They made net quake *totally* playable over 28kb modems.
And what was that bit near the beginning about 'postcards'? Is that their *PATENTED* term for a network packet, or just a typo? Hmph.
BOTTOM LINE:
Nobody's doomed. Things'll work out fine. These folks will either have a legitimate technological advance to offer (doubt it), or they'll tread carefully so as not to draw undue attention from the open source crowd while they pick the pockets of game companies and consumers who don't know any better.
When duty calls, the open source community will protect its interests in high style. If we have to pass a (Red?) hat, we will, but I *REALLY* doubt anything will come of this.
Most indy bands will mail you a cd for $6.99. Usually less. Wow! Be the first on your block to spend a week downloading an entire cd's worth of songs from some band you don't even know!
Their "build a website for us lazy bums" contest is pretty lame too. They invest $250 (1 rio and $50 credit) and get god know how many free man hours of web site development and FREE ADVERTISING. Build a sight for your local pet store and they'll pay you $1000!
Be sure to check out their grueling Tour Schedule! Yowch! Hope the van can last that long!
I'll definately download the free song to see what this band of jokers sounds like. **UPDATE** Hey! Wait! I just did (I love the way you can play an mp3 while it's still downloading) and it's...darn good. Damn. I was really hoping they'd suck. Nicely produced, but not over-done, and some fine guitar playing. Sheeeit! Refreshing suprise from the sequenced badboy over-sampled rap I was expecting.
Aw heck. Maybe I'm just old, bitter, and jealous that I didn't do this first.
Nah. They suck.
;)
Hmmm... how old were you when you read it ?
Good question! I was 29 or 30 or so at the time (34 now) and thought I was in for an enjoyable ride. I lost patience with his eternal rambling about 'Phaedrus' and whatall and dumped the book about 3/4 of the way through. I'm sure some would say "Well that's not fair, you missed the best part!" Too bad for me, is all I can say. I'll get over it.
I probably do have some 'issues' with self-proclaimed intellectuals. I'll get a look at his new book (from the library) to see how he tries to justify his worth as an 'intellectual' to himself, his family, his dog and society.
I'm aware that "Zen..." is considered a very 'grownup' book, but I think this is largely due to its density and obscurity, and a few good soundbites here and there. I remember my brother being assigned that book when he was a kid. Sheesh.
The life lessons and wisdom in 'Huckleberry Finn' FAR outweigh anything I saw in "Zen..".
But of course, *I* am not an intellectual, so how could I *possibly* know any better? Gotta have the worker drones too, eh?
(grin)