Nonsense! It would only be shame-inducing if you hadn't scored a girlfriend out of it. Very nice work. Does she actually know that you used a chatbot to meet her?
I'm curious about what sorts of problems you ran into. I was under the impression that configure scripts were designed to at least make source code portable, by dynamically finding the various libraries and such that the application requires. Now, my experience in building and installing nonstandard software has been limited to small, simple command-line utilities like optipng or dvipng, which I built, tossed the binary into ~/bin, and left there forever.
I really am curious about what sorts of problems are run into, and what steps would need to be taken to make the inter-distro porting process closer to trivial.
That's it, I'm going to go shoplift, commit massive fraud against individuals, and torture cute things in full view of the public, because none of that is nearly as bad as filesharing. After all, it only hurts people, not corporations.
John Rowland defrauded the state of Connecticut, and will be serving a measly single fucking year for it. Pimply-faced teenagers will spend more time being rectally plundered by delinquents named "Li'l Dawg" than our esteemed public servant will for racketeering, conspiract, et al.
For a proprietary, single-platform system, you have to admit MacOS aged gracefully. It managed to stick with the 68k series for a number of years, then miraculously made a platform switch to PowerPC without alienating its userbase. Amazing! And then they swapped out the underlying guts of a brittle, old-fashioned OS for something much, much more modern, and carried the userbase (or should I say 'the faithful') along with them. More power to them.
Linux, on the other hand, is designed to be multi-platform. A mass migration away from x86? Who would notice? The kernel is modular, it is extensible, it does not need to be rewritten from the ground up for changes to be made. What sort of change would require dumping the kernel and starting something new? Moving from a pure-monolithic to a modular design? Been there, done that.
OSX is a great example of how to weather the need for major revisions brought on by poor (but understandable at the time) architectural decisions. Linux is a great example of how not to need them in the first place.
It's pretty straightforward. I tried to add the Trance Vibrator's USB ID to the usb.ids list, but the maintainer never got back to me. I suppose he didn't think I was serious. Hmph.
Make that "I do not engage, while there, in the sort of colorful metaphor you see above.". I suppose having the ability to go back and edit everything has made me soft...
You're welcome to look over my contributions; I take Wikipedia quite seriously. I do engage, while there, in the sort of colorful metaphor you see above.
I think this is Larry's sour grapes over quitting in a huff and discovering that the project did just fine, nay, did even better, without him. And now he wants to feel important again, so he talks about the project without deigning to actually, you know, contribute to it.
But, hey, good personal attack against me rather than any attempt to dispute actual points... yup... that looks like a Slashdotter response if ever I read one.
I was not always so colorful in my reaction to Larry's pontifications, but have become so relatively recently.
Larry is not just another guy in the comments section talking smack. He's purporting to represent an organization which he's had no part of for going on three years now. It's when he gets on his high, fraudulent horse, that he needs to be taken down a peg.
Do you understand why I don't think Larry deserves "a break", as you say, so long as he continues to ride the coattails of a project he once was involved with? Do you understand why I fully believe exciting, fecal metaphors are justified?
Oh, and note that I managed to refrain from ad hominem attacks on you, since you're not misrepresenting yourself or an organization. Get it?
I said some of this on k5 already, but it bears repetition.
Hey, Larry---why are you writing about Wikipedia when you yourself proved incapable of sticking with the project? Since your departure, it's grown tremendously, the power structure has changed (Board, Arbitration Committee), the category system has been implemented, providing a totally different kind of structural organization... it's not really the same place that you left. I take issue with the idea that your understanding of Wikipedia carries some kind of added weight because you were a contributor two and a half years ago.
Larry Sanger is still riding the coattails of his earlier glory. It's over, Larry. You have as much to do with Wikipedia's eventual success as my last week's bowel movements do with the green and verdant grass growing near the sewage treatment plant. Get a new project. Get a life.
If he returned to Wikipedia today, Larry's attempts to foist his elitist attitudes and strong POV on every article he touched would end with him stumbling out with his underwear yanked up in an atomic wedgie and "COCK SOCKET" sharpied on his forehead. Metaphorically speaking, of course.
If Larry Sanger were really an expert about Wikipedia, he'd still be editing it. As it is, he's too scared to dip his feet in the water, and so he pretends to be important. He's sorta like the Eric S. Raymond of Wikipedia.
For printing, there's Computer Modern (now available in Unicode!) and Gentium. Neither of these are precisely public domain, but neither has any usage restrictions on them. Not to mention that both are really, really pretty.
Or were you talking about display fonts? Whole different ball of wax, that.
Really, advertisement isn't just there to encourage you to buy their product, not directly. It's to put the brand into your head. If you see an ad a day for Poop Cola, for a whole year, and you go to the supermarket to pick up cola---with no real notion of which cola you'd prefer to any other---you will see Poop Cola and feel a strange sense of familiarity. And you will then choose Poop Cola, and the advertisers will be vindicated, even though you won't realize it.
Having unsubscribed from cable some years ago, I not cannot stand ads. When I went with a friend to watch the finale of "The Ultimate Fighter" (if you've never seen mixed martial arts, I highly recommend it), I was shocked, I say, shocked and appalled to have all that crap thrown at me. And even more shocked to think that when I was younger, I used to let those advertisers pour their disgusting pap directly into my brain.
Excellent work, editors, fixing the title like that. The "we're a bunch of whores" referrer link is still misspelled, with only one copy of the oh-so-precious letter g.
Tell it to e. e. cummings. Oh, wait, personal identifiers, handles and so forth are spelled however the fuck I want, unlike adjectives such as "aggressive".
But then I realized that the usage is largely discretionary, and can be used either way. I also realized that whichever variant I went with, I would attract this sort of nonsense. So I picked one and stuck with it.
The cops doctored their versions of events to mysteriously leave out the parts which would have exonerated the protestors. The cops cannot be trusted to tell the truth. Giving them the video cameras fixes nothing.
Aggressive has two fucking g's in it! Two! And you assholes expect subscription money when you can't even stop jerking it to "Elfen Lied" long enough to spell-check the submissions? To spell-fuck the fucking headlines?!
Say what you will about the paranoia of all these sousveillance nuts, but don't pretend that it doesn't serve a valid purpose. For instance, remember all those RNC convention protestors who got arrested last year? And those sworn affidavits from cops saying that those kids had been kicking and screaming, resisting arrest and so forth? Yeah, those cops were making shit up.
I wonder why this hasn't gotten wider play. Are we now entirely unsurprised when cops perjure themselves? Had it not been for some paranoid kids with camcorders, a lot of people would have been unjustly imprisoned. I mean, more than they already were.
I've gotten used to watching movies on the monitor. (I've got a pretty sweet 19" flatscreen, so it's rather easy on the eyes.) I can't go back to the low resolution and blurry edges of a regular television now.
Wait, you're saying that Google should pay the producer for providing popular video. And the grandparent poster is saying that the producer should pay Google for hosting popular video.
Slashdot Mirror
Nonsense! It would only be shame-inducing if you hadn't scored a girlfriend out of it. Very nice work. Does she actually know that you used a chatbot to meet her?
--grendel drago
I'm curious about what sorts of problems you ran into. I was under the impression that configure scripts were designed to at least make source code portable, by dynamically finding the various libraries and such that the application requires. Now, my experience in building and installing nonstandard software has been limited to small, simple command-line utilities like optipng or dvipng, which I built, tossed the binary into ~/bin, and left there forever.
I really am curious about what sorts of problems are run into, and what steps would need to be taken to make the inter-distro porting process closer to trivial.
--grendel drago
That's it, I'm going to go shoplift, commit massive fraud against individuals, and torture cute things in full view of the public, because none of that is nearly as bad as filesharing. After all, it only hurts people, not corporations.
John Rowland defrauded the state of Connecticut, and will be serving a measly single fucking year for it. Pimply-faced teenagers will spend more time being rectally plundered by delinquents named "Li'l Dawg" than our esteemed public servant will for racketeering, conspiract, et al.
ARGH!
--grendel drago
For a proprietary, single-platform system, you have to admit MacOS aged gracefully. It managed to stick with the 68k series for a number of years, then miraculously made a platform switch to PowerPC without alienating its userbase. Amazing! And then they swapped out the underlying guts of a brittle, old-fashioned OS for something much, much more modern, and carried the userbase (or should I say 'the faithful') along with them. More power to them.
Linux, on the other hand, is designed to be multi-platform. A mass migration away from x86? Who would notice? The kernel is modular, it is extensible, it does not need to be rewritten from the ground up for changes to be made. What sort of change would require dumping the kernel and starting something new? Moving from a pure-monolithic to a modular design? Been there, done that.
OSX is a great example of how to weather the need for major revisions brought on by poor (but understandable at the time) architectural decisions. Linux is a great example of how not to need them in the first place.
--grendel drago
Or, you know, you could get control software for it. Bless those wacky Japanese!
--grendel drago
The trance vibrator that came with Japanese editions of Rez doesn't need much bandwidth.
Frankly, I'm surprised we haven't seen a ginormous boom in USB-controlled sex toys. Or at least a frickin' Winamp plugin for this thing.
--grendel drago
It's pretty straightforward. I tried to add the Trance Vibrator's USB ID to the usb.ids list, but the maintainer never got back to me. I suppose he didn't think I was serious. Hmph.
--grendel drago
Kinda like the World According to Google, isn't it...
--grendel drago
Make that "I do not engage, while there, in the sort of colorful metaphor you see above.". I suppose having the ability to go back and edit everything has made me soft...
--grendel drago
You're welcome to look over my contributions; I take Wikipedia quite seriously. I do engage, while there, in the sort of colorful metaphor you see above.
I think this is Larry's sour grapes over quitting in a huff and discovering that the project did just fine, nay, did even better, without him. And now he wants to feel important again, so he talks about the project without deigning to actually, you know, contribute to it.
But, hey, good personal attack against me rather than any attempt to dispute actual points... yup... that looks like a Slashdotter response if ever I read one.
--grendel drago
I was not always so colorful in my reaction to Larry's pontifications, but have become so relatively recently.
Larry is not just another guy in the comments section talking smack. He's purporting to represent an organization which he's had no part of for going on three years now. It's when he gets on his high, fraudulent horse, that he needs to be taken down a peg.
Do you understand why I don't think Larry deserves "a break", as you say, so long as he continues to ride the coattails of a project he once was involved with? Do you understand why I fully believe exciting, fecal metaphors are justified?
Oh, and note that I managed to refrain from ad hominem attacks on you, since you're not misrepresenting yourself or an organization. Get it?
--grendel drago
I said some of this on k5 already, but it bears repetition.
Hey, Larry---why are you writing about Wikipedia when you yourself proved incapable of sticking with the project? Since your departure, it's grown tremendously, the power structure has changed (Board, Arbitration Committee), the category system has been implemented, providing a totally different kind of structural organization... it's not really the same place that you left. I take issue with the idea that your understanding of Wikipedia carries some kind of added weight because you were a contributor two and a half years ago.
Larry Sanger is still riding the coattails of his earlier glory. It's over, Larry. You have as much to do with Wikipedia's eventual success as my last week's bowel movements do with the green and verdant grass growing near the sewage treatment plant. Get a new project. Get a life.
If he returned to Wikipedia today, Larry's attempts to foist his elitist attitudes and strong POV on every article he touched would end with him stumbling out with his underwear yanked up in an atomic wedgie and "COCK SOCKET" sharpied on his forehead. Metaphorically speaking, of course.
If Larry Sanger were really an expert about Wikipedia, he'd still be editing it. As it is, he's too scared to dip his feet in the water, and so he pretends to be important. He's sorta like the Eric S. Raymond of Wikipedia.
--grendel drago
For printing, there's Computer Modern (now available in Unicode!) and Gentium. Neither of these are precisely public domain, but neither has any usage restrictions on them. Not to mention that both are really, really pretty.
Or were you talking about display fonts? Whole different ball of wax, that.
--grendel drago
I don't feel like shelling out ten bucks to know what the heck this is. Anyone feel like explaining it?
--grendel drago
Really, advertisement isn't just there to encourage you to buy their product, not directly. It's to put the brand into your head. If you see an ad a day for Poop Cola, for a whole year, and you go to the supermarket to pick up cola---with no real notion of which cola you'd prefer to any other---you will see Poop Cola and feel a strange sense of familiarity. And you will then choose Poop Cola, and the advertisers will be vindicated, even though you won't realize it.
--grendel drago
Having unsubscribed from cable some years ago, I not cannot stand ads. When I went with a friend to watch the finale of "The Ultimate Fighter" (if you've never seen mixed martial arts, I highly recommend it), I was shocked, I say, shocked and appalled to have all that crap thrown at me. And even more shocked to think that when I was younger, I used to let those advertisers pour their disgusting pap directly into my brain.
Dirty is precisely the right word.
--grendel drago
Excellent work, editors, fixing the title like that. The "we're a bunch of whores" referrer link is still misspelled, with only one copy of the oh-so-precious letter g.
So close, and yet so far!
--grendel drago
Tell it to e. e. cummings. Oh, wait, personal identifiers, handles and so forth are spelled however the fuck I want, unlike adjectives such as "aggressive".
I also am not asking for money for my services.
Dick.
--grendel drago
But then I realized that the usage is largely discretionary, and can be used either way. I also realized that whichever variant I went with, I would attract this sort of nonsense. So I picked one and stuck with it.
I also am not asking for money for my services.
Dick.
--grendel drago
The cops doctored their versions of events to mysteriously leave out the parts which would have exonerated the protestors. The cops cannot be trusted to tell the truth. Giving them the video cameras fixes nothing.
--grendel drago
Aggressive has two fucking g's in it! Two! And you assholes expect subscription money when you can't even stop jerking it to "Elfen Lied" long enough to spell-check the submissions? To spell-fuck the fucking headlines?!
Man, y'all suck.
--grendel drago
Say what you will about the paranoia of all these sousveillance nuts, but don't pretend that it doesn't serve a valid purpose. For instance, remember all those RNC convention protestors who got arrested last year? And those sworn affidavits from cops saying that those kids had been kicking and screaming, resisting arrest and so forth? Yeah, those cops were making shit up.
I wonder why this hasn't gotten wider play. Are we now entirely unsurprised when cops perjure themselves? Had it not been for some paranoid kids with camcorders, a lot of people would have been unjustly imprisoned. I mean, more than they already were.
--grendel drago
I've gotten used to watching movies on the monitor. (I've got a pretty sweet 19" flatscreen, so it's rather easy on the eyes.) I can't go back to the low resolution and blurry edges of a regular television now.
--grendel drago
Wait, you're saying that Google should pay the producer for providing popular video. And the grandparent poster is saying that the producer should pay Google for hosting popular video.
I'm so confused.
--grendel drago
Hi, 1996 called, they want their starry-eyed optimism and wanky neologisms back, if you don't mind.
Pfft.
--grendel drago