So, when did the first victims of MediaOne advertising in school get to college, 2000?
This just makes for better, compliant, easily brainwashed consumers, which is what keeps our economy humming and growing.
Now, if we can only figure out how to export this to other countries, and show them our great American Way of Life, and make them mindless consumers, too.
There are a lot of groovy, non-technical things you can discover in college that you might be harder to find outside of college. It's more of the unique atmosphere.
Thomas Pynchon.
College Libraries: They're huge, bigger than most city libraries. Just try to find a critical study of Thomas Pynchon elsewhere.
Young hippie chicks.
weight lifting. Using the same technics as the (formerly ranked) football team used.
But Hemos's reply to the LinuxPower story makes it sound like there were some real juvenile people there.
As far as the Slashdot people acting like kings, maybe someone had inflated expectations. I don't know what the author expected at the Slashdot/OSDN booth, but he was probably one of just another 1000 geeks hanging around there expecting to get noticed. Taco and Hemos could spend all day shaking hands, do nothing else, and still piss people off. I'll be honest, I was impressed when Hemos replied to my wedding congratulations, I figured he had 100's of emails, and better things to do.
If you were hiring a system administrator, and (s)he showed you the Netware 3.1 and DOS 5.0 manuals (s)he knew backwards and forwards, would you be impressed, or would you ask for the next candidate?
I had a chance to contribute to a dummies book (StarOffice). They have a very specific template that says exactly how to write such a book, and they don't like you leaving the pattern at all. The template can pretty much be summed up as "Lots of numbered bullet lists, with plenty of screen shots.":)
It sounds like you were constrained quite a bit. I had a lot more leeway in my upcoming Dummies book, a few bulleted lists, and a few screen shots, but not many.
Then again, the subject matter is different, you were contributing to Star Office, my book should be aimed at a higher level audience.
I prefer to think of it as humility, a willingness to learn, and the willingness to admit that you don't know everything will take you farther than being foolishly self confident.
I'm quote the fan of Dummie's books myself, having bought 4 at full price (though deductable), one at a garage sale, and one given to me by my editor. And soon, the lead author on one.
...the terrorists hire a bunch of hax0rs to trace WHO bought the stuff and where it's being shipped, so they can hijack it.
This is scary.
Oh, and then the terrorists build the city sized nuclear diffusion plant, or the breeder reactor, or the cyclotron, and one up Iraq who has has 20 years and billions in oil money.
I know, maybe the terrorists will just dig up uranium ore in the US southwest, and then refine it.
I used Webmin to research/administer my FreeBSD/Samba server, you can do most functions on FreeBSD through Webmin.
To be honest, I didn't use it a lot, since my FeeBSD server only has 16 megs of RAM (a Dell 486/33), Webmin takes 4, and it gets boring listening to my hard drive chugging away swapping memory.
Just an FYI... not sure how our neighbors to the north in Canada do it, but in the US, a parent is not legally allowed to give their children alcohol, ever. Most of the time this is not pursued, but on the books, that's the way it is. [Damned Puritans]
Are you sure of this? I though alcohol was regulated on a state level in the US, and in my state (New York), parents were allowed to give their children alcohol. The intent was to allow a glass of wine with dinner for teenagers, or perhaps Communion wine.
Of course, supplying alcohol to other people's children would get you in a big heap of trouble.
This is in contrast to Pennsylvania, where there were no circumstances were you could give alcohol to minors.
There are certain items you can wear to tip people off to your sexual preference, but for the most part they're only useful if you're gay. For instance, there was (or there was at one time) an almost comically elaborate handkerchief code, which you used to find printed up and posted in gay hangouts and sex shops.
Hanky in the left back pocket signified a dominant, the right pocket a submissive. Yellow means you're into water sports (get it?), red means fisting, green means you expect payment, and so on. Keys and at one time earrings serve(d) a similar purpose. I'm told that in L.A. if you show up with a teddy bear it means you want to be cuddled. To each his own.
10) Phobia of beards and suspenders
9) Forgot the handerkerchief code and the party is in San Francisco bay area
8) Maybe the NAMBLA South Park episode is on tonight
7) Would have to admit I use IE to surf at work and at home.
6) The dog needs me, he's feeling very vulnerable now.
5) Have a strict rule against meeting anyone from the internet since that last disastrous chat room incident.
4) Never RSVP'ed to Hemos wedding.
3) Afraid of cannibalism as 747 gets stuck on holding pattern over Donner pass.
2) Concorde's are grounded, the only way to fly.
1) Need to stay by phone in case Gore changes his mind about Lieberman.
Getting off-topic, but you raise a very interesting point. I'm approaching 30 (shudder), and I think I saw the transition of legos from wholly generic to specialized. The space sets came out when I was a kid, as well as the first motor (big, black brick), and then the technics, and there compact motor. Generally, though, even with space sets and such, you got mostly generic bricks, with a few special types, but even those could be used for many things.
I think the first motors were in the mid 60's, so unless you're approaching 30 like Merlin does, they predated you.
Over the years, it seems the specialization continued to where legos are hyper-specialized. A set comes with a few normal bricks and many specialty items that don't have many uses.
Now, maybe it's reversing, with the greater amounts of generic pieces in the mindstorms and such sets, despite highly-specified star-wars, castle, and rock war sets.
Yes, this whole process is decried as the juniorization of Lego, and apparently even mentioned in Coupland's Microserfs.
Don't lump Star Wars in with the castle or Rock Raiders sets, though. The Star Wars sets are an excellent value for the money, and don't have many overspecialized parts, unlike Rock Raiders.
The X-wing for example, had R2D2, a canopy and a few printed parts for specialized parts, everything else was stock. Lots of grey slopes and plates, very tasty.
Slashdot Mirror
So, when did the first victims of MediaOne advertising in school get to college, 2000?
This just makes for better, compliant, easily brainwashed consumers, which is what keeps our economy humming and growing.
Now, if we can only figure out how to export this to other countries, and show them our great American Way of Life, and make them mindless consumers, too.
George
Right, so, a bunch of geeks that lack anything near an astrophysics degree can tell NASA all about what can and cannot be done in space?
/. must have plenty.
Sure.
What, have you been watching Top Gun again? WTF does an astrophydics degree have to do with a space elevator?
Perhaps you meant to say Aerospace Engineer, Mechanical Engineer and Materials Scientist, of which
George
but then, maybe the mods aren't heir to our shared Christian heritage.
George
there's more of course, add your own.
George
marking a mixed review of another of the author's reviews as flamebait?
bad moderator, no Jolt.
George
You know, when you get fired for downloading pron, you can always get as a cashier.
George
And ask them for Linux drivers?
Come on, they're going to be distributing them in WiReD, and everyone knows that most WiReD readers use Linux.
George
I didn't go to LWE.
But Hemos's reply to the LinuxPower story makes it sound like there were some real juvenile people there.
As far as the Slashdot people acting like kings, maybe someone had inflated expectations. I don't know what the author expected at the Slashdot/OSDN booth, but he was probably one of just another 1000 geeks hanging around there expecting to get noticed. Taco and Hemos could spend all day shaking hands, do nothing else, and still piss people off. I'll be honest, I was impressed when Hemos replied to my wedding congratulations, I figured he had 100's of emails, and better things to do.
George
Perhaps not in fact, but in practice.
If you were hiring a system administrator, and (s)he showed you the Netware 3.1 and DOS 5.0 manuals (s)he knew backwards and forwards, would you be impressed, or would you ask for the next candidate?
George
I'm in awe of your analysis.
I fear for slashdot if you use your considerable powers for trolling.
Well, maybe not.
George
Go on George, tell us....
Or should I just know?
Well, it's not published yet, but to spare you from going to my home page and searching Amazon on my unusual last name, it's Samba for Dummies.
George
RedHat Linux for Dummies had pages and pages of hardware that was tested and worked, at the end. NICs, modems, scanners, video cards, lots of stuff.
I don't recall if the WinModem warning was in there.
George
I had a chance to contribute to a dummies book (StarOffice). They have a very specific template that says exactly how to write such a book, and they don't like you leaving the pattern at all. The template can pretty much be summed up as "Lots of numbered bullet lists, with plenty of screen shots." :)
It sounds like you were constrained quite a bit. I had a lot more leeway in my upcoming Dummies book, a few bulleted lists, and a few screen shots, but not many.
Then again, the subject matter is different, you were contributing to Star Office, my book should be aimed at a higher level audience.
George
But you can't buy it anymore, shame.
I think my copy is at home.
The Linux books deal more with the hardware and install, a UNIX for Dummies reader would not be installing Solaris.
George
I prefer to think of it as humility, a willingness to learn, and the willingness to admit that you don't know everything will take you farther than being foolishly self confident.
I'm quote the fan of Dummie's books myself, having bought 4 at full price (though deductable), one at a garage sale, and one given to me by my editor. And soon, the lead author on one.
Thanks,
George
...the terrorists hire a bunch of hax0rs to trace WHO bought the stuff and where it's being shipped, so they can hijack it.
This is scary.
Oh, and then the terrorists build the city sized nuclear diffusion plant, or the breeder reactor, or the cyclotron, and one up Iraq who has has 20 years and billions in oil money.
I know, maybe the terrorists will just dig up uranium ore in the US southwest, and then refine it.
Worry more about stray Russian nukes.
George
At least until said terrrorists build a city sized diffusion plant to diffuse uranium hexaflouride into bombable and non bombable isotopes.
Or at least until the terrorists build a breeder reactor to generate plutonium.
Silly scare mongering, Hemos, we expect better of you.
George
I used Webmin to research/administer my FreeBSD/Samba server, you can do most functions on FreeBSD through Webmin.
To be honest, I didn't use it a lot, since my FeeBSD server only has 16 megs of RAM (a Dell 486/33), Webmin takes 4, and it gets boring listening to my hard drive chugging away swapping memory.
But yeah, give Webmin a try, it's neat.
George
Just an FYI... not sure how our neighbors to the north in Canada do it, but in the US, a parent is not legally allowed to give their children alcohol, ever. Most of the time this is not pursued, but on the books, that's the way it is. [Damned Puritans]
Are you sure of this? I though alcohol was regulated on a state level in the US, and in my state (New York), parents were allowed to give their children alcohol. The intent was to allow a glass of wine with dinner for teenagers, or perhaps Communion wine.
Of course, supplying alcohol to other people's children would get you in a big heap of trouble.
This is in contrast to Pennsylvania, where there were no circumstances were you could give alcohol to minors.
George
Calvin and Hobbes I think.
George
From Cecil Adams,
There are certain items you can wear to tip people off to your sexual preference, but for the most part they're only useful if you're gay. For instance, there was (or there was at one time) an almost comically elaborate handkerchief code, which you used to find printed up and posted in gay hangouts and sex shops.
Hanky in the left back pocket signified a dominant, the right pocket a submissive. Yellow means you're into water sports (get it?), red means fisting, green means you expect payment, and so on. Keys and at one time earrings serve(d) a similar purpose. I'm told that in L.A. if you show up with a teddy bear it means you want to be cuddled. To each his own.
For informational purposes only, please
George
10) Phobia of beards and suspenders
9) Forgot the handerkerchief code and the party is in San Francisco bay area
8) Maybe the NAMBLA South Park episode is on tonight
7) Would have to admit I use IE to surf at work and at home.
6) The dog needs me, he's feeling very vulnerable now.
5) Have a strict rule against meeting anyone from the internet since that last disastrous chat room incident.
4) Never RSVP'ed to Hemos wedding.
3) Afraid of cannibalism as 747 gets stuck on holding pattern over Donner pass.
2) Concorde's are grounded, the only way to fly.
1) Need to stay by phone in case Gore changes his mind about Lieberman.
George
Getting off-topic, but you raise a very interesting point. I'm approaching 30 (shudder), and I think I saw the transition of legos from wholly generic to specialized. The space sets came out when I was a kid, as well as the first motor (big, black brick), and then the technics, and there compact motor. Generally, though, even with space sets and such, you got mostly generic bricks, with a few special types, but even those could be used for many things.
I think the first motors were in the mid 60's, so unless you're approaching 30 like Merlin does, they predated you.
Over the years, it seems the specialization continued to where legos are hyper-specialized. A set comes with a few normal bricks and many specialty items that don't have many uses.
Now, maybe it's reversing, with the greater amounts of generic pieces in the mindstorms and such sets, despite highly-specified star-wars, castle, and rock war sets.
Yes, this whole process is decried as the juniorization of Lego, and apparently even mentioned in Coupland's Microserfs.
Don't lump Star Wars in with the castle or Rock Raiders sets, though. The Star Wars sets are an excellent value for the money, and don't have many overspecialized parts, unlike Rock Raiders.
The X-wing for example, had R2D2, a canopy and a few printed parts for specialized parts, everything else was stock. Lots of grey slopes and plates, very tasty.
George
Buy them now, and admit you;re an adult fan of Lego.
Plus, it may help prevent carpal tunnel.
George
And the Lego Machine gun.
George