Usually I would simply ignore a post like this; the idiocy and the base humor simply don't spark an interest long enough for me to form a thought about it.
However, I'm feeling frisky, and this one is fun.
Let's start with your title:: Homosexual fagots
Is this some insane double-negative of sexuality? Gay people who are so gay that they became straight again? Homosexual and fagots pretty much infer the same thing. But if I were you, i'd stick to using the first word, or perhaps "Yes, Sir."
Your Statement: Linux is great!!!!!!!
Hmmmm. Obviously this is some ploy to encroach yourself within the community, build a sense of "trust" if you will, so that a similarly minded uber-geek would consider your title more seriously, and be misled to think that such "mega-gays," these "Homosexual fagots" actually exist.
Good ploy sir. Well played. You almost got me. But rest assured that your veil of coolness and "hipness" will wear thin; you will then be reduced to a -2, ne'er to be seen by any human eye, save your own.
and after years of trying to teach regular folks something as simple as how to use Word on Windows, I know why there are still tons of jobs available for MCSE's.
"it crashed! its broken! come fix it!" "$300, please"
Kinko's offers high-volume scan-to-PDF solutions... at low volume, it is usually a 10 - 25 per page and the cost of the media to copy it to, but in large volume, sometimes the cost can go down to 1 per page.
Call Kinko's. Ask for the Territory Representative. They'll help you out!!!
Its so cold out here w/ my beige G3 and blue & white G3 (well, G4 now). Damn my Rage Pro graphics! They offer NO accelleration of ANYTHING in OS X! QuickTime and OpenGL are JOKES on a beige G3.
Do you think they'd try to at least remedy this somewhat in jaguar?
No, now they've gone and said that, whoops, well, sorry, the promised performance of Mac OS X will only be available to those customers who buy a computer from us in about 6 months, thus rendering even my Radeon 7000 (Because it is PCI) useless.
I think apple should sell mobo upgrades to all the computer owners who hoped they'd one day see OS X run reasonably well on hardware they've been upgrading for years trying to figure out when the hell apple would release a finished product.
Oh, sure, wait for the G5. But by the time that's out, you'll need a G6 to actually USE any applications. And that's another year away...
There were probably a lot less "geeks" in the Mac ranks for the many years this author is basing his book on, so I can see where he'd draw some of these conclusions. While Linux and Windows-based geeks could command-line hack to their hearts content, Mac users have had a wonderful tool called ResEdit. It kinda makes me sad that with Mac OS X, ResEdit is sort of an anachronism sitting in my Classic Applications folder... but there it is. We have much better hacking cracking and patching tools now:) And the migration of linux and unix users to Mac OS X has brought a surge in the geek numbers, which is good for any platform. When users are pushing limits as well as the manufacturers, progress speeds along nicely. I think my original point was to say that there are always contingents of most OS fandom that are NOT geeks, and some that are. Such is life. Variety is the spice and all that.
Every time I see this posted on the 'net I wonder how much HD space around the world is being eaten up by this. A couple kb here, a few kb there... perhaps this thing has spawned so rampantly that there are literally GIGABYTES of this exact same story sullenly sitting on people's HD's, just waiting to be unleashed again.
Then I take a bong hit, laugh my ass off, and start wondering why these people would suffer through reading it, even partially, every time they post it.
Then I start thinking about what would happen if those same people actually started writing their OWN stories instead, and what an incredible wealth of...
Then I take another bong hit and realize that its better to reproduce this disgusing, but well written, peice than to have these brain-dead sacks of protoplasm try to form complete sentences on their own.
I live in Baltimore County, and I've been waiting for something like this. My house has had more roomates than I can count in the past 6 years, and we've collected the electronic junk of people who skipped town, joined the military, or otherwise departed and left us to take care of their garbage. At one point, we had 6 VCR's (including 2 Beta decks) 2 TV's, 4 tape decks, 1 reciever, 2 record players, and a few Nintendo 8-bit decks. None of them worked well enough to use in any capacity. We tried to find some way to get rid of them in a non-destructive way, but since they were broken, donation was out of the question. So there they sit. Except for the 486 and 386 that we took a couple golf clubs and baseball bats to. THAT was a fun afternoon;)... I can't say how happy I am that this is now available, and in my home town no less! and its even cooler that Baltimore County got mentioned on the front page of Slashdot;) -----
I saw this article on MacSlash yesterday, but didn't see it on Slashdot 'till this morning. And guess how many comments were posted at the time the page loaded up?
3 guesses, and the first 2 don't count.
666.
Hehehehehehehehe Christians are so much fun to mock and laught at. I can't wait until Jesus is sitting in the same spot the Greek and Roman gods are now. ("How quaint!")
Considering that I never EVER plan to have a Passport account, I guess I won't ever be able to use the gov't's online services if they go with this. That's OK though. One more reason to move to Amsterdam. I hear they even have freedom of speech over there.... But what really gets me is the fact that they are considering this even though they've already determined that A) Microsoft is a monopoly, and what could further their monopoly more than having the personal info of EVERY SINGLE US CITIZEN (with internet access that is), and B) Haven't we figured out that M$ wouldn't know security if it came up and bit them on their collective ass? This world is scary. Pass the popcorn.
I would imagine this would severly inhibit the ability of PC users to deride the Mac for their lack of games. If this truly can allow programmers to port games in a matter of days, I don't think it will be too long before we start seeing more and more simultaneous releases for big-name games on both platforms.
Now if we could only get the bus speed up on our mobo's, we might be able to shut up the naysayers long enough to get in a game of UT.
And the other cool part is that the company that made this software will reap amazing benefits as they are the only vendor of such a product:)
packet-sniffers can decipher what kind of pizza I'm ordering, hack into Papa John's database, and have my ham-and-pinapple pie arrive with onions and anchovies.
98lite RULES!!!! I used it to install a lean 98 system on VPC, and was very pleased with the performance boost I got as opposed to a straight 98 install.
However, 98Lite should have been included on EVERY boot disk shipped with Win98 and above.
Does anyone know if 98Lite works for newer versions of Windows? I'd love an XPLite to take the sluggishness out of it before I install in VPC....
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I'd respond to that if I had any idea what these screwy curvy symbols all over my screen meant.
Um, I think the difference here is that Apple doesn't have a database set up with all the queries people sent through Sherlock.
Besides, its just a way for M$ to guage their marketing and be able to direct it more maliciously...er, i mean, EFFECTIVELY.
Until they can show me a valid reason why they need to log ANY of this information, I'll consider it just another M$ attack on privacy.
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Nope, Bush is a Mac user.
I hate counting him in the ranks, but there it is.
I mean some people use macs for their power and flexibility, some use macs for their elegance and design, and some people use Macs cuz they're too stupid to figure out anything else.
I'll place my bet that #3 is the answer for our beloved president.
Now I can run scripts to open up 11 WinXP sessions through VPC on Mac OS X, sending back all sorts of nice searches back to the Mother$hip about "MS SUCKS!" and "BILL GATES BUTTF*KKED BY A RAGING RABID BULL." I figure 11 instances of XP, 1 query each per second, running 24 hours a day, that's 950,400 disgusting and immoral and hopefull personally offensive searches that the schmucks at M$ will have to wade through EACH AND EVERY DAY.
Now if only I could get others to join my unholy mission....
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Usually I would simply ignore a post like this; the idiocy and the base humor simply don't spark an interest long enough for me to form a thought about it.
However, I'm feeling frisky, and this one is fun.
Let's start with your title::
Homosexual fagots
Is this some insane double-negative of sexuality? Gay people who are so gay that they became straight again? Homosexual and fagots pretty much infer the same thing. But if I were you, i'd stick to using the first word, or perhaps "Yes, Sir."
Your Statement:
Linux is great!!!!!!!
Hmmmm. Obviously this is some ploy to encroach yourself within the community, build a sense of "trust" if you will, so that a similarly minded uber-geek would consider your title more seriously, and be misled to think that such "mega-gays," these "Homosexual fagots" actually exist.
Good ploy sir. Well played. You almost got me. But rest assured that your veil of coolness and "hipness" will wear thin; you will then be reduced to a -2, ne'er to be seen by any human eye, save your own.
Good day sir.
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I'm out
Leave it to Apple to not try to gouge other people in the industry with licensing fees.
Are you listening Microsoft? Sometimes you can make just as much off of good PR as you can off of lousy licensing schemes.
I think I might have to re-read my agreement. I'm pretty sure I'm also paying for the right to use my service... not just to have it at my house.
I guess its easier for M$ to reduce the cost of hardware for the user when they don't have to pay their own outrageous licensing fees.
I don't know how i feel about Verizon being the good guy.
and after years of trying to teach regular folks something as simple as how to use Word on Windows, I know why there are still tons of jobs available for MCSE's.
"it crashed! its broken! come fix it!"
"$300, please"
Three Words: Apple Remote Desktop.
... then the iPod.
... then Final Cut Pro ... then FCP 3 which uses the G4 for real-time effects and transitions, etc.
Dontcha love how Apple just trickles this stuff out but when you put it all together, it's just unbelievable?
Think Firewire... then iTunes
Think G4
They are so sly.
Kinko's offers high-volume scan-to-PDF solutions ... at low volume, it is usually a 10 - 25 per page and the cost of the media to copy it to, but in large volume, sometimes the cost can go down to 1 per page.
Call Kinko's. Ask for the Territory Representative. They'll help you out!!!
Its so cold out here w/ my beige G3 and blue & white G3 (well, G4 now). Damn my Rage Pro graphics! They offer NO accelleration of ANYTHING in OS X! QuickTime and OpenGL are JOKES on a beige G3.
...
Do you think they'd try to at least remedy this somewhat in jaguar?
No, now they've gone and said that, whoops, well, sorry, the promised performance of Mac OS X will only be available to those customers who buy a computer from us in about 6 months, thus rendering even my Radeon 7000 (Because it is PCI) useless.
I think apple should sell mobo upgrades to all the computer owners who hoped they'd one day see OS X run reasonably well on hardware they've been upgrading for years trying to figure out when the hell apple would release a finished product.
Oh, sure, wait for the G5. But by the time that's out, you'll need a G6 to actually USE any applications. And that's another year away
same sh*t, different day
There were probably a lot less "geeks" in the Mac ranks for the many years this author is basing his book on, so I can see where he'd draw some of these conclusions. While Linux and Windows-based geeks could command-line hack to their hearts content, Mac users have had a wonderful tool called ResEdit. It kinda makes me sad that with Mac OS X, ResEdit is sort of an anachronism sitting in my Classic Applications folder ... but there it is. We have much better hacking cracking and patching tools now :) And the migration of linux and unix users to Mac OS X has brought a surge in the geek numbers, which is good for any platform. When users are pushing limits as well as the manufacturers, progress speeds along nicely.
I think my original point was to say that there are always contingents of most OS fandom that are NOT geeks, and some that are. Such is life. Variety is the spice and all that.
What the hell are you doing playing chess with fish?!?!?! That must be a big chessboard if you can play with a prawn on the board.
Now if only I could get a robot to hand-wash my boxers while he simultaneously writes my research papers ...
Every time I see this posted on the 'net I wonder how much HD space around the world is being eaten up by this. A couple kb here, a few kb there ... perhaps this thing has spawned so rampantly that there are literally GIGABYTES of this exact same story sullenly sitting on people's HD's, just waiting to be unleashed again.
...
Then I take a bong hit, laugh my ass off, and start wondering why these people would suffer through reading it, even partially, every time they post it.
Then I start thinking about what would happen if those same people actually started writing their OWN stories instead, and what an incredible wealth of
Then I take another bong hit and realize that its better to reproduce this disgusing, but well written, peice than to have these brain-dead sacks of protoplasm try to form complete sentences on their own.
I live in Baltimore County, and I've been waiting for something like this. My house has had more roomates than I can count in the past 6 years, and we've collected the electronic junk of people who skipped town, joined the military, or otherwise departed and left us to take care of their garbage. At one point, we had 6 VCR's (including 2 Beta decks) 2 TV's, 4 tape decks, 1 reciever, 2 record players, and a few Nintendo 8-bit decks. None of them worked well enough to use in any capacity. We tried to find some way to get rid of them in a non-destructive way, but since they were broken, donation was out of the question. So there they sit. Except for the 486 and 386 that we took a couple golf clubs and baseball bats to. THAT was a fun afternoon ;) ... ;)
I can't say how happy I am that this is now available, and in my home town no less! and its even cooler that Baltimore County got mentioned on the front page of Slashdot
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I saw this article on MacSlash yesterday, but didn't see it on Slashdot 'till this morning. And guess how many comments were posted at the time the page loaded up?
3 guesses, and the first 2 don't count.
666.
Hehehehehehehehe Christians are so much fun to mock and laught at. I can't wait until Jesus is sitting in the same spot the Greek and Roman gods are now. ("How quaint!")
Considering that I never EVER plan to have a Passport account, I guess I won't ever be able to use the gov't's online services if they go with this. That's OK though. One more reason to move to Amsterdam. I hear they even have freedom of speech over there ....
But what really gets me is the fact that they are considering this even though they've already determined that A) Microsoft is a monopoly, and what could further their monopoly more than having the personal info of EVERY SINGLE US CITIZEN (with internet access that is), and B) Haven't we figured out that M$ wouldn't know security if it came up and bit them on their collective ass?
This world is scary. Pass the popcorn.
I would imagine this would severly inhibit the ability of PC users to deride the Mac for their lack of games. If this truly can allow programmers to port games in a matter of days, I don't think it will be too long before we start seeing more and more simultaneous releases for big-name games on both platforms.
:)
Now if we could only get the bus speed up on our mobo's, we might be able to shut up the naysayers long enough to get in a game of UT.
And the other cool part is that the company that made this software will reap amazing benefits as they are the only vendor of such a product
Good luck! I'm looking forward to better gaming!
Sounds to me as if the Oracle brass have been having lunch with the guys at Lockheed-Martin.....
packet-sniffers can decipher what kind of pizza I'm ordering, hack into Papa John's database, and have my ham-and-pinapple pie arrive with onions and anchovies.
I'm terrified!
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98lite RULES!!!! I used it to install a lean 98 system on VPC, and was very pleased with the performance boost I got as opposed to a straight 98 install.
....
However, 98Lite should have been included on EVERY boot disk shipped with Win98 and above.
Does anyone know if 98Lite works for newer versions of Windows? I'd love an XPLite to take the sluggishness out of it before I install in VPC
I'd respond to that if I had any idea what these screwy curvy symbols all over my screen meant.
Um, I think the difference here is that Apple doesn't have a database set up with all the queries people sent through Sherlock.
...er, i mean, EFFECTIVELY.
Besides, its just a way for M$ to guage their marketing and be able to direct it more maliciously
Until they can show me a valid reason why they need to log ANY of this information, I'll consider it just another M$ attack on privacy.
Nope, Bush is a Mac user.
I hate counting him in the ranks, but there it is.
I mean some people use macs for their power and flexibility, some use macs for their elegance and design, and some people use Macs cuz they're too stupid to figure out anything else.
I'll place my bet that #3 is the answer for our beloved president.
Now I can run scripts to open up 11 WinXP sessions through VPC on Mac OS X, sending back all sorts of nice searches back to the Mother$hip about "MS SUCKS!" and "BILL GATES BUTTF*KKED BY A RAGING RABID BULL." I figure 11 instances of XP, 1 query each per second, running 24 hours a day, that's 950,400 disgusting and immoral and hopefull personally offensive searches that the schmucks at M$ will have to wade through EACH AND EVERY DAY.
....
Now if only I could get others to join my unholy mission
Viva la Resistance!
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