Which is why there are bluetooth keyboards. If you know you'll be typing, bring your (foldable) bluetooth keyboard along. Otherwise, you have yourself a slate. (why they're called tablets is beyond me)
Let me translate that double negative... your convinced tablets are a fad, much like overpriced Tamigatchi or flares.
Sooooo... something that is simpler to use because of it's size reduction and technological variance, is a fad? You are so new lol Next thing you'll say is the internet is a fad and information will stay on Fidonet like god intended.
Microsoft has been embracing Linux for over a decade now as well - They're obviously open-source friendly and showing their worth as a team player http://www.mslinux.org/
Actually the original reason "cloud" computing came about is to abstract the computing power into a "cloud". The whole outsourcing mentality came about much later.
Well yes... but supporting RHEL is not supporting Linux, just as supporting Ubuntu isn't supporting Linux. It's kind of like saying a company supports Mac. What version... OS9, OS/X Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard?
Besides, if this happened in the United States, before you blinked an eye most of the major internet providers would be down due to "national security". The infrastructure is very fragile in the US, as the 'net is mostly corporate run and with a little phone calling and martial law put into effect, you'd see no packets. Cell phone transmissions would be severed as well, or at least governed. The constitution is not a shield in that "worst case" scenario of a civil uprising, unfortunately. It's only something to use as legal ammo after everything happens for lawsuits.
Well, i agree with the fact that Egypt isn't a state, however the constitution of the united states says nowhere, "gun". It says 'arms', which means anything that can protect with offensive force as well as defensive.
You just reminded me of a video I saw of Taylor Swift, dressed up as the "geeky" schoolgirl in the song "you belong with me". I don't care how else she dresses, that alone was enough to be engrained in my head forever, in a good way.
You hit it pretty much on the head with that. While I didn't grow up exactly the same, it was a rough estimate... and I think quite a few others as well. Just looking at the cultural and political shifts that occurred throughout the 20th century, I'm thinking it was the tail-end of the 70's leaving a wake that rifted the 80's badly. The 90's were a good healing point when it came to the technical stuff, with the 'dotcom' boom and becaming 'cool' to do the silicon valley thing. Also a lot less homosexuality jokes now, that I've seen. ('gay' and 'fag' have different proverbial meanings now, even though they do still mean the same thing by "dictionary" definition)
I would not want to grow up in these times, however... there's still an undercurrent that is ugly, and could destroy you quickly. I don't think I'd make it with the way things are, now. Then again, we as geeks would probably be doing the same thing we did back then... looking into new ideas/technologies/ideologies and obsorbing our entire lives with it.
About the same time that Angela Joli, Brad Pitt, and George Cloony became diplomatic ambassadors to the U.N and movie stars became political entities....
Reminds me of when at a job a couple of years ago, a group of people started saying "oh, it's that Unix geek, it's so cool to have someone to cover our backs!" and stuff like that. Totally cool, of course... but then it turned into "if your a true unix geek, you'll know the monty python lines by heart" and they start spouting off something from one of those movies, and then pointing to me to continue it. I look at monty python as light humor, and that's about it. How many f'in times can you say "we are the knights who say ni" or spout off 30 minutes of silly speedy-british-accented movie quotes? And HOW does that mean I'm a true Unix geek?
I watched documentaries and read the encyclopedia for fun as a teen. I put together circuits as a 7 year old child, and knew the inner workings of everything I touched by dissecting it. I learned Linux back when a shell was the most advanced way to get into it, and I accessed the internet in the early 90's through Minix by writing a dialer application to hit the local VMS system to use the interfact to hit gopher, to get to a veronica server, which hit another server with real shell access.
HOW does monty python equate to ANY of that? GAH!!!!!
I agree fullheartedly. It hurts to watch that show, since it bends and twists anything people think about 'geek'. Besides, they're all just another form of cast from 'friends' in my opinion.
I agree with you.... to me, when the whole Web-2.0 thing came about, I noticed nothing different other than a flash-and-dash webpage in CSS and AJAX. In the end, it does the same thing as done in CGI (perl, C, etc).
Exactly. I personally revel in it when people call me a geek perjoratively. Less often in the last 10 years, but I guess it's just "cool" to be a geek now. It's all about being yourself, no matter what.
Thank you, I agree fully. I pine for the day when I can move back out into the middle of nowhere and live like I did when I was a kid. Montana is waiting.
Around here, they keep you on your toes by intentionally mistiming the damned lights. I have to vary my speed constantly, as I've found if I do the speed limit (45 mph), I'll hit every red light, like clockwork.
About a year ago, I entered an intersection 0.6 seconds too late and ended up with an automated ticket that can't be disputed in court, nor could I face my accuser (since it is a machine).
Funny, I've evoked my right to bypass at least 3 of said photo tickets by not paying them simply because they weren't issued to me as a person by a court-appointed individual. (ie police officer, etc)
At least in Arizona, that's how the law works. YMMV.
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Which is why there are bluetooth keyboards. If you know you'll be typing, bring your (foldable) bluetooth keyboard along. Otherwise, you have yourself a slate. (why they're called tablets is beyond me)
Let me translate that double negative... your convinced tablets are a fad, much like overpriced Tamigatchi or flares.
Sooooo... something that is simpler to use because of it's size reduction and technological variance, is a fad?
You are so new lol Next thing you'll say is the internet is a fad and information will stay on Fidonet like god intended.
Remember, these same people use Windows because of it's security and stability....
Microsoft has been embracing Linux for over a decade now as well - They're obviously open-source friendly and showing their worth as a team player
http://www.mslinux.org/
Actually the original reason "cloud" computing came about is to abstract the computing power into a "cloud".
The whole outsourcing mentality came about much later.
Well yes... but supporting RHEL is not supporting Linux, just as supporting Ubuntu isn't supporting Linux.
It's kind of like saying a company supports Mac. What version... OS9, OS/X Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard?
So to put in a nutshell, they're a RHEL shop.
Getting a little tinfoil hat'ish?
Besides, if this happened in the United States, before you blinked an eye most of the major internet providers would be down due to "national security". The infrastructure is very fragile in the US, as the 'net is mostly corporate run and with a little phone calling and martial law put into effect, you'd see no packets. Cell phone transmissions would be severed as well, or at least governed.
The constitution is not a shield in that "worst case" scenario of a civil uprising, unfortunately. It's only something to use as legal ammo after everything happens for lawsuits.
I think we should put Twitter and Facebook on the IPv4 network and move everything else over to IPv6.
It'll be Darwinian Theory at it's finest.
Well, i agree with the fact that Egypt isn't a state, however the constitution of the united states says nowhere, "gun".
It says 'arms', which means anything that can protect with offensive force as well as defensive.
You just reminded me of a video I saw of Taylor Swift, dressed up as the "geeky" schoolgirl in the song "you belong with me".
I don't care how else she dresses, that alone was enough to be engrained in my head forever, in a good way.
outside of the US/UK english is not the first language, either.
You hit it pretty much on the head with that.
While I didn't grow up exactly the same, it was a rough estimate... and I think quite a few others as well.
Just looking at the cultural and political shifts that occurred throughout the 20th century, I'm thinking it was the tail-end of the 70's leaving a wake that rifted the 80's badly. The 90's were a good healing point when it came to the technical stuff, with the 'dotcom' boom and becaming 'cool' to do the silicon valley thing. Also a lot less homosexuality jokes now, that I've seen. ('gay' and 'fag' have different proverbial meanings now, even though they do still mean the same thing by "dictionary" definition)
I would not want to grow up in these times, however... there's still an undercurrent that is ugly, and could destroy you quickly. I don't think I'd make it with the way things are, now. Then again, we as geeks would probably be doing the same thing we did back then... looking into new ideas/technologies/ideologies and obsorbing our entire lives with it.
About the same time that Angela Joli, Brad Pitt, and George Cloony became diplomatic ambassadors to the U.N and movie stars became political entities....
PHP, Java, & C are all programming languages which are used by web developers.
Mostly Java in today's world in enterprises, however.
Reminds me of when at a job a couple of years ago, a group of people started saying "oh, it's that Unix geek, it's so cool to have someone to cover our backs!" and stuff like that. Totally cool, of course... but then it turned into "if your a true unix geek, you'll know the monty python lines by heart" and they start spouting off something from one of those movies, and then pointing to me to continue it.
I look at monty python as light humor, and that's about it. How many f'in times can you say "we are the knights who say ni" or spout off 30 minutes of silly speedy-british-accented movie quotes? And HOW does that mean I'm a true Unix geek?
I watched documentaries and read the encyclopedia for fun as a teen. I put together circuits as a 7 year old child, and knew the inner workings of everything I touched by dissecting it. I learned Linux back when a shell was the most advanced way to get into it, and I accessed the internet in the early 90's through Minix by writing a dialer application to hit the local VMS system to use the interfact to hit gopher, to get to a veronica server, which hit another server with real shell access.
HOW does monty python equate to ANY of that? GAH!!!!!
I agree fullheartedly.
It hurts to watch that show, since it bends and twists anything people think about 'geek'. Besides, they're all just another form of cast from 'friends' in my opinion.
I agree with you.... to me, when the whole Web-2.0 thing came about, I noticed nothing different other than a flash-and-dash webpage in CSS and AJAX. In the end, it does the same thing as done in CGI (perl, C, etc).
Is that why most geeks gain high paying jobs, BECAUSE of their geeking (nearly obsessive-compulsive) on that work subject?
Nothing stacked against them at all... I'd say it's a no-brainer. Speaking from experience, and I'm sure many others will back me up there.
Exactly.
I personally revel in it when people call me a geek perjoratively. Less often in the last 10 years, but I guess it's just "cool" to be a geek now.
It's all about being yourself, no matter what.
Thank you, I agree fully.
I pine for the day when I can move back out into the middle of nowhere and live like I did when I was a kid.
Montana is waiting.
They live in civilization, they just exist in the type of civilization that isn't packed tightly side by side in neat little compartments.
As well as exchanging money for sexual pleasures.
That's why marriage is illegal... wait.. what?
Around here, they keep you on your toes by intentionally mistiming the damned lights.
I have to vary my speed constantly, as I've found if I do the speed limit (45 mph), I'll hit every red light, like clockwork.
About a year ago, I entered an intersection 0.6 seconds too late and ended up with an automated ticket that can't be disputed in court, nor could I face my accuser (since it is a machine).
Funny, I've evoked my right to bypass at least 3 of said photo tickets by not paying them simply because they weren't issued to me as a person by a court-appointed individual. (ie police officer, etc)
At least in Arizona, that's how the law works. YMMV.
... and too oblivious to her rights to realize she could be making a mint through a court case, as well.