Lots of discussion going on about 'folksonomies' -- bottom-up taxonomies that people create on their own -- as used in Del.icio.us and Flickr: Adam Mathes has a thesis on Folksonomies; IFTF's Future Now makes a point about problems with folksonomies: no synonym control ( "mac" and "macintosh" on Del.icio.us); no hierarchy and content types; and only simple one-word tags.
That pile of shit is ONE sentence.
Slashdot: Where grammar is sacrificed for stories about "revolutionary" technologies such as blogs and other bullshit made up trends that will be nonexistent in 6 months.
Alcohol is no more acceptable. My, erm, "official" stance on drug legality is make them all illegal or make them all legal. You don't get to pick and choose. Marijuana isn't as harmful as alcohol, yet it's illegal.
Nonviolent drug offenders should not do more time than rapists and murderers, but stop pretending like the rapists and murderers are being ignored. We are at war, and although no one truly knows why we're at war, it's surely not a war on drugs (for once).
I reckon the Madrid train bombing was invisible? And so was September 11th, right?
Invisible?
What planet are you from?
Moronic parroting post should read: Being a blind fool who believes Michael Moore is the second coming, only because he feels the need to identify with one political party: Do you enjoy being manipulated?
I don't "live in fear", but I do read the paper. Do you?
"My biggest gripe isn't so much with Mandrake as it is with Linux developers as a whole. First, can we PLEASE start naming things in a moderately descriptive way? Names like grip, alsa, chbg, gimp, mozilla, k3b. Huh? Great programs all, but do you have any idea what they do by their names?"
Oh, and I suppose 'Nero', 'Kazaa', and 'Napster' are phonetically intuitive and descriptive titles? What I found even funnier is how the author bitches about how difficult it is to install software. Rpm's aren't that bad, but apt-get is a d r e a m.
I completely agree. OpenOffice does all the things OfficeXp does, why not just use that? This goes along with what someone else said: "We're wasting developer power and time by chasing Microsoft's tail" (not a direct quote).
I agree. Look at where Linux is superior: it's where M$ is chasing Unix. Apache, Security, etc.
As far as desktops go, change is good, variety is good.
pdw writes "Revolution is not an AOL Keyword* is an entertaining piece of prose
Merely because the lines do not end-rhyme does not mean this piece is prose. In fact, I would characterize it as poetry, and good poetry at that. The author did a fine job of captivating the essense of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
Once Doom 3 comes out, we'll all sprint to the local shop (or newegg.com) and buy the best hardware we can find, thusly causing another mini tech bubble.
It all depends where you live, though. $30-40k a year for someone living in NYC or California (pick a city) are going to be below poverty level. But for someone like me, living in Northeast Ohio...well, we'll just say that the rich kids of my highschool had parents who were teachers. And the ceilings of said school leaked. I'd say the mean salary here is $30k. Maybe even $25k. For someone out of school, starting at $40k wouldn't bother me. It's a hell of a lot better than the $7k I'm making at my part-time IT internship/co-op thing.
Huh? Why? The Quake2 engine is so outdated...if you were making a film, why not use the Quake3 engine, which has better dynamic lighting support, and true curved surfaces?
Sounds like another "cool project, it would have been cooler five years ago," sort of thing to me.
Well, what I think you fail to realize (or maybe you just failed to point it out) is something that I think a lot of people fail to see, and that is that the reason that you can't buy "that nifty digicam at Wal-Mart that was on sale" and have it "just work," is because Microsoft does have a monopoly, and therefore, damn-near every single piece of hardware created right now is designed with device drivers that install on WINDOWS. If a company were to create a new device, and set out from the beginning to create Linux device drivers, they could of course put them on a CD, in rpm, source, and/or.deb form, and have it "just work." Linux isn't at fault, here, it's the hardware vendors. Linux is no less ready for the desktop than any other alternative operating system, but you have to see that hardware manufacturers don't want to (in their eyes) waste time by developing Linux device drivers if only %.001 of their market share uses Linux. And the reason only %.001 of their market share uses Linux? Well, two reasons: 1) MS has a monopoly, as aforementioned, although Linux (as this article points out) is making some inroads, and 2) Most people download Linux or get a copy from a friend/co-worker, so to estimate how many people are using Linux based on sales figures has and always will be a stupid stupid means of estimation.
Maybe this is a simple little cry for help. "Please, OSS community, take this code and help us make Duke Nukem Forever...it's been past deadline for three years.:( "
Yeah, this is the first time in a long time (read: never) that I've seen a senator come up with a plan of his own making that makes coherent sense and is not blatantly backed by huge corporations.
You raise a good point, but what I was thinking was along the lines of the fact that, true, as you pointed out, most people don't know what any of the technical data are, so, they gloss over them. If one particular piece of informatoin piques their interest, then, fine. What I was envisioning, I suppose, is a somewhat non-technically-savvy person browsing for PDAs, sees this Z, and thinks to himself, "'Runs Linux'? Where have I heard that word before? What's Linux?"
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I'd like to see someone take this and add anonymity to it.
I concur.
I dunno...all those fantasy-type games look the same: gay.
It's bad writing, that's all. No need for a dissertation.
That pile of shit is ONE sentence.
Slashdot: Where grammar is sacrificed for stories about "revolutionary" technologies such as blogs and other bullshit made up trends that will be nonexistent in 6 months.
Anything Texas can do to at least attempt to shed the "dirty asshole of the country" stigma.
Btw, it completely deserves that moniker.
Stupid cuntry. (sic)
Harmeless?
Yeah, right.
Especially since the story noted that this is a multinational effort.
Yay! Free Chong! Weed is good! < insert crappy hippy blathering here. >
Nonviolent drug offenders should not do more time than rapists and murderers, but stop pretending like the rapists and murderers are being ignored. We are at war, and although no one truly knows why we're at war, it's surely not a war on drugs (for once).
Invisible?
What planet are you from?
Moronic parroting post should read: Being a blind fool who believes Michael Moore is the second coming, only because he feels the need to identify with one political party: Do you enjoy being manipulated?
I don't "live in fear", but I do read the paper. Do you?
Is anyone sick of all the buyouts/mergers recently? AT&T/Cingular, Sprint/Verizon?
What's next, IBM/Microsoft?
Good thing they support all Microsoft products so blindly. They sure are great products, as the above comment illustrates.
Debian seems intimately wedded to the internet, and for some cases internet access isn't a plausible approach to updating.
Other distro's aren't?
"My biggest gripe isn't so much with Mandrake as it is with Linux developers as a whole. First, can we PLEASE start naming things in a moderately descriptive way? Names like grip, alsa, chbg, gimp, mozilla, k3b. Huh? Great programs all, but do you have any idea what they do by their names?"
Oh, and I suppose 'Nero', 'Kazaa', and 'Napster' are phonetically intuitive and descriptive titles? What I found even funnier is how the author bitches about how difficult it is to install software. Rpm's aren't that bad, but apt-get is a d r e a m.
Does this mean that girls that get out of speeding tickets, coupled with these fancy new cameras, will finally make www.copblowjobs.com a reality?
I completely agree. OpenOffice does all the things OfficeXp does, why not just use that? This goes along with what someone else said: "We're wasting developer power and time by chasing Microsoft's tail" (not a direct quote).
I agree. Look at where Linux is superior: it's where M$ is chasing Unix. Apache, Security, etc.
As far as desktops go, change is good, variety is good.
pdw writes "Revolution is not an AOL Keyword* is an entertaining piece of prose
Merely because the lines do not end-rhyme does not mean this piece is prose. In fact, I would characterize it as poetry, and good poetry at that. The author did a fine job of captivating the essense of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
Once Doom 3 comes out, we'll all sprint to the local shop (or newegg.com) and buy the best hardware we can find, thusly causing another mini tech bubble.
It all depends where you live, though. $30-40k a year for someone living in NYC or California (pick a city) are going to be below poverty level. But for someone like me, living in Northeast Ohio...well, we'll just say that the rich kids of my highschool had parents who were teachers. And the ceilings of said school leaked. I'd say the mean salary here is $30k. Maybe even $25k. For someone out of school, starting at $40k wouldn't bother me. It's a hell of a lot better than the $7k I'm making at my part-time IT internship/co-op thing.
Huh? Why? The Quake2 engine is so outdated...if you were making a film, why not use the Quake3 engine, which has better dynamic lighting support, and true curved surfaces?
Sounds like another "cool project, it would have been cooler five years ago," sort of thing to me.
...not funny.
Well, what I think you fail to realize (or maybe you just failed to point it out) is something that I think a lot of people fail to see, and that is that the reason that you can't buy "that nifty digicam at Wal-Mart that was on sale" and have it "just work," is because Microsoft does have a monopoly, and therefore, damn-near every single piece of hardware created right now is designed with device drivers that install on WINDOWS. If a company were to create a new device, and set out from the beginning to create Linux device drivers, they could of course put them on a CD, in rpm, source, and/or .deb form, and have it "just work." Linux isn't at fault, here, it's the hardware vendors. Linux is no less ready for the desktop than any other alternative operating system, but you have to see that hardware manufacturers don't want to (in their eyes) waste time by developing Linux device drivers if only %.001 of their market share uses Linux. And the reason only %.001 of their market share uses Linux? Well, two reasons: 1) MS has a monopoly, as aforementioned, although Linux (as this article points out) is making some inroads, and 2) Most people download Linux or get a copy from a friend/co-worker, so to estimate how many people are using Linux based on sales figures has and always will be a stupid stupid means of estimation.
Maybe this is a simple little cry for help. :( "
"Please, OSS community, take this code and help us make Duke Nukem Forever...it's been past deadline for three years.
Yeah, this is the first time in a long time (read: never) that I've seen a senator come up with a plan of his own making that makes coherent sense and is not blatantly backed by huge corporations.
You raise a good point, but what I was thinking was along the lines of the fact that, true, as you pointed out, most people don't know what any of the technical data are, so, they gloss over them. If one particular piece of informatoin piques their interest, then, fine. What I was envisioning, I suppose, is a somewhat non-technically-savvy person browsing for PDAs, sees this Z, and thinks to himself, "'Runs Linux'? Where have I heard that word before? What's Linux?"
There is no such thing as bad press.