They keep pushing their ideas about computing perhaps for selfish reasons, but the same can be said of any company.
The problem is that Sun's ideas make ALOT more sense than Micros~1's. PC networks are an anarchic mess to deal with; the idea is wrongheaded from top to bottom and I really don't think there is anything defensible about it other than "everyone else does it". We have better technologies now; the pc network is obsolete.
The reason PC's are so "successful" in the corporate market place is that there is a need for homogeneity (people need to communicate) - the corporate infrastructure selling mainframes wasn't interested. PC's were that path of least resistance - if everyone uses Micros~1 everyone can communicate. Well, Micros~1 has been abusing this power in a hideous fashion, and people are just tired of it.
I forget who said it, but "you can lead a whore to culture, but you can't force them to read".
Dorothy Parker said that, but it was actually "You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think".
BTW, she said that in response to a challenge that one couldn't come up with a funny statement using the word "horticulture" (it was a rapid fire response).
I agree with the author in that using an ISP for an application service is a little nuts - well, maybe it's OK if you don't care about privacy at all.
However, centralization is a good thing. PC's are a total nightmare to manage. Keeping applications centralized within a company or home is a terrific idea; really, the way things are done with windows is pure madness. I can't wait 'til linux takes over.
This proves it. The poor unwitting fools making those semi annual pilgrimages to Mauschwitz and Duckau have already been assimilated, as have those who raise their children on disney videos.
I fear it's simply too late for the rest of us, even those who've (I can only assume) wasted our lives as agitprops for a Free world.
I have seen the future. In the future we aren't all wearing Mickey Mouse ears. We're the mice. The only thing left is fear itself.
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we're not the only ones... there's a pretty good essay in this book about his worthlessness. It's also an excellent read otherwise. Pick it up!
Well, I know he's made films since PF, but he's largely been shooting blanks since then. I was just hoping he doesn't come out with another pulp fiction. It hurts to see geniuses like David Lynch go unoticed and scorned and idiot posers like QT get recognition.
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I saw a talk given at the U Texas art school (through the dept. of design by a guy from RISD) a few years ago. The guy reminded me of the Design (yes, big D, because we're talking High Art) equivalent of Quentin Tarantino. And you like Tarantino's personality, imagine for a moment that you are annoyed by it instead.
Tarantino is about the biggest piece of shit to hit the film industry since Golan & Globus. What a vacuuous moron. Who talks about art and Tarantino in the same breath? Tacky, gory, ultra-violent and totally without intellect. I can only hope that his one big film-orgasm (pulp fiction) was his last spurt on the public's faces.
The kid's skills are not the issue. How he cracks is irrelevant.
When dissent is outlawed, only outlaws will dissent. What happens when dissent is irrelevant? When dissent is a product, bought and sold, remanufactured semi-annually, churned, massaged and resonated in the public's memory, what does dissent mean then? When our government is a fabulous and absurd spectacle, where dishonesty is the norm and no one ever even questions it?
What does free speech mean in such an environment?
And you wonder why young people are so restless?
We are persecuting this kid for the equivalent of graffiti (actually it's less harmful than that).
This is a misdemeanor at best, not some sort of horrible crime. Go ahead and believe the corporate propaganda. They want you to.
they ask me to do this sometimes and I just tell them "it cannot be done":-) (unless they spend $$$$$$$$$) They have no idea.
Of course I have squid installed and I happen to know quit a bit about what eveyone is doing, especially the managers. The one looking into spying on people (my idiot manager) is the one coming in 1 hour late every day and surfing his porn account for two hours every morning.
Of course he doesn't even know what perl is, and he makes twice as much as I do and his christmas bonus was $25,000. His job is IT and he does not know how to make a shortcut on his little windows desktop. Fucking assholes.
It really is gross and rude. I can't believe that shit.
If you have "millions and millions of dollars" and you aren't even getting laid you have a major, major, problem. If I did I would not touch any of these gold diggers. If I wanted whores I'd go to one of those escort services (there are some that have extremely hot women too); if I wanted love I certainly wouldn't go around flashing money and telling women that I was rich (you'd have to pretend not to be, I think).
learn to dance. He has it right. Almost all girls like to dance, it is a shame more guys do not learn. You don't need a partner, you can get tapes. Dancing to techno type music is not hard.
Going to clubs dancing is probably the best way to build a social life from zero.
In today's free market, a corporation needs synergy. Red Hat needs a way to vertically integrate with retail outlets, benchmarking companies, fast food chains, movie theaters, theme parks, pharmecuticals, TV broadcast companies, chemical weapons manufacturers. That is the only way a company can give its customers true choice.
This way, RH LINUX can be inserted into a vertical market and come out as practically any sort of product! We can have "Heroes of Open Source" action figures, a hit thriller movie, happy meals, anything you can think of!!!! Plus, if you've secured heavy investments in media content companies, you'll always have rave reviews of your various products but a phone call away!
This guy is a manager. He probably spends his time trying to figure out how to next "reinvent his company", or reading "Zen and the art of mind fucking the customer" or some such nonsense. These people have no morals or virtues. They don't mean anything. Managers spend their lives in the perpetual illusion that they matter. Who cares.
If Bill Joy left Sun for MS THAT would be disturbing.
This is fucking/. When I see all these STUPID FUCKING question marks everywhere... why? What the fuck is going on here? Can we not even escape the fucking BEAST on slashdot? For crying out loud... Rob's mispellings are a million times over more preferabe than those FUCKING QUESTION MARKS.
Well, *nix is hard at first; like learning another language. It gets easier.
I think the "UNIX for Dummies" book is great for those wishing to get started. "Linux for Dummies" might be good too. There is also a book called "Instant UNIX" from wrox press that is very good for beginners.
This is what I did: at first, I tried every distro there was... slackware, redhat, suse, debian, caldera. It was cheap since all this was from cheap bytes. I explored. I read lots of books. Gradually things started to make sense. I donwloaded and compiled programs. It was painful, and sometimes I hated it and it was very frustrating. It took about six months for me to become really conversant with it and comfortable enough to use as my daily OS.
The phantom menace. It stands for everything wrong with the film industry today. What a colossal piece of shit that movie was.
BWP is at least interesting because of the budget and the fact that it wasn't pushed by the huge media corporations. No, it isn't a very smart movie, but what the hell. Nothing could be worse than the vacuous trash like Phantom Menace or the latest Adam Sandler tragedy. Occaisionally the industry produces a pop movie that is actually pretty good, like The Matrix, but god, there is so much crap. The hype behind Phantom Menace was just unbelieveable. We are victims of corporate "synergy".
It's a shame the film industry has so many stupid rules. Especially length. Why don't we see any long movies? Would The Fifth Element have been a great movie (as opposed to good) if the director could made it the 4 hour epic he'd wanted? I don't know about you guys but George Lucas and the whole media hype industry can go to hell. I'm waiting for David Lynch to make another movie.
Red Hat, Debian and I think all the major distros ship with an improved version of xfs... it uses very little memory compared to xfstt, but is a little harder to set up, mainly due to poor docs.
I love the way both can be used remotely to serve fonts. Very cool.
It is, however, way too much of a pain in the ass to set up.
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It really is a huge problem in all businesses, especially small ones. Larger companies are horrible about paying bills. They will push you around like you don't even exist. Your terms might say "Net 30" on your invoice, but when you call they will just laugh and say, "Well, we don't care what the terms were, we only cut checks twice a year". There was an architecture firm where I live that actually has a "secret" policy to be at least a million dollars in debt at all times.
What's sad is that there is nothing you can do about it since using the law against them will only hurt you in the long run (you destroy your relationship with them), and there are too many other saps out there willing to get their account, even if they do take a year to pay.
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, and a damn good one, and he works for money sometimes out of neccesity.
Perhaps later he just got fed up with it. Remember, he's not going around preaching this shit, the magazine asked him in an interview.
One of the great triumphs of advertising, which is the only art left to us.
Now excuse me while I take a break to suck on a battery powered Jar-Jar-Binks themed tootsie pop twirler/noisemaker.
The problem is that Sun's ideas make ALOT more sense than Micros~1's. PC networks are an anarchic mess to deal with; the idea is wrongheaded from top to bottom and I really don't think there is anything defensible about it other than "everyone else does it". We have better technologies now; the pc network is obsolete.
The reason PC's are so "successful" in the corporate market place is that there is a need for homogeneity (people need to communicate) - the corporate infrastructure selling mainframes wasn't interested. PC's were that path of least resistance - if everyone uses Micros~1 everyone can communicate. Well, Micros~1 has been abusing this power in a hideous fashion, and people are just tired of it.
Dorothy Parker said that, but it was actually "You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think".
BTW, she said that in response to a challenge that one couldn't come up with a funny statement using the word "horticulture" (it was a rapid fire response).
Witty lady.
I agree with the author in that using an ISP for an application service is a little nuts - well, maybe it's OK if you don't care about privacy at all.
However, centralization is a good thing. PC's are a total nightmare to manage. Keeping applications centralized within a company or home is a terrific idea; really, the way things are done with windows is pure madness. I can't wait 'til linux takes over.
This proves it. The poor unwitting fools making those semi annual pilgrimages to Mauschwitz and Duckau have already been assimilated, as have those who raise their children on disney videos.
I fear it's simply too late for the rest of us, even those who've (I can only assume) wasted our lives as agitprops for a Free world.
I have seen the future. In the future we aren't all wearing Mickey Mouse ears. We're the mice. The only thing left is fear itself.
Well, I know he's made films since PF, but he's largely been shooting blanks since then. I was just hoping he doesn't come out with another pulp fiction. It hurts to see geniuses like David Lynch go unoticed and scorned and idiot posers like QT get recognition.
Tarantino is about the biggest piece of shit to hit the film industry since Golan & Globus. What a vacuuous moron. Who talks about art and Tarantino in the same breath? Tacky, gory, ultra-violent and totally without intellect. I can only hope that his one big film-orgasm (pulp fiction) was his last spurt on the public's faces.
.. at the number of goodie-woodies in here.
The kid's skills are not the issue. How he cracks is irrelevant.
When dissent is outlawed, only outlaws will dissent. What happens when dissent is irrelevant? When dissent is a product, bought and sold, remanufactured semi-annually, churned, massaged and resonated in the public's memory, what does dissent mean then? When our government is a fabulous and absurd spectacle, where dishonesty is the norm and no one ever even questions it?
What does free speech mean in such an environment?
And you wonder why young people are so restless?
We are persecuting this kid for the equivalent of graffiti (actually it's less harmful than that).
This is a misdemeanor at best, not some sort of horrible crime. Go ahead and believe the corporate propaganda. They want you to.
they ask me to do this sometimes and I just tell them "it cannot be done" :-) (unless they spend $$$$$$$$$) They have no idea.
Of course I have squid installed and I happen to know quit a bit about what eveyone is doing, especially the managers. The one looking into spying on people (my idiot manager) is the one coming in 1 hour late every day and surfing his porn account for two hours every morning.
Of course he doesn't even know what perl is, and he makes twice as much as I do and his christmas bonus was $25,000. His job is IT and he does not know how to make a shortcut on his little windows desktop. Fucking assholes.
IBM and CISCO ought to gang up and buy Ziff Davis, then they could really sell some stuff.
I heard you don't even use a screen editor, but instead use sed and work purely in STDIN and STDOUT. Is this true?
It really is gross and rude. I can't believe that shit.
If you have "millions and millions of dollars" and you aren't even getting laid you have a major, major, problem. If I did I would not touch any of these gold diggers. If I wanted whores I'd go to one of those escort services (there are some that have extremely hot women too); if I wanted love I certainly wouldn't go around flashing money and telling women that I was rich (you'd have to pretend not to be, I think).
learn to dance. He has it right. Almost all girls like to dance, it is a shame more guys do not learn. You don't need a partner, you can get tapes. Dancing to techno type music is not hard.
Going to clubs dancing is probably the best way to build a social life from zero.
In today's free market, a corporation needs synergy. Red Hat needs a way to vertically integrate with retail outlets, benchmarking companies, fast food chains, movie theaters, theme parks, pharmecuticals, TV broadcast companies, chemical weapons manufacturers. That is the only way a company can give its customers true choice.
This way, RH LINUX can be inserted into a vertical market and come out as practically any sort of product! We can have "Heroes of Open Source" action figures, a hit thriller movie, happy meals, anything you can think of!!!! Plus, if you've secured heavy investments in media content companies, you'll always have rave reviews of your various products but a phone call away!
Everything I've ever read from there has been very juvenille and poorly reasoned (whether I agreed with it or not).
Slashdot, unfortunately isn't a whole lot better as far as submitted content goes.
My two co-workers are completely useless
This guy is a manager. He probably spends his time trying to figure out how to next "reinvent his company", or reading "Zen and the art of mind fucking the customer" or some such nonsense. These people have no morals or virtues. They don't mean anything. Managers spend their lives in the perpetual illusion that they matter. Who cares.
If Bill Joy left Sun for MS THAT would be disturbing.
This is fucking /. When I see all these STUPID FUCKING question marks everywhere ... why? What the fuck is going on here? Can we not even escape the fucking BEAST on slashdot? For crying out loud ... Rob's mispellings are a million times over more preferabe than those FUCKING QUESTION MARKS.
PROOFREAD YOUR FUCKING DOCS.
Well, *nix is hard at first; like learning another language. It gets easier.
... slackware, redhat, suse, debian, caldera. It was cheap since all this was from cheap bytes. I explored. I read lots of books. Gradually things started to make sense. I donwloaded and compiled programs. It was painful, and sometimes I hated it and it was very frustrating. It took about six months for me to become really conversant with it and comfortable enough to use as my daily OS.
I think the "UNIX for Dummies" book is great for those wishing to get started. "Linux for Dummies" might be good too. There is also a book called "Instant UNIX" from wrox press that is very good for beginners.
This is what I did: at first, I tried every distro there was
The phantom menace. It stands for everything wrong with the film industry today. What a colossal piece of shit that movie was.
BWP is at least interesting because of the budget and the fact that it wasn't pushed by the huge media corporations. No, it isn't a very smart movie, but what the hell. Nothing could be worse than the vacuous trash like Phantom Menace or the latest Adam Sandler tragedy. Occaisionally the industry produces a pop movie that is actually pretty good, like The Matrix, but god, there is so much crap. The hype behind Phantom Menace was just unbelieveable. We are victims of corporate "synergy".
It's a shame the film industry has so many stupid rules. Especially length. Why don't we see any long movies? Would The Fifth Element have been a great movie (as opposed to good) if the director could made it the 4 hour epic he'd wanted? I don't know about you guys but George Lucas and the whole media hype industry can go to hell. I'm waiting for David Lynch to make another movie.
Thanks for that link, man. Made my day, as did adbusters. Good to know there are non-sleeping humans out there.
Red Hat, Debian and I think all the major distros ship with an improved version of xfs ... it uses very little memory compared to xfstt, but is a little harder to set up, mainly due to poor docs.
I love the way both can be used remotely to serve fonts. Very cool.
It is, however, way too much of a pain in the ass to set up.
It really is a huge problem in all businesses, especially small ones. Larger companies are horrible about paying bills. They will push you around like you don't even exist. Your terms might say "Net 30" on your invoice, but when you call they will just laugh and say, "Well, we don't care what the terms were, we only cut checks twice a year". There was an architecture firm where I live that actually has a "secret" policy to be at least a million dollars in debt at all times.
What's sad is that there is nothing you can do about it since using the law against them will only hurt you in the long run (you destroy your relationship with them), and there are too many other saps out there willing to get their account, even if they do take a year to pay.
Which has an intrinsic goodness to it, which is what Twin Peaks (25,381 hits) was all about. Cherry pie and Good and Evil.