...will be hammered down. That's all that's happening here. Macs entered the Intel world and Microsoft is none too happy. So Microsoft is going to try and find what tiny balls Apple has and give them a repeated and hard kicking. Good luck though because I know you've all seen an ant fall many hundreds of times it's size and be unphased. I supposed having micronads like Apple's will come in handy in this case. Of course, we've also seen ants easily crushed under our boots too. Yowie!
You're confusing justifiable righteous indiggnation with bitterness. Please correct your reading between the lines scope for future encounters. Thank you.
Hmmm... I wonder if this will lead to the same kind of fragmentation that hurt Unix in the 80s and 90s. Everyone wanting to hold onto their piece of the virtualization puzzle because THEY want to own virtualization entirely and therefore hamstringing any benefit that could be had if they cooperated. Frightening since hypervisor based virutalization can actually have VMs that perform FASTER than if they were on the iron itself.
Hmmm... interesting take on that. But I think the problem with it from my perspective is that it goes against the wishes of the game maker. If they want me to run the game using the CD, that seems like a fair requirement even if it's nagging to the user. Of course I suppose it can be argued that running the game under Wine on Linux also goes against the wishes of the game maker. However, I think that the coders behind Wine are more likely to not have criminal backgrounds. It's more likely that the people behind the crackz have been involved with the development of malware, warez, fraud and the like. At least that's how I see it.
You are using Digg for a completely different purpose than I am then. For me, the news is only mildly interesting. The ensuing discussion is what the real value is. I could hit tons of other sites if all I wanted is news. I want discussion, arguing, flamewars, trolling, insults, accolades, etc... but they MUST be intelligent in nature. That may be why Slashdot appeals to me more than Digg. I don't see a whole lot of that on Digg because that's not the focus of Digg. Digg just wants tons of content with very little interaction between users. It's not as much of a social site as Slashdot. And by social I mean publicly social, not people just digging each others blogs. I mean a display in the public threads. Exhibitionist in nature. That's where Slashdot has Digg beaten hands down. But as I said at the beginning, that's likely completely different from why you visit either site.
Easy... the group that is correct deserves to be self-righteous. The group that is wrong doesn't. Anyone in between is a waffler. How do you like my truthiness?:)
The crack was created by people for the purpose of accessing the game without paying for it. Even though I have paid for it, by downloading a crack I'm still legitimizing the work of the people behind the crack. I think that's wrong. It's the same reason I won't shop at Walmart even if they are cheaper than other places. It's principle.
...the more they get the lame. And nothing is lamer than Digg and Kevin.
OK, in all fairness here's where I stand on Digg vs. Slashdot:
-Sort through the massive amount of crap on Digg for the latest news bits that might be worthwhile. On Digg it'a all about quantity, not quality. Or to put it another way, "How do we do it? VOLUME"!!!
-Hit Slashdot and find that some of the stories you found interesting on Digg are featured here and there is a better quality of discussion (amazingly) than there is on Digg. So this is where you get social. Digg is just an unsorted pile of crap.
-Yeah, I'm aware that the stories are "voted" to the front page by the readers. That's fine as long as your readers aren't idiots. The more popular Digg gets, the more idiots they collect. Therefore the quality of the front page represents what the idiots want to see. Not what actual, thinking readers are interested in.
Now, what I can also thank Digg for is the effect it's had on Slashdot. Not so much internally, but externally. I don't give a rat's ass if Taco and crew are scrambling to try and compete with Digg. That's not the effect I'm talking about. I'm talking about the somewhat homeopathic effect they've had on Slashdot. By becoming more popular, they've lured away most of the idiots. I've noticed that the level of discussion on Slashdot has improved since Digg 3.0 was unleashed. I think that a lot of the morons who annoyed the piss out of me after Slashdot became popular (I've been here since 1997 when I used to be CaptEno) couldn't resist that suction of stupid that Digg presented. The only negative effect I've seen is much slower story submission. Whereas the stories used to tick by quickly, now we're lucky if we see five new stories in a day.
Sadly, the only thing that doesn't work in Wine that does in Cedega is thd copy protection crap that more and more games come with. I tried in vain for a long time to get Max Payne to run. Yes, even the crackz which I feel are very unethical. Nothing worked. I bought Cedega and Max Payne worked perfectly without a blow to my ethics.
You'd have to be to think that public libraries would want a free version of Windows that requires the public to view ads. Most American libraries are non-profit organizations. More to the point, most libraries will NOT let you host a gathering in their meeting rooms if you are seeling a product. They have no problem with your business coming to do a presentation for partners or your staff, but no sales are typically allowed. Libraries are funded with public money, so it is imperative the the money be SPENT on the public and not on for-profit activities.
Hehehe... you don't mean better production values. You mean more AMERICAN production values. I, personally, prefer a better storyline over good production any day. That's why I love the original Doctor Who just as much as the new series. The stories were excellent. My main problem with the new series is that there are too many "Buffy-isms" thrown around. I didn't like Buffy the Vampire Slayer because I thought the writing was juvenille. For something really good though, I turn to film more than television. Blade Runner is an example of absolute perfection in terms of a decent story (although divergent from the book), great production values for the day (shooting started in 1975) and incredibly good audio work (although the DVD released in the late 90s doesn't do it justice). Something like The Matrix falls incredibly short once you see how the plot dissolves beyond the first film.
I know because I intentionally ran a virus scan on the box just before I ditched it. Came up completely clean. Not only under Norton, and McAfee. But also under ClamAV and Grisoft's free AV scanner as well. It's easy to keep a Windows PC free of viruses if you know what you're doing. And you don't need AV to do it. I specifically did this two year experiment to prove a point to a co-worker.
Hmmm... I don't seem to see any version of Norton on my Gentoo box. My Fedora and RedHat boxes never had it either. My BSD boxes never had it. Essential? Hardly. Probably more "reluctantly required" for most users of Windows and Classic Mac OS. But to be honest, I had a Windows XP box that I never patched and kept behind a Linux firewall for two years. I only used Mozilla and later Firefox as the browser. I never got one infection. Not one. However, as soon as I plugged said device directly into my DSL line in the middle of an emergency, within seconds I got hit with something. (Can't remember what it was but it was common. Caused your XP box to give you an RPC error and then shutdown.)
Seeing that plastic is going to get incredibly expensive once the petroleum is all gone (2025 by the most realiable non-industry estimates) I don't think we want to be using plastic. Personally I think the future lies in ceramics. Of course that doesn't help the bridge builders out since it's heavy and probably not stable enough for bridges.
As a BOFH I regularly delete 5-10 gigs of mail a day when users ask me for more space. After all... they DID ask me for more space, so I gave it to them.;P
You make great points and I like your illustrations at the beginning of the post. Shows you have character. The problem is that there is a REAL concept of personal responsiblity which I DO live by. And there is the catch phrase, "personal responsibility" that libertarians and neocons have co-opted to absolve themselves of having to care about anyone but themselves. They are two very different things. Most readers on Slashdot fall into the latter category. So they need to be beaten up occasionally with stupid attacks that might make them think about what they actually believe or at least show them for who they really are to everyone else. Both good outcomes in my opinion. Yeah... it's a crusade.
There is, however, one failing in your post which is that you called me a "limousine liberal". I'm not rich. In fact I'm in a very fragile situation financially and I'm even lucky to be in IT considering my background. I worked hard AFTER I got the opportunity to get into IT since I really wanted to be a "rock star" but that didn't happen. My hopes for working in the movie industry as a composer didn't pan out either. So IT it was and it really was the lucky break of my life since I had ZERO experience with IT when I started. My college degree is for audio production a subset of Communications. My folks aren't rich either. My dad works 60 hour night shifts in a factory and my mom got conned out of a decent retirement by the hospital she worked for for 20+ years. So I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. I come from a blue collar family. And as far as I'm concerned, even though I'm a manager, I'm STILL a blue collar guy. IT is blue collar no matter how you slice it. It's today's factory worker. So I still identify with the blue collar crowd and I'm proud of that since they tend to be more honest than the white collar crowd.
So... I think you can probably cut the crap with the limousine liberal angle. I'm where I am today purely because of luck. Do you know what I used to think of networked computers before I got my lucky break? I thought they were a stupid and useless idea with no real benefit to anything that matters (music, movies, entertainment). My mind changed when I saw how they could be used for the very things I listed as being "what matters. Personally I still think business is the most pointless endeavor in the world. That's why I work for a public non-profit. At least I feel like my IT skills (which are considerably better than you would imagine in spite of my background) are being put to good use serving the homeless and the inner city kids.
Waitaminute!!!! What? Lake Erie, 62 feet? Come on dude! What are you smoking? People have drowned in Lake Erie when there have been boat accidents and storms. You can't have that happen in only 62 feet of water. You need something like a million feet of water before that kind of thing is possible. Lake Erie is at least a million feet deep somewhere in the center.
I'd help you if you needed it. Doesn't sound like you do though. You've got it all figured out, don't you? I tend to favor the underdogs anyway. The people who have less because they were dealt a bad hand in life. Those are the people most deserving. Believe me, I worked hard to get where I am but not as hard as my parents did. And that's because they were generous enough to make sacrifices for me. I'm now doing the same for my child. But I don't think that people who are naturally born with very little desire to do anything can be held accountable for their actions. Because they lack any natural drive for anything other than pleasure is not their fault. In many cases it can be blamed on their parents actions.
I've got a friend in just that boat. He was born with fetal alcohol syndrome and it's resulted in his being an alcoholic with no chance of recovery. He's resistant to all programs to help him recover. He's been in so many of them he knows how to fake his way through. It all goes back to the fact that his mom drank through her pregnancy. So can he actually be blamed for being in his 30s and not having finished college, not having any usable skills and not wanting to ever leave his apartment other than to buy cigarettes and beer. Hell he doesn't even leave his apartment to buy food. He goes to a local website that allows him to have meals delivered to his apartment. He has no job. Once his parents die (and the money supply they provide dies with them) I expect him to die shortly after. To him death is far more preferrable to work. Do you honestly think that letting him die is a good thing?
As far as the threat to punch someone in the mouth for saying that. No, in reality I wouldn't do that. I'm not stupid. But, I do think that people who believ in the concept of personal responsiblity deserve to get punched in the mouth repeatedly until they get some sense of compassion. I'm not the sort of person who gets pleasure (which a lot of the personal responsibility crowd seem to) or is indifferent to someone else suffering. When I see a homeless person on the street I feel sorry for the guy and wonder what hardships put him there. I've given away my lunch to homeless people whether they've wanted it or not. It's my fault that those people are homeless in some indirect way and I want to do something to help them. Working at the local shelters and devoting time to charities isn't enough. The personal responsibility crowd seems to lack any compassion at all for the situations of others and only focus on their own well being. I see that as corrupt and immoral. But hey... I was raised as a Christian who took the right parts of the teachings to heart. And even though I don't go to church I am certainly living a life more like Christ than any idiot who goes to church every Sunday.
The fatcats are ALWAYS looking for ways to fuck your ass raw. Seeing that it's an election year, they've ordered more lube and speculums to go longer, deeper and harder than the previous election year.
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...will be hammered down. That's all that's happening here. Macs entered the Intel world and Microsoft is none too happy. So Microsoft is going to try and find what tiny balls Apple has and give them a repeated and hard kicking. Good luck though because I know you've all seen an ant fall many hundreds of times it's size and be unphased. I supposed having micronads like Apple's will come in handy in this case. Of course, we've also seen ants easily crushed under our boots too. Yowie!
You're confusing justifiable righteous indiggnation with bitterness. Please correct your reading between the lines scope for future encounters. Thank you.
Hmmm... I wonder if this will lead to the same kind of fragmentation that hurt Unix in the 80s and 90s. Everyone wanting to hold onto their piece of the virtualization puzzle because THEY want to own virtualization entirely and therefore hamstringing any benefit that could be had if they cooperated. Frightening since hypervisor based virutalization can actually have VMs that perform FASTER than if they were on the iron itself.
Hmmm... interesting take on that. But I think the problem with it from my perspective is that it goes against the wishes of the game maker. If they want me to run the game using the CD, that seems like a fair requirement even if it's nagging to the user. Of course I suppose it can be argued that running the game under Wine on Linux also goes against the wishes of the game maker. However, I think that the coders behind Wine are more likely to not have criminal backgrounds. It's more likely that the people behind the crackz have been involved with the development of malware, warez, fraud and the like. At least that's how I see it.
Bitter? I think the only person bitter is you based on the tone of that response...
You are using Digg for a completely different purpose than I am then. For me, the news is only mildly interesting. The ensuing discussion is what the real value is. I could hit tons of other sites if all I wanted is news. I want discussion, arguing, flamewars, trolling, insults, accolades, etc... but they MUST be intelligent in nature. That may be why Slashdot appeals to me more than Digg. I don't see a whole lot of that on Digg because that's not the focus of Digg. Digg just wants tons of content with very little interaction between users. It's not as much of a social site as Slashdot. And by social I mean publicly social, not people just digging each others blogs. I mean a display in the public threads. Exhibitionist in nature. That's where Slashdot has Digg beaten hands down. But as I said at the beginning, that's likely completely different from why you visit either site.
Easy... the group that is correct deserves to be self-righteous. The group that is wrong doesn't. Anyone in between is a waffler. How do you like my truthiness? :)
The crack was created by people for the purpose of accessing the game without paying for it. Even though I have paid for it, by downloading a crack I'm still legitimizing the work of the people behind the crack. I think that's wrong. It's the same reason I won't shop at Walmart even if they are cheaper than other places. It's principle.
...the more they get the lame. And nothing is lamer than Digg and Kevin.
OK, in all fairness here's where I stand on Digg vs. Slashdot:
-Sort through the massive amount of crap on Digg for the latest news bits that might be worthwhile. On Digg it'a all about quantity, not quality. Or to put it another way, "How do we do it? VOLUME"!!!
-Hit Slashdot and find that some of the stories you found interesting on Digg are featured here and there is a better quality of discussion (amazingly) than there is on Digg. So this is where you get social. Digg is just an unsorted pile of crap.
-Yeah, I'm aware that the stories are "voted" to the front page by the readers. That's fine as long as your readers aren't idiots. The more popular Digg gets, the more idiots they collect. Therefore the quality of the front page represents what the idiots want to see. Not what actual, thinking readers are interested in.
Now, what I can also thank Digg for is the effect it's had on Slashdot. Not so much internally, but externally. I don't give a rat's ass if Taco and crew are scrambling to try and compete with Digg. That's not the effect I'm talking about. I'm talking about the somewhat homeopathic effect they've had on Slashdot. By becoming more popular, they've lured away most of the idiots. I've noticed that the level of discussion on Slashdot has improved since Digg 3.0 was unleashed. I think that a lot of the morons who annoyed the piss out of me after Slashdot became popular (I've been here since 1997 when I used to be CaptEno) couldn't resist that suction of stupid that Digg presented. The only negative effect I've seen is much slower story submission. Whereas the stories used to tick by quickly, now we're lucky if we see five new stories in a day.
Sadly, the only thing that doesn't work in Wine that does in Cedega is thd copy protection crap that more and more games come with. I tried in vain for a long time to get Max Payne to run. Yes, even the crackz which I feel are very unethical. Nothing worked. I bought Cedega and Max Payne worked perfectly without a blow to my ethics.
Well I wasn't a fan of Firefly either, so it's really all opinion.
You'd have to be to think that public libraries would want a free version of Windows that requires the public to view ads. Most American libraries are non-profit organizations. More to the point, most libraries will NOT let you host a gathering in their meeting rooms if you are seeling a product. They have no problem with your business coming to do a presentation for partners or your staff, but no sales are typically allowed. Libraries are funded with public money, so it is imperative the the money be SPENT on the public and not on for-profit activities.
Hehehe... you don't mean better production values. You mean more AMERICAN production values. I, personally, prefer a better storyline over good production any day. That's why I love the original Doctor Who just as much as the new series. The stories were excellent. My main problem with the new series is that there are too many "Buffy-isms" thrown around. I didn't like Buffy the Vampire Slayer because I thought the writing was juvenille. For something really good though, I turn to film more than television. Blade Runner is an example of absolute perfection in terms of a decent story (although divergent from the book), great production values for the day (shooting started in 1975) and incredibly good audio work (although the DVD released in the late 90s doesn't do it justice). Something like The Matrix falls incredibly short once you see how the plot dissolves beyond the first film.
Fanfic is where you want to be. This is Slashdot, where we "make it so" in IT departments around the world every day.
I know because I intentionally ran a virus scan on the box just before I ditched it. Came up completely clean. Not only under Norton, and McAfee. But also under ClamAV and Grisoft's free AV scanner as well. It's easy to keep a Windows PC free of viruses if you know what you're doing. And you don't need AV to do it. I specifically did this two year experiment to prove a point to a co-worker.
Hmmm... I don't seem to see any version of Norton on my Gentoo box. My Fedora and RedHat boxes never had it either. My BSD boxes never had it. Essential? Hardly. Probably more "reluctantly required" for most users of Windows and Classic Mac OS. But to be honest, I had a Windows XP box that I never patched and kept behind a Linux firewall for two years. I only used Mozilla and later Firefox as the browser. I never got one infection. Not one. However, as soon as I plugged said device directly into my DSL line in the middle of an emergency, within seconds I got hit with something. (Can't remember what it was but it was common. Caused your XP box to give you an RPC error and then shutdown.)
This has less validity than a Darl McBride's claims about Linux. What moron thought this was news?
Seeing that plastic is going to get incredibly expensive once the petroleum is all gone (2025 by the most realiable non-industry estimates) I don't think we want to be using plastic. Personally I think the future lies in ceramics. Of course that doesn't help the bridge builders out since it's heavy and probably not stable enough for bridges.
As a BOFH I regularly delete 5-10 gigs of mail a day when users ask me for more space. After all... they DID ask me for more space, so I gave it to them. ;P
You make great points and I like your illustrations at the beginning of the post. Shows you have character. The problem is that there is a REAL concept of personal responsiblity which I DO live by. And there is the catch phrase, "personal responsibility" that libertarians and neocons have co-opted to absolve themselves of having to care about anyone but themselves. They are two very different things. Most readers on Slashdot fall into the latter category. So they need to be beaten up occasionally with stupid attacks that might make them think about what they actually believe or at least show them for who they really are to everyone else. Both good outcomes in my opinion. Yeah... it's a crusade.
There is, however, one failing in your post which is that you called me a "limousine liberal". I'm not rich. In fact I'm in a very fragile situation financially and I'm even lucky to be in IT considering my background. I worked hard AFTER I got the opportunity to get into IT since I really wanted to be a "rock star" but that didn't happen. My hopes for working in the movie industry as a composer didn't pan out either. So IT it was and it really was the lucky break of my life since I had ZERO experience with IT when I started. My college degree is for audio production a subset of Communications. My folks aren't rich either. My dad works 60 hour night shifts in a factory and my mom got conned out of a decent retirement by the hospital she worked for for 20+ years. So I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. I come from a blue collar family. And as far as I'm concerned, even though I'm a manager, I'm STILL a blue collar guy. IT is blue collar no matter how you slice it. It's today's factory worker. So I still identify with the blue collar crowd and I'm proud of that since they tend to be more honest than the white collar crowd.
So... I think you can probably cut the crap with the limousine liberal angle. I'm where I am today purely because of luck. Do you know what I used to think of networked computers before I got my lucky break? I thought they were a stupid and useless idea with no real benefit to anything that matters (music, movies, entertainment). My mind changed when I saw how they could be used for the very things I listed as being "what matters. Personally I still think business is the most pointless endeavor in the world. That's why I work for a public non-profit. At least I feel like my IT skills (which are considerably better than you would imagine in spite of my background) are being put to good use serving the homeless and the inner city kids.
Worst comeback EVER!
Waitaminute!!!! What? Lake Erie, 62 feet? Come on dude! What are you smoking? People have drowned in Lake Erie when there have been boat accidents and storms. You can't have that happen in only 62 feet of water. You need something like a million feet of water before that kind of thing is possible. Lake Erie is at least a million feet deep somewhere in the center.
I'd help you if you needed it. Doesn't sound like you do though. You've got it all figured out, don't you? I tend to favor the underdogs anyway. The people who have less because they were dealt a bad hand in life. Those are the people most deserving. Believe me, I worked hard to get where I am but not as hard as my parents did. And that's because they were generous enough to make sacrifices for me. I'm now doing the same for my child. But I don't think that people who are naturally born with very little desire to do anything can be held accountable for their actions. Because they lack any natural drive for anything other than pleasure is not their fault. In many cases it can be blamed on their parents actions.
I've got a friend in just that boat. He was born with fetal alcohol syndrome and it's resulted in his being an alcoholic with no chance of recovery. He's resistant to all programs to help him recover. He's been in so many of them he knows how to fake his way through. It all goes back to the fact that his mom drank through her pregnancy. So can he actually be blamed for being in his 30s and not having finished college, not having any usable skills and not wanting to ever leave his apartment other than to buy cigarettes and beer. Hell he doesn't even leave his apartment to buy food. He goes to a local website that allows him to have meals delivered to his apartment. He has no job. Once his parents die (and the money supply they provide dies with them) I expect him to die shortly after. To him death is far more preferrable to work. Do you honestly think that letting him die is a good thing?
As far as the threat to punch someone in the mouth for saying that. No, in reality I wouldn't do that. I'm not stupid. But, I do think that people who believ in the concept of personal responsiblity deserve to get punched in the mouth repeatedly until they get some sense of compassion. I'm not the sort of person who gets pleasure (which a lot of the personal responsibility crowd seem to) or is indifferent to someone else suffering. When I see a homeless person on the street I feel sorry for the guy and wonder what hardships put him there. I've given away my lunch to homeless people whether they've wanted it or not. It's my fault that those people are homeless in some indirect way and I want to do something to help them. Working at the local shelters and devoting time to charities isn't enough. The personal responsibility crowd seems to lack any compassion at all for the situations of others and only focus on their own well being. I see that as corrupt and immoral. But hey... I was raised as a Christian who took the right parts of the teachings to heart. And even though I don't go to church I am certainly living a life more like Christ than any idiot who goes to church every Sunday.
The fatcats are ALWAYS looking for ways to fuck your ass raw. Seeing that it's an election year, they've ordered more lube and speculums to go longer, deeper and harder than the previous election year.
See this for more details.
Red herring? Now when did fish come into this? I admit the the whole thing stinks like fish, but I think he said "red light".