Zeitgeist might not be a popular word in whatever circles you happen to run in, but it is a word that English speakers use a lot,
Actually, no it's not. I'm a native English speaker and I've NEVER heard that word before. That's because it's not an English word. Some obscure nerd using a foreign word in an English website doesn't make it an English word.
In fact, it would be tough to find an entire issue of Wired magazine which doesn't use the word "zeitgeist" somewhere between the covers.
A few years ago, I read about some blinded taste tests of popular bottled waters and water from other sources. The results? The number one best tasting water...New York City tap water.;)
Well, that's OK for smug shitheads who live in places like New York, but what about the rest of us who live in places where the tap water tastes like battery acid?
Bottle water sells because it's actually pleasant to drink.
NYT registration is a lot of hassle just to read a single article. You have to fill in page after page of information, and even then the article doesn't load, it just gives a 404 error.
Also why should a simple news site require you to jump through hoops when there are many other, better news sources that don't require registration?
On another note, you can tell who the NY Times is aimed at just by reading the options:
I work for a fire department. I'd kill for a day when spectators were in my way and refused to move. After all, if you park in front of a fire hydrant, policy's to run the hose THROUGH your car.
Around here, it's policy to throw bricks at firemen.
No matter what your view, I think we can all agree that there is no place for 'intelligent debate' with grown adults who believe in children's fairy stories about magic gods and talking bushes and bearded men who come back from the dead.
You have to love the sheep-mentality of people who not only will be dictated to by their furniture, but will actually ACCEPT a DVD taking 15 minutes to load.
Personally I think a DVD player that allows the DVD to disable features such as skipping parts is faulty and should be returned. The same with those ancient 'regioned' DVD players.
Great, so when you select Nautilus from the menu, you chose the --no-desktop option? Oh wait, you can't use command line options in the GUI. The only way to do that is to delve into the deepest settings and add the --no-desktop.
Also, how would a newbie know about this --no-desktop setting? They'd just see their desktop ruined by a single program. If a simple program on Windows destroyed your background and icons, you'd all be laughing at how awful Microsoft were, and praising Linux.
That's not the point though, the point is, you can't use Konqueror or any of the KDE programs without having KDE installed, and without KDE's bloated libraries having to load everytime you use even the smallest utility. The same goes for Gnome. At any point, you may have several sets of libraries loaded, all doing exactly the same thing but in slightly different ways.
MS bundles tend to be UNREMOVABLE from the system.
If you're using a program that relies on Gnome libraries, then Gnome is UNREMOVABLE from your system. The same goes for KDE.
If open source was that great, you wouldn't need to install individual extentions for each site that doesn't render correctly. In fact, if open source was that great, sites would render correctly the first time.
Upgrading drives progress. If no-one upgraded to faster and better hardware, no-one would make any better hardware, and we'd all be using 1Mhz processors with 256kB of RAM.
Since when doesn't killing terrorists and evil rebels count as improving society? If robots can be advanced to the stage whereby they can replace human soldiers, then it will improve society as allied troops can sit at home in safety whilst the robots go out and do the peacekeeping. Our enemies wouldn't stand much chance against opponents that are immune to bullets. This invention could save our soldiers lives at the expense of murderers and terrorists.
Because not everyone wants to pay £5 for a flat IDE cable, another £5 for a flat floppy cable, and another £5 for a another flat IDE cable for the CD/DVD drives. Perhaps if rounded cables were sensibly priced then flat-cable folding wouldn't be an issue.
You have a point about companies becoming obsolete, i.e. traditional cameras and typewriters are on the way out, or at least to a small niche. On the other hand, Microsoft deal in operating systems and software, and I don't see them going extinct any time soon. Unless someone invents something which makes operating systems obsolete, or office suites obsolete, then Microsoft will still be very profitable in making them and selling them.
IBM can cooperate with open-source software because they are in different fields, it's not like IBM has an OS competing with Linux. Microsoft on the other hand would have nothing to gain from lending a hand to its competitors.
Why won't Microsoft bring Office to Linux? Because that would undercut the Windows business.
You talk about creating new business, but in this case I don't think it's a threat to MS for not porting MS Office to Linux. The costs of a port would outweigh the benefits. With Office not on Linux, it reduces Linux's ability to compete on a level playing field with Windows.
I think that the benefits of keeping people on Windows outweigh the possible extra profits they could get by porting Office to Linux, taking into account the low Linux commercial-software-buying user base and the cost of implementing and maintaining the port.
I wouldn't say overtaken. The beauty of such games is in their simplicity, not in how big and vulgar they are. You can't really improve on a game like that, solitaire is solitaire. MS Solitaire also has the benefit of being pronouncable, and actually being named after the game it is.
According to that site, I'm in America. That's news to me! My actual location is thousands of miles away. Looks like this ip2location thing isn't too accurate.
Yeah, IT manager is a relatively easy job. Think about it:
You're mainly sat down all day, rather than stood up
You work 8 hours rather than 12-16 hours
You work days rather than nights
You're inside in a nice cosy office, rather than in a filthy factory or in the cold wind and rain
You don't have to shovel shit, the most you have to do is type or write
You get a decent wage rather than minimum
You don't have to obligatorily work every weekend
You get to go on the Internet/play games whilst you should be working
Next to no risk of being injured like you would on a building site
You don't come home covered in oil/paint/rubber/shit that doesn't wash out
Company car
You don't get a bad back after a few weeks in the job
You're doing mentally stimulating work, rather than brainless production-line work
You get comfortable shoes rather than rock-hard boots
When you need a piss you can go for one, rather than waiting 3 hours for your next break (because someone has to fill in for you whilst you're gone)
You don't risk slipping over in oil, being run over by a fork-lift, and you don't have to crawl into 3-foot-high crawl-spaces inside sweltering pitch-black ovens to clean them of all the dust and soot (which gets in your eyes and in your lungs)
Comparing a manual-labour job to an IT manager job makes the IT manager look pretty well off. Also, there's this observation:
More people complain about being an IT manager on here because IT managers get to spend time at the computer reading slashdot. Manual labourers don't have time in the day to sit about bitching on the Internet.
Moral or not, you'd STILL be arrested. This is real life, not some fantasy slashdot world where only nice happy things that slashdot posters agree with happen.
Slashdot Mirror
Zeitgeist might not be a popular word in whatever circles you happen to run in, but it is a word that English speakers use a lot,
Actually, no it's not. I'm a native English speaker and I've NEVER heard that word before. That's because it's not an English word. Some obscure nerd using a foreign word in an English website doesn't make it an English word.
In fact, it would be tough to find an entire issue of Wired magazine which doesn't use the word "zeitgeist" somewhere between the covers.
What is Wired magazine?
A few years ago, I read about some blinded taste tests of popular bottled waters and water from other sources. The results? The number one best tasting water...New York City tap water. ;)
Well, that's OK for smug shitheads who live in places like New York, but what about the rest of us who live in places where the tap water tastes like battery acid?
Bottle water sells because it's actually pleasant to drink.
NYT registration is a lot of hassle just to read a single article. You have to fill in page after page of information, and even then the article doesn't load, it just gives a 404 error.
Also why should a simple news site require you to jump through hoops when there are many other, better news sources that don't require registration?
On another note, you can tell who the NY Times is aimed at just by reading the options:
Occupation: Judge, Lawyer, Doctor, CEO, King, Other.
I work for a fire department. I'd kill for a day when spectators were in my way and refused to move. After all, if you park in front of a fire hydrant, policy's to run the hose THROUGH your car.
Around here, it's policy to throw bricks at firemen.
No matter what your view, I think we can all agree that there is no place for 'intelligent debate' with grown adults who believe in children's fairy stories about magic gods and talking bushes and bearded men who come back from the dead.
Warning: that site almost froze my computer with it's 'rotating-wheel' of images that doesn't actually contribute anything to the site at all.
It's just resting in my account, honest.
You have to love the sheep-mentality of people who not only will be dictated to by their furniture, but will actually ACCEPT a DVD taking 15 minutes to load.
Personally I think a DVD player that allows the DVD to disable features such as skipping parts is faulty and should be returned. The same with those ancient 'regioned' DVD players.
Great, so when you select Nautilus from the menu, you chose the --no-desktop option? Oh wait, you can't use command line options in the GUI. The only way to do that is to delve into the deepest settings and add the --no-desktop.
Also, how would a newbie know about this --no-desktop setting? They'd just see their desktop ruined by a single program. If a simple program on Windows destroyed your background and icons, you'd all be laughing at how awful Microsoft were, and praising Linux.
That's not the point though, the point is, you can't use Konqueror or any of the KDE programs without having KDE installed, and without KDE's bloated libraries having to load everytime you use even the smallest utility. The same goes for Gnome. At any point, you may have several sets of libraries loaded, all doing exactly the same thing but in slightly different ways.
MS bundles tend to be UNREMOVABLE from the system.
If you're using a program that relies on Gnome libraries, then Gnome is UNREMOVABLE from your system. The same goes for KDE.
Or, you could install the slashfix extension:
f ox -extension.html
http://www.hardgrok.org/blog/item/slashfix-fire
Isn't open source great?!
If open source was that great, you wouldn't need to install individual extentions for each site that doesn't render correctly. In fact, if open source was that great, sites would render correctly the first time.
Sounds like a benefit to me. It's nice and steady and substantial, and it means some skinny nerd can't steal it.
Upgrading drives progress. If no-one upgraded to faster and better hardware, no-one would make any better hardware, and we'd all be using 1Mhz processors with 256kB of RAM.
Because you can't be part of the in-crowd unless you have a gmail address.
robots are not designed to improve society
Since when doesn't killing terrorists and evil rebels count as improving society? If robots can be advanced to the stage whereby they can replace human soldiers, then it will improve society as allied troops can sit at home in safety whilst the robots go out and do the peacekeeping. Our enemies wouldn't stand much chance against opponents that are immune to bullets. This invention could save our soldiers lives at the expense of murderers and terrorists.
Why have you linked to a site full of pictures of cocks?
Because not everyone wants to pay £5 for a flat IDE cable, another £5 for a flat floppy cable, and another £5 for a another flat IDE cable for the CD/DVD drives. Perhaps if rounded cables were sensibly priced then flat-cable folding wouldn't be an issue.
There is absolutely nothing beneficial about violence. Violence is, by nature, destructive.
You're assuming that destruction is never beneficial.
You have a point about companies becoming obsolete, i.e. traditional cameras and typewriters are on the way out, or at least to a small niche. On the other hand, Microsoft deal in operating systems and software, and I don't see them going extinct any time soon. Unless someone invents something which makes operating systems obsolete, or office suites obsolete, then Microsoft will still be very profitable in making them and selling them.
IBM can cooperate with open-source software because they are in different fields, it's not like IBM has an OS competing with Linux. Microsoft on the other hand would have nothing to gain from lending a hand to its competitors.
Why won't Microsoft bring Office to Linux? Because that would undercut the Windows business.
You talk about creating new business, but in this case I don't think it's a threat to MS for not porting MS Office to Linux. The costs of a port would outweigh the benefits. With Office not on Linux, it reduces Linux's ability to compete on a level playing field with Windows.
I think that the benefits of keeping people on Windows outweigh the possible extra profits they could get by porting Office to Linux, taking into account the low Linux commercial-software-buying user base and the cost of implementing and maintaining the port.
I wouldn't say overtaken. The beauty of such games is in their simplicity, not in how big and vulgar they are. You can't really improve on a game like that, solitaire is solitaire. MS Solitaire also has the benefit of being pronouncable, and actually being named after the game it is.
Yeah, I heard about Knoppix about a month ago and decided to download it. I'll let you know if it's any good once I've got it all down over my 56k.
According to that site, I'm in America. That's news to me! My actual location is thousands of miles away. Looks like this ip2location thing isn't too accurate.
You're mainly sat down all day, rather than stood up
You work 8 hours rather than 12-16 hours
You work days rather than nights
You're inside in a nice cosy office, rather than in a filthy factory or in the cold wind and rain
You don't have to shovel shit, the most you have to do is type or write
You get a decent wage rather than minimum
You don't have to obligatorily work every weekend
You get to go on the Internet/play games whilst you should be working
Next to no risk of being injured like you would on a building site
You don't come home covered in oil/paint/rubber/shit that doesn't wash out
Company car
You don't get a bad back after a few weeks in the job
You're doing mentally stimulating work, rather than brainless production-line work
You get comfortable shoes rather than rock-hard boots
When you need a piss you can go for one, rather than waiting 3 hours for your next break (because someone has to fill in for you whilst you're gone)
You don't risk slipping over in oil, being run over by a fork-lift, and you don't have to crawl into 3-foot-high crawl-spaces inside sweltering pitch-black ovens to clean them of all the dust and soot (which gets in your eyes and in your lungs)
Comparing a manual-labour job to an IT manager job makes the IT manager look pretty well off. Also, there's this observation:
More people complain about being an IT manager on here because IT managers get to spend time at the computer reading slashdot. Manual labourers don't have time in the day to sit about bitching on the Internet.
Moral or not, you'd STILL be arrested. This is real life, not some fantasy slashdot world where only nice happy things that slashdot posters agree with happen.