I am, and while I won't defend "our" culture against a charge of emptiness -- that's better left as a separate exercise -- are you certain that the problem is a failure to muster the necessary character? I ask that in the face of "psychologists [who] tell us that its [sic] perfectly normal" while we're prescribed medications.
Forgive me if I seem snide -- you've struck a raw nerve. Bipolar disorder is not imaginary. It is not a weakness of character.
And it is quite unenjoyable. Even when I'm remembering to take my medication, I'm struggling against an insidious siren song to sleep 14 hours a day, on one hand, and spending useless money on study guides I'll never use, on the other.
The attitude your remarks display is symptomatic of the durability of the stigma of mental disorders in "our culture" which you find otherwise empty.
Oh? Hmmm. They describe their product as being for NT and W2K. What the heck, maybe I'll take it for a spin and stick FreeBSD on my system... or a Linux distro...
I haven't bothered with VMWare yet because it doesn't support Win98SE and I think it's gonna be kludgy to go from Win to WinLinux, fire up Linux VMWare then re-launch Win98SE.
If VMWare are getting in bed with MS, they'll be working hand in hand with a company that hasn't shown a whole lot of interest in maintaining backward compatibility. This reinforces my suspicion that VMWare won't bother extending their product's capability back to '9x.
If I've proven myself clueless, at least make your flames educational, OK? I'm man enough to be insulted if at least I get to learn something in the process.
I don't think the people are any more unfriendly than English speakers -- they just aren't used to seeing bad German.
It's even easier to cut 'em some slack when you consider that the Germans reading your posts don't have the benefit of nonverbal communication -- watching your body language, facial expression, eye contact, etc. I've hung out with Mexicans while knowing about a dozen words of Spanish, but somehow it all worked out OK because we wanted it to.
Although Freeman Dyson's known in geek circles mainly for his scientific pursuits, the story's about an award in the field of religion.
The story's not about science, so why use the Einstein-head "Science" icon?
Whatcha really need is an icon for "Religion." I'd like to propose the yin and yang, since it'll seem more innocuous to antireligious geeks than a cross, a crescent-and-star, a magen David, etc.
As I press "Submit," I have the horrible sinking feeling that this'll get moderated as a troll...
...how John Katz likened the recording industry to the drug cartels.
Now the recording artists, like campesinos struggling to grow their coca leaf or Kentucky ex-coal-miners raising grass on the sly, realize that if the cartel ever stops working -- through ending the war on drugs/through the traditional Internet-blind distribution model collapsing -- they stand to lose their accustomed income. The campesinos have to try to survive growing coffee, cane, rice, or vegetables; the musicians have to -- what? Find a new way to get their products directly to their listenership, I guess.
I wonder...If there were a way to subscribe to a fan site for They Might Be Giants that charged my club-dues account for every song I downloaded, would I be honest enough to go to TMBG's site to get my fix rather than hunt around and scrounge up songs behind the band's back? I think I might be that honest -- on my good days, anyway.
In regards to widescreen TVs, what do regular TV shows look like?
IIRC from read a lot of Roger Ebert's essays on suntimes.com, regular ol' TV is 1.33:1, aka 4:3. A lot of theatrical releases are also this aspect ratio for convenience's sake.
Since you used the 'p' word -- plausibility -- in describing a Spielberg movie, how 'bout the rest of Saving Private Ryan after that admittedly brilliant first twenty minutes? I've never, ever seen a story in a war movie suck so badly -- so many unbelievable, even impossible things in one "good" film! (Browse the movie's comments on imdb.com for a while and you'll see what I mean.) And to think it was based on a true incident (the family name was actually Niland) makes the whole thing worse.
That 'jew' comment was offensive, but for my money the 'Disney bullshit' is right on the money. I wonder how many traveling zoom shots he'll put in. And of course, we can look forward (?) to yet another John Williams score that sounds like the last couple of dozen.
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Knowing a few gay men, I bet some of the more adventurous ones would appreciate having the unassigned bit used for "gay searching for lay" -- it'd solve certain social problems. Nobody I've talked to *likes* hanging around looking to make that critical prolonged eye contact; it's uncomfortable and even dangerous, given the level of homophobia in the US.
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Call me clueless, I don't know...what's inherently frightening about this? It's not supplanting human social interaction; it's adding to it. Or so it seems to me, anyway. What kind of "frightening" scenarios (other than the funny one about multiple pagers going off) do y'all envision?
I use WYSIWYG tools. When someone bolts a civilized interface on TeX, then we'll talk. Until then, I have work to do.
Me too, and ditto for millions of TWs everywhere, which is why so many of us who are hip to Linux wish there were a freeware WYSIWYG interface to TeX. I want to do the stuff that PageMaker, Quark, Word, and FrameMaker do, but I don't want to be in markup hell trying to do it -- I'm on deadline!
When there IS a front-end to TeX like the one described above, look out, Adobe.
Weirdly, though, the mainstay of Office, Word for Windows, has glitches that have propogated from waaaay back to today. The Master Document feature is a classic case in point. Every tech writer who's ever written a manual in Word has wished the damn thing worked reliably. Sometimes, Master Document's great. Other times, it surreptitiously and irretrievably munges the master document and all the subdocuments. If MS knows why, they aren't telling, and the Office applications team certainly don't seem to be in a hurry to fix this, either.
...just read a few of these replies with an open mind. Hell, if they understand that their software *could* be decompiled eventually anyway, what would it hurt to make the source available to the community? They'd get a lot more goodwill, possibly some cooperation, and maybe even some constructive criticism. It could be learning and bridge-building at the same time.
As a UT dropout, I never thought I'd see the day my old stomping ground got dissed--deservedly--on/. of all places. I'm ashamed of my school; there's a first. Hey, Texas A&M students and alums! Was your school smart enough not to fall for this one? If so, this teasip salutes you.
I come from a Navy family and am the son of a WW II Army NCO, so I bow to no one when it comes to using salty language, but "...we fucked up..." and "that we had the balls to..." belongs in the goat locker (the chiefs' quarters, ye lubbers), not off the keyboard of some tycoon-wannabee.
I think it's indicative of your astonishing lack of judgement that you've chosen to respond in a prominent forum of the Linux and OSS communities in this fashion. The last two employers I had the misfortune to labor for who behaved in such a manner didn't make out any better than you seem destined to.
Mr. Bottoms, did they all talk like that where you come from? You're not some dirtbag who doesn't care whether he's taken seriously -- are you? Do you kiss your mother with that mouth? Haven't you considered that many of your company's employees and investors (the smart ones that you want to keep, anyway) read Slashdot faithfully?
You, sir, are a foolish, foolish man, and others will have to suffer along with you for your egregious mistakes.
I definitely place my vote under the "waste of bandwidth" column, but then, after I tried PointCast for about a day, I realized it was a useless distraction for most people and an inefficient method for anybody (e.g. day traders) who needs to know what's going on in realtime -- news radio over the airwaves beats it hands down.
It's just the sort of neat gimmick the Web biggies -- AOL, Yahoo etc. -- are going to scramble to take over in order to have bragging rights to another, uh, "feature."
For those of you familiar with the weather-reporting segments on news programs, maybe we need a WeatherBunny(tm) avatar to spiel the forecast in a G-string and a big friendly grin. That might actually be worth point the ol' browser to a second time.
Hmmm...a commercial. How about a fast-cut montage of Linux geex doing their thing -- with REM's "Shiny Happy People" as the soundtrack? After 25 seconds, fade to white with black lettering, "Linux. Come be a part of it."
In high school, I read Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man. That's what opened my eyes to how scientists are just as prone to wanting to advance their causes as the next guy (or gal).
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Interesting.
Are you an American white suburban person?
I am, and while I won't defend "our" culture against a charge of emptiness -- that's better left as a separate exercise -- are you certain that the problem is a failure to muster the necessary character? I ask that in the face of "psychologists [who] tell us that its [sic] perfectly normal" while we're prescribed medications.
Forgive me if I seem snide -- you've struck a raw nerve. Bipolar disorder is not imaginary. It is not a weakness of character.
And it is quite unenjoyable. Even when I'm remembering to take my medication, I'm struggling against an insidious siren song to sleep 14 hours a day, on one hand, and spending useless money on study guides I'll never use, on the other.
The attitude your remarks display is symptomatic of the durability of the stigma of mental disorders in "our culture" which you find otherwise empty.
Oh? Hmmm. They describe their product as being for NT and W2K. What the heck, maybe I'll take it for a spin and stick FreeBSD on my system... or a Linux distro...
I haven't bothered with VMWare yet because it doesn't support Win98SE and I think it's gonna be kludgy to go from Win to WinLinux, fire up Linux VMWare then re-launch Win98SE.
If VMWare are getting in bed with MS, they'll be working hand in hand with a company that hasn't shown a whole lot of interest in maintaining backward compatibility. This reinforces my suspicion that VMWare won't bother extending their product's capability back to '9x.
If I've proven myself clueless, at least make your flames educational, OK? I'm man enough to be insulted if at least I get to learn something in the process.
Far out; I didn't realize Rush Limbaugh read /. Pretty cool.
I don't think the people are any more unfriendly than English speakers -- they just aren't used to seeing bad German.
It's even easier to cut 'em some slack when you consider that the Germans reading your posts don't have the benefit of nonverbal communication -- watching your body language, facial expression, eye contact, etc. I've hung out with Mexicans while knowing about a dozen words of Spanish, but somehow it all worked out OK because we wanted it to.
Although Freeman Dyson's known in geek circles mainly for his scientific pursuits, the story's about an award in the field of religion.
The story's not about science, so why use the Einstein-head "Science" icon?
Whatcha really need is an icon for "Religion." I'd like to propose the yin and yang, since it'll seem more innocuous to antireligious geeks than a cross, a crescent-and-star, a magen David, etc.
As I press "Submit," I have the horrible sinking feeling that this'll get moderated as a troll...
...how John Katz likened the recording industry to the drug cartels.
Now the recording artists, like campesinos struggling to grow their coca leaf or Kentucky ex-coal-miners raising grass on the sly, realize that if the cartel ever stops working -- through ending the war on drugs/through the traditional Internet-blind distribution model collapsing -- they stand to lose their accustomed income. The campesinos have to try to survive growing coffee, cane, rice, or vegetables; the musicians have to -- what? Find a new way to get their products directly to their listenership, I guess.
I wonder...If there were a way to subscribe to a fan site for They Might Be Giants that charged my club-dues account for every song I downloaded, would I be honest enough to go to TMBG's site to get my fix rather than hunt around and scrounge up songs behind the band's back? I think I might be that honest -- on my good days, anyway.
In regards to widescreen TVs, what do regular TV shows look like?
IIRC from read a lot of Roger Ebert's essays on suntimes.com, regular ol' TV is 1.33:1, aka 4:3. A lot of theatrical releases are also this aspect ratio for convenience's sake.
Since you used the 'p' word -- plausibility -- in describing a Spielberg movie, how 'bout the rest of Saving Private Ryan after that admittedly brilliant first twenty minutes? I've never, ever seen a story in a war movie suck so badly -- so many unbelievable, even impossible things in one "good" film! (Browse the movie's comments on imdb.com for a while and you'll see what I mean.) And to think it was based on a true incident (the family name was actually Niland) makes the whole thing worse.
That 'jew' comment was offensive, but for my money the 'Disney bullshit' is right on the money. I wonder how many traveling zoom shots he'll put in. And of course, we can look forward (?) to yet another John Williams score that sounds like the last couple of dozen.
Knowing a few gay men, I bet some of the more adventurous ones would appreciate having the unassigned bit used for "gay searching for lay" -- it'd solve certain social problems. Nobody I've talked to *likes* hanging around looking to make that critical prolonged eye contact; it's uncomfortable and even dangerous, given the level of homophobia in the US.
Call me clueless, I don't know...what's inherently frightening about this? It's not supplanting human social interaction; it's adding to it. Or so it seems to me, anyway. What kind of "frightening" scenarios (other than the funny one about multiple pagers going off) do y'all envision?
One of the TWs I mentored at a previous job was from there, and went home there. She pronounced it dooBOYSS with a sibilant S.
(Hey, Jennifer! Are you and Jeff reading Slashdot these days?)
Indeed. As they say in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, you have to go through Blue Balls and Intercourse to reach Paradise.
I use WYSIWYG tools. When someone bolts a civilized interface on TeX, then we'll talk. Until then, I have work to do.
Me too, and ditto for millions of TWs everywhere, which is why so many of us who are hip to Linux wish there were a freeware WYSIWYG interface to TeX. I want to do the stuff that PageMaker, Quark, Word, and FrameMaker do, but I don't want to be in markup hell trying to do it -- I'm on deadline!
When there IS a front-end to TeX like the one described above, look out, Adobe.
Weirdly, though, the mainstay of Office, Word for Windows, has glitches that have propogated from waaaay back to today. The Master Document feature is a classic case in point. Every tech writer who's ever written a manual in Word has wished the damn thing worked reliably. Sometimes, Master Document's great. Other times, it surreptitiously and irretrievably munges the master document and all the subdocuments. If MS knows why, they aren't telling, and the Office applications team certainly don't seem to be in a hurry to fix this, either.
...and I'm deeply skeptical that it is, who's to say they wouldn't retain a few undocumented calls for their apps?
...just read a few of these replies with an open mind. Hell, if they understand that their software *could* be decompiled eventually anyway, what would it hurt to make the source available to the community? They'd get a lot more goodwill, possibly some cooperation, and maybe even some constructive criticism. It could be learning and bridge-building at the same time.
"A prophet is without honor in his own time, in his own home town"...I know I read that someplace...
As a UT dropout, I never thought I'd see the day my old stomping ground got dissed--deservedly--on /. of all places. I'm ashamed of my school; there's a first. Hey, Texas A&M students and alums! Was your school smart enough not to fall for this one? If so, this teasip salutes you.
(Slow, deep breath) Mr. Bottoms:
I come from a Navy family and am the son of a WW II Army NCO, so I bow to no one when it comes to using salty language, but "...we fucked up..." and "that we had the balls to..." belongs in the goat locker (the chiefs' quarters, ye lubbers), not off the keyboard of some tycoon-wannabee.
I think it's indicative of your astonishing lack of judgement that you've chosen to respond in a prominent forum of the Linux and OSS communities in this fashion. The last two employers I had the misfortune to labor for who behaved in such a manner didn't make out any better than you seem destined to.
Mr. Bottoms, did they all talk like that where you come from? You're not some dirtbag who doesn't care whether he's taken seriously -- are you? Do you kiss your mother with that mouth? Haven't you considered that many of your company's employees and investors (the smart ones that you want to keep, anyway) read Slashdot faithfully?
You, sir, are a foolish, foolish man, and others will have to suffer along with you for your egregious mistakes.
Is she the real deal, or booth candy?
(You do remember the Eurythmics, right?)
I definitely place my vote under the "waste of bandwidth" column, but then, after I tried PointCast for about a day, I realized it was a useless distraction for most people and an inefficient method for anybody (e.g. day traders) who needs to know what's going on in realtime -- news radio over the airwaves beats it hands down.
It's just the sort of neat gimmick the Web biggies -- AOL, Yahoo etc. -- are going to scramble to take over in order to have bragging rights to another, uh, "feature."
For those of you familiar with the weather-reporting segments on news programs, maybe we need a WeatherBunny(tm) avatar to spiel the forecast in a G-string and a big friendly grin. That might actually be worth point the ol' browser to a second time.
Pardon my dinosaur sexism.
Hmmm...a commercial. How about a fast-cut montage of Linux geex doing their thing -- with REM's "Shiny Happy People" as the soundtrack? After 25 seconds, fade to white with black lettering, "Linux. Come be a part of it."
Hey, it could happen.
In high school, I read Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man . That's what opened my eyes to how scientists are just as prone to wanting to advance their causes as the next guy (or gal).