'cause he'll go and work for Apple. He and Steve can work together, and when they have a disagreement, they can play bloody knuckles 'til someone gives in.
Sounds like crappy politics - ruins more stuff than it should. Why can't people just shut up and code?
Reminds me of a certain someone, a certain website, and a certain -1 Offtopic Mod.
But what do I know? Until you get two people together to talk it out while being moderated, you'll never get anywhere once the lines of communication break down.
Really swell - one of the things that has held me back from linux is the lack of hardware/software high quality audio. Could we see Protools for Linux(TM) (hmm? OS X not *that* different?)
Perhaps this will kick some audio hardware makers into releasing some drivers for the Penguin.
I really wish I could run my Aardvark Q10 (awesome hardware) under something other than MS - they were working on Beos drivers before the death of Be. Those are probably sitting on a floppy in a file cabinet.:(
As a mac (os X) user at work and a XP (GASP!) user at home, this news comes none to soon. This is what will get linux ready for dumbasses like me to use on the desktop.
I love how everything in OS X seems to be well thought out; XP on the other hand, may have been assembled after the MS Christmas party, you know the one where Ballmer dry humped Bill's leg and everyone laughed, got fired, and re-hired in the same night.
I hope that linux can get moving with the standardized (yet infinitely customizable) interface. Maybe throw in those spiffy vector icons (eye candy!), some way to never visit the CLI if I don't want to, and a way to make configuration eaiser.
But I digress. A standard desktop will only encourage linux. Those who want to run the u1tr4 l33t desktops can still do so, and the people who just want an easy alternative to windows will have one. Or buy a mac:)
I was dropping stuff off at the dump the other day (you know, batteries, bottles of mercury, dirty needles, hundreds of smoke detectors) and saw a microwave with a little 5" B&W TV built in. I was like, wow. I was tempted to take it home and make it into a Mac SE terminal, but then I realized that I'm an idiot, and would have no idea how to do such a thing. So I went home.
The only reason we have anything growing in the U.S at this point is for National Security. It wouldn't do to have Mexico suffer a blight in their crops and have a bunch of Americans starve. Why do you think we pay farmers subsidies?
To keep them there.
Sadly, that's not even working, since millions of dollars go to corporate farms every year, and not to the small family farmers who need them most. Like some of my neighbors out here in southern Minnesota.
PS. I would like to use Just because you don't see something first hand dosn't mean it isn't out there. Christ. on the back flap of my new book, "UFO Sightings: Fact or Facists?"
Yes. I *am* so stupid. Thanks for noticing.
Re:Heh -I posted about this a while ago
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The US should At some point a balance is reached where it is no longer cheaper to manufacture something abroad and ship it here because their standard of living will eventually increase to equal America's. At that point jobs will come back to America.
And when, pray tell, will that be? Hoping that the global utopia will come about anytime soon?
You miss the point. The US is treating the world as its own private sweatshop. Look at the labels on the stuff you own sometime. Unless you're from Milwalkee, chances are you have a bunch of 'Made in ROC, Taiwan, Japan, India, Mexico, the Phillipines' ect. The only thing that no other county can make is American culture, and that makes more money for the people who market it than most anything else. Why do you think the **AAs go apeshit every time they see a CD-Burner or cable modem? It's the one thing that could hurt their bottom line - takes them right out of the ol' picture.
Name something that is made in the US that can't be made somewhere else and I'll give you a lolly. Example: I was at the bastion of US consumerism, "WALMART" and saw US Flag magnets, bumper stickers and plastic car window flags. Printed in small, but obvious letters was, "Made in China". Put that in your back pocket. Patriotism from three feet away.
I'm all for jobs coming back to America - I'm just thinking short term, you know? Before the earth falls into the sun.;)
those who are camping next to those medkits. Damnit! Why someone would put a rocket launcher and a mega-health in the same room is beyond me...
Heh -I posted about this a while ago
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Here it is again - more ontopic than in the original story...
The U.S. no longer knows how to make shovels, but they know how to buy them from 3rd world countries. The U.S then uses these shovels to overwhelm these same countries with the one thing that makes America 'great' - culture.
When the U.S. is reduced to its last surviving companies, it will be the producers of media that have spent trillions of dollars in the pursuit of an unstoppable monopoly on 'content' and the profit that follows.
Will there be U.S. Steel plants? Refineries? Agriculture? No. Will any durable good be manufactured in the U.S. No.
The only thing that other countries can't compete with the U.S.: the creation(in the loosest sense), distribution, and consumption of U.S. made MassMedia.
The war on terrorism is already a poor excuse for a reality-TV show, the war on drugs is an effort to direct your 'escapes' to more profitable, advertising-rich video and movies; the war on piracy is nothing more than a giant squeezing blood from a stone.
When all that is real has been lost to a soft, dehumanized, videodrone people - that is when the countries who have made the shovels, dug the ditches, grown the food, built the roads and cities in the U.S. - that is when those countries will walk in and quietly pick up the fallen reins of America, and sense may return.
Has 'Overrated' been taken out of the Message system? I got two this morning, and I haven't seen any report of them...could be the new bitchslap of choice - no message, no timeline (multiple down mods close together=probably editor with a buttstick)
FOOLS! Don't you see? There is only Zardov!
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WE are the AI! We are an alien experiment in AI, run by a giant computer at the center of the earth! or...
The Government is using us as a Beowulf cluster of human minds - every time you run America's Army, Unreal 2003, or Warcraft 3, the computer you played on is tapped for your reactions and stragegies. We are training the Goverment's giant computer at the center of the earth! or...
Our computer 'network' known as 'the online' has reached self-awareness, albeit at a low level. Your experiences online are actually the thoughts of what will become a giant computer at the center of the earth! or...
Suspected for some time, but only now coming to light, it is discovered by a giant computer at the center of the earth that it is actually a simulation by the *real* giant computer at the center of the earth! This totally trips it out...at the center of the earth! or... there is actually a giant earth at the center of the computer! or... a giant computer at the center of the earth! or... a giant computer at the center of the earth! or...
I agree! Filtering helps parents. However, there are always some who take a positive thing too far. I have a pal whose entire childhood was filtered to the hilt - TV, Books, language, religion, freinds, school, ideas. He's now an alcoholic coke-head.
How come minister's daughters always make the best strippers?
Yes, my post is flamebait-ish, but I think that the issues I raise are good ones.
Why not wait for the TV version?
Buy movies that are rated appropriately.
Give your child an appreciation of books and they will thank you forever.
How does one explain the use of profanity, ect., when it is taboo?
Good questions, marred by a broken/., obscured by egregious profanity, and hidden by incorrect moderation.
Why don't DVD's come with a TV 'Broadcast' edit on them already? It seems to me that would be trivial to include as a 'special feature'.
If parents want to watch an R rated movie, why not wait until it comes out on TV? Pre-edited for your convienice, so as not to offend Wheel of Fortune viewers, and hysterical mothers.
Please. Taking out the swear words, violence, and sex out of most movies destroy the entire film. How will Billy understand the 3 minutes of 'Deliverance' or 'Natural Born Killers' he gets to see?
Read a goddamn book, you easily-offended fuckhats. There is sure as shit better fucking shit in a good book than there is in some overfuckinghyped, Hollywood focus-grouped shit film, you cockwrestlers.
Profanity is all around you already, and can appear without warning. Are you going to monitor Billy's friends language, every word said on the bus, school, overheard phone converstions, slumber parties, supermarket magazines, bathroom stalls, tourrets syndrome sufferers at the mall, ect,ect,ect 24/7?
Where does it end? How far away from the real world will you keep Billy? Will your oppressive control result in turning your son into a cannibal pumpkin rapist? Are your particular pumpkin-fucking hangups reflected in the DVD edit? How will you know? How can you make sure Billy never sees any pumpkin-fucking? How will you request 'No pumpkin-fucking!' without feeling dirty that you said pumpkin-fucking aloud? Is pumpkin-dry-humping ok?
Have you thought about actually *talking* to Billy, and explaining the reasons behind profanity, violence, sex and when/if they are appropriate?
eh. Easier to buy a DVD player than raise your kids.
Why don't DVD's come with a TV 'Broadcast' edit on them already? It seems to me that would be trivial to include as a 'special feature'.
If parents want to watch an R rated movie, why not wait until it comes out on TV? Pre-edited for your convienice, so as not to offend Wheel of Fortune viewers.
Please. Taking out the swear words, violence, and sex out of most movies destroy the entire film. How will Billy understand the 3 minutes of 'Deliverance' or 'Natural Born Killers' he gets to see?
Read a goddamn book, you easily-offended fuckhats. There is sure as shit better fucking shit in a good book than there is in some overfuckinghyped, Hollywood focus-grouped shit film, you cockwrestlers.
Profanity is all around you already, and can appear without warning. Are you going to monitor Billy's friends language, every word said on the bus, school, overheard phone converstions, slumber parties, supermarket magazines, bathroom stalls, tourrets syndrome sufferers at the mall, ect,ect,ect 24/7?
Where does it end? How far away from the real world will you keep Billy? Will your oppressive control result in turning your son into a cannibal pumpkin rapist? Are your particular pumpkin-fucking hangups reflected in the DVD edit? How will you know? How can you make sure Billy never sees any pumpkin-fucking? How will you request 'No pumpkin-fucking!' without feeling dirty that you said pumpkin-fucking aloud? Is pumpkin-dry-humping ok?
Have you thought about actually *talking* to Billy, and explaining the reasons behind profanity, violence, sex and when/if they are appropriate?
eh. Easier to buy a DVD player than raise your kids.
*FUCK!*
Sorry.
Mod this down, please.
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I won't see the results for 3 days.
Why is Slashdot so slow? My God, it is so slow as to be unreadable!
Is slashdot now hosted on a Lego Brick? A Mac SE? An Atari 2600? WTF?
Poorly (spell)checked stories, duplicates, and now unbearably slow.
How about/. changes to a newsletter that gets mailed out every day? The page updates would be faster, the EDs could use the spellcheck in MS Works, and stories could be filed once! in a filing cabinet.
This is a book review? How about a Slashdot review?
Alright. Start your oh-so-predictable mods. Yawn. Wake me when the page refreshes.
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Sounds like crappy politics - ruins more stuff than it should. Why can't people just shut up and code?
Reminds me of a certain someone, a certain website, and a certain -1 Offtopic Mod.
But what do I know? Until you get two people together to talk it out while being moderated, you'll never get anywhere once the lines of communication break down.
Perhaps this will kick some audio hardware makers into releasing some drivers for the Penguin.
I really wish I could run my Aardvark Q10 (awesome hardware) under something other than MS - they were working on Beos drivers before the death of Be. Those are probably sitting on a floppy in a file cabinet. :(
Ha! That's old news - they've been in bed together for a long time... ;P
I love how everything in OS X seems to be well thought out; XP on the other hand, may have been assembled after the MS Christmas party, you know the one where Ballmer dry humped Bill's leg and everyone laughed, got fired, and re-hired in the same night.
I hope that linux can get moving with the standardized (yet infinitely customizable) interface. Maybe throw in those spiffy vector icons (eye candy!), some way to never visit the CLI if I don't want to, and a way to make configuration eaiser.
But I digress. A standard desktop will only encourage linux. Those who want to run the u1tr4 l33t desktops can still do so, and the people who just want an easy alternative to windows will have one. Or buy a mac :)
(Yes, this is a whore of a post.)
I was dropping stuff off at the dump the other day (you know, batteries, bottles of mercury, dirty needles, hundreds of smoke detectors) and saw a microwave with a little 5" B&W TV built in. I was like, wow. I was tempted to take it home and make it into a Mac SE terminal, but then I realized that I'm an idiot, and would have no idea how to do such a thing. So I went home.
Go to town, you deadbeat bidder! ;)
There are 4 that will run in classic or os9 but none I found will run in os X.
And you are such a fucking coward. Blow me.
Have you guys thought about taking a Sharpie and marking off stories on the monitor as you go? That is a really good idea.
To keep them there.
Sadly, that's not even working, since millions of dollars go to corporate farms every year, and not to the small family farmers who need them most. Like some of my neighbors out here in southern Minnesota.
PS. I would like to use Just because you don't see something first hand dosn't mean it isn't out there. Christ. on the back flap of my new book, "UFO Sightings: Fact or Facists?"
Yes. I *am* so stupid. Thanks for noticing.
And when, pray tell, will that be? Hoping that the global utopia will come about anytime soon?
You miss the point. The US is treating the world as its own private sweatshop. Look at the labels on the stuff you own sometime. Unless you're from Milwalkee, chances are you have a bunch of 'Made in ROC, Taiwan, Japan, India, Mexico, the Phillipines' ect. The only thing that no other county can make is American culture, and that makes more money for the people who market it than most anything else. Why do you think the **AAs go apeshit every time they see a CD-Burner or cable modem? It's the one thing that could hurt their bottom line - takes them right out of the ol' picture.
Name something that is made in the US that can't be made somewhere else and I'll give you a lolly. Example: I was at the bastion of US consumerism, "WALMART" and saw US Flag magnets, bumper stickers and plastic car window flags. Printed in small, but obvious letters was, "Made in China". Put that in your back pocket. Patriotism from three feet away.
I'm all for jobs coming back to America - I'm just thinking short term, you know? Before the earth falls into the sun. ;)
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Looks like Sam's buying drinks tonight, courtesy of you!those who are camping next to those medkits. Damnit! Why someone would put a rocket launcher and a mega-health in the same room is beyond me...
Will there be U.S. Steel plants? Refineries? Agriculture? No. Will any durable good be manufactured in the U.S. No.
The only thing that other countries can't compete with the U.S.: the creation(in the loosest sense), distribution, and consumption of U.S. made MassMedia.
The war on terrorism is already a poor excuse for a reality-TV show, the war on drugs is an effort to direct your 'escapes' to more profitable, advertising-rich video and movies; the war on piracy is nothing more than a giant squeezing blood from a stone.
When all that is real has been lost to a soft, dehumanized, videodrone people - that is when the countries who have made the shovels, dug the ditches, grown the food, built the roads and cities in the U.S. - that is when those countries will walk in and quietly pick up the fallen reins of America, and sense may return.
I think I just choked on a pretzel.
I posted a dupe! I'm ready to be an editor!
Look! I'm ONTOPIC so blow it out your ass.
Don't I know you?
that the old X-files writers are getting some work.
with other articles by the same author.
WE are the AI! We are an alien experiment in AI, run by a giant computer at the center of the earth!
or...
The Government is using us as a Beowulf cluster of human minds - every time you run America's Army, Unreal 2003, or Warcraft 3, the computer you played on is tapped for your reactions and stragegies. We are training the Goverment's giant computer at the center of the earth!
or...
Our computer 'network' known as 'the online' has reached self-awareness, albeit at a low level. Your experiences online are actually the thoughts of what will become a giant computer at the center of the earth!
or...
Suspected for some time, but only now coming to light, it is discovered by a giant computer at the center of the earth that it is actually a simulation by the *real* giant computer at the center of the earth! This totally trips it out...at the center of the earth!
or...
there is actually a giant earth at the center of the computer!
or...
a giant computer at the center of the earth!
or...
a giant computer at the center of the earth!
or...
or...
How come minister's daughters always make the best strippers?
Yes, my post is flamebait-ish, but I think that the issues I raise are good ones.
Why not wait for the TV version?
Buy movies that are rated appropriately.
Give your child an appreciation of books and they will thank you forever.
How does one explain the use of profanity, ect., when it is taboo?
Good questions, marred by a broken /., obscured by egregious profanity, and hidden by incorrect moderation.
If parents want to watch an R rated movie, why not wait until it comes out on TV? Pre-edited for your convienice, so as not to offend Wheel of Fortune viewers, and hysterical mothers.
Please. Taking out the swear words, violence, and sex out of most movies destroy the entire film. How will Billy understand the 3 minutes of 'Deliverance' or 'Natural Born Killers' he gets to see?
Read a goddamn book, you easily-offended fuckhats. There is sure as shit better fucking shit in a good book than there is in some overfuckinghyped, Hollywood focus-grouped shit film, you cockwrestlers.
Profanity is all around you already, and can appear without warning. Are you going to monitor Billy's friends language, every word said on the bus, school, overheard phone converstions, slumber parties, supermarket magazines, bathroom stalls, tourrets syndrome sufferers at the mall, ect,ect,ect 24/7?
Where does it end? How far away from the real world will you keep Billy? Will your oppressive control result in turning your son into a cannibal pumpkin rapist? Are your particular pumpkin-fucking hangups reflected in the DVD edit? How will you know? How can you make sure Billy never sees any pumpkin-fucking? How will you request 'No pumpkin-fucking!' without feeling dirty that you said pumpkin-fucking aloud? Is pumpkin-dry-humping ok?
Have you thought about actually *talking* to Billy, and explaining the reasons behind profanity, violence, sex and when/if they are appropriate?
eh. Easier to buy a DVD player than raise your kids.
*FUCK!* Sorry. Edit that out.
If parents want to watch an R rated movie, why not wait until it comes out on TV? Pre-edited for your convienice, so as not to offend Wheel of Fortune viewers.
Please. Taking out the swear words, violence, and sex out of most movies destroy the entire film. How will Billy understand the 3 minutes of 'Deliverance' or 'Natural Born Killers' he gets to see?
Read a goddamn book, you easily-offended fuckhats. There is sure as shit better fucking shit in a good book than there is in some overfuckinghyped, Hollywood focus-grouped shit film, you cockwrestlers.
Profanity is all around you already, and can appear without warning. Are you going to monitor Billy's friends language, every word said on the bus, school, overheard phone converstions, slumber parties, supermarket magazines, bathroom stalls, tourrets syndrome sufferers at the mall, ect,ect,ect 24/7?
Where does it end? How far away from the real world will you keep Billy? Will your oppressive control result in turning your son into a cannibal pumpkin rapist? Are your particular pumpkin-fucking hangups reflected in the DVD edit? How will you know? How can you make sure Billy never sees any pumpkin-fucking? How will you request 'No pumpkin-fucking!' without feeling dirty that you said pumpkin-fucking aloud? Is pumpkin-dry-humping ok?
Have you thought about actually *talking* to Billy, and explaining the reasons behind profanity, violence, sex and when/if they are appropriate?
eh. Easier to buy a DVD player than raise your kids.
*FUCK!* Sorry.
Why is Slashdot so slow? My God, it is so slow as to be unreadable!
Is slashdot now hosted on a Lego Brick? A Mac SE? An Atari 2600? WTF?
Poorly (spell)checked stories, duplicates, and now unbearably slow.
How about /. changes to a newsletter that gets mailed out every day? The page updates would be faster, the EDs could use the spellcheck in MS Works, and stories could be filed once! in a filing cabinet.
This is a book review? How about a Slashdot review?
Alright. Start your oh-so-predictable mods. Yawn. Wake me when the page refreshes.
I have never checked 'always trust' and have wished for a 'Never trust, key their car, and don't ask me again' checkbox for a long, long time.
Especially after the "Microsoft is no longer a 'Trusted' party fiasco of last year.
If you can't trust Bill, who can you trust?
Thanks for listening, Bonzi Buddy. You're my only friend.