You play a software programmer who has one mission: Get Linux Ready for the Desktop!
You must navigate new users, configuration scripts, unsupported printers, and obscure terminal messages!
Your enemy, BILL GATES will do anything to stop you! Beware the dreaded Intellectual Property attack, and the TOC missle! Dodge laywer after laywer who will try anything to stop you! Pick up pizzas, Mountain Dew, and Penguin Mints for extra power!
All this without a consistent user interface, and sound!
If you think your good enough to beat the 'Steve Balmer Monkey Dance' and churn out a thousand lines of code a day, you just might be ready for "Get Linux Ready for the Desktop"!
Act now, and well include a DCCS encoded bonus level: 'Shave Richard Stalman!'
The U.S. no longer knows how to make shovels, but they know how to buy them from 3rd world countries. They then use 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.
Hell, I said 'record'. Now I'll have to pay a fine of $250,000, undownload my 600 mp3s, sell my 12x CD burner (equivelent to 347) and have to move my offices to the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu.
Have to agree. If we paid Congresswhores to trim and compress, find and repeal redundant and plain dumb laws we might actually have a usable, FAIR system.
If you wrote zillions of Lines of Code, much of it having nothing to do with the program you were assigned, would your boss pat you on the back and say, "Great job, Ted! I really like the way you slipped in the Beos port of 'Outpost 2: Back in the Habit' in the TPS Report Generator software. I see you taking my place some day..."
Yet that is just what we have in the hallowed halls of Congress. A bunch of shitty programmers, eating all of our pizza.
. LOOK! Real congresswhores subscribe to http://www.govexec.com! Because we're not Public Servants, we're EXECUTIVES!
How about a war on those who would call a war for anything.
The 'war on piracy' (wait for the MassMedia catchphrase) will be another failure, brought to you by those who would profit by its existence. Just like all the other 'War on' groups.
IIRC the senator from Wisconsin voted against the Patriot act because he 'had no idea what was in there'. 65 others did too.
Of course, the Patriot act is a pile of crap, and no one (except the terrorists) should have voted it in; this does go to show that a congresswhore shows some spine every now and again.
I won't let them push my Gramma's wheelchair, but hey! Baby steps...
Bush barely has control of his bowels, much less his diction, word choice, or pronunciation. "Wah ohn terra." Sure. Whatever you say, President Prezel.
Perhaps we can get the keepers of 'Koko the signing monkey' to come and translate for him...
Why should a sentiment be trivialized just because the sender decided to use a statement that was prepared by another? Many people are either not verbally eloquent or lack the confidence to write in their own words. If a person agrees with what they send, shouldn't that be the determinant? We sign contracts we didn't write all the time. How is this any different?
Signed,
teamhasnoi
PS. This is why. It's lame. I want to hear the words of the person sending the letter - I can then determine if they actually know what they are taliking about, if they have a personal stake in the issue, if they have even done any research - or if they are another monkey banging on a Brother Word Processor. If you can't take the time to form your own words about something you believe in enough to send a letter/email about, how can I be sure that the issue and the reasons and situations behind it are fixed in your mind?
Why doesn't the NYT hook up with the same people who are checking term papers and thesis papers for cheating - IIRC, they had a database of every paper that anyone ever turned in - it then checked new papers against the DB to see if there were matching word patterns or entire paragraphs lifted. The link escapes me, but it was posted here last year sometime...
Much like the keyclick on a B3 organ - Hammond tried for years to engineer it out; when the jazz musicians of the day heard it, they loved the sharp, percussive attack. The 'click' was left alone, and organs that produced a pronounced one were sought after for recording.
I guess for live performance, this guitar system would violate the idea of KISS. I used to play live with a board full of pedals and wireless system. When my amp died before a gig WAY out of town, I went and bought a little 150w godawful loud Solid State Crate amp. When I got back, someone had spilled beer on my pedals. grrr. I did that show with the Crate and channel footswitch.
I immediately missed the 'tube' sound of my good ol' Ampeg, but I did realize that the less gear I carried, the more fun I had and better-sounding I was. I paid more attention to what I was playing. Less is More became my mantra.
I did the rest of the shows with a Mesa-Boogie, a cord, and my guitar. It kicked ass.;)
Could you point out ONE instance of a search I could type into google and get a feedback page? I think this is a non-issue. I don't believe Google even spiders the feedback pages at ebay.
I happen to be a 'ebayer'; you want good feedback? Send your check/item when you are supposed to, immediately after the auction ends, not 'when I get around to it.'
I had a guy wait a month before he sent the item (to the wrong place) - that is bullshit.
It's dumbasses that can't get their shit together that deserve bad feedback. If you get a bad one for no reason, so what? Intelligent people can make their own decisions whether or not to buy/sell from/to you. 3 bads in 1000 good mean nothing.
would be perfect for such a multitasking box. It's exactly what Beos was designed to do. Multiple video streams would most likely be cake to a low end Beos box.
I talked to some developers over at BeBits about the idea; one said that he had no interest in updating any of his Beos apps and that he had entirely moved over to Windows. (ugh)
The other was intrigued, but had far too much stuff going on already.
Any ideas? Anyone thought this too? I would dive on in, but I am a musician and left programming behind with Apple II basic...
P.S. Trolls: Oh yes, Beos is dead, what am I thinking, I should learn to code, I smell like cats, blahblahblah.
One day the mistakes you make as a youth (or at any age) will follow you forever, be part of your job interview and used to evaluate your place in society.
Yet we have a cocaine-sniffing, semi-retarded, alcoholic, AWOL president who 'chokes on pretzels' and doesn't have enough brain power left to use words that actually exist.
So there's hope for even the biggest fuck-up! You too can be president!
Please listen to the State of the Union address coming soon. You'll get to hear Our Nation's Crackhead try and bite some of Kennedy's vibe with the, "Put a man on Mars" crap. Why has that become so important all of a sudden? Could it have something to do with his ever-dropping approval rating (52%, down from 85%)
Hmm. Take the minds of the US citizenry off how shitty its gotten.
I've got a better idea. Legalize drugs. Then no one will care what the fuck you do, Super-Prez!
Let's not forget that all that personal information is worth money. Maybe the RIAA wants it so they can sell some to media conglomerates and focus-group some more unlistenable pap for the masses.
/.ers who have eyeglasses that get darker when you go outside.
Glasses like that are great, since they block the view of all the chicks you won't be having sex with when you tell them about watching 'Top Gun' on your window at home, then making a joke about how the neighborhood kid crashed your 'windows' with his softball.
The US is so insular, the media most likely 'discovers' Canada every couple of months.
"Wow, did you know there is a WHOLE country just north of us?"
Considering I have to go to the NPR/BBC to get any sort of non-corporate news, I think that Canada is safe from learning anything about themselves from the U.S. media.
until I see under her robe and insure that 'she' isn't some shapechanging manimal freak of nature who can see through walls and absorb my thoughts with her glowing amulet!
Ha! Just remember Judith! I've got the Daily Bugle on my side, and if there's any funny business going on, these pictures that Parker took are going in the afternoon edition!!
Angrily Signed with Desk Pounding Action, J. Jonah Jameson
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You play a software programmer who has one mission: Get Linux Ready for the Desktop!
You must navigate new users, configuration scripts, unsupported printers, and obscure terminal messages!
Your enemy, BILL GATES will do anything to stop you! Beware the dreaded Intellectual Property attack, and the TOC missle! Dodge laywer after laywer who will try anything to stop you! Pick up pizzas, Mountain Dew, and Penguin Mints for extra power!
All this without a consistent user interface, and sound!
If you think your good enough to beat the 'Steve Balmer Monkey Dance' and churn out a thousand lines of code a day, you just might be ready for "Get Linux Ready for the Desktop"!
Act now, and well include a DCCS encoded bonus level: 'Shave Richard Stalman!'
You gotta be quick, you gotta be good, you gotta "Get Linux Ready for the Desktop"!
I thought you were talking about Jessica Alba.
We can only hope that Apple changes the fans in the next rev... :(
Yes. It's called Urban Sprawl.
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.
I think I just choked on a pretzel.
Hell, I said 'record'. Now I'll have to pay a fine of $250,000, undownload my 600 mp3s, sell my 12x CD burner (equivelent to 347) and have to move my offices to the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu.
If you wrote zillions of Lines of Code, much of it having nothing to do with the program you were assigned, would your boss pat you on the back and say, "Great job, Ted! I really like the way you slipped in the Beos port of 'Outpost 2: Back in the Habit' in the TPS Report Generator software. I see you taking my place some day..."
Yet that is just what we have in the hallowed halls of Congress. A bunch of shitty programmers, eating all of our pizza.
LOOK!
Real congresswhores subscribe to http://www.govexec.com!
Because we're not Public Servants, we're EXECUTIVES!
Have we won ANY of these wars?
How about a war on those who would call a war for anything.
The 'war on piracy' (wait for the MassMedia catchphrase) will be another failure, brought to you by those who would profit by its existence. Just like all the other 'War on' groups.
Hey Ashcroft, how about a war on puritanical Fundamentalists who see art as pornography, and symbols of fair Justice as dirty, masturabatory 'distractions' that should be covered up. Loser.
The American people want to see some titty.
Of course, the Patriot act is a pile of crap, and no one (except the terrorists) should have voted it in; this does go to show that a congresswhore shows some spine every now and again.
I won't let them push my Gramma's wheelchair, but hey! Baby steps...
"Wah ohn terra." Sure. Whatever you say, President Prezel.
Perhaps we can get the keepers of 'Koko the signing monkey' to come and translate for him...
Why should a sentiment be trivialized just because the sender decided to use a statement that was prepared by another? Many people are either not verbally eloquent or lack the confidence to write in their own words. If a person agrees with what they send, shouldn't that be the determinant? We sign contracts we didn't write all the time. How is this any different?
Signed, teamhasnoi
PS. This is why. It's lame. I want to hear the words of the person sending the letter - I can then determine if they actually know what they are taliking about, if they have a personal stake in the issue, if they have even done any research - or if they are another monkey banging on a Brother Word Processor. If you can't take the time to form your own words about something you believe in enough to send a letter/email about, how can I be sure that the issue and the reasons and situations behind it are fixed in your mind?
Why doesn't the NYT hook up with the same people who are checking term papers and thesis papers for cheating - IIRC, they had a database of every paper that anyone ever turned in - it then checked new papers against the DB to see if there were matching word patterns or entire paragraphs lifted. The link escapes me, but it was posted here last year sometime...
I guess for live performance, this guitar system would violate the idea of KISS. I used to play live with a board full of pedals and wireless system. When my amp died before a gig WAY out of town, I went and bought a little 150w godawful loud Solid State Crate amp. When I got back, someone had spilled beer on my pedals. grrr. I did that show with the Crate and channel footswitch.
I immediately missed the 'tube' sound of my good ol' Ampeg, but I did realize that the less gear I carried, the more fun I had and better-sounding I was. I paid more attention to what I was playing. Less is More became my mantra.
I did the rest of the shows with a Mesa-Boogie, a cord, and my guitar. It kicked ass. ;)
Anyone need a 150w Solid State Crate?
I happen to be a 'ebayer'; you want good feedback? Send your check/item when you are supposed to, immediately after the auction ends, not 'when I get around to it.'
I had a guy wait a month before he sent the item (to the wrong place) - that is bullshit.
It's dumbasses that can't get their shit together that deserve bad feedback. If you get a bad one for no reason, so what? Intelligent people can make their own decisions whether or not to buy/sell from/to you. 3 bads in 1000 good mean nothing.
This laywer guy should should be smacked.
like when Apple started charging for .mac services.
20 Print "Brought to you by the 133t Animal Kracker"
30 Print "Go 0wnz some modems!"
40 END
f34r my sk1LLZ!
BTW: The Animal Kracker was the name I used when I was 13 and using Locksmith 3.0 to copy Apple II games. Ahh.. the innocence of youth...;)
Must we make it easier for Brad Pitt to insert single frames of penises in Lilo n' Stitch?
I talked to some developers over at BeBits about the idea; one said that he had no interest in updating any of his Beos apps and that he had entirely moved over to Windows. (ugh)
The other was intrigued, but had far too much stuff going on already.
Any ideas? Anyone thought this too? I would dive on in, but I am a musician and left programming behind with Apple II basic...
P.S. Trolls: Oh yes, Beos is dead, what am I thinking, I should learn to code, I smell like cats, blahblahblah.
Yet we have a cocaine-sniffing, semi-retarded, alcoholic, AWOL president who 'chokes on pretzels' and doesn't have enough brain power left to use words that actually exist.
So there's hope for even the biggest fuck-up! You too can be president!
Please listen to the State of the Union address coming soon. You'll get to hear Our Nation's Crackhead try and bite some of Kennedy's vibe with the, "Put a man on Mars" crap. Why has that become so important all of a sudden? Could it have something to do with his ever-dropping approval rating (52%, down from 85%)
Hmm. Take the minds of the US citizenry off how shitty its gotten.
I've got a better idea. Legalize drugs. Then no one will care what the fuck you do, Super-Prez!
(BTW - I agree with you when I'm not ranting ;)
Sure, that sounds like a great idea. Swamp the law-abiding users with paperwork, so everyone will bend over and take it.
Of course, the cry that, "We offer a refund!" will be the sound byte, not the 12 page invasive rebate form.
I think I'll hire the people that sign up for Yahoo accounts all day to fill out thousands upon thousands of applications. I might even break even....
MMmmmmm....pap.
will I have to take the tin foil off?
Glasses like that are great, since they block the view of all the chicks you won't be having sex with when you tell them about watching 'Top Gun' on your window at home, then making a joke about how the neighborhood kid crashed your 'windows' with his softball.
Don't forget to snort repeatedly!
"Wow, did you know there is a WHOLE country just north of us?"
Considering I have to go to the NPR/BBC to get any sort of non-corporate news, I think that Canada is safe from learning anything about themselves from the U.S. media.
China on the other hand....
Ha! Just remember Judith! I've got the Daily Bugle on my side, and if there's any funny business going on, these pictures that Parker took are going in the afternoon edition!!
Angrily Signed with Desk Pounding Action,
J. Jonah Jameson