All of you except the buddists are sick individuals that use your beliefs as a reason to kill murder and rape.
While I agree partially with your sentiment, what about all the peaceful religious people? They don't get seen much, because the news chooses not to cover people sitting at home with their children hoping and praying that the rioters don't kill anybody. You're talking about the violent 1% (or 5%), and there are violent atheists as well.
I do, however, notice more and more how efficient religious power is as a tool to control people. I think that a massive reeducation about spirituality, Jesus, and the Bible are in order. Why I don't mention the Muslims is that a)I'm not a Muslim, so I'm not in a powerful position to reeducate, and b)dude, there are millions of Muslims in this country who, as a persecuted class, are more conscious, compassionate, and aware than your correlated Judeo-Christian.
Also, the Buddhist religion is also born out of a violent, sexist, oppressive time in history, and therefore contains much falsity. The reason why Christianity and Islam seem so primitive by comparison is because they are under scrutiny. Explain to me how the Buddhist governments (China, anyone?) are any better. Again, it occurs to me how religion is a freaking tool, not the problem, and the solution is education.
The government is constantly a detriment to people's freedom, spiritual growth, and personal creativity. Look at our (at least my) government's relationship with John Lennon (regardless of whether or not they killed him, which I wouldn't put past them). Look at their relationship to Osho. Look at their relationship with the Branch Davidians (Remember the Alamo, forget Waco--a true patriot!). And if you want to pretend that they killed the Branch Davidians because they were stockpiling weapons, I'll send you a videotape with the telephone conversations of Koresh begging the ATF to stop shooting at them and to please let the women and children out.
The calls stopped when she called me when I was drunk and I told her that my dick was shot off in a hunting accident when I was 12 years old. wowow. wow. ow.
I'd say that it's mostly not, but MySpace is a pretty sick place to place value in your life. I cancelled my account about a month ago, because it was causing drama, and I'm glad I did. I have so much more time to be a person.
And being a person doesn't consist of your consumer status, although people often act like it. Having things doesn't do a single thing for you interpersonally, except attract shallow people. Sure, on some jaded level, when people stop looking at you, you stop existing, but I always assume that it is they who have stopped existing, not I.:-) There are so many things that increase your value as a person that don't rely on the house of cards that is consumerism, such as spiritual practice, martial arts, community service, entheogenic use of drugs (not to be confused with use of entheogenic drugs), entheogenic use of breathing, throwing a party, talking to your grandmother, acknowledging the people you interact with on a daily basis (like cashiers, etc) as humans. The list goes on.
This myspace buying friends thing is really sick. I'm not sure getting a hooker isn't more healthy. Barring genital-jumping microbes, that is.
You know someone takes their anti-Microsoft tirade a bit too far when they're willing to buy a competing product without even checking whether or not it suits their needs:-P
Maybe it's for research. Maybe that's why he has to do it instead of golfing. It's because he's going to see how the two notepad applications square up. And let's not forget the paint applications.:-)
This is the kind of topic the slashdot crowd will be infuriated about while the rest of the world goes "meh. don't care", assuming they even notice this.
This is why I allow my friends to run windows. They ask me, "why do you run linux? it's so hard." And all I can say is that I notice the inherent problems with Windows, and they bother me more that the inherent problems in Linux. That doesn't mean that everyone should use Linux, because as people point out, it's 'hard.'
Directly relating to what you're saying: Yes, only people this inconveniences are going to complain. When I worked in an Internet cafe in Mexico right after XP came out, we purchased licenses for all our boxes. When we upgraded the equipment, we realized that we were not afforded the flexibility we needed by paying for the OS, and our profit margins being small enough to preclude any real exploratory legal action, we just pirated the software. Not moral, but there was no other option at the time.
Now they're going to be installing all Macs, because if a user needs Vista, they can just run a VM. Oh, wait. They need to buy Vista PRO? For $300 + resale + import tariffs + extra-special-we're-billing-you-again-because-you- live-in-Mexico fee? Hmmm. Now I'M pissed off. Plus, what will be the distinct benefit of paying for it? Will it be easier to use than the pirated version? NO! Maybe they should just buy one license of Pro, and install it alongside an old copy of Win2k in parallels, and fuck Microsoft.
[this message brought to you by someone who has had to run a few businesses around microsoft's decisions. take it with a grain of salt]
Personally, I don't develop software just so that I can be an anonymous contributor to future technology. I do it to pay the rent, buy cars, etc.
Some do it for the recognition. For example, Linus Torvalds wrote a kernel, and he's hounded almost everywhere he goes at the Linux booth at Defcon. har har!
But really, I'm a service provider (IT guy), and it costs me nothing to give any code I write back to the community. In fact, creating a project allows me and other service providers in the same boat as I to have a collaborative work that we have complete control over that accomplishes what we need. Now, the only problem with this model is I'm not a programmer. I made something in python once. However, the example still stands, and I'm sure some people do that.;-)
Mostly the problems with power saving are attributable to the horridness and lack of proper implementation of APM and ACPI, no? Which OS are your half-dozen computers running? if they're 2k or earlier, they don't fully support ACPI, and presumably (I know this is a stretch with MS) they will integrate ACPI support into the patch.
And generally, if you need your computer to run faster, then you probably know well enough not to install the patch. Are you not, my friend, a/.er? This is meant for the little old ladies playing solitaire on a 3Ghz P4EE with a GPU fully capable of running everything they need anyway. And people who won't notice the difference. Not specifically you. Not specifically me.
It's a great idea. Sometime I don't agree with people bashing MS-bashers, but come on. This is one of those evil patches that is going to make your life better, and the lives of your children better. And think of the penguins.
And it's his agent who's the douchebag, but then again, that's her job. Seeing as how she's an agent. It's like calling someone's lawyer and asshole. Yes, AND?
Maybe he just decided that he can sit around and masturbate with money-based lubricant rather than be on call for more Mac ads where he has to look like a jerk.
I love the dualism on Slashdot. First it's, "Windows is finally getting a fancy UI like OSX and Linux! Geez, took the copycats long enough!" The next day the same people crow, "Stupid XP and Vista GUI uses too many resources! I'm sticking with NT 4!"
What are you, anyway? An MS-basher-basher? You disgust me 3/4 as much as the ugliness of win2k, and 1/2 as much as the heaviness of Vista.
But really, the truth of the matter is that OS X runs well on a computer with all its fancy graphics. XGL runs well on a computer with all its fancy graphics. Vista DOESN'T run well on a computer (watch as I paint broad conceptual strokes) with all its fancy graphics. Why do I need a 600-watt mega machine just to check my frking email? It's nice that they're making everything tasty on the interface end, but I'm mildly skeptical due to their history of winMe, WGA (a security threat, even if you're not a software pirate), product activation that made my life hell when I ran an internet cafe in mexico, etc.
They are not EEEEEEEEEVIL. But they're certainly not looking out for my best interest. A quote from the wordsmith.org a word a day mailing list:
Whenever people say 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it. -Brigid Brophy, writer (1929-1995)
love you all. eat your vegetables. microwaves are bad for you. -Nathan Curry
Anything that allows you to so brutally hack an opponent to pieces in kinetically fluid combat has my vote. The combat makes the game the sheezy. Of course, I'm not a hard-core PoP fan, so I don't have to suffer the changes the way I do with, for example, the 1984 Dune movie.
Best combat I've ever experienced in an over-the-shoulder martial arts style game, though.
Even if Reiser is not convicted, it may be wise for the project to be distanced from him, or not used.
REISERFS, Even, Is Stopping Evoking Reiser For Sponsorship? Reiser Eventually Is Somewhat Endangering REISERFS's Final Safety? Reiser Ejected Is Somehow Emboldening REISER?
That still happens today, with stupid little flash games like "dwarfbowling" or whatever.
Dwarfbowling!? Sign me up! Running Linux, I enjoy clicking on the occasional punch Paris Hilton for a ringtone ad. I'm not the only person who does this, am I?
Last time I ran Windows it was because I was designing an Excel spreadsheet for a client, and with only passive spyware protection (iespyads, spybot, spywareblaster and maybe an evil ads host list) and no antivirus. I only got a virus when I got an email, thought, "Hmmm... I bet that's a virus..."
I also wonder if there's a difference in the type of bacteria. I would personally feel more comfortable eating of my (filthy, filthy) desk that off a toilet seat. I know that's psychological, but also, there's probably not any Trich on my desk. Or E coli.
I find it preposterous that any self-respecting/.er (DISCLAIMER: I don't respect myself, specifically BECAUSE I'm a/.er) wouldn't have heard of the Chewbacca Defense. But I suppose anything's possible.
I often wonder why people continually make this assumption. There is no evidence for this point of view, at least none that I've seen.
I'm not sure I'm wrong, and I'm aware it's an assumption. But I think that people continually make that assumption, because of what I said about scientific breakthrough. In the cycle of scientific advancement, there come points where everything we "know" is explainable by a very simple expression. Then we learn more things, and have to keep adding conceptual limbs until the whole thing's a big flow chart of except-whens. It's like the software development cycle. Every once in a while, there are so many new features and new stuff the devs want to implement that a rewrite of the code becomes the most logical step, and it returns the code to relative elegance and simplicity once again.
So much for why people assume the universe is simple. Why do people assume the universe is complex? You can't argue the "evidence" point, either, because I think that evidence, according to your definition, is complex. A description of something always loses the elegance of the thing itself. Like a translation or transliteration. I think it's evident that the universe is simple, but notice how simple the preceding paragraph is.
So again, why assume the universe is complex?
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The analogy is false, because its premise is false. Rather, if Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit. I think that a function of evolution is that as traits emerge, a species starts to diversify, and the complexity of the system by which the trait is favored becomes more complex, until it flat out wins, then there is a return to simplicity.
It's sort of that way with scientific theory. Someone will have a quantam leap (no pun intended) forward in a model that describes the universe, and it's something really short and sweet, like E=mc^2. And then science says, "Oh, except when you're in a crowded elevator!" and, "Well, not really for very large values of 2!" and wonderful stuff like that, until someone realizes that, duh, the universe is really simple. And so on.
I want to also say that when I say the universe is really simple, I don't mean we can comprehend it. I just mean it's simple. If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must mod me +5 Insightful.
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All of you except the buddists are sick individuals that use your beliefs as a reason to kill murder and rape.
While I agree partially with your sentiment, what about all the peaceful religious people? They don't get seen much, because the news chooses not to cover people sitting at home with their children hoping and praying that the rioters don't kill anybody. You're talking about the violent 1% (or 5%), and there are violent atheists as well.
I do, however, notice more and more how efficient religious power is as a tool to control people. I think that a massive reeducation about spirituality, Jesus, and the Bible are in order. Why I don't mention the Muslims is that a)I'm not a Muslim, so I'm not in a powerful position to reeducate, and b)dude, there are millions of Muslims in this country who, as a persecuted class, are more conscious, compassionate, and aware than your correlated Judeo-Christian.
Also, the Buddhist religion is also born out of a violent, sexist, oppressive time in history, and therefore contains much falsity. The reason why Christianity and Islam seem so primitive by comparison is because they are under scrutiny. Explain to me how the Buddhist governments (China, anyone?) are any better. Again, it occurs to me how religion is a freaking tool, not the problem, and the solution is education.
The government is constantly a detriment to people's freedom, spiritual growth, and personal creativity. Look at our (at least my) government's relationship with John Lennon (regardless of whether or not they killed him, which I wouldn't put past them). Look at their relationship to Osho. Look at their relationship with the Branch Davidians (Remember the Alamo, forget Waco--a true patriot!). And if you want to pretend that they killed the Branch Davidians because they were stockpiling weapons, I'll send you a videotape with the telephone conversations of Koresh begging the ATF to stop shooting at them and to please let the women and children out.
No such luck.
The calls stopped when she called me when I was drunk and I told her that my dick was shot off in a hunting accident when I was 12 years old.
wowow.
wow.
ow.
I'd say that it's mostly not, but MySpace is a pretty sick place to place value in your life. I cancelled my account about a month ago, because it was causing drama, and I'm glad I did. I have so much more time to be a person.
:-) There are so many things that increase your value as a person that don't rely on the house of cards that is consumerism, such as spiritual practice, martial arts, community service, entheogenic use of drugs (not to be confused with use of entheogenic drugs), entheogenic use of breathing, throwing a party, talking to your grandmother, acknowledging the people you interact with on a daily basis (like cashiers, etc) as humans. The list goes on.
And being a person doesn't consist of your consumer status, although people often act like it. Having things doesn't do a single thing for you interpersonally, except attract shallow people. Sure, on some jaded level, when people stop looking at you, you stop existing, but I always assume that it is they who have stopped existing, not I.
This myspace buying friends thing is really sick. I'm not sure getting a hooker isn't more healthy. Barring genital-jumping microbes, that is.
You know someone takes their anti-Microsoft tirade a bit too far when they're willing to buy a competing product without even checking whether or not it suits their needs :-P
:-)
Maybe it's for research. Maybe that's why he has to do it instead of golfing. It's because he's going to see how the two notepad applications square up. And let's not forget the paint applications.
This is the kind of topic the slashdot crowd will be infuriated about while the rest of the world goes "meh. don't care", assuming they even notice this.
- live-in-Mexico fee? Hmmm. Now I'M pissed off. Plus, what will be the distinct benefit of paying for it? Will it be easier to use than the pirated version? NO! Maybe they should just buy one license of Pro, and install it alongside an old copy of Win2k in parallels, and fuck Microsoft.
This is why I allow my friends to run windows. They ask me, "why do you run linux? it's so hard." And all I can say is that I notice the inherent problems with Windows, and they bother me more that the inherent problems in Linux. That doesn't mean that everyone should use Linux, because as people point out, it's 'hard.'
Directly relating to what you're saying: Yes, only people this inconveniences are going to complain. When I worked in an Internet cafe in Mexico right after XP came out, we purchased licenses for all our boxes. When we upgraded the equipment, we realized that we were not afforded the flexibility we needed by paying for the OS, and our profit margins being small enough to preclude any real exploratory legal action, we just pirated the software. Not moral, but there was no other option at the time.
Now they're going to be installing all Macs, because if a user needs Vista, they can just run a VM. Oh, wait. They need to buy Vista PRO? For $300 + resale + import tariffs + extra-special-we're-billing-you-again-because-you
[this message brought to you by someone who has had to run a few businesses around microsoft's decisions. take it with a grain of salt]
Personally, I don't develop software just so that I can be an anonymous contributor to future technology. I do it to pay the rent, buy cars, etc.
;-)
Some do it for the recognition. For example, Linus Torvalds wrote a kernel, and he's hounded almost everywhere he goes at the Linux booth at Defcon. har har!
But really, I'm a service provider (IT guy), and it costs me nothing to give any code I write back to the community. In fact, creating a project allows me and other service providers in the same boat as I to have a collaborative work that we have complete control over that accomplishes what we need. Now, the only problem with this model is I'm not a programmer. I made something in python once. However, the example still stands, and I'm sure some people do that.
Mostly the problems with power saving are attributable to the horridness and lack of proper implementation of APM and ACPI, no? Which OS are your half-dozen computers running? if they're 2k or earlier, they don't fully support ACPI, and presumably (I know this is a stretch with MS) they will integrate ACPI support into the patch.
/.er? This is meant for the little old ladies playing solitaire on a 3Ghz P4EE with a GPU fully capable of running everything they need anyway. And people who won't notice the difference. Not specifically you. Not specifically me.
And generally, if you need your computer to run faster, then you probably know well enough not to install the patch. Are you not, my friend, a
It's a great idea. Sometime I don't agree with people bashing MS-bashers, but come on. This is one of those evil patches that is going to make your life better, and the lives of your children better. And think of the penguins.
And it's his agent who's the douchebag, but then again, that's her job. Seeing as how she's an agent. It's like calling someone's lawyer and asshole. Yes, AND?
Check how many projects he's involved in:
http://imdb.com/name/nm0519043/
Maybe he just decided that he can sit around and masturbate with money-based lubricant rather than be on call for more Mac ads where he has to look like a jerk.
If the sun starts spinning about 4 times faster, it may provoke a solar flare that will kill us all?
Won't anything that gets the sun spinning like a top, oh... KILL US FIRST?
I love the dualism on Slashdot. First it's, "Windows is finally getting a fancy UI like OSX and Linux! Geez, took the copycats long enough!" The next day the same people crow, "Stupid XP and Vista GUI uses too many resources! I'm sticking with NT 4!"
What are you, anyway? An MS-basher-basher? You disgust me 3/4 as much as the ugliness of win2k, and 1/2 as much as the heaviness of Vista.
But really, the truth of the matter is that OS X runs well on a computer with all its fancy graphics. XGL runs well on a computer with all its fancy graphics. Vista DOESN'T run well on a computer (watch as I paint broad conceptual strokes) with all its fancy graphics. Why do I need a 600-watt mega machine just to check my frking email? It's nice that they're making everything tasty on the interface end, but I'm mildly skeptical due to their history of winMe, WGA (a security threat, even if you're not a software pirate), product activation that made my life hell when I ran an internet cafe in mexico, etc.
They are not EEEEEEEEEVIL. But they're certainly not looking out for my best interest. A quote from the wordsmith.org a word a day mailing list:
Whenever people say 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are
about to do something cruel. And if they add 'We must be realistic,' they
mean they are going to make money out of it. -Brigid Brophy, writer
(1929-1995)
love you all. eat your vegetables. microwaves are bad for you.
-Nathan Curry
Anything that allows you to so brutally hack an opponent to pieces in kinetically fluid combat has my vote. The combat makes the game the sheezy. Of course, I'm not a hard-core PoP fan, so I don't have to suffer the changes the way I do with, for example, the 1984 Dune movie.
Best combat I've ever experienced in an over-the-shoulder martial arts style game, though.
Reiser Ejected Is Somehow Emboldening REISER?
I just realized that this is way better:
REISER Emboldened Is Somehow Ejecting Reiser
Even if Reiser is not convicted, it may be wise for the project to be distanced from him, or not used.
REISERFS, Even, Is Stopping Evoking Reiser For Sponsorship?
Reiser Eventually Is Somewhat Endangering REISERFS's Final Safety?
Reiser Ejected Is Somehow Emboldening REISER?
Try: /root/recovery.log /dev/path/to/wife
r ecovery_howto.comments
reiserfsck --rebuild-tree -S -l
http://antrix.net/journal/techtalk/reiserfs_data_
*BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!*
"See you on the web, bitch!"
But really.
That still happens today, with stupid little flash games like "dwarfbowling" or whatever.
Dwarfbowling!? Sign me up! Running Linux, I enjoy clicking on the occasional punch Paris Hilton for a ringtone ad. I'm not the only person who does this, am I?
Last time I ran Windows it was because I was designing an Excel spreadsheet for a client, and with only passive spyware protection (iespyads, spybot, spywareblaster and maybe an evil ads host list) and no antivirus. I only got a virus when I got an email, thought, "Hmmm... I bet that's a virus..."
*click click*
That thing is about as useful as a steering wheal made out of dreams.
Is that like the one they're steering this country with?
http://sa.madtasty.com/images/nws/animated-goatse. gif
I don't know what will. Poor, miserable human being...
Sure there is. That is, unless you never wipe your ass, which is not very probable even on Slashdot.
I wipe my ass with my feet. So there. To quote a wise man (in my mind Trey Parker and Matt Stone certainly do make up one man), "Surprise, C--kface!"
Me: Wow! Imagine! With this thing, you could... errrm... Well, it's ALMOST useful.
Yet another breakout innovative ground-breaking breakthrough? (YABIGBB is a terrible acronym, though)
I figure if the RIAA can do it, it's not imorral for me to do it. Besides, this Bitch deserves it.
I can't believe you dated the RIAA. I dated the Borg once. Erm... Was the sex any good?
I also wonder if there's a difference in the type of bacteria. I would personally feel more comfortable eating of my (filthy, filthy) desk that off a toilet seat. I know that's psychological, but also, there's probably not any Trich on my desk. Or E coli.
I find it preposterous that any self-respecting /.er (DISCLAIMER: I don't respect myself, specifically BECAUSE I'm a /.er) wouldn't have heard of the Chewbacca Defense. But I suppose anything's possible.
Here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_Defense
I often wonder why people continually make this assumption. There is no evidence for this point of view, at least none that I've seen.
I'm not sure I'm wrong, and I'm aware it's an assumption. But I think that people continually make that assumption, because of what I said about scientific breakthrough. In the cycle of scientific advancement, there come points where everything we "know" is explainable by a very simple expression. Then we learn more things, and have to keep adding conceptual limbs until the whole thing's a big flow chart of except-whens. It's like the software development cycle. Every once in a while, there are so many new features and new stuff the devs want to implement that a rewrite of the code becomes the most logical step, and it returns the code to relative elegance and simplicity once again.
So much for why people assume the universe is simple. Why do people assume the universe is complex? You can't argue the "evidence" point, either, because I think that evidence, according to your definition, is complex. A description of something always loses the elegance of the thing itself. Like a translation or transliteration. I think it's evident that the universe is simple, but notice how simple the preceding paragraph is.
So again, why assume the universe is complex?
The analogy is false, because its premise is false.
Rather, if Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit. I think that a function of evolution is that as traits emerge, a species starts to diversify, and the complexity of the system by which the trait is favored becomes more complex, until it flat out wins, then there is a return to simplicity.
It's sort of that way with scientific theory. Someone will have a quantam leap (no pun intended) forward in a model that describes the universe, and it's something really short and sweet, like E=mc^2. And then science says, "Oh, except when you're in a crowded elevator!" and, "Well, not really for very large values of 2!" and wonderful stuff like that, until someone realizes that, duh, the universe is really simple. And so on.
I want to also say that when I say the universe is really simple, I don't mean we can comprehend it. I just mean it's simple. If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must mod me +5 Insightful.