And in the past weeks I've been receiving letters from kids who have been kicked out of school for wearing Andy Kaufman and Copyleft shirts because of post-Columbine paranoia. And don't blame the Blair Witch Project either! It's the most original movie in years, er, I mean, it's overhyped!
We currently are at the highest tax level we've been at since World War II... Who's "we"? Private citizens? Maybe. But if corporations paid taxes at the rate they did in the 1950's, 1/3 of the national debt would disappear overnight. And people get worried about single mothers receiving welfare checks....
The third (or fourth? the last part, anyway) is where it all comes together. Every time I think of that book I hear the doctors and priests arguing about euthanasia, and see those priests walking down the street with the signs reading "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." The final ending is grim as hell but beautiful nonetheless.
For two and a half years now, I've been a regular (under the name MacHiNe) at Subway Chat. It runs a system called NUTS which runs on almost any Unix, as far as I know. It's based in Victoria, Canada, and most of its users are from the British Columbia area, but that hasn't stopped me, a Philadelphian, from meeting people from my area there, and people in England. Populating the community is difficult for a startup talker, but it CAN be done, and when it is done, you have a nicer place than one that's built around one common interest (e.g. Star Trek) because you don't have to deal with constant flamewars.
Could it be? An article by JonKatz that doesn't chalk everything up to post-Columbine paranoia, or try desperately to be nonconformist (a la the Blair Witch contradiction)? Wow. This is good. Keep it up!
If a member of my family dies because somebody put = where they meant ==, I want to know who they are, and I want to sue the pants off them. Most open-source software has disclaimers that absolve the developers of all blame. I guess the solution is for companies like Redhat to distribute the software with a guarantee. Any other ideas?
My last comment got posted accidentally. Damn Netscape. Anyway, he DID kiss you. The only things he didn't say were "I like sex" and the thing about the nude models. Or such is my understanding.
I've been using Linux and open-source software in general for a year and a half now, so I know that makes me a Johnny-come-lately, but this has been my experience: if I want software to do something, I can always find it, and either it works better than its equivalent in Windows, or it's a few months away from doing so. I've been "spoiled" by getting everything I want from OSS. My problem (and possibly others' problem) is this: if the open-source movement can make an entire Operating System, which is updated frequently, and is becoming increasingly user-friendly, shouldn't a decent web browser be a trivial matter? Please don't consider this flamebait, I'm just trying to explain the mentality of the "whiners".
Oh Jeopardy respects Linux, do they?
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Then why is it that their online game, although written in Java, only works in Windows, because of the way it stores files? I've tried it in Linux and in MacOS. They don't respond to my emails. I love the game but I can't play it in Linux.
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Then why is it that their online game, although written in Java, only works in Windows, because of the way it stores files? I've tried it in Linux and in MacOS. They don't respond to my emails. I love the game but I can't play it in Linux.
On the telnet chat server I work on (NUTS is the highest form of communication imho) we have two married couples who moved 500+ miles to be together. I also met my best IRL friend there, along with a girl who was my girlfriend for 17 months. I don't see any harm in it at all.
I use those banner MP3 sites all the time. "The leech password is the 4th word in the 1st paragraph after you click the 'Hot Teens' banner." 4 out of 5 times the password is either "teen" or "explicit". Doesn't bother me too much if I get the music I want.
My friend can do all basic window operations on his macintosh by speaking into the microphone. But I'm sure when M$ pulls it off, it will be a "revolution."
My mom deals with a lot of students getting coops and internships at Drexel University. She has students who are becoming MCSE's who hate Microsoft and Windows, and love Linux. It's just like all the other bullshat you learn as a means to an end.
If you don't know what you're talking about, keep your mouth shut. You just end up looking dumb.
Why does every other slashdot post begin with this?! Just because you don't agree with somebody, or you have had different experiences, you don't have to attack them.
Umm lemme check. 3F17, "Bart on the Road". Bart is going on a roadtrip with Nelson and Milhouse, and he tells his parents he's going to a grammar rodeo. Lisa asks him "If there's a grammar rodeo, why didn't I know about it?" and he gives the response in my sig.
I play a lot of MP3's from the net, but the way the net has really changed my listening habits is through RealAudio. I no longer have to be limited to the radio stations in the Philadelphia area. My mother is from Ireland and she loves listening to Irish radio stations over the net. Also, foreign radio is a great free way to get practice in a second language. I'll wait for a device that will let me broadcast ALL my computer's audio to my stero.
When I first came to slashdot 3 and a half months ago, I read the Hellmouth series eagerly. I thought it was the best stuff written in the whole country on Littleton. Then he wrote that piece about South Park and taking kids to see it, and I thought that was both brilliant and hilarious. Since then, it seems like he's just coming up dry for things to write about, so he writes that thing saying BWP is a REVOLUTION, and then he tries to rehash the originality of his Hellmouth series by tying it in with some innocent medical advice about TV for little kids. Now he's reversing his original position on BWP, and thinking we won't remember it. He's a good writer, but he's quickly running out of things to write about.
Hehehe, that reminds me of what I put in my high school yearbook quote: "I wonder how many people will use the Robert Frost quote about nonconformity this year."
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And in the past weeks I've been receiving letters from kids who have been kicked out of school for wearing Andy Kaufman and Copyleft shirts because of post-Columbine paranoia. And don't blame the Blair Witch Project either! It's the most original movie in years, er, I mean, it's overhyped!
We currently are at the highest tax level we've been at since World War II...
Who's "we"? Private citizens? Maybe. But if corporations paid taxes at the rate they did in the 1950's, 1/3 of the national debt would disappear overnight. And people get worried about single mothers receiving welfare checks....
...step on the same foot, at the same time?! MY TITS ARE FALLING OFF!
-- Empress Nympho, "History of the World Part I"
Her delivery of that line is all you need to remember her by.
I never heard of any radio adaptation! Cool! Is it available on CD or tape anywhere? Or even its script?
The third (or fourth? the last part, anyway) is where it all comes together. Every time I think of that book I hear the doctors and priests arguing about euthanasia, and see those priests walking down the street with the signs reading "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." The final ending is grim as hell but beautiful nonetheless.
For two and a half years now, I've been a regular (under the name MacHiNe) at Subway Chat. It runs a system called NUTS which runs on almost any Unix, as far as I know. It's based in Victoria, Canada, and most of its users are from the British Columbia area, but that hasn't stopped me, a Philadelphian, from meeting people from my area there, and people in England. Populating the community is difficult for a startup talker, but it CAN be done, and when it is done, you have a nicer place than one that's built around one common interest (e.g. Star Trek) because you don't have to deal with constant flamewars.
Could it be? An article by JonKatz that doesn't chalk everything up to post-Columbine paranoia, or try desperately to be nonconformist (a la the Blair Witch contradiction)? Wow. This is good. Keep it up!
Damn, I wanted to see/hear that. Oh well.
If a member of my family dies because somebody put = where they meant ==, I want to know who they are, and I want to sue the pants off them. Most open-source software has disclaimers that absolve the developers of all blame. I guess the solution is for companies like Redhat to distribute the software with a guarantee. Any other ideas?
My last comment got posted accidentally. Damn Netscape. Anyway, he DID kiss you. The only things he didn't say were "I like sex" and the thing about the nude models. Or such is my understanding.
I've been using Linux and open-source software in general for a year and a half now, so I know that makes me a Johnny-come-lately, but this has been my experience: if I want software to do something, I can always find it, and either it works better than its equivalent in Windows, or it's a few months away from doing so. I've been "spoiled" by getting everything I want from OSS. My problem (and possibly others' problem) is this: if the open-source movement can make an entire Operating System, which is updated frequently, and is becoming increasingly user-friendly, shouldn't a decent web browser be a trivial matter? Please don't consider this flamebait, I'm just trying to explain the mentality of the "whiners".
Then why is it that their online game, although written in Java, only works in Windows, because of the way it stores files? I've tried it in Linux and in MacOS. They don't respond to my emails. I love the game but I can't play it in Linux.
Then why is it that their online game, although written in Java, only works in Windows, because of the way it stores files? I've tried it in Linux and in MacOS. They don't respond to my emails. I love the game but I can't play it in Linux.
On the telnet chat server I work on (NUTS is the highest form of communication imho) we have two married couples who moved 500+ miles to be together. I also met my best IRL friend there, along with a girl who was my girlfriend for 17 months. I don't see any harm in it at all.
I use those banner MP3 sites all the time. "The leech password is the 4th word in the 1st paragraph after you click the 'Hot Teens' banner." 4 out of 5 times the password is either "teen" or "explicit". Doesn't bother me too much if I get the music I want.
My friend can do all basic window operations on his macintosh by speaking into the microphone. But I'm sure when M$ pulls it off, it will be a "revolution."
My mom deals with a lot of students getting coops and internships at Drexel University. She has students who are becoming MCSE's who hate Microsoft and Windows, and love Linux. It's just like all the other bullshat you learn as a means to an end.
If you don't know what you're talking about, keep your mouth shut. You just end up looking dumb.
Why does every other slashdot post begin with this?! Just because you don't agree with somebody, or you have had different experiences, you don't have to attack them.
Umm lemme check. 3F17, "Bart on the Road". Bart is going on a roadtrip with Nelson and Milhouse, and he tells his parents he's going to a grammar rodeo. Lisa asks him "If there's a grammar rodeo, why didn't I know about it?" and he gives the response in my sig.
Motorola better be telling the truth.
I play a lot of MP3's from the net, but the way the net has really changed my listening habits is through RealAudio. I no longer have to be limited to the radio stations in the Philadelphia area. My mother is from Ireland and she loves listening to Irish radio stations over the net. Also, foreign radio is a great free way to get practice in a second language. I'll wait for a device that will let me broadcast ALL my computer's audio to my stero.
When I first came to slashdot 3 and a half months ago, I read the Hellmouth series eagerly. I thought it was the best stuff written in the whole country on Littleton. Then he wrote that piece about South Park and taking kids to see it, and I thought that was both brilliant and hilarious. Since then, it seems like he's just coming up dry for things to write about, so he writes that thing saying BWP is a REVOLUTION, and then he tries to rehash the originality of his Hellmouth series by tying it in with some innocent medical advice about TV for little kids. Now he's reversing his original position on BWP, and thinking we won't remember it. He's a good writer, but he's quickly running out of things to write about.
Hehehe, that reminds me of what I put in my high school yearbook quote: "I wonder how many people will use the Robert Frost quote about nonconformity this year."
While we're OT, the RC5 slashbox doesn't work either.
The dorkus malorkus comment is my sig, and it's a reference to The Simpsons. Sorry for the misunderstanding.