any more than you would walk up to your boss and say "Word! That proposal was da bomb! I thought you was frontin till you whipped dat shit out. Booyah!
Maybe not, but that would be really funny:-D Pity I don't have a boss any more...:-)
Maybe I'm just too old (OK, yesterday was my 40th birthday, so call me a curmudgeon if you want, I've been called worse) but when I started out as a systems programmer, it was fashionable to speak English. Leet-speak doesn't exactly do much to promote ease of communication, does it?
And a lot of real science is an art, too, in the sense that it takes creativity and imagination to bring it to life.
I spent over 10 years as a sysprog, and never questioned the term "Computer Science" for a moment until 2 years ago when I changed focus and went back to school to study biotechnology. Suddenly, I was faced with the "Scientific Method (tm)" that every other snotty-nosed nerd has had to cope with for the last x^y years, and it was quite a comedown.
The scientific method, however, is a beautiful means of giving substance to a construct of the imagination.
Maybe you don't, but I do. OK, I'm an ex-sysprog turned student (again), but I keep a very much bombproof set of multi-volume CD-RW backups of/home and all the relevant boot and library files. It might be paranoia, but good judgement comes from experience. And a lot of that comes from bad judgement:-).
Time was when Slackware was believed to be the province of Satan-worshippers... (OK, then, muwahahaha if you insist:-)).
But I've had Linux on my desktop exclusively for about 6 years now, and I do not miss winbloze one bit. And yes, I do use the machine for more than browsing the internet and WP.
Every single binary I've ever seen of KDE has been compiled with gcc and all of the GNU make tools, Not to mention the use of emacs and vi and all the other tools.
Exactly. The average non-geek may have heard of Linux if they haven't been living in a barrel for the last few years.
Unless they are programmers or people who understand all the tools and other programs that make up a distribution (or at least has a general idea what they are for), though, it is unlikely that Joe Sixpack has any idea of the years of effort put into them, and has never heard of the FSF.
So I too have a tendency to just say Linux in conversation, except in cases where I am specifically talking about GNU software. I'm just not quite that pedantic, I guess.
It wouldn't hurt the distribution makers to acknowledge GNU's work on the boxed sets, though, and not many of them do.
trolls, flames and personal insults towards RMS. A lot of them even got modded up to +5 Insightful!
Which, sadly, says a lot about the adolescent nature of some of the Slashdot community. Let's face it, how many of these kids have even met the man? OK, I never have (and I'm not a kid any more, either:-))
Fact remains that RMS has contributed a hell of a lot of time and effort over the years to open-source software, and he deserves some credit for it.
Maby [sic] someone has some ideas I haven't thought of? Post em!
OK: a good one is to hit the direct-mailers in the hip-pocket. A lot of them provide pre-paid envelopes with their junk mail. It's quite satisfying to fill them up with as much other junk mail as they can hold and send them off. In countries where they charge extra for over-size envelopes, you can try shredding the paper first.
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I suppose it's too bad if you happen to be a little old lady who subscribes to the Middlesex Bingo Club Newsletter... :-)
Maybe not, but that would be really funny :-D Pity I don't have a boss any more... :-)
Your post is utterly off-topic.
No, just an 029 card-punch :-)
Maybe I'm just too old (OK, yesterday was my 40th birthday, so call me a curmudgeon if you want, I've been called worse) but when I started out as a systems programmer, it was fashionable to speak English. Leet-speak doesn't exactly do much to promote ease of communication, does it?
I spent over 10 years as a sysprog, and never questioned the term "Computer Science" for a moment until 2 years ago when I changed focus and went back to school to study biotechnology. Suddenly, I was faced with the "Scientific Method (tm)" that every other snotty-nosed nerd has had to cope with for the last x^y years, and it was quite a comedown.
The scientific method, however, is a beautiful means of giving substance to a construct of the imagination.
Maybe you don't, but I do. OK, I'm an ex-sysprog turned student (again), but I keep a very much bombproof set of multi-volume CD-RW backups of /home and all the relevant boot and library files. It might be paranoia, but good judgement comes from experience. And a lot of that comes from bad judgement :-).
But I've had Linux on my desktop exclusively for about 6 years now, and I do not miss winbloze one bit. And yes, I do use the machine for more than browsing the internet and WP.
Doesn't stop me putting them on hold, though :-)
We don't have to pay to receive calls, though :-)
Or perhaps that should have been GNU's cpp? :-)
Every single binary I've ever seen of KDE has been compiled with gcc and all of the GNU make tools, Not to mention the use of emacs and vi and all the other tools.
Unless they are programmers or people who understand all the tools and other programs that make up a distribution (or at least has a general idea what they are for), though, it is unlikely that Joe Sixpack has any idea of the years of effort put into them, and has never heard of the FSF.
So I too have a tendency to just say Linux in conversation, except in cases where I am specifically talking about GNU software. I'm just not quite that pedantic, I guess.
It wouldn't hurt the distribution makers to acknowledge GNU's work on the boxed sets, though, and not many of them do.
Well if he does, that'll mean Mr Gates will have one decent programmer for him. Don't knock it :-)
Which, sadly, says a lot about the adolescent nature of some of the Slashdot community. Let's face it, how many of these kids have even met the man? OK, I never have (and I'm not a kid any more, either:-))
Fact remains that RMS has contributed a hell of a lot of time and effort over the years to open-source software, and he deserves some credit for it.
Maybe it would be if they put the same effort into producing a worthwhile actual product that they waste on fishing trips in the courts.
We're heading into winter here in Australia. It's nice to know I don't have to buy a heater: all I have to do is upgrade my computer :-)
OK: a good one is to hit the direct-mailers in the hip-pocket. A lot of them provide pre-paid envelopes with their junk mail. It's quite satisfying to fill them up with as much other junk mail as they can hold and send them off. In countries where they charge extra for over-size envelopes, you can try shredding the paper first.
Did a quick mouseover, and was sort of surprised it wasn't goatse.cx... Just goes to show :-)
Radiation is, however, proveably known to cause mutations.
Because 99% of CNN viewers ARE stupid.
In my VW, they would have to get out and push :-P
I would contend that my Mom would be 1,048,576 Chinas. Does that make her a MegaChina?
Who, humans or worms? Last time I looked, my VW was thoroughly metric :-)
I can see a flame war erupting here...