Yeah, that was the whole point of the article. It was a spoof on "Is Linux ready for the desktop/joe sixpack?" When I read the title, I was like "Windows? You mean Linux, don't you?" The article was actually really funny.
Hmmm... Well, at the Superbowl party *I* was at, half the people there were women, and a number of them were hot. There was a keg, and I got all sloppy drunk, and I had my arm around some random girl most of the time.
Well, I can't really comment on XBox controllers, since I've never used but:
I simply can't believe people can complain about the size of the controller when there's god-awful shit out there like the N64 controller. Jesus, the DreamCast controller was about the same size and I never heard anybody complain about it.
N64 controller is really great IMO. It really makes sense in games like Goldeneye. Worked well for Zelda and Mario Kart as well. Though I loved the Dreamcast and Sega, the stock controller was terrible. I got an adapter that let me hook up Playstation or Saturn controllers for this reason. If you've never heard anyone complain about the stock DC controller you were obviously not paying attention to what most DC owners were saying.
I think it's just one of those reactionary complaints people like to use when they really have no reason to dislike a product other than the fact that they dislike the company itself. Hey, I'll admit it: I FUCKING HATE NINTENDO
Yeah, I agree to some extent, and I think you may have proved your own point by example; though maybe the N64 controller really just didn't work for you. These things are very subjective. I've heard plenty of complaints about XBox controllers. Maybe it doesn't work for a lot of people. I like my Microsoft Natural Pro Keyboard. I used to be MS hater, yet I'll use their products if they are of good quality (something that is lacking in their software). I also love the irony of having an MS Keyboard and using it in Linux:)
Oh yeah, and I was also Nintendo-hater in the days of NES vs Sega Master System, and then Genesis vs SNES.
Simply use a free account for any registration required sites / internet posting and only check it when necessary to confirm registration. Use another account for regular everyday things, and make sure it sin't something simple like abc123@hotmail.com. I do that and never get spam to my real accounts. This whole spam thing is way overblown.
Well, that won't work in a lot cases. I can create an e-mail account on my ISP (Roadrunner) and within hours I am getting spam without having even used it. The must be allowing easy access to the account list. Free accounts are worse (hotmail, yahoo), create an account and you're guaranteed to get spam, even if you've kept the e-mail address a complete secret.
On the other hand, at work, I don't get a single piece of spam because I am careful with the address.
What I'm looking for are ways other nerds in the community have made their bedrooms into a place where they can release tension of the day and improve their overall quality of life?
I fuck my girlfriend at the end of the day. My bedroom is basically a sexroom. It's nice. Granted, we keep a computer in there for listening to music and for browsing porn while she gives me head (or vice versa)...
Seriously though, why make google your home page when you can use Mozilla's keywords? Now I just type "g search terms" in the location bar and I get the results.
ALT-HOME, search terms, enter is faster than F6, g, space, search terms, enter
At one point, I had a local copy of the start page as my home page. The local copy had the image removed for super fast load times. Though Google's start page is fast enough and I like the images they use during holidays and such.
I like both. It just depends on what you want from the OS. I also found FreeBSD easier to install, and generally easier to make configuration changes and install new software. It has that feel that reminds of SunOS/Solaris which is nice.
I am using Debian right now, though because Linux is simply better supported: by the package maintainers as well as hardware/software manuafacturers. I had problems with FreeBSD such as necessary files completely missing from the official ftp sites (example: trying to install Windowmaker). I found XFree86 to run faster on Linux, though this could have been a configuration issue or have more to do with the video drivers.
FreeBSD is completely capable as a desktop OS, I will run it again at some point. For example, running KDE/Gnome under FreeBSD is basically the same experience as under Linux.
In my comp eng / comp sci classes there were some hot girls. But most of them were Asian girls (Chinese, Japanese, Indian, etc). There were actually a lot of them. I guess it has to do with going to a big college (Univ of Florida), there were so many hot girls there anyways.
Well my last drive purchase I spent $140 on a 80 gig WD Special Edition (8MB cache) and that thing was worth it, it is blazing fast. $1.75/gig. Price per gigabyte doesn't take into account performance afterall.
Why have twice your RAM in swap? Check this link for an explanation. Note that it doesn't apply to Linux. On my Linux box I have 768MB RAM and 512MB swap space and it runs nicely.
He's right you know. I've seen plenty of rebate deals (e.g. Bestbuy) that made drives effectively $1/gig. There was a WD 100 gig 7200 rpm for $100, followed a week later by a WD 120 gig 7200 rpm for $100! That is less than $1/gig and this was back in August.
haha, i've seen that one.. no, i wasn't hacking at the time. i was just sitting there pretending to fix the computer (ended up fixing it later). in retrospect, i should've gone and browsed some porn, but i was enjoying it enough as it was. i can't get over how crazy that chick is. unfortunately she was only in town for a week. that was my brief moment of luck...
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What, you've never been given a blow job while trying to fix a girls computer? Shit, it happen to me a few weeks ago. Granted, I was probably going to get one anyways. She was like "will you fix my computer problem?" and I was like "only if you get under the desk and give me some head."
She was talking about coming to where I work and doing this before (one of her fantasies), but this worked out better for me and didn't cause me to lose my job. And no she wasn't my girlfriend/wife, just a hot crazy chick that likes to suck dick.
Actually, I largely agree with a lot of what your saying. But only to an extent. We are definitely a fat society, and I am somewhat careful in preventing myself from buying into too much of it.
A few questions: Who paid for this computer you are typing on? Who paid tax dollars so that you have a library to read books at? Who worked to reproduce the books that you are reading? Who worked to produce the clothes you where? Where do you get food without someone else paying for it and someone else working to produce it?
I guess you have already admitted you are living off of other peoples' work. All societys have people working in it (whether there is exchange of currency is another issue). Your lifestyle is only possible because people have worked to provide it for you. Sure we can all live and die like animals, but is that going to be better than this? Is that even in our nature? Even animals "own" things. Ants have ant piles, beavers have dams, bees have beehives, etc; all of which they had to work for in order to have.
Then there's the whole "who owns the land" question...
You dumbass, how are you going to buy beer if you don't have money?
Recently, I limit myself to one line of reasoning when talking to these people "That's what you did. Are you happy?" So far noone has answered "yes".
Ask me, I'll say yes. I went to college got a Comp Eng degree. Loved every minute of it. After I started working, I stopped working for a year and half due to health issues. It was the worst time of my life. I was dependant on my parents at this time, and had to postpone my plans of moving out and living on my own. I recovered, and am now working full time. Happier than ever. Work is alright, its not too painful, and actually fun at times. But I have so much more fun outside of work than I did when I wasn't working. My life fits now. I can do anything. Money is fuel. I go out drinking on the weekends. I play in a band. I have wonderful experiences with women. I pursue computers as a hobbie at home. Spend time with my family. And I work. I don't sit around idling waiting for things to happen, I'm making things happen. And best of all, I pay my own bills.
Sounds like you may have seen Fight Club. But even Jack had to work during the day and Tyler had to make soap. BTW I love the movie. I love the quote:
you are not your job you are not how much you have in the bank you are not the contents of your wallet you are not your khakis you are not the car you drive you are not a beautiful and unique snowflake the things you own end up owning you
Especially, that last line. That is something I say all the time. I could drop everything I own right this instant and not worry, I don't value any of it (it only amounts to a few thousand $). I see people spend so much money on material items and then stress over protecting and maintaining them. You are not your job, but your job pays rent. Live on the streets, be a bum, that's fine, its your life. But why should *other people* pay for your meals?
I know you only said quit your job, not quit making money. But pursuing your dreams isn't necessarilly going to pay the bills, unless you are lucky. Anyways, there are ways that you can live without money. But that involves self-sufficiency. And in that case you'll have to work to feed yourself anyways. Probably harder than a 40hr/week job.
In any case, those of us who are working aren't locked into it. We can quit any time we want. We can start our own business with the money we've saved. We can get better jobs. We can have hopes of making it big and going into early retirement. You screwed yourself when you dropped out of high school, and maybe you are just trying to convince yourself that you did the right thing. Or maybe you got lucky and found money without working for it. But not everyone can be lucky in this way. I have a huge amount of respect for the people working minimum wage jobs they don't even like just to get by, but not for what you speak of.
Yoga, decimal system, astronomy, Ayurveda (nature medicine), Meditation, Buddhism, Karate, Sanskrit etc originated in India. Do you westerners ever consider that? All that is FREE!
You'd be surprised at how little these things are actually practiced by the Indian people in India. Its only a select few who are into yoga and meditation. People are more into yoga in the U.S. than in India. Though the quality of teaching [yoga] in India is much better.
In any case yoga rocks! I would suggest learning from someone who is from India because they generally do know it better. Westerners are teaching Yoga as an excercise program and that's really not what it is. I've taken classes from both, and there is a drastic difference. Yoga is really being misrepresented in the United States.
1. Easy to use Already is. (subjective, I know) 2. Cheap Already is. (you save in tech support once everything is nicely setup and never gives you problems, unlike a Windows machine) 3. Fast GUI Already is. Gnome/KDE aren't the only choices. 4. Pre-sold on Dell/Gateway/HP etc. Already is for servers. 5. MS compatible Already is pretty close. But why would you need MS compatibility once the whole world is using Linux?
I think you make a good point on #4, though. What is needed for greater Linux acceptance is a big system builder to sell machines that have Linux preinstalled and use compatible well-supported hardware, something that "just works" out-of-box. And then we get into the old cliched chicken and the egg problem. Users won't use Linux because it doesn't have the support of hardware/software manuafacters. Hardware/software manuafacters won't support Linux because there aren't enough users. This is something that I've seen slowly changing, and now the growth is exponential. I think 10 years is a reasonable estimate as to when it will hit mainstream. Windows may be popular in the United States, but this is not necessarilly the case in other countries. It may not happen in the U.S. first, but I predict Linux or something similar or derived from it will supersede Windows.
Which means maybe eating plainer foods, not eating out at restauraunts, driving a used car, not upgrading your home theater and computer yearly, not going on cruises, and not goofing off at work. Not buying pills for minor things like depression. Not owning a second car. Becaue the competition is willing to do this and more. So you can evolve...or die.
Right on man. I do all of these things you mention. I am a cheap bastard. Add to this I am developer living in the United States and am overpaid. Which basically means I've got a huge cashpile. I can one day move to India (I have family there), build a huge palace for myself with servants and all, and retire comfortably. I've seen it done by many others.
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Yeah, you're an AC and you probably will never even read my response, so why should I even bother? Why don't you login if you have some good ideas??!??
Anyways, that's a much more pleasant interpretation of the bible. You are right, I haven't read much of it. But I see so many interpretations like the one that I was responding to, saying looking at pornography is wrong and such. I think people read the bible, misinterpret it, and end up being repressed because of it. This can happen with anything, include some of the yogic philosophies, which tell you to be celibate and all this other stuff, but then warn you that you have to do it properly otherwise you will run into problems.
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Yeah, that was the whole point of the article. It was a spoof on "Is Linux ready for the desktop/joe sixpack?" When I read the title, I was like "Windows? You mean Linux, don't you?" The article was actually really funny.
Hmmm... Well, at the Superbowl party *I* was at, half the people there were women, and a number of them were hot. There was a keg, and I got all sloppy drunk, and I had my arm around some random girl most of the time.
Also, those cheerleaders are damn hot.
Well, I can't really comment on XBox controllers, since I've never used but:
:)
I simply can't believe people can complain about the size of the controller when there's god-awful shit out there like the N64 controller. Jesus, the DreamCast controller was about the same size and I never heard anybody complain about it.
N64 controller is really great IMO. It really makes sense in games like Goldeneye. Worked well for Zelda and Mario Kart as well. Though I loved the Dreamcast and Sega, the stock controller was terrible. I got an adapter that let me hook up Playstation or Saturn controllers for this reason. If you've never heard anyone complain about the stock DC controller you were obviously not paying attention to what most DC owners were saying.
I think it's just one of those reactionary complaints people like to use when they really have no reason to dislike a product other than the fact that they dislike the company itself. Hey, I'll admit it: I FUCKING HATE NINTENDO
Yeah, I agree to some extent, and I think you may have proved your own point by example; though maybe the N64 controller really just didn't work for you. These things are very subjective. I've heard plenty of complaints about XBox controllers. Maybe it doesn't work for a lot of people. I like my Microsoft Natural Pro Keyboard. I used to be MS hater, yet I'll use their products if they are of good quality (something that is lacking in their software). I also love the irony of having an MS Keyboard and using it in Linux
Oh yeah, and I was also Nintendo-hater in the days of NES vs Sega Master System, and then Genesis vs SNES.
Legalize it maaaaannnn.
Marijuana that is.. You know Jobs will try..
Simply use a free account for any registration required sites / internet posting and only check it when necessary to confirm registration. Use another account for regular everyday things, and make sure it sin't something simple like abc123@hotmail.com. I do that and never get spam to my real accounts. This whole spam thing is way overblown.
Well, that won't work in a lot cases. I can create an e-mail account on my ISP (Roadrunner) and within hours I am getting spam without having even used it. The must be allowing easy access to the account list. Free accounts are worse (hotmail, yahoo), create an account and you're guaranteed to get spam, even if you've kept the e-mail address a complete secret.
On the other hand, at work, I don't get a single piece of spam because I am careful with the address.
What I'm looking for are ways other nerds in the community have made their bedrooms into a place where they can release tension of the day and improve their overall quality of life?
I fuck my girlfriend at the end of the day. My bedroom is basically a sexroom. It's nice. Granted, we keep a computer in there for listening to music and for browsing porn while she gives me head (or vice versa)...
Seriously though, why make google your home page when you can use Mozilla's keywords? Now I just type "g search terms" in the location bar and I get the results.
ALT-HOME, search terms, enter
is faster than
F6, g, space, search terms, enter
At one point, I had a local copy of the start page as my home page. The local copy had the image removed for super fast load times. Though Google's start page is fast enough and I like the images they use during holidays and such.
I like both. It just depends on what you want from the OS. I also found FreeBSD easier to install, and generally easier to make configuration changes and install new software. It has that feel that reminds of SunOS/Solaris which is nice.
I am using Debian right now, though because Linux is simply better supported: by the package maintainers as well as hardware/software manuafacturers. I had problems with FreeBSD such as necessary files completely missing from the official ftp sites (example: trying to install Windowmaker). I found XFree86 to run faster on Linux, though this could have been a configuration issue or have more to do with the video drivers.
FreeBSD is completely capable as a desktop OS, I will run it again at some point. For example, running KDE/Gnome under FreeBSD is basically the same experience as under Linux.
If by Fantasy-Land U you mean University of Florida, that's probably where he went :P
So many hot chicks there, even a geek can get laid.
In my comp eng / comp sci classes there were some hot girls. But most of them were Asian girls (Chinese, Japanese, Indian, etc). There were actually a lot of them. I guess it has to do with going to a big college (Univ of Florida), there were so many hot girls there anyways.
Well my last drive purchase I spent $140 on a 80 gig WD Special Edition (8MB cache) and that thing was worth it, it is blazing fast. $1.75/gig. Price per gigabyte doesn't take into account performance afterall.
Goddamn, you and the rest of this thread has inspired me to go out drinking tonight :)
Get with the times man, these days people in the Linux community look like this. And yes, they get laid a lot.
Why have twice your RAM in swap? Check this link for an explanation. Note that it doesn't apply to Linux. On my Linux box I have 768MB RAM and 512MB swap space and it runs nicely.
He's right you know. I've seen plenty of rebate deals (e.g. Bestbuy) that made drives effectively $1/gig. There was a WD 100 gig 7200 rpm for $100, followed a week later by a WD 120 gig 7200 rpm for $100! That is less than $1/gig and this was back in August.
haha, i've seen that one.. no, i wasn't hacking at the time. i was just sitting there pretending to fix the computer (ended up fixing it later). in retrospect, i should've gone and browsed some porn, but i was enjoying it enough as it was. i can't get over how crazy that chick is. unfortunately she was only in town for a week. that was my brief moment of luck...
What, you've never been given a blow job while trying to fix a girls computer? Shit, it happen to me a few weeks ago. Granted, I was probably going to get one anyways. She was like "will you fix my computer problem?" and I was like "only if you get under the desk and give me some head."
She was talking about coming to where I work and doing this before (one of her fantasies), but this worked out better for me and didn't cause me to lose my job. And no she wasn't my girlfriend/wife, just a hot crazy chick that likes to suck dick.
And oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention, beer is _THE_ easiest thing to get without money! =)
:)
Haha... I should've known better than to ask that, I went to college after all
Actually, I largely agree with a lot of what your saying. But only to an extent. We are definitely a fat society, and I am somewhat careful in preventing myself from buying into too much of it.
A few questions:
Who paid for this computer you are typing on? Who paid tax dollars so that you have a library to read books at? Who worked to reproduce the books that you are reading? Who worked to produce the clothes you where? Where do you get food without someone else paying for it and someone else working to produce it?
I guess you have already admitted you are living off of other peoples' work. All societys have people working in it (whether there is exchange of currency is another issue). Your lifestyle is only possible because people have worked to provide it for you. Sure we can all live and die like animals, but is that going to be better than this? Is that even in our nature? Even animals "own" things. Ants have ant piles, beavers have dams, bees have beehives, etc; all of which they had to work for in order to have.
Then there's the whole "who owns the land" question...
You dumbass, how are you going to buy beer if you don't have money?
Recently, I limit myself to one line of reasoning when talking to these people "That's what you did. Are you happy?" So far noone has answered "yes".
Ask me, I'll say yes. I went to college got a Comp Eng degree. Loved every minute of it. After I started working, I stopped working for a year and half due to health issues. It was the worst time of my life. I was dependant on my parents at this time, and had to postpone my plans of moving out and living on my own. I recovered, and am now working full time. Happier than ever. Work is alright, its not too painful, and actually fun at times. But I have so much more fun outside of work than I did when I wasn't working. My life fits now. I can do anything. Money is fuel. I go out drinking on the weekends. I play in a band. I have wonderful experiences with women. I pursue computers as a hobbie at home. Spend time with my family. And I work. I don't sit around idling waiting for things to happen, I'm making things happen. And best of all, I pay my own bills.
Sounds like you may have seen Fight Club. But even Jack had to work during the day and Tyler had to make soap. BTW I love the movie. I love the quote:
you are not your job
you are not how much you have in the bank
you are not the contents of your wallet
you are not your khakis
you are not the car you drive
you are not a beautiful and unique snowflake
the things you own end up owning you
Especially, that last line. That is something I say all the time. I could drop everything I own right this instant and not worry, I don't value any of it (it only amounts to a few thousand $). I see people spend so much money on material items and then stress over protecting and maintaining them. You are not your job, but your job pays rent. Live on the streets, be a bum, that's fine, its your life. But why should *other people* pay for your meals?
I know you only said quit your job, not quit making money. But pursuing your dreams isn't necessarilly going to pay the bills, unless you are lucky. Anyways, there are ways that you can live without money. But that involves self-sufficiency. And in that case you'll have to work to feed yourself anyways. Probably harder than a 40hr/week job.
In any case, those of us who are working aren't locked into it. We can quit any time we want. We can start our own business with the money we've saved. We can get better jobs. We can have hopes of making it big and going into early retirement. You screwed yourself when you dropped out of high school, and maybe you are just trying to convince yourself that you did the right thing. Or maybe you got lucky and found money without working for it. But not everyone can be lucky in this way. I have a huge amount of respect for the people working minimum wage jobs they don't even like just to get by, but not for what you speak of.
Yoga, decimal system, astronomy, Ayurveda (nature medicine), Meditation, Buddhism, Karate, Sanskrit etc originated in India. Do you westerners ever consider that? All that is FREE!
You'd be surprised at how little these things are actually practiced by the Indian people in India. Its only a select few who are into yoga and meditation. People are more into yoga in the U.S. than in India. Though the quality of teaching [yoga] in India is much better.
In any case yoga rocks! I would suggest learning from someone who is from India because they generally do know it better. Westerners are teaching Yoga as an excercise program and that's really not what it is. I've taken classes from both, and there is a drastic difference. Yoga is really being misrepresented in the United States.
I thought Buddhism originated in China?
1. Easy to use
Already is. (subjective, I know)
2. Cheap
Already is. (you save in tech support once everything is nicely setup and never gives you problems, unlike a Windows machine)
3. Fast GUI
Already is. Gnome/KDE aren't the only choices.
4. Pre-sold on Dell/Gateway/HP etc.
Already is for servers.
5. MS compatible
Already is pretty close. But why would you need MS compatibility once the whole world is using Linux?
I think you make a good point on #4, though. What is needed for greater Linux acceptance is a big system builder to sell machines that have Linux preinstalled and use compatible well-supported hardware, something that "just works" out-of-box. And then we get into the old cliched chicken and the egg problem. Users won't use Linux because it doesn't have the support of hardware/software manuafacters. Hardware/software manuafacters won't support Linux because there aren't enough users. This is something that I've seen slowly changing, and now the growth is exponential. I think 10 years is a reasonable estimate as to when it will hit mainstream. Windows may be popular in the United States, but this is not necessarilly the case in other countries. It may not happen in the U.S. first, but I predict Linux or something similar or derived from it will supersede Windows.
Of course I'd lose millions on the distro and place my own monopoly in serious danger but boy would it be funny (if I was Bill).
Whatever floats your boat...
If I was Bill, I'd just hire a team of strippers to get me off whenever I needed. But that's just me.
Which means maybe eating plainer foods, not eating out at restauraunts, driving a used car, not upgrading your home theater and computer yearly, not going on cruises, and not goofing off at work. Not buying pills for minor things like depression. Not owning a second car. Becaue the competition is willing to do this and more. So you can evolve...or die.
Right on man. I do all of these things you mention. I am a cheap bastard. Add to this I am developer living in the United States and am overpaid. Which basically means I've got a huge cashpile. I can one day move to India (I have family there), build a huge palace for myself with servants and all, and retire comfortably. I've seen it done by many others.
Yeah, you're an AC and you probably will never even read my response, so why should I even bother? Why don't you login if you have some good ideas??!??
Anyways, that's a much more pleasant interpretation of the bible. You are right, I haven't read much of it. But I see so many interpretations like the one that I was responding to, saying looking at pornography is wrong and such. I think people read the bible, misinterpret it, and end up being repressed because of it. This can happen with anything, include some of the yogic philosophies, which tell you to be celibate and all this other stuff, but then warn you that you have to do it properly otherwise you will run into problems.