Rolling Stone = paying gig Slashdot = Siberian labor rate Also articles like this one don't go into print until after they get edited, which may be part of the reason that this article was a lot better than most of the Katz articles that were original to Slashdot
Who in their wrong mind decided that first-person testimony from a Linux-using mom belonged in the same category as first-posters and worse? Has MS hijacked all the moderator positions or did somebody click the wrong button while trying to increase the score?
They've severely uglified the hundred, fifty, and twenty dollar bills and supposedly incorporated new anti-counterfeitting(sp) technology. Somehow they just don't seem like "real money".
At last, the perfect way for the elitists to continue their high priesthood, conducting their mystic rites in a tongue unknown to the awed rabble. Create an OS that only accepts input from a Morse key (in Morse Code, of course). Or maybe we could go back to front panel toggle switches. Or how about having to use Morse to input in hex, or binary. Security through mysticism!
(and print the manuals in the ascii numbers for the letters)
(I'll send the binary of that OS to the Truly Deserving Elect among you as soon as The Divine Source reveals in to me in a vision)
I don't read Russian, and since most of their pages look like extended ascii apparently my browser doesn't read Cyrillic, but I clicked some of the links on the sight (found something from March 1st that seemed to be talking about Linux and Merced)so I'm pretty sure that the site is legit even if the story isn't, but it occurred to me that a great 4/1 trick would be if Slashdot, including all of the previous Slashdot pages, polls, Ask Slashdot's, etc., was suddenly in Russian.:-)
(hope this doesn't start a rash of consultants telling the PHB's "see, we told you this Linus guy is a commie, all those free software beatniks are!"
Actually, I believe it was the barbecue grill manufacturers and such trying to get more daylight for people to use their products. At least it was definitely them behind the change of the start from the last weekend of April to the first weekend of April a few years ago.
That could actually work, though. At least the mouse could generate enough to provide its own 5 volts and a little to spare. Of course the mouse would weigh about as much as a small brick and you'd have to change from one hand to the other regularly to keep one arm from being a shirt size larger than the other from the muscle build-up.
For example, at about 5 or 6 am EST I hit reload but this story was nowhere to be seen, yet there's a comment from a few minutes after it was put on the main page.
I was assuming this person with the somewhat uncommon name was a guy but leaving myself an out just in case that was an incredibly sexist and out-of-date assumption on my part. I am not judging the paper on the basis of the author's name. I was pointng out that instead of the usual "Person A submitted this story written by Person B about..." it instead appeared that the story submitter and the author of the subject of the story appeared to be one and the same which isn't how it's usually done (except for a certain resident gasbag).
Actually, I'm seeing more and more spelling, grammar, and usage errors in many different print sources these days that appear to be caused by the software's "advanced features", as they are of an entirely different character than the "typo's" of the 50's, 60's, and 70's. Microsoft Office components seem to be especially laden with "features" that have their own ideas about how your work should be re-written and re-formatted. That's not to say that the authors don't contribute their own share of goofs along with the dreck and psychobabble. Maybe what Slashdot needs is fewer moderators and more editors.:-)
Too bad Theos Software and/or A.T.&T. and/or Microsoft. Let's see, if this Theos thing is for real and after 3 years they're just now getting around to shopping for a netname that would officially make them the*only*software company even slower than Microsoft to notice that new-fangled internet thing. What can you possibly say about Microsoft in parody that's more defamatory than telling the truth about them. Speaking of A.T. & T., years ago a guy I knew told me that the nickname "Ma Bell" was originally the idea of one of their PR types, to present them in a warm friendly image (back when they were all-enveloping), but during a telcom workers strike they wore T-shirts that said "Ma Bell is a real mother..." and that killed any official support for that name. Speaking of Lucas Arts, I bought one of their games for my nephew, it was X-wing or Tie Fighter or some such, and the Lucas Arts name and logo were plastered all over the box and shrinkwrap, but once I took it home and opened it, there was a little piece of paper saying that Lucas Arts no longer supports that particular game and to contact some company neither you nor I probably ever heard of (maybe it was Theos software:) )for support. No mention of that other company on the outside of the box at all. While we're on the subject, can anyone steer me to a Star Wars space battle type game that's_lots_simpler and easier without all the cryptic keyboard combinations. The kid's only 6, he just wants to grab the joystick, zoom around without crashing and shoot the bad guys with out getting shot. Come to think of it, that's the kind of game I want too.:)
I guess what you meant was UnixWare but UnixWar sounds much more interesting.
Okay, let me see if I've got this straight...
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Some guy(?) named Lion Templin submits a story that turns out to be something written by some guy(?) named Lion Templin. Are we witnessing the birth of the Katz effect? BTW, the main page says this article has 3 comments so far but I'm down to -15 and I still only see 2. Just how offensive is that 3rd comment?
(when I get the time, I'll read Templin's multi-part whatever it is, and if it's good I'll rush back to this thread to say so)
Same for this guy. I like the Sunday Slashdot idea (or even Saturday). I am curious as to whether this guy is here because he got run off from wherever he was writing before. Perhaps we could keep him and Katz on condition that they edit each other. That should produce some interesting results.
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"...they'd also be breaking WfW, DOS clients, OS/2, and everything else that's ever used SMB."
Microsoft making old MS products which they no longer sell or support unusable? Yeah, you're right, they'd never do that.
Rolling Stone = paying gig
Slashdot = Siberian labor rate
Also articles like this one don't go into print until after they get edited, which may be part of the reason that this article was a lot better than most of the Katz articles that were original to Slashdot
Does this mean I have to buy four tickets in order to see the movie at all?
Aren't they kept in silos just outside Redmond?
Who in their wrong mind decided that first-person testimony from a Linux-using mom belonged in the same category as first-posters and worse?
Has MS hijacked all the moderator positions or did somebody click the wrong button while trying to increase the score?
(Katz on C_SPAN I, live, 4/6/99, 6pm EDT)
They've severely uglified the hundred, fifty, and twenty dollar bills and supposedly incorporated new anti-counterfeitting(sp) technology. Somehow they just don't seem like "real money".
This is not a call for censorship but should ethnic "humor" be getting bumped up to a +1?
Just call the whole thing "NotBob"
(BTW, anyone know where I can get a copy of Bob?)
At last, the perfect way for the elitists to continue their high priesthood, conducting their mystic rites in a tongue unknown to the awed rabble. Create an OS that only accepts input from a Morse key (in Morse Code, of course). Or maybe we could go back to front panel toggle switches. Or how about having to use Morse to input in hex, or binary. Security through mysticism!
(and print the manuals in the ascii numbers for the letters)
(I'll send the binary of that OS to the Truly Deserving Elect among you as soon as The Divine Source reveals in to me in a vision)
Is that anything like "embrace and extend"?
win95/winNT-client/winNT-server ? How about psychotomy?
I don't read Russian, and since most of their pages look like extended ascii apparently my browser doesn't read Cyrillic, but I clicked some of the links on the sight (found something from March 1st that seemed to be talking about Linux and Merced)so I'm pretty sure that the site is legit even if the story isn't, but it occurred to me that a great 4/1 trick would be if Slashdot, including all of the previous Slashdot pages, polls, Ask Slashdot's, etc., was suddenly in Russian. :-)
(hope this doesn't start a rash of consultants telling the PHB's "see, we told you this Linus guy is a commie, all those free software beatniks are!"
Actually, I believe it was the barbecue grill manufacturers and such trying to get more daylight for people to use their products. At least it was definitely them behind the change of the start from the last weekend of April to the first weekend of April a few years ago.
That could actually work, though. At least the mouse could generate enough to provide its own 5 volts and a little to spare. Of course the mouse would weigh about as much as a small brick and you'd have to change from one hand to the other regularly to keep one arm from being a shirt size larger than the other from the muscle build-up.
How soon 'til Rob's 35?
For example, at about 5 or 6 am EST I hit reload but this story was nowhere to be seen, yet there's a comment from a few minutes after it was put on the main page.
Obviously the unit the Rouge Baron flys for :)
I was assuming this person with the somewhat uncommon name was a guy but leaving myself an out just in case that was an incredibly sexist and out-of-date assumption on my part.
I am not judging the paper on the basis of the author's name. I was pointng out that instead of the usual "Person A submitted this story written by Person B about..." it instead appeared that the story submitter and the author of the subject of the story appeared to be one and the same which isn't how it's usually done (except for a certain resident gasbag).
Actually, I'm seeing more and more spelling, grammar, and usage errors in many different print sources these days that appear to be caused by the software's "advanced features", as they are of an entirely different character than the "typo's" of the 50's, 60's, and 70's. Microsoft Office components seem to be especially laden with "features" that have their own ideas about how your work should be re-written and re-formatted.
That's not to say that the authors don't contribute their own share of goofs along with the dreck and psychobabble.
Maybe what Slashdot needs is fewer moderators and more editors.:-)
Too bad Theos Software and/or A.T.&T. and/or Microsoft. :) )for support. No mention of that other company on the outside of the box at all. :)
Let's see, if this Theos thing is for real and after 3 years they're just now getting around to shopping for a netname that would officially make them the*only*software company even slower than Microsoft to notice that new-fangled internet thing.
What can you possibly say about Microsoft in parody that's more defamatory than telling the truth about them.
Speaking of A.T. & T., years ago a guy I knew told me that the nickname "Ma Bell" was originally the idea of one of their PR types, to present them in a warm friendly image (back when they were all-enveloping), but during a telcom workers strike they wore T-shirts that said "Ma Bell is a real mother..." and that killed any official support for that name.
Speaking of Lucas Arts, I bought one of their games for my nephew, it was X-wing or Tie Fighter or some such, and the Lucas Arts name and logo were plastered all over the box and shrinkwrap, but once I took it home and opened it, there was a little piece of paper saying that Lucas Arts no longer supports that particular game and to contact some company neither you nor I probably ever heard of (maybe it was Theos software
While we're on the subject, can anyone steer me to a Star Wars space battle type game that's_lots_simpler and easier without all the cryptic keyboard combinations. The kid's only 6, he just wants to grab the joystick, zoom around without crashing and shoot the bad guys with out getting shot. Come to think of it, that's the kind of game I want too.
I guess what you meant was UnixWare but UnixWar sounds much more interesting.
Some guy(?) named Lion Templin submits a story that turns out to be something written by some guy(?) named Lion Templin. Are we witnessing the birth of the Katz effect?
BTW, the main page says this article has 3 comments so far but I'm down to -15 and I still only see 2. Just how offensive is that 3rd comment?
(when I get the time, I'll read Templin's multi-part whatever it is, and if it's good I'll rush back to this thread to say so)
Is that a real "Stargate" on the front of the Duo?
Now_that_would be cool! A Trans-Galactic Network Interface Device!
Perhaps you could refer to yourself as "Gnu-ledgeable"
Same for this guy.
I like the Sunday Slashdot idea (or even Saturday).
I am curious as to whether this guy is here because he got run off from wherever he was writing before.
Perhaps we could keep him and Katz on condition that they edit each other. That should produce some interesting results.