I use open source because it's lowercase free. I keep telling myself I'll contribute someday but it has been almost a decade and I haven't hardly even submitted any bug reports. I think a lot of people talk the talk, but few walk the walk. I'm sure someone will reply saying it's not the case but it is the case with everyone I know who uses open source. The only bug reports I know that anyone (I personally know) sends in is to bioconductor because something produces bad data. They don't care how hard it is to use, how shitty the interfaces can be, they just want the data to be correct. They'll find a work around on their own and if they can't, maybe they'll submit a bug report themselves. They will be using perl, mysql, R, etc because it's lowercase free. The don't care about the politics and just don't have the time or inclination to contribute.
What magical internet law dictates having a web server at hostname.com? And what other law dictates hostname.com resolve to an ip address? If anything, they are being pendantic, not sloppy.
It's in perfect condition and now I see them going for 3-4 times what I paid for in 7 years ago. I never thought of it as an investment. A word to the wise for anyone considering buy an arcade game, espescially an older upright - these things are monsters. They are big and heavy. They are hard to move around, especially up/down stairs and they take up a lot of space. They are loads of fun though and anytime someone new sees it in my house they are always in awe. It takes them back.
Oh, and if you buy a game with a trackball, make sure you maintain the berrings regularly even if your not using it.
Which is why it is useful to use some sort of alias. Unless you really have a reason to be known by your real name.
Yeah, but back then most people used their real name and primary (and only) email address. In 1990, you couldn't just go out and get a free email address anytime you wanted. It's much easier to be anonymous today. I only use my real name in email correspondence for work and real world friends and family. Of the few people I know from online only (outside of work), none know any personal information about me. Heh, I've even ditched some old anonymous identities of mine. I have a much lower uid slashdot account but I don't use it anymore because...there was some....unpleasantness.
Those usenet postings are just a search away on Google groups. Sometimes I pull a few up just to shiver at what an idiot I was. Heh, maybe in 15 years I'll be Googling my old slashdot posts. Posting on the internet is like getting a tatoo only a tatoo is easier to erase.
Nothing will change ID people's minds. Nothing. Ever. This is interesting news, but it's not going to make a bit of difference to ID people. So why bother blathering on about it in an article?
Jesus Christ people. Do you linux nerds need to have your humor delivered to you by a man dressed up as a woman before you get it? I pointed out all the worst things about linux to a common consumer and threw in pointless philosophical crap, anti-corporate ranting and politics. Sorry it wasn't a modified Monty Python skit, maybe you would have got it.
"So, in essence, they're saying they want desktops cluttered with unnecessary features." - We have that, it's called KDE.
Ain't that the truth. After 4 years of KDE, I had to switch to Gnome. KDE has become a bloated, buggy shitpile. It does not bode well for the future of desktop linux.
What about my iPod? What about my wireless usb stick? These are my last two hardware purchases, neither work with Linux.
But that's the greatest thing about linux. If something doesn't exist, YOU CAN CREATE IT YOURSELF. It should be no problem to whip up something like iTunes and the USB stick will probably only involve a few hours of hacking the kernel. These are really good selling points for linux. When trying to get someone to switch, these abilities should be the first thing you bring up. After that, blather on for an hour or so about Free vs free and how it's not linux but really GNU/linux with painful detailing of the difference betweeen the kernel and all the distributions. Finally, to really close the deal, launch in to a tirade that involves patents, copyright, the MPAA and RIAA and George Bush. Then as Emeril says, "BAM!" You'll have a linux convert. Excuse me, a GNU/linux convert.
You submitted your story in the wrong place. You need to go here. Don't forget to include your credit card or paypal number. I think the going rate for a mainpage story is about $1000.
Well, all I needed was to read the summary to know it was a bunch of BS. "Oh no, a fantasy computer game is not like life. It's different in the real world!!! This is real intellectual stuff here. It's also a novel idea that I, the author of the article, just came up with. You have not heard this a thousand times before."
I don't need to read his reasonings as to why WoW is different and thus this worse than GTA. Or why he thinks that this type of life lesson - unlike GTA which does not lead people to a life of killing cops and prostitutes - will actually take root and mess up someone's life. It's bullshit. The only way these games are going to mess you up is if you play them 12 hours a day, 7 days a week for years - as plenty of people do. Yeah, neat - level 60 wizard. Slap that on your resume and check it off your list lifetime goals.
And chess? What does that have to do with this? Chess is in a whole other league. Use checkers next time, it's a better analogy.
Most of the "hacks" described in the review seem to amount to "how to use these standard tools, which came with your distro, to do the task for which they were designed."
Yet we sit here and wonder why linux is not a mainstream desktop choice...
The moderations on the posts have changed and I am betting it was because of my post.
I have been around here a while and have seen time and time again that highly modded posts usually don't change unless they are called out. What are the chances of a comment buried deep in a hours old story with 700 comments suddenly getting down-modded three points? Slim. That comment had been sitting at +5 within 10 minutes of that story being posted. I looked at the moderation totals earlier and they were the same when I posted - 80% insightful, 10% troll,10% underated or something like that, only one down mod. The first post in this story was modded down twice and up once when I posted. Knowing Slashdot, both posts will be at either 5 or -1 at the end of the day. The only difference is the windows post will get insightful mods and the linux post will get funny or underrated mods.
Anyway you look at it, I don't see the point in running either OS on a Mac. It's just a waste of money.
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we are going to be returning to dummy terminals
So, you are switching back to Windows?
Kidding aside, I doubt we will switch to dummy terminals but it would certainly lessen the requirement of any particular OS.
I use open source because it's lowercase free. I keep telling myself I'll contribute someday but it has been almost a decade and I haven't hardly even submitted any bug reports. I think a lot of people talk the talk, but few walk the walk. I'm sure someone will reply saying it's not the case but it is the case with everyone I know who uses open source. The only bug reports I know that anyone (I personally know) sends in is to bioconductor because something produces bad data. They don't care how hard it is to use, how shitty the interfaces can be, they just want the data to be correct. They'll find a work around on their own and if they can't, maybe they'll submit a bug report themselves. They will be using perl, mysql, R, etc because it's lowercase free. The don't care about the politics and just don't have the time or inclination to contribute.
The are rather repetitio.us.
What magical internet law dictates having a web server at hostname.com? And what other law dictates hostname.com resolve to an ip address? If anything, they are being pendantic, not sloppy.
It's in perfect condition and now I see them going for 3-4 times what I paid for in 7 years ago. I never thought of it as an investment. A word to the wise for anyone considering buy an arcade game, espescially an older upright - these things are monsters. They are big and heavy. They are hard to move around, especially up/down stairs and they take up a lot of space. They are loads of fun though and anytime someone new sees it in my house they are always in awe. It takes them back.
Oh, and if you buy a game with a trackball, make sure you maintain the berrings regularly even if your not using it.
http://minimsft.blogspot.com/
You might hate 'em, but it's fascinating stuff to read.
Which is why it is useful to use some sort of alias. Unless you really have a reason to be known by your real name.
Yeah, but back then most people used their real name and primary (and only) email address. In 1990, you couldn't just go out and get a free email address anytime you wanted. It's much easier to be anonymous today. I only use my real name in email correspondence for work and real world friends and family. Of the few people I know from online only (outside of work), none know any personal information about me. Heh, I've even ditched some old anonymous identities of mine. I have a much lower uid slashdot account but I don't use it anymore because...there was some....unpleasantness.
Those usenet postings are just a search away on Google groups. Sometimes I pull a few up just to shiver at what an idiot I was. Heh, maybe in 15 years I'll be Googling my old slashdot posts. Posting on the internet is like getting a tatoo only a tatoo is easier to erase.
There is absolute no flamebait intelligent design talk in the article or the summary. Is this Slashdot?
Only forks.
Nothing will change ID people's minds. Nothing. Ever. This is interesting news, but it's not going to make a bit of difference to ID people. So why bother blathering on about it in an article?
More storage? So you don't get six disks for one movie. Well, probably not. They'll probably keep doing that.
Jesus Christ people. Do you linux nerds need to have your humor delivered to you by a man dressed up as a woman before you get it? I pointed out all the worst things about linux to a common consumer and threw in pointless philosophical crap, anti-corporate ranting and politics. Sorry it wasn't a modified Monty Python skit, maybe you would have got it.
"So, in essence, they're saying they want desktops cluttered with unnecessary features." - We have that, it's called KDE.
Ain't that the truth. After 4 years of KDE, I had to switch to Gnome. KDE has become a bloated, buggy shitpile. It does not bode well for the future of desktop linux.
What about my iPod? What about my wireless usb stick? These are my last two hardware purchases, neither work with Linux.
But that's the greatest thing about linux. If something doesn't exist, YOU CAN CREATE IT YOURSELF. It should be no problem to whip up something like iTunes and the USB stick will probably only involve a few hours of hacking the kernel. These are really good selling points for linux. When trying to get someone to switch, these abilities should be the first thing you bring up. After that, blather on for an hour or so about Free vs free and how it's not linux but really GNU/linux with painful detailing of the difference betweeen the kernel and all the distributions. Finally, to really close the deal, launch in to a tirade that involves patents, copyright, the MPAA and RIAA and George Bush. Then as Emeril says, "BAM!" You'll have a linux convert. Excuse me, a GNU/linux convert.
You submitted your story in the wrong place. You need to go here. Don't forget to include your credit card or paypal number. I think the going rate for a mainpage story is about $1000.
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Popular technology popular. Interesting....
Well, all I needed was to read the summary to know it was a bunch of BS. "Oh no, a fantasy computer game is not like life. It's different in the real world!!! This is real intellectual stuff here. It's also a novel idea that I, the author of the article, just came up with. You have not heard this a thousand times before."
I don't need to read his reasonings as to why WoW is different and thus this worse than GTA. Or why he thinks that this type of life lesson - unlike GTA which does not lead people to a life of killing cops and prostitutes - will actually take root and mess up someone's life. It's bullshit. The only way these games are going to mess you up is if you play them 12 hours a day, 7 days a week for years - as plenty of people do. Yeah, neat - level 60 wizard. Slap that on your resume and check it off your list lifetime goals.
And chess? What does that have to do with this? Chess is in a whole other league. Use checkers next time, it's a better analogy.
Here are some other life lessons games teach us:
- Killing cops and prostitues is funny
- In war, once you die, you come right back to life (or maybe there is a slight delay)
- etc
Most of the "hacks" described in the review seem to amount to "how to use these standard tools, which came with your distro, to do the task for which they were designed."
Yet we sit here and wonder why linux is not a mainstream desktop choice...
Use CVS or some other revisioning system.
The moderations on the posts have changed and I am betting it was because of my post.
I have been around here a while and have seen time and time again that highly modded posts usually don't change unless they are called out. What are the chances of a comment buried deep in a hours old story with 700 comments suddenly getting down-modded three points? Slim. That comment had been sitting at +5 within 10 minutes of that story being posted. I looked at the moderation totals earlier and they were the same when I posted - 80% insightful, 10% troll,10% underated or something like that, only one down mod. The first post in this story was modded down twice and up once when I posted. Knowing Slashdot, both posts will be at either 5 or -1 at the end of the day. The only difference is the windows post will get insightful mods and the linux post will get funny or underrated mods.
Anyway you look at it, I don't see the point in running either OS on a Mac. It's just a waste of money.
Windows on a mac? That's just expensive hardware. +5 Insightful
Linux on a mac? That's just expensive hardware. -1 Troll
How so? Your ISP has an account on you. Simple to count your incoming and outgoing emails.
Well for one....no wait, not worth the effort.