I used to have an unbelievable hatred for the sales fucks who work in the stereo stores. I would occasionally go in looking for a particular kind of connector. They didn't know shit but were sure capable of putting on a show. And they were hostile vampires if all you wanted was an RCA jack.
I've gotten over the hostility toward such bullshit. But it still is a matter of great distaste.
There's nothing on Television worth what all the hype promises. Every geek knows that. 'Nuff said.
The point of CD versus Cassette tapes is random access, durability, and for some applications, sound quality. But many people don't have a good enough set of speakers, nor do they listen to the kind of music where it matters, wether it's CD or Cassette quality.
Why shouldn't I be able to say 'I wrote this poem, I gave copies of it to three of my friends, and I am not giving copies to anybody else, ever again'?? You seem to imply that I don't have the right to do that.
Maybe they should quit fooling around and have the sort of robust firmware that Sun has in their SparcStations. You can do a hell of a lot with a SparcStation at the bios prompt. I believe it includes a Forth engine. Correct me if I'm wrong.
The BIOS on PeeCee motherboards has always been anaemic. And it's shocking how paranoid everyone in this discussion is about that changing.
There's certainly no quality standard when it comes to open source code. It's always a surprise. There's horrendous poorly documented code, and I've found all sorts of gems in the Linux kernal code.
Saying you 'always have more power' when you read the code, however, is like saying you always have more power at a concert if you can read music. Most people go to concerts to listen to and enjoy the music, and don't need to know how to read it.
I am about to be killed by kung fu, moo goo gai pong, chop suey, and twelve other contrived words supposedly from whatever country but who gives a shit, the people actually from said country think you're an actual retard for ranting about whatever it is you're ranting about.
There is a staggering amount of unclear, poorly written documentation in Linux and many open source projects. The number of extant HOWTO documents that are ridiculously out of date is also staggering. Try emailing some of the original programmers of many open source projects and getting them to take responsibility for it at all.
The part that gets me is that if the article read: "John X who now works for Google was once a member of the Socialist Worker's Party" people would get all hostile and accuse the article's author of red-baiting and persecution through innuendo.
A Cracker is someone who is good at defeating copy protection in games. Back in the day crackers used to NOP over the passwords, the non-standard diskette reads, etc. and give us the game in a form that we could enjoy without encumberment.
That's what a cracker is.
There are, of course, people trying to change the classic meaning of the word. Kind of the same as the people trying to change the meaning of the term 'hacker.'
The kitten in question eats tons and tons of cat food too. She weighs less than half as much as any of the other (four) cats, but she dominates the cat food dishes.
We're not sure what she's going to be like as an adult cat.
You just shouldn't worry about what damned fools think about you.
Many of us aren't as dogmatic as that and/or we're capable of dragging our dogmas out for amusement purposes but know how to stow it away under our seat when it's time for the plane to land.
The concept of 'online community' needs a lot more examination than it's ever received. The 'gee whiz' days when articles and interviews in Mondo 2000 magazine seemed fresh and new, and that there was a 'revolution' in human relations happening have now passed.
One of the books that I feel does the best job of debunking the concept of an 'Online Community' is 'The Future Does Not Compute Transcending the Machines in Our Midst' by Stephen L. Talbott. It was published by O'Reilly & Associates back in 1995. Talbot is one of the long term employees at O'Reilly, he's a senior editor (or was in 1995). In the book he talks about the newness and idealism, and drags out quotes from some of the most starry-eyed idealists, in the end debunking much of their hype. It's a must-read that almost nobody who has read.
Wow, I just did a search to find a good citation of Talbott's book and discovered that the full text is available online here for free. Everybody check it out. Hopefully, ummm, the fact that it's available for free online won't reduce it's credibility. It's easy these days to download something and stow it away and forget to ever read it.
Anyhow, don't sweat it that a gathering of the detris of the old battles of Microsoft vs. Macintosh, Microsoft vs. OS/2, Microsoft vs. Amiga, etc. etc. consider you a shill for not sharing their pathological hatred of the company. Their 'side' in the battle of the titans 'lost' and they'll never get over it. It's a shame that they chose Linux as their gathering place, cuz it's so cool otherwise.
In between eating dog food and whatever else she's given, if you hold her upside down in your arms and dare touch her feet, she emits a growl that's fairly ominous coming from a little black kitten of her size.
Back in the old days of BBSing (yes, I think that was a frontpage story here yesterday) there were a variety of BBS packages that could be run. One in particular, I cannot remember it's name, but it ran on the Apple II, posted a user number and a 'rating' right up front as part of the header for all posts made.
I remember the particular BBS I first encountered running that software as being very, very cliquish and prone to elitism. Basically, it was one of the suckiest boards in town.
It was a BBS that had a role playing game online. They gave me sysop access on the board because I'd come in and repaired the hardware once (the keyboard had some joints that needed resoldering). Being the frolicksome fellow (bastard?) that I am, I used my sysop access one day to reroll all the characters.
I never had the nerve to call the board back after that.
Our kitten would definitely eat Meow Mix, but that would be a waste, as there's a fussy white dog in another wing of the family here that probably needs it to survive.
My sister-in-law has a fussy white dog that wouldn't eat the cans of Alpo she bought it. So she send it home with my wife for our dog. It turns out that most of our cats will eat the Alpo. We have one cat (a small black kitten) who will eat almost anything it's given. Today I was eating the last of some powdermilk biscuits from last night and gave it a chunk to eat, too. It routinely eats the dry dog food (Kibbles and Chunks). We're not sure what to make of it.
Alpo dog food is sort of pricey, so Mister ID#3 is one lucky fellow. He should feel glad it's not Generic dry dog food (which our black kitten would probably like, even though the dog won't eat it)
Well, as he said, they spread a false 'oil shortage' story, on the Internet, in 1972. If that isn't believeable enough to you, don't self-ignite in a big swirly mass of contradiction.
I was going to raise the question of wether hyberbaric chambers might cure, or maybe even promote, pedophelia. Glad someone else kinda beat me to the punch, so I don't have to post it cold, can just add it to the thread.
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You talk like a marketing huckster.
I used to have an unbelievable hatred for the sales fucks who work in the stereo stores. I would occasionally go in looking for a particular kind of connector. They didn't know shit but were sure capable of putting on a show. And they were hostile vampires if all you wanted was an RCA jack.
I've gotten over the hostility toward such bullshit. But it still is a matter of great distaste.
There's nothing on Television worth what all the hype promises. Every geek knows that. 'Nuff said.
Minimum loss on a cable that's three feet long????
A digital cable?
The point of CD versus Cassette tapes is random access, durability, and for some applications, sound quality. But many people don't have a good enough set of speakers, nor do they listen to the kind of music where it matters, wether it's CD or Cassette quality.
Why shouldn't I be able to say 'I wrote this poem, I gave copies of it to three of my friends, and I am not giving copies to anybody else, ever again'?? You seem to imply that I don't have the right to do that.
Maybe they should quit fooling around and have the sort of robust firmware that Sun has in their SparcStations. You can do a hell of a lot with a SparcStation at the bios prompt. I believe it includes a Forth engine. Correct me if I'm wrong.
The BIOS on PeeCee motherboards has always been anaemic. And it's shocking how paranoid everyone in this discussion is about that changing.
All too often, it sucks to have to read the code.
There's certainly no quality standard when it comes to open source code. It's always a surprise. There's horrendous poorly documented code, and I've found all sorts of gems in the Linux kernal code.
Saying you 'always have more power' when you read the code, however, is like saying you always have more power at a concert if you can read music. Most people go to concerts to listen to and enjoy the music, and don't need to know how to read it.
I am about to be killed by kung fu, moo goo gai pong, chop suey, and twelve other contrived words supposedly from whatever country but who gives a shit, the people actually from said country think you're an actual retard for ranting about whatever it is you're ranting about.
etcetera.
If it were digital media his grandmother wouldn't be able to cut it out and put it in an envelope and mail it to him.
However, it's fairly common for people to send one another 'clipped' items and whatnot from web pages with email.
And it's not illegal.
Nice country we live in. With people like you carping and whining, it's slightly less nice, however.
There is a staggering amount of unclear, poorly written documentation in Linux and many open source projects. The number of extant HOWTO documents that are ridiculously out of date is also staggering. Try emailing some of the original programmers of many open source projects and getting them to take responsibility for it at all.
Would you care to enlighten us about what the name of this company that's acting about as badly as Gator is?
It's not Google. So own up, what's the company's name??
Hah! You're being sarcastic, aren't you?
For privacy to be absolute, you have to live as a hermit.
I guess it's time for you and some of your friends to start the Gnugle project then.
Better start putting together the huge farm of machines and start gathering money for all the bandwidth you're gonna need.
The part that gets me is that if the article read: "John X who now works for Google was once a member of the Socialist Worker's Party" people would get all hostile and accuse the article's author of red-baiting and persecution through innuendo.
Instead they are 'protecting freedom'.
No, it's not being used for that meaning.
A Cracker is someone who is good at defeating copy protection in games. Back in the day crackers used to NOP over the passwords, the non-standard diskette reads, etc. and give us the game in a form that we could enjoy without encumberment.
That's what a cracker is.
There are, of course, people trying to change the classic meaning of the word. Kind of the same as the people trying to change the meaning of the term 'hacker.'
Well, they're screwed if their main business presence was the Internet.
Surprisingly, that isn't the case for that many businesses yet.
The kitten in question eats tons and tons of cat food too. She weighs less than half as much as any of the other (four) cats, but she dominates the cat food dishes.
We're not sure what she's going to be like as an adult cat.
You just shouldn't worry about what damned fools think about you.
Many of us aren't as dogmatic as that and/or we're capable of dragging our dogmas out for amusement purposes but know how to stow it away under our seat when it's time for the plane to land.
The concept of 'online community' needs a lot more examination than it's ever received. The 'gee whiz' days when articles and interviews in Mondo 2000 magazine seemed fresh and new, and that there was a 'revolution' in human relations happening have now passed.
One of the books that I feel does the best job of debunking the concept of an 'Online Community' is 'The Future Does Not Compute Transcending the Machines in Our Midst' by Stephen L. Talbott. It was published by O'Reilly & Associates back in 1995. Talbot is one of the long term employees at O'Reilly, he's a senior editor (or was in 1995). In the book he talks about the newness and idealism, and drags out quotes from some of the most starry-eyed idealists, in the end debunking much of their hype. It's a must-read that almost nobody who has read.
Wow, I just did a search to find a good citation of Talbott's book and discovered that the full text is available online here for free. Everybody check it out. Hopefully, ummm, the fact that it's available for free online won't reduce it's credibility. It's easy these days to download something and stow it away and forget to ever read it.
Anyhow, don't sweat it that a gathering of the detris of the old battles of Microsoft vs. Macintosh, Microsoft vs. OS/2, Microsoft vs. Amiga, etc. etc. consider you a shill for not sharing their pathological hatred of the company. Their 'side' in the battle of the titans 'lost' and they'll never get over it. It's a shame that they chose Linux as their gathering place, cuz it's so cool otherwise.
Our kitten isn't meek at all.
In between eating dog food and whatever else she's given, if you hold her upside down in your arms and dare touch her feet, she emits a growl that's fairly ominous coming from a little black kitten of her size.
Back in the old days of BBSing (yes, I think that was a frontpage story here yesterday) there were a variety of BBS packages that could be run. One in particular, I cannot remember it's name, but it ran on the Apple II, posted a user number and a 'rating' right up front as part of the header for all posts made.
I remember the particular BBS I first encountered running that software as being very, very cliquish and prone to elitism. Basically, it was one of the suckiest boards in town.
It was a BBS that had a role playing game online. They gave me sysop access on the board because I'd come in and repaired the hardware once (the keyboard had some joints that needed resoldering). Being the frolicksome fellow (bastard?) that I am, I used my sysop access one day to reroll all the characters.
I never had the nerve to call the board back after that.
So much for reputations.
Our kitten would definitely eat Meow Mix, but that would be a waste, as there's a fussy white dog in another wing of the family here that probably needs it to survive.
My sister-in-law has a fussy white dog that wouldn't eat the cans of Alpo she bought it. So she send it home with my wife for our dog. It turns out that most of our cats will eat the Alpo. We have one cat (a small black kitten) who will eat almost anything it's given. Today I was eating the last of some powdermilk biscuits from last night and gave it a chunk to eat, too. It routinely eats the dry dog food (Kibbles and Chunks). We're not sure what to make of it.
Alpo dog food is sort of pricey, so Mister ID#3 is one lucky fellow. He should feel glad it's not Generic dry dog food (which our black kitten would probably like, even though the dog won't eat it)
No, the test was of the return value for the assignment statement hemos=gay.
Presumably it would return true no matter what, which fits with how things work around here.
Not sure at all what any of this 'reputation' stuff means, however. Aren't we all (or almost all) of us using psuedonyms to start with?
Well, as he said, they spread a false 'oil shortage' story, on the Internet, in 1972. If that isn't believeable enough to you, don't self-ignite in a big swirly mass of contradiction.
I wonder what his indymedia account name is.
I was going to raise the question of wether hyberbaric chambers might cure, or maybe even promote, pedophelia. Glad someone else kinda beat me to the punch, so I don't have to post it cold, can just add it to the thread.
With eBay it is both a buyer and a seller rating. My numbers there are based on feedback both from buying and selling.
And I've cancelled bids from people who had terrible feedback. I didn't want to deal with them.