Thanks for the information. I thought it was just a miscommunication......of course I'm so gullible I'll probably keep talking to him as long as he doesn't resort to the troll-cornered "you're gay" and other unrelated insults.
Okay, you're not getting it, man. The point wasn't that she should be using vim or emacs. The point was that while writing mark-up yourself is a good thing, if she's limited herself to notepad, you know MICROSOFT notepad, then what's her deal with the got root shirt?
Her appearance in a couple pics seemed to imply that she was a Linux fan. I'm asserting that she wouldn't prefer notepad over a few dozen text editors I've seen (including Kate for christ's sake) if she had some real Linux experience.
And look, we're both already guilty of doing exactly what she didn't do. We've both gone off on some advantages of our respective text editors. You see what I mean?
I'm sorry if you think it was vim praise, I didn't mean it to be. It's just THE editor I think of as an alternative to windows notepad. I'm sure you think differently, and I'm NOT trying to say that you're not an OSS-Developer/Fan-of-Linux/Whatever because of it.
It just strikes me as odd that someone would wear a "got root?" T-Shirt and not use an open-source alternative to notepad.
I didn't mean to come off as so elitest. I've been very drunk in the last hours, please forgive me.
I respect a person's choice in editors, differen't people find productivity through different means.
But in all seriousness, and only because I think everyone would benefit from it, I'd really reccomend trying out vim for a week. It's hard to describe in relation to TextPad and Kate... In insert mode it works much like TextPad and Kate, but in Standard mode it's like you've tossed your text on an operating table and been handed a scalpel.
And if you did give vim a fair run, excuse me again for assuming otherwise.
Anwering my own question: She is "...currently a circulation manager at a publishing house."
After seeing her "got root?" T-Shirt I just HAD to know what system she's running. According to her faq she uses "...Photoshop 5.5, ImageReady for compression, notepad for html..."
Photoshop and Imageready, fine, you need Windows for that. Fair enough. Most professional web designers I know are stuck with windows (though the clever ones use crossover office), whether they want to or not.
However, no self respecting linux geek would resist the chance to make it known to the public that they like either emacs or vim. I mean, notepad? Yeah, sure, I'm happy she can throw some markup together, nevermind the fact that she's not adhering to standards, it's still better than the stuff WYSIWYG editors spew out their little iso-8859-1 orifaces.
...and you know what, I wouldn't even be so upset about all this if it wasn't for your misrepresentation of her.
I mean, sure she has an appreciable interest in technology, built her desktops herself, does manage her own page, likes geeks. But fair warning to other web designers: if you want something pretty to look at whilst discussing the lack of standards in web content, or the lack of design within sites, I have the suspicion that you might be disappointed.
...though I'd very truly love to be proven wrong about her.
I was all excited when you said "cute" and "web designer" in the same description of a single female. Then I loaded her page...
Cute she is, but web designer? I mean... she doesn't do that professionally does she?
No, look, it's real simple because they're not rules, they're policies.
The only person who should be expected to adhere to your policy is you.
Let me recap: Your policy is to block people from participating in your journal by marking them as foes once their contributions seem uncivil (not saying you're wrong by italicizing that, just marking my skepticism since I don't feel like looking into the matter, but I could easily be wrong).
His policy is to give to people that mark him as a foe what they have given to him.
There's no policy broken because both have been adhered to.
...I am currently in negotiation with an industry group that proposes to fund between $1Million or more annually to pay for the engineering of a fully supported and certified GNU/Linux system, without a per-seat fee, that meets the specific needs of their industry. That group represents approximately 50,000 desktop or server units - do the math and you'll see that they would save tremendously over Enterprise Linux.
This is enough for me. 50,000 users have a need. Let's fill it. Any room for a web/graphic designer in there? I love being involved in pretty interfaces!
I personally think that Quake3 and Half-Life were just as cracked as any other software. But their product quality made them worth the money, and thus they experienced less "pirating." That's the one and only true solution to "piracy." Make a product that's worth the retail price to everybody.
Hey guys! Check it out! I just modded ALL of my wheels with chrome trim and windows with LED backlighting and... oh my god! Where's the brakes?! Why didn't I mod in some brakes?! Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaa#!DG9059n!#$c 4341[NO CARRIER]
Seriously, any of you X-Files FBI Agents ( I know you read slashdot ) want to tell us where to get this software that will turn eight pixels of a photo taken from a skyscraper into the security badge of the individual that took the picture just barely reflected off a window in such clarity that you can clip a photograph of his face and read the name... hell even the barcode is legible enough to reproduce and scan in.
While you're at it, could you tell me if this is the same software that can instantly detect when I want to print fake identification and route the job to the correct fake identification printer?
That's an interesting theory. I wonder if these Indian software companies are making enough revenue to invest in overhead time to create their own software, and a marketing department to sell it. Or is it more likely that the money they make is just enough to cover normal operations?
Come now, some people can't stand spoilers either. It's not their fault for not being able to forget things which will taint their viewing experience...
Likewise it's not this guys fault for not being able to forget things which will taint his reading experience.
Knoppix's boot option sounds different from what was described up in the blurb. With Knoppix you use the CD to boot, everything is copied to RAM, and then you don't need to put the CD back in at all. The description up-top sounds a little more sophisticated.
Of course, the poster could have just got it wrong.
Seriously, Liu Die Yu has once again torn IE a new one. He's a very talented vulnerability researcher. I wish I had the money to help him get a computer, but I don't.
Well it depends on how you look at it. If we viewed content in the manner that we view shares of a company, then its essential value WOULD be zero.
Take one of shakespeare's plays. They're all OVER western culture. You can buy it in many different forms, you can download a copy, you can find it in several places in several forms. It wouldn't make much sense to invest in shakespeare. The value of his plays for means of acquisition are not expected to increase. Sure, there are still people that read and enjoy his works, there are still performers. However, without manufacturing an artificial scarcity, he'll never be worth a premium price (as opposed to something like Harry Potter). Yes, his work is better than Harry Potter, and that's why it's worth less money.
Meh... The parent takes an extreme approach, of course. There isn't any media whose value is worth zero as soon as its produce. But it remains true that the value of content is exponentially reduced as it becomes more available to the public.
Couldn't have been a poke at a Republican held state power could it? You know... Governater... Republican... Politically Correct... Republicans masters to Democrats......eh, you're right, it wasn't that funny.
Slashdot Mirror
If I was the cause of slashdotters e-mailing her with that bullshit, I sincerely apologize. This was not my intent.
Holy crap you're right! I didn't even think about that...
Hmm... maybe she has an extended FAQ where someone asks what architecture she runs... Or even, what OS.
Perhaps one should ask the soldiers if they would rather have video games, or get out of there sooner.
Thanks for the information. I thought it was just a miscommunication... ...of course I'm so gullible I'll probably keep talking to him as long as he doesn't resort to the troll-cornered "you're gay" and other unrelated insults.
Okay, you're not getting it, man. The point wasn't that she should be using vim or emacs. The point was that while writing mark-up yourself is a good thing, if she's limited herself to notepad, you know MICROSOFT notepad, then what's her deal with the got root shirt?
Her appearance in a couple pics seemed to imply that she was a Linux fan. I'm asserting that she wouldn't prefer notepad over a few dozen text editors I've seen (including Kate for christ's sake) if she had some real Linux experience.
And look, we're both already guilty of doing exactly what she didn't do. We've both gone off on some advantages of our respective text editors. You see what I mean?
I'm sorry if you think it was vim praise, I didn't mean it to be. It's just THE editor I think of as an alternative to windows notepad. I'm sure you think differently, and I'm NOT trying to say that you're not an OSS-Developer/Fan-of-Linux/Whatever because of it.
It just strikes me as odd that someone would wear a "got root?" T-Shirt and not use an open-source alternative to notepad.
I didn't mean to come off as so elitest. I've been very drunk in the last hours, please forgive me.
I respect a person's choice in editors, differen't people find productivity through different means.
But in all seriousness, and only because I think everyone would benefit from it, I'd really reccomend trying out vim for a week. It's hard to describe in relation to TextPad and Kate... In insert mode it works much like TextPad and Kate, but in Standard mode it's like you've tossed your text on an operating table and been handed a scalpel.
And if you did give vim a fair run, excuse me again for assuming otherwise.
Anwering my own question: She is "...currently a circulation manager at a publishing house."
After seeing her "got root?" T-Shirt I just HAD to know what system she's running. According to her faq she uses "...Photoshop 5.5, ImageReady for compression, notepad for html..."
Photoshop and Imageready, fine, you need Windows for that. Fair enough. Most professional web designers I know are stuck with windows (though the clever ones use crossover office), whether they want to or not.
However, no self respecting linux geek would resist the chance to make it known to the public that they like either emacs or vim. I mean, notepad? Yeah, sure, I'm happy she can throw some markup together, nevermind the fact that she's not adhering to standards, it's still better than the stuff WYSIWYG editors spew out their little iso-8859-1 orifaces.
...and you know what, I wouldn't even be so upset about all this if it wasn't for your misrepresentation of her.
I mean, sure she has an appreciable interest in technology, built her desktops herself, does manage her own page, likes geeks. But fair warning to other web designers: if you want something pretty to look at whilst discussing the lack of standards in web content, or the lack of design within sites, I have the suspicion that you might be disappointed.
...though I'd very truly love to be proven wrong about her.
I was all excited when you said "cute" and "web designer" in the same description of a single female. Then I loaded her page... Cute she is, but web designer? I mean... she doesn't do that professionally does she?
No, look, it's real simple because they're not rules, they're policies.
The only person who should be expected to adhere to your policy is you.
Let me recap: Your policy is to block people from participating in your journal by marking them as foes once their contributions seem uncivil (not saying you're wrong by italicizing that, just marking my skepticism since I don't feel like looking into the matter, but I could easily be wrong).
His policy is to give to people that mark him as a foe what they have given to him.
There's no policy broken because both have been adhered to.
Actually, I had more luck during the drought. I used to get fives every other post... now look at my profile...
Of course, the quality of my comments has depreciated significantly...
Ah, thanks for for the information. Now it all makes sense.
I know RPM is not a delivery mechanism, but I thought it had something to do with dependancy resolving.
I hate to take a good discussion off course. But with all due respect, sir, you're stealing all our karma!
I personally think that Quake3 and Half-Life were just as cracked as any other software. But their product quality made them worth the money, and thus they experienced less "pirating." That's the one and only true solution to "piracy." Make a product that's worth the retail price to everybody.
Hey guys! Check it out! I just modded ALL of my wheels with chrome trim and windows with LED backlighting and... oh my god! Where's the brakes?! Why didn't I mod in some brakes?! Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaa#!DG9059n!#$c 4341[NO CARRIER]
Seriously, any of you X-Files FBI Agents ( I know you read slashdot ) want to tell us where to get this software that will turn eight pixels of a photo taken from a skyscraper into the security badge of the individual that took the picture just barely reflected off a window in such clarity that you can clip a photograph of his face and read the name... hell even the barcode is legible enough to reproduce and scan in.
While you're at it, could you tell me if this is the same software that can instantly detect when I want to print fake identification and route the job to the correct fake identification printer?
That's an interesting theory. I wonder if these Indian software companies are making enough revenue to invest in overhead time to create their own software, and a marketing department to sell it. Or is it more likely that the money they make is just enough to cover normal operations?
Still, very interesting.
Come now, some people can't stand spoilers either. It's not their fault for not being able to forget things which will taint their viewing experience...
Likewise it's not this guys fault for not being able to forget things which will taint his reading experience.
If it's IIS, than I think we can rule out anything other than trivial circumstances (i.e. the mentioning of slashdot).
Knoppix's boot option sounds different from what was described up in the blurb. With Knoppix you use the CD to boot, everything is copied to RAM, and then you don't need to put the CD back in at all. The description up-top sounds a little more sophisticated.
Of course, the poster could have just got it wrong.
Seriously, Liu Die Yu has once again torn IE a new one. He's a very talented vulnerability researcher. I wish I had the money to help him get a computer, but I don't.
People can donate via paypal here, if they want.
He's very good, very responsible. Doesn't bash on Microsoft in his reports. It all appears to be acedemic with him. Help him out if you can.
Well it depends on how you look at it. If we viewed content in the manner that we view shares of a company, then its essential value WOULD be zero.
Take one of shakespeare's plays. They're all OVER western culture. You can buy it in many different forms, you can download a copy, you can find it in several places in several forms. It wouldn't make much sense to invest in shakespeare. The value of his plays for means of acquisition are not expected to increase. Sure, there are still people that read and enjoy his works, there are still performers. However, without manufacturing an artificial scarcity, he'll never be worth a premium price (as opposed to something like Harry Potter). Yes, his work is better than Harry Potter, and that's why it's worth less money.
Meh... The parent takes an extreme approach, of course. There isn't any media whose value is worth zero as soon as its produce. But it remains true that the value of content is exponentially reduced as it becomes more available to the public.
Okay, small claims court then. But 10 YEARS? C'mon...
Couldn't have been a poke at a Republican held state power could it? You know... Governater... Republican... Politically Correct... Republicans masters to Democrats... ...eh, you're right, it wasn't that funny.