I think it may be worse than that- that there will be a huge proliferation of false information, sensationalistic 'infotainmnet,' advertising, propaganda, etc... Why, historians of the future may be depending on/. as their main source of of information! Think of what a tragedy that would be!
I know you were going for Funny, but since no one else has pointed this out, a double negative is acceptable in English, it just rarely makes sense. And also that wasn't really an example of a double negative, since "nothing" is a noun and it is part of a question. Is not nothing sacred? No, "nothing" is still sacred, or you could respond Yes, nothing is no longer sacred, but something is. A Buddhist might tell you nothingness is sacred. So there!
On the other hand, vague error messages provide job security for low-level admins and help desk types! };-\ I remember it was a long time before anything more substantial than man pages were available to unix (& un*x) lusers. I hate to say this, but if the "market" doesn't demand better error messages, its pointless for programmers to spend time and effort on them, that even goes for even FOSS developers!
If moderation was good and/or consistant- that would be admirable. I obviously chose a different route, and I don't know if I should beleive your story in the first place. Do your friends have names like Jack Daniel's or Ol' Grandad?
Please, since SCO, please type un*x or some other variation, not "Unix." Are you a big supporter of VMS? Z-OS? Os9? I think its clear where the accusation of bigotry is coming from. Would the story be more funny if D. Cutler made a similar criticism to an non-MS marketing dweeb? or problems with Apple's marketing reality? I think it would be exactly as funny, and maybe just as appropriate. I think you're thinned-skinned at best, more probably sold-out.
Firstly, you're name speaks volumes about old FUD. Secondly, although Unix might be getting steamrolled, Free Software un*x wasn't, isn't, and will never be.
Thirdly, I think its a funny story whether you're a fan of unix or not.
On topic, it sounds like MS had finally figure out that they have to work harder to undermine the un*x installation base- nothing else
I'm sure WinXP won't delete itself. DOS would easily fit into ram (from floppy disk even) so it was easier to do things like wipe out the C: drive. (it was a Disk Operating System, after all)
It might be interesting to list the ways NT protects against such old script-kiddie (batchfile-kiddie?) pranks.
several people here seem to have taken this to be a troll, but I think the poster was going for Funny. One of the things I liked about the movie is that one can almost sympathize with Anakin (which is probably why they didn't actually show the slaying of the 'younglings') Its understandable how he became enamoured of the dark side.
I found their courtship to be appropriate for a member of royalty involved with someone of a religious order. Romance is a rather modern, Western phenomenon, and other cultures (The film does have a large international audience) would find their reserve quite natural. Of course, Star Wars is an American movie, but "foreign" movies, Japanese films for example, have quite different standards of good acting. (The Japanese historically have had less interest in 'naturalness' and 'realism,' because it is a movie, not a documentary after all!)
in Star Wars III, Vader turns back to the 'light side' and refuses to kill his son, Luke, despite the Emperor's urgings to do so. This seems more plausible after seeing Episode 3. Character development is hardly the focus of any of the films. To focus on character, you might come to the conclusion that the series is about R2D2 saving the galaxy!
A new accomplishment in corporate hype, IBM has promoted another BS benchmark- 92 Whopping Flops! There may be "computers not seen by the press" that are faster, but they don't have as much interest in hyping misleading stats out of context hence the introduction of the "whopping flop!"
I'm also a little insulted when they push "randomness" as a feature, instead of an awful disadvantage. When it gets a display (a small monochrome lcd will do fine) I'll buy one.
it doesn't seem like a big deal, but it's a software feature that my Creative mp3 player software doesn't seem to have, and I'm annoyed at having to delete and replace files to get the songs playing in the order I want.
Seriously, I love digital players because I can listen to my favorite songs repeatedly, or listen to two or more performances of same song over and over. Repetition on the radio annoys me, but if its songs of my own choosing, I can't bear to only listen to it only once.
Personally, I'm not interested in keeping my entire music collection on a mp3 player, I can always connect earphones to my laptop for that! I want a truly portable player with long battery life. I'm rarely going to listen for more than a 1/2 hour at a time, so 1 GB is more than enough. Solid state is also more durable (droppable) as well as smaller, and I can always add/remove songs. And $450 vs $180 is really the spec that matters for many
Actually I originally wrote a bit about how the new technology is more like robots playing instruments than a digital synthesizer, but/. was not letting me post it, so I tried posting again with a joke instead. I thought of artificial sermons while listening to one of the late pope's last appearances on television. He was obviously ill and incomprehensible. He should have followed the example of Ashley Simpson!
I would think that human hearing is (or soon will be,) the main factor and not the nature of the source sound. Its like you're arguing that digital video will never be capable of looking like film. At a certain resolution, my eyes are incapable of the difference (not that its easy to acheive that fidelity!) Secondly, it's silly to judge anything by SlashID. I have several accounts, myself, and know people who share a single account. You're geek trash talk is weak!
I beleive his commentary for Dark City is actually based on a lecture for a graduate level film course. It was a bit puzzling that he rated Dark City as the Best Movie of '98, though. I think he's often focussed on cinematography over plot and story, but then again, if he wasn't, he'd probably be a book critic instead of a movie critic
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http://media.ebaumsworld.com/index.php?e=ballmerwi ndows.wmv
Except in Nebraska!
I think it may be worse than that- that there will be a huge proliferation of false information, sensationalistic 'infotainmnet,' advertising, propaganda, etc... Why, historians of the future may be depending on /. as their main source of of information! Think of what a tragedy that would be!
I know you were going for Funny, but since no one else has pointed this out, a double negative is acceptable in English, it just rarely makes sense. And also that wasn't really an example of a double negative, since "nothing" is a noun and it is part of a question. Is not nothing sacred? No, "nothing" is still sacred, or you could respond Yes, nothing is no longer sacred, but something is. A Buddhist might tell you nothingness is sacred. So there!
On the other hand, vague error messages provide job security for low-level admins and help desk types! };-\ I remember it was a long time before anything more substantial than man pages were available to unix (& un*x) lusers. I hate to say this, but if the "market" doesn't demand better error messages, its pointless for programmers to spend time and effort on them, that even goes for even FOSS developers!
If moderation was good and/or consistant- that would be admirable. I obviously chose a different route, and I don't know if I should beleive your story in the first place. Do your friends have names like Jack Daniel's or Ol' Grandad?
Please, since SCO, please type un*x or some other variation, not "Unix." Are you a big supporter of VMS? Z-OS? Os9? I think its clear where the accusation of bigotry is coming from. Would the story be more funny if D. Cutler made a similar criticism to an non-MS marketing dweeb? or problems with Apple's marketing reality? I think it would be exactly as funny, and maybe just as appropriate. I think you're thinned-skinned at best, more probably sold-out.
Firstly, you're name speaks volumes about old FUD. Secondly, although Unix might be getting steamrolled, Free Software un*x wasn't, isn't, and will never be. Thirdly, I think its a funny story whether you're a fan of unix or not. On topic, it sounds like MS had finally figure out that they have to work harder to undermine the un*x installation base- nothing else
I'm sure WinXP won't delete itself. DOS would easily fit into ram (from floppy disk even) so it was easier to do things like wipe out the C: drive. (it was a Disk Operating System, after all) It might be interesting to list the ways NT protects against such old script-kiddie (batchfile-kiddie?) pranks.
several people here seem to have taken this to be a troll, but I think the poster was going for Funny. One of the things I liked about the movie is that one can almost sympathize with Anakin (which is probably why they didn't actually show the slaying of the 'younglings') Its understandable how he became enamoured of the dark side.
I found their courtship to be appropriate for a member of royalty involved with someone of a religious order. Romance is a rather modern, Western phenomenon, and other cultures (The film does have a large international audience) would find their reserve quite natural. Of course, Star Wars is an American movie, but "foreign" movies, Japanese films for example, have quite different standards of good acting. (The Japanese historically have had less interest in 'naturalness' and 'realism,' because it is a movie, not a documentary after all!)
in Star Wars III, Vader turns back to the 'light side' and refuses to kill his son, Luke, despite the Emperor's urgings to do so. This seems more plausible after seeing Episode 3. Character development is hardly the focus of any of the films. To focus on character, you might come to the conclusion that the series is about R2D2 saving the galaxy!
Is that anything like Saltpeter as a food additive? Those Sith sure are dedicated to their cause!
A new accomplishment in corporate hype, IBM has promoted another BS benchmark- 92 Whopping Flops!
There may be "computers not seen by the press" that are faster, but they don't have as much interest in hyping misleading stats out of context hence the introduction of the "whopping flop!"
I'm also a little insulted when they push "randomness" as a feature, instead of an awful disadvantage. When it gets a display (a small monochrome lcd will do fine) I'll buy one.
it doesn't seem like a big deal, but it's a software feature that my Creative mp3 player software doesn't seem to have, and I'm annoyed at having to delete and replace files to get the songs playing in the order I want.
Seriously, I love digital players because I can listen to my favorite songs repeatedly, or listen to two or more performances of same song over and over. Repetition on the radio annoys me, but if its songs of my own choosing, I can't bear to only listen to it only once.
Personally, I'm not interested in keeping my entire music collection on a mp3 player, I can always connect earphones to my laptop for that! I want a truly portable player with long battery life. I'm rarely going to listen for more than a 1/2 hour at a time, so 1 GB is more than enough. Solid state is also more durable (droppable) as well as smaller, and I can always add/remove songs. And $450 vs $180 is really the spec that matters for many
Some prat has a template and they insert $WHATEVER into it where WHATEVER is whichever bit of software is being talked about and post it on slashdot. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=152483&thresho ld=0&commentsort=3&tid=185&tid=109&mode=thread&pid =12796664#12796779
Are you the prat?
I've been working as a substitute teacher lately, and one of the challenges its getting kids to focus on *Anything* I think you're also overestimating the usefulness/reliability of non-google teaching material. http://www.uvm.edu/~jloewen/liesmyteachertoldme/li esmyteacher.html
http://tafkac.org/books/legends_lies.html
You mean if he's wrong! The poster says no one will find it! Reminds me of 'Wargames' where the school's passwords are on the secretary's desk.
Actually I originally wrote a bit about how the new technology is more like robots playing instruments than a digital synthesizer, but /. was not letting me post it, so I tried posting again with a joke instead. I thought of artificial sermons while listening to one of the late pope's last appearances on television. He was obviously ill and incomprehensible. He should have followed the example of Ashley Simpson!
to the relief of everyone in the congregation.
I can't tell you how much better a recording is than that old gas bag!
I would think that human hearing is (or soon will be,) the main factor and not the nature of the source sound. Its like you're arguing that digital video will never be capable of looking like film. At a certain resolution, my eyes are incapable of the difference (not that its easy to acheive that fidelity!) Secondly, it's silly to judge anything by SlashID. I have several accounts, myself, and know people who share a single account. You're geek trash talk is weak!
Even so, if I could find a working eMate for $12 I might agree. You might get better video on a Gameboy.
I beleive his commentary for Dark City is actually based on a lecture for a graduate level film course. It was a bit puzzling that he rated Dark City as the Best Movie of '98, though. I think he's often focussed on cinematography over plot and story, but then again, if he wasn't, he'd probably be a book critic instead of a movie critic