I didn't see any of the ads on TV, which surprises me, but anyway.
If they did indeed change it after they initially said it would cost 7,000,000 pepsi points, it seems to me that they knew that it was reasonable for someone to think that 7,000,000 points would get them a Harrier. If they hadn't thought so, they wouldn't have pulled the commercial.
I've been running Linux for about 5 years now, and I can remember how cool it was that I was downloading (from a BBS, hadn't even heard of the web) Slackware and fighting to get it to work. It was really cool that I could talk to people about something that they'd never heard of, something that they could never imagine using. No one thought of anything but Windows being used on a PC, but there I was, running something different.
I took pride in the fact that I was different, I liked the fact that I used TeX to do my high school Chemistry research paper. It was different, as was I. Linux gave me the opportunity to do things that weren't nearly as easy in DOS/Win.
I don't want to hear about every Joe Schmoe using Linux to do those same things. I want to feel that specialness that it first gave me, if only for a little while longer. I'm sad to see the era of the Linux underground shift into the era of the Linux mainstream. I don't like that 15 year olds post messages about it that have 10 grammar and mispellings per sentence. It deserves more than that.
I know that things are only speeding up to make Linux the mainstream rather than the underground. I accept it as an exciting thing. But it has its downsides, too.
Linux feels like the girlfriend that I've had for five years (only literally for 3 of those:) ), and now she's decided to sleep around. I can either accept the disappoint that comes from knowing that I'm not the only one using her, or fight it. Either way, it's there.
> The ending wasn't too good, but it had one of the best 'fight-your-buddy-in-the-alley' scenes I've ever witnessed.
I don't think it was that bad, but I don't have any delusions about it being a great movie, either. The scene that you're referring to, though, was indeed a great scene. They showed it on campus a couple years ago, and my friends and I laughed our asses off (loudly) at a late showing of it, no scene making us laugh more than that one.
They're putting dimes in the hole in my head to see the change in me.
This is too much like the Rowdy Roddy Piper movie in which the glasses make all of the aliens who want to take over the Earth (hiding in the guise of humans, of course) look like their true selves...
Maybe we'll all discover that our managers are from another planet after all. No wonder they just don't get us...
They're putting dimes in the hole in my head to see the change in me.
Well, if you're looking for computer books, I don't think I've seen a place that beats Bookpool. I just checked out fatbrain, which gives a 20% discount on O'Reilly books that I was looking at, compared to 35 or 36% at Bookpool. I've ordered from them a bunch of times, never had a problem, and their shipping is reasonable, too.
They're putting dimes in the hole in my head to see the change in me
And for the person with the blinking fluorescent lights, the web site specifically says that these things dont' work with fluorescent, because they need the current path across the filament in an incandescent bulb.
I actually hooked it up to a fluorescent, and it's working fine. I think this stuff's really cool, but the fact of the matter is that I don't have enough appliances or lamps to need to use it.
Well, I can say that I _did_ OD on caffeine pills in high school...it's even harder to code when you're vomiting and having diarrhea every 25 minutes.
What was worse is that my mom insisted on taking me to the hospital, where they hooked up an EKG to me, stuck an IV in me, and made me drink charcoal! You don't know what nasty is until you take a dump and what comes out is black sand.
On the good side of things, I had a rock solid excuse why I had to turn in my research paper late.:)
Those sys admins are the ones who are consulting at $75 an hour...at that rate, I'd want to run M$ stuff, too. And actually, in thinking about this, maybe M$ stuff will never go away because there is a lot of job security involved...
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If they did indeed change it after they initially said it would cost 7,000,000 pepsi points, it seems to me that they knew that it was reasonable for someone to think that 7,000,000 points would get them a Harrier. If they hadn't thought so, they wouldn't have pulled the commercial.
I took pride in the fact that I was different, I liked the fact that I used TeX to do my high school Chemistry research paper. It was different, as was I. Linux gave me the opportunity to do things that weren't nearly as easy in DOS/Win.
I don't want to hear about every Joe Schmoe using Linux to do those same things. I want to feel that specialness that it first gave me, if only for a little while longer. I'm sad to see the era of the Linux underground shift into the era of the Linux mainstream. I don't like that 15 year olds post messages about it that have 10 grammar and mispellings per sentence. It deserves more than that.
I know that things are only speeding up to make Linux the mainstream rather than the underground. I accept it as an exciting thing. But it has its downsides, too.
Linux feels like the girlfriend that I've had for five years (only literally for 3 of those :) ), and now she's decided to sleep around. I can either accept the disappoint that comes from knowing that I'm not the only one using her, or fight it. Either way, it's there.
I don't think it was that bad, but I don't have any delusions about it being a great movie, either. The scene that you're referring to, though, was indeed a great scene. They showed it on campus a couple years ago, and my friends and I laughed our asses off (loudly) at a late showing of it, no scene making us laugh more than that one.
They're putting dimes in the hole in my head to see the change in me.
Maybe we'll all discover that our managers are from another planet after all. No wonder they just don't get us...
They're putting dimes in the hole in my head to see the change in me.
Well, if you're looking for computer books, I don't think I've seen a place that beats Bookpool. I just checked out fatbrain, which gives a 20% discount on O'Reilly books that I was looking at, compared to 35 or 36% at Bookpool. I've ordered from them a bunch of times, never had a problem, and their shipping is reasonable, too.
They're putting dimes in the hole in my head to see the change in me
And for the person with the blinking fluorescent lights, the web site specifically says that these things dont' work with fluorescent, because they need the current path across the filament in an incandescent bulb.
I actually hooked it up to a fluorescent, and it's working fine. I think this stuff's really cool, but the fact of the matter is that I don't have enough appliances or lamps to need to use it.
If I cry, I will rust
Well, I can say that I _did_ OD on caffeine pills in high school...it's even harder to code when you're vomiting and having diarrhea every 25 minutes.
:)
What was worse is that my mom insisted on taking me to the hospital, where they hooked up an EKG to me, stuck an IV in me, and made me drink charcoal! You don't know what nasty is until you take a dump and what comes out is black sand.
On the good side of things, I had a rock solid excuse why I had to turn in my research paper late.
Those sys admins are the ones who are consulting
at $75 an hour...at that rate, I'd want to run
M$ stuff, too. And actually, in thinking about this, maybe M$ stuff will never go away because there is a lot of job security involved...