I find your defeatist propoganda to be tiresome and tasteless. You fight the battle here and now. You plan for the future. You cut your losses and run when you have to, but by Mod you fight until you can't fight anymore, and then to the death if you have to. I'm not just talking about trees, I'm talking about anything we value that is endangered.
along one player to act as a general while others do the actual fighting
*snakt*
Seriously, I -can't- be the ONLY one who immediately thought of the Orson Scott Card series, can I? But anyhoo, Bean is the one most of us SlashBots identify better with.
Darn you people! How the heck am I supposed to get a proper astrophysical mental image if you consistently refuse to put things in terms of multiples of VW bugs (the old ones, not the faux ones).
Yup. Only kids would be so irresponsible as to share music. All adults are obviously MUCH more inherently responsible, and none of them would EVER stoop so low as to share any kind of files. Now honestly, doesn't that seem just a BIT ridiculous?
Lack of chronology does NOT map directly to lack of maturity in all cases. Just because you managed not to die yet does NOT automatically make you inherently better or wiser than say, me.
An Athlon 2200 is $71.04 on Pricewatch right now. Pardon my feigned ignorance, but how exactly are you saving money while still buying an inferior CPU?
...Slashdot is first site to cover history's unprecedented case of Pot calling Kettle White. When contacted about this, both Pot and Kettle responded, "We're not white because there's lots of other Pots out there, too. They can't possibly all be Black, can they?"
Seriously, I love the titles we're given these days. Currently I'm a Senior in a Computer Science program... but really, I think I should get a raise and the new title "Education Subscriber" or maybe "Learning Engineer".
Is this type of deal limited only to the Tech Sector, or is everybody throwing about hyphens and "Engineer" to make people sound more important?
Other good tack-on words I can think of would be associate (no, that's not the Fry Cook, that's our Comestibles Associate), analyst (hey, I'm not a waitress, I'm an Order Analyst), and vice president (no, I'm not the bus boy, I'm the VP of Table Maintenence).
I mean -honestly- people. Spamminess? I understand what he's saying, and I suppose that _IS_ the point of language after all (to convey meaning)... but isn't there a way he could have said it without using the word "spamminess"? It's bad enough that English is so fscked to begin with, we don't need to make ourselves that much dumber.
And you, oh Anonymous Coward, you Slashdot reader extraordinaire. You now perpetuate and magnify that injustice which has already been done. Bow your heads and weep, you who worship privacy and trust. Wail, for your God is Dead.
...because they're Google. But if it were Microsoft patenting "an improved method for giving help to users", say maybe the help files vs. man pages, people would flame about prior art, talk endlessly out of their anuses about how Bill Gates is trying to wrest control of the tinfoil hat co-op from Mac users, and generally be nuisances.
I love/.ing while in class, but honestly, people. Google gives a C&D letter, we all golf clap and say "way to defend your IP!" Someone else does it, and we all run to chillingeffects to boycott / whine / gripe / whatever.
Here's a thought... get off your hobbyhorse, and start evaluating things based on FACTS, not the general feeling of techno-elitism you get from pretending you're cool because you get jokes written in PERL.
And mod me -5 Troll, if you want. But it's the damned truth, and you know it.
So, with as buggy as MS security usually is, how long after the first Palladium crap-o-la is released until we can either a) emulate it's functionality or b) completely bypass it? That is not to say that I'm unworried about it, but seriously people, they can't stop me, you, or especially ALL of us forever. It just doesn't work.
[snip]...The people who work here are geeks. [/snip]
Finally, management who understands! Now when are they going to let me start dinking around with gadgets at work when I have a good idea, instead of telling me to file more paperwork.
Real life sucks largely due to the negative influence of other people. Without those other people, you could do what you like. WITH them, you can do what you like only so long as it doesn't offend them.
That is why TSO sucked. It mirorred reality a little _too_ closely.
-theGreater.
So how long before Redmond comes to the realization that they too can package a distro. Just include some proprietary code in some of the packages, and just barely undercut other Linuxes with compatibility features.
Just another paranoid thought, brought to you by -theGreater.
My university uses a22m's, and we have a similar problem. We're under contract to IBM so we get replacements pretty cheap, but they have a similar problem. Over time, we've noticed that if you fail to discharge the battery fully about once a week, it will develop a memory, even though they're not supposed to. I ruined my last battery in just under a semester of use.
Slashdot Mirror
Add one more server to that infographic, since I'm fairly certain a pic that large is going to get fragdotted quite speedily.
-theGreater Pessimist.
I find your defeatist propoganda to be tiresome and tasteless. You fight the battle here and now. You plan for the future. You cut your losses and run when you have to, but by Mod you fight until you can't fight anymore, and then to the death if you have to. I'm not just talking about trees, I'm talking about anything we value that is endangered.
-theGreater Zealot.
You mean you DIDN'T? You're NOT going to kill me? Boy do I feel silly for all those extra practices...
-theGreater Phony.
PS: Probably I was referring more to the part where we're [stereotype] long on brains, short on charisma / leadership / people skills [/stereotype].
*snikt*
along one player to act as a general while others do the actual fighting
*snakt*
Seriously, I -can't- be the ONLY one who immediately thought of the Orson Scott Card series, can I? But anyhoo, Bean is the one most of us SlashBots identify better with.
-theGreater Wiggin.
Darn you people! How the heck am I supposed to get a proper astrophysical mental image if you consistently refuse to put things in terms of multiples of VW bugs (the old ones, not the faux ones).
-theGreater
AHH!!! Who did that to them? Oh, wait a second.. u-nix, not eu-nu... nevermind.
-theGreater Halfwit.Must... resist... obvious Slashdot hand joke... ARG!!!
Lack of chronology does NOT map directly to lack of maturity in all cases. Just because you managed not to die yet does NOT automatically make you inherently better or wiser than say, me.
/soapbox
-theGreater Age Bigot.
PS: Don't trust anyone over 30!An Athlon 2200 is $71.04 on Pricewatch right now. Pardon my feigned ignorance, but how exactly are you saving money while still buying an inferior CPU?
-theGreater Sarcasmic.
...Slashdot is first site to cover history's unprecedented case of Pot calling Kettle White. When contacted about this, both Pot and Kettle responded, "We're not white because there's lots of other Pots out there, too. They can't possibly all be Black, can they?"
-theGreater Ironicist.
...imagine the storage capacity! Seriously, how much can you figure it would take to store all the cable shows that run all the time?
Of course, there are plenty of repeats, but still -- digital access to all the content on
[cheese] And just imagine a Beowulf cluster of those [\cheese]
*rimshot*
-theGreater Nutcase.
Seriously, I love the titles we're given these days. Currently I'm a Senior in a Computer Science program... but really, I think I should get a raise and the new title "Education Subscriber" or maybe "Learning Engineer".
Is this type of deal limited only to the Tech Sector, or is everybody throwing about hyphens and "Engineer" to make people sound more important?
Other good tack-on words I can think of would be associate (no, that's not the Fry Cook, that's our Comestibles Associate), analyst (hey, I'm not a waitress, I'm an Order Analyst), and vice president (no, I'm not the bus boy, I'm the VP of Table Maintenence).
-theGreater Cynic.
I mean -honestly- people. Spamminess? I understand what he's saying, and I suppose that _IS_ the point of language after all (to convey meaning)... but isn't there a way he could have said it without using the word "spamminess"? It's bad enough that English is so fscked to begin with, we don't need to make ourselves that much dumber.
-theGreater Esperanto Advocate.
And you, oh Anonymous Coward, you Slashdot reader extraordinaire. You now perpetuate and magnify that injustice which has already been done. Bow your heads and weep, you who worship privacy and trust. Wail, for your God is Dead.
-theGreater Prophet.
1) Bash Religion
2) Skip Article, Bash Topic
3) ???
4) Karma!
-theGreater KarmaWhore.
...because they're Google. But if it were Microsoft patenting "an improved method for giving help to users", say maybe the help files vs. man pages, people would flame about prior art, talk endlessly out of their anuses about how Bill Gates is trying to wrest control of the tinfoil hat co-op from Mac users, and generally be nuisances.
/.ing while in class, but honestly, people. Google gives a C&D letter, we all golf clap and say "way to defend your IP!" Someone else does it, and we all run to chillingeffects to boycott / whine / gripe / whatever.
I love
Here's a thought... get off your hobbyhorse, and start evaluating things based on FACTS, not the general feeling of techno-elitism you get from pretending you're cool because you get jokes written in PERL.
And mod me -5 Troll, if you want. But it's the damned truth, and you know it.
-theGreater.
I told you, I deal with the goddamned customers! I have people skills, damnit. I'm good with people. What the hell is WRONG with you people?
-theGreater Mike.
Make it so, number one!
Engage.
We come in peace (shoot to kill).
-theGreater.
So, with as buggy as MS security usually is, how long after the first Palladium crap-o-la is released until we can either a) emulate it's functionality or b) completely bypass it? That is not to say that I'm unworried about it, but seriously people, they can't stop me, you, or especially ALL of us forever. It just doesn't work.
-theGreater View.
[snip] ...The people who work here are geeks. [/snip]
Finally, management who understands! Now when are they going to let me start dinking around with gadgets at work when I have a good idea, instead of telling me to file more paperwork.
-theGreater Geek.
Hell, he can have all my mouthwash, if he wants. I'll check at Wally World to see how much, but IIRC it's only 40 cents a bottle. Pssh. n00b.
-theGreater moron.
Real life sucks largely due to the negative influence of other people. Without those other people, you could do what you like. WITH them, you can do what you like only so long as it doesn't offend them. That is why TSO sucked. It mirorred reality a little _too_ closely. -theGreater.
So how long before Redmond comes to the realization that they too can package a distro. Just include some proprietary code in some of the packages, and just barely undercut other Linuxes with compatibility features.
Just another paranoid thought, brought to you by
-theGreater.
My university uses a22m's, and we have a similar problem. We're under contract to IBM so we get replacements pretty cheap, but they have a similar problem. Over time, we've noticed that if you fail to discharge the battery fully about once a week, it will develop a memory, even though they're not supposed to. I ruined my last battery in just under a semester of use.
...just as long as I keep assimilating new information, establishing myself as an indespensible team player, etc.
Oh yeah, and bribes. Lots of bribes.