Indeed. To extend this, I think there is an interesting psychological mechanism working it's well-oiled gears here. I think it's safe to assume that all geeks have been ridiculed at some point in their life by those society deems more normative. Here, there is an interesting schism - on the one hand, you have the proud geeks who back this man up, saying he's strong and proud - comfortable with who he is and that should be commended. On the other hand, you have the geeks who feel they're better, or have better sense than this man than to go out in public waving their gonads verily, shielded by a thin band of spandex. They feel they're more socially normative than the geeks mentioned first (those trumpeting solidarity, in a holier-than-thou tone, please note). Those geeks of the latter feel they have reason to ridicule, they're better people.
What I have to propose is two-fold:
1) When you see someone like this, chuckle to yourself, and thank God/Universal Chaos that these little gems exist to provide entertainment and light-hearted escape in a world with such grief and pain permeating it completely.
2)The costume would have been more accurate with a fucking cup, man! NO ONE IN TRON WALKED AROUND WITH THEIR BALLS HANGING OUT!
If I could, I would mod this up. The fact that this stands at a +1 shows how little the slashdot community cares about actual philosophical discourse, and care more about what it's figure heads (RMS, in this case) tell it to think. It's a sad day when a comment about XFree liscensing issues at the GPL conference that probably won't get talked about gets a 5 - insightful, and this - a truely insightful post - goes on unnoticed.
Fascinating case of perception vs. reality. I have four AMD systems that are rock solid and have been for atleast a year (in some cases, one processor goes back atleast 5 years and it's still running strong to this day as my router). I've also worked on my cousin's computers, which are all Intel-based, and until I bitched him out, he was calling me every other week with problems he was having - yet he stood by the mantra of "Intel is more stable, and worth the extra money." Given these "statistics," providing a mirror image of yours, it seems intel isn't worth the extra money.
Of course, these statistics aren't statistics at all, rather fallbacks to consumer dogma and vendor-conditioning. Either way, do what makes you feel comfortable in your choice, and keeps you consuming. It's the American Way.
Speaking of roaming time, is there anything inherently wrong with sliding off topic? It feeds new ideas. I never understood the off topic mod on slashdot - except in the case of trolls.
I think if the reply follows logically from the parent, it's on topic. But hey, what do i know, i'm a scientist not a fucktard engineer.
Alright. I'm sorry. There is a limit to how efficiently you can use your time and, quite frankly, taking a shit and talking on the phone IS that limit. Taking a crap is me time. I sit down, contemplate problems i'm having in life or in my studies, have imaginary interviews, read the contents of lysol and which microorgranisms it's most effective against. To me, there is more value in that than consolodating two tasks into one stretch of time.
I take offense to this. I'm an avid spork user (I have a titanium spork, infact, and use it inplace of flimsy plastic cutlery), and find them to be EXTREMELY useful. Especially for chunky soups/stews and non-twirl pastas - you can stab the pasta and/or chunks, then get a nice "spoon" full of sauce, and hey, guess what? Mouth full of awesomeness. I think the idea that sporks are useless (or less useful) stems from shoddy craftmanship in plastic cutlery in general. Blame the material, not the design.
Yeah, i've used Gentoo, its the only linux distro i'll ever use...but i dunno, FreeBSD can kick it in the pants anyday of the week in my opinion. This is probably becuase i enjoy hacking port Makefiles more than ebuilds, or because i just like the feel of BSD better than the feel of Linux. It seems to me that Gentoo is just FreeBSD slapped on a linux kernel with a re-worked port system. Gnome2 does look nicer on gentoo out of the box (or out of the port...whichever you would rather use), but Fluxbox is my main desktop environment - I don't need Gnome or KDE.
But, yeah, Gentoo is the way to go for a nice, stable, fast, slim-or-as-bloated-with-uneeded-progs-as-you-want, distro.
The dirrectory structure isn't THAT different. You have a dirrectory...inside that you have more dirrectories as well as files, inside one of those dirrectories you ahve more dirrectories and files...etc...etc...etc...
you have some special dirrectories, like/usr/home/etc and so on that aren't in windows, but then again system32 and system and winnt aren't in linux. Anything called "bin" has binaries in it...sometimes I trip and fall...the idea is more or less the same...
The term "hacker" inflates the ego. In order to get this interview, the interview-eeee's need something in return...and both being male an inflated ego suffices quite well. I know if someone calls me a "programmer," I simply smile. If they call me a hacker, my pants inflate.
Just a thought.
Corporations push together Democrats and Republicans through fundraising. The status quo dictates not to vote for a third party because you're just "throwing your vote away." Thus, those who are easily swayed by said status quo, and feel that both parties suck do not vote for a third party, while those who don't give a shit vote for the best candidate for them and ignore party lines and hope people see the hipocracy and stop throwing their vote away on the dem's and 'pubs.
Corporations (red hat, which isn't a corrupt corporation, but is a corp nonetheless) force the two major desktops together hidden under the shroud of "useability." The line between the two is smeared. New users are blind to the true nature of choice in the *nix community, and those that follow Gnome/RedHat/KDE blindly either applaud, or yell and scream. The rest of us use blackbox/fluxbox/aewm/pan9wm/etc, get on with our work, and run both GTK&QT apps when needed in our respective, customized, unique environments without a hitch....
Ok it started out as a good analogy and ended in pieces, but perhaps you catch my drift nonetheless. Everythings a conspiracy.
BTW, how many Red Hat devlopers also develop for gnome, and how many also develop for KDE?....I don't know for sure...but it's an interesting question...
....everythings a friggin conspiracy...
*goes back to processing watershed records on FreeBSD w/ openoffice running in fluxbox*
Of course, there's always the option of learning all of the backending that the RedHat frontend does. From my experience in the *nix world, everything done GUI-ily can be done..not...gui-ly...
But I've never used Red Hat. So, excuse me for being a slacker.
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Best simpsons episode...EVER!
Indeed. To extend this, I think there is an interesting psychological mechanism working it's well-oiled gears here. I think it's safe to assume that all geeks have been ridiculed at some point in their life by those society deems more normative. Here, there is an interesting schism - on the one hand, you have the proud geeks who back this man up, saying he's strong and proud - comfortable with who he is and that should be commended. On the other hand, you have the geeks who feel they're better, or have better sense than this man than to go out in public waving their gonads verily, shielded by a thin band of spandex. They feel they're more socially normative than the geeks mentioned first (those trumpeting solidarity, in a holier-than-thou tone, please note). Those geeks of the latter feel they have reason to ridicule, they're better people. What I have to propose is two-fold: 1) When you see someone like this, chuckle to yourself, and thank God/Universal Chaos that these little gems exist to provide entertainment and light-hearted escape in a world with such grief and pain permeating it completely. 2)The costume would have been more accurate with a fucking cup, man! NO ONE IN TRON WALKED AROUND WITH THEIR BALLS HANGING OUT!
He could have at least worn a cup. While he has proven he has balls, we don't need to see them. Thanks.
Well, have you ever heard of google? If so, you might have found this link
s /n orthland/northland_story.html
http://www.epic-interactive.com/english/project
Which has screenshots (heh...slashdot time?), seems to me to be like warcraft...but not as cartoony.
If I could, I would mod this up. The fact that this stands at a +1 shows how little the slashdot community cares about actual philosophical discourse, and care more about what it's figure heads (RMS, in this case) tell it to think. It's a sad day when a comment about XFree liscensing issues at the GPL conference that probably won't get talked about gets a 5 - insightful, and this - a truely insightful post - goes on unnoticed.
Fascinating case of perception vs. reality. I have four AMD systems that are rock solid and have been for atleast a year (in some cases, one processor goes back atleast 5 years and it's still running strong to this day as my router). I've also worked on my cousin's computers, which are all Intel-based, and until I bitched him out, he was calling me every other week with problems he was having - yet he stood by the mantra of "Intel is more stable, and worth the extra money." Given these "statistics," providing a mirror image of yours, it seems intel isn't worth the extra money. Of course, these statistics aren't statistics at all, rather fallbacks to consumer dogma and vendor-conditioning. Either way, do what makes you feel comfortable in your choice, and keeps you consuming. It's the American Way.
Speaking of roaming time, is there anything inherently wrong with sliding off topic? It feeds new ideas. I never understood the off topic mod on slashdot - except in the case of trolls. I think if the reply follows logically from the parent, it's on topic. But hey, what do i know, i'm a scientist not a fucktard engineer.
Alright. I'm sorry. There is a limit to how efficiently you can use your time and, quite frankly, taking a shit and talking on the phone IS that limit. Taking a crap is me time. I sit down, contemplate problems i'm having in life or in my studies, have imaginary interviews, read the contents of lysol and which microorgranisms it's most effective against. To me, there is more value in that than consolodating two tasks into one stretch of time.
I take offense to this. I'm an avid spork user (I have a titanium spork, infact, and use it inplace of flimsy plastic cutlery), and find them to be EXTREMELY useful. Especially for chunky soups/stews and non-twirl pastas - you can stab the pasta and/or chunks, then get a nice "spoon" full of sauce, and hey, guess what? Mouth full of awesomeness. I think the idea that sporks are useless (or less useful) stems from shoddy craftmanship in plastic cutlery in general. Blame the material, not the design.
Yeah, i've used Gentoo, its the only linux distro i'll ever use...but i dunno, FreeBSD can kick it in the pants anyday of the week in my opinion. This is probably becuase i enjoy hacking port Makefiles more than ebuilds, or because i just like the feel of BSD better than the feel of Linux. It seems to me that Gentoo is just FreeBSD slapped on a linux kernel with a re-worked port system. Gnome2 does look nicer on gentoo out of the box (or out of the port...whichever you would rather use), but Fluxbox is my main desktop environment - I don't need Gnome or KDE. But, yeah, Gentoo is the way to go for a nice, stable, fast, slim-or-as-bloated-with-uneeded-progs-as-you-want, distro.
thats the package system!!! The ports system would go something like this
/usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4/
...compile compile... /usr/ports/x11-wm/fluxbox
...compile...
$su
Password:
#cd
#make install clean
#cd
#make install clean
i dig ports, i really do.
The dirrectory structure isn't THAT different. You have a dirrectory...inside that you have more dirrectories as well as files, inside one of those dirrectories you ahve more dirrectories and files...etc...etc...etc... you have some special dirrectories, like /usr /home /etc and so on that aren't in windows, but then again system32 and system and winnt aren't in linux. Anything called "bin" has binaries in it...sometimes I trip and fall...the idea is more or less the same...
The term "hacker" inflates the ego. In order to get this interview, the interview-eeee's need something in return...and both being male an inflated ego suffices quite well. I know if someone calls me a "programmer," I simply smile. If they call me a hacker, my pants inflate. Just a thought.
Corporations push together Democrats and Republicans through fundraising. The status quo dictates not to vote for a third party because you're just "throwing your vote away." Thus, those who are easily swayed by said status quo, and feel that both parties suck do not vote for a third party, while those who don't give a shit vote for the best candidate for them and ignore party lines and hope people see the hipocracy and stop throwing their vote away on the dem's and 'pubs.
Corporations (red hat, which isn't a corrupt corporation, but is a corp nonetheless) force the two major desktops together hidden under the shroud of "useability." The line between the two is smeared. New users are blind to the true nature of choice in the *nix community, and those that follow Gnome/RedHat/KDE blindly either applaud, or yell and scream. The rest of us use blackbox/fluxbox/aewm/pan9wm/etc, get on with our work, and run both GTK&QT apps when needed in our respective, customized, unique environments without a hitch....
Ok it started out as a good analogy and ended in pieces, but perhaps you catch my drift nonetheless. Everythings a conspiracy.
BTW, how many Red Hat devlopers also develop for gnome, and how many also develop for KDE?....I don't know for sure...but it's an interesting question...
....everythings a friggin conspiracy...
*goes back to processing watershed records on FreeBSD w/ openoffice running in fluxbox*
Of course, there's always the option of learning all of the backending that the RedHat frontend does. From my experience in the *nix world, everything done GUI-ily can be done..not...gui-ly... But I've never used Red Hat. So, excuse me for being a slacker.