One interesting fact about earthworms -- they are an exotic invasive species in North America. In fact, if you ever use worms as bait, you should never just toss them away except where you got them.
That's an interesting fact, but I can't see how the second part could possibly matter. They're already introduced; they're everywhere. If I shoved a shovel in any random dirt around me it'd come up loaded with worms. If I dumped my bait cup in the whole, and replaced the dirt, I've increased the number of worms in my yard by maybe 0.01%.
I'd certainly love to hear it if there is a good rational behind that advice, but really, I think the damage has already been done.
I think the most interesting thing about research like this is, not only the technology behind the interface, but the fact that the brain it self will adapt to use the new interface.
Yeah, it's amazing. I've seen a lesser version of this in the "thought controlled mouse" some years ago, where a clip on your finger measure electrical pulses (or something, don't remember technical details), and after about an hour of "training" people were able to control the mouse without moving, just thinking about it.
Or look at people who've had the corpus collosum severed, and are still able to function at some degree of normalcy with their brain literally cut in half.
Amazingly flexible machines, our brains. If only my software was as versatile as my wetware.:P
It takes about 2 minutes to point out the error in every retarded thing you say. If you were less of an idiot, or maybe if this whole thing wasn't basically you being a whiny sociopathic douche who can't let go, you'd be able to waste more of my time. At least you realize that's all you are, a waste of time.
Anyhow, I hate to be the one to tell you, but insults comprise 98% of all Internet traffic which isn't consumed by porn. If a comment from a retard with a chip on his shoulder about an OS has sufficient power to provoke you to type 6 paragraphs of careful, even-handed vitriol, I shudder to think how little spare time even a single visit to YouTube would leave you.
I'm not provoked, I pick my targets carefully. Basically I look for two things: First, the person must be a giant douche who deserves it; second, I look for easy targets. An idiot who was a total dick to volunteers, and is still unable to move on after two years? Perfect.
And you'd be surprised how little effort it takes to dish out six paragraphs against such an easy target. It's like getting a double when playing T-ball. And now that I've made my point and had my fun, I'm set for quite some time. Don't worry, Youtube won't ruin my productivity.:)
Oh, I'm still plenty serious, I just also enjoy pointing out what a douchebag you are, so it doesn't bother me knowing that you're just trolling for attention.
And I know everything you've been willing to share. According to you, you didn't have a Live CD. Not my fault if you are a liar. That would match your sociopathic tendencies though. But your big complaint about how you were never told to make a Live CD, and didn't have the tools to correct the problem you had? Fixed.
There is no serious criticism you have made that is still relevant. You are still harping on it as though you are a "messenger" of anything but whiny douchbaggery. But you aren't. It's over and done with. TWO YEARS AGO. There are no words for how sad and pathetic that is, how petty you are. You either have the most sheltered, easy, and trouble-free life on earth where this is worth holding onto for two years, or you're the saddest, angriest sociopath bristling with the pain of a million tiny insults and injuries collected over the years that no normal human would consider past the end of the day.
Less whining douchebaggery, more getting over it. Snap to it.
Why a suit, instead of an armed, semi-autonomous ROV?
Because we are a long, long way off from developing a robot as flexible and dependable as the human body in the field. Asimo can barely climb stairs, a soldier can bound up them, scramble over a pile of rubble, and perform all other manner of ad-hoc behaviors that no robot could duplicate and no remove control system is sophisticated enough to convey.
Augmenting the human soldier will yield much greater dividends sooner than trying to go for an ROV.
Ignoring the fact that the kilogram is a measure of mass, not force, this sentence still makes no sense. I can "pull down" double my weight with my little finger. Pulling it UP would be hard.
Translation: "I've never seen the inside of a gym before."
It's okay, this is an understanding crowd for such things.;)
Lifting stuff, we have forklifts for that. Much simpler and cheaper.
But, but, that only works if you stack the stuff on a pallet first! How does the heavy stuff get on the pallet, huh? That's right, guy in power armor.
Heavy weapons? Is the US military's problem really a lack of firepower? I seriously doubt it. Maybe there is a lack of ethics and diplomacy but they can bounce corpses and ashes pretty high already.
They're sick of "Army of One" being a marketing slogan about how they teach you personal strength and confidence and such. Oh, there's widespread clashes between militias and police in Basra? Send in Private Pile in his Army Battle Suit!
It's okay, I wasn't careful with words and I completely understand how someone could have taken what I said to mean "Slackware is for elitists". So my bad too.:)
(All you old timers...how long since you've heard of four bits as a nibble? Wasn't that the name of an Apple magazine?)
Actually I still use it all the time. Especially when discussing say the hexadecimal value of a config register or a page table entry, we'll say things like "The 3rd nibble should be F".
What's with the Slackware slam, man? Slackware was my first distro and I love it for what it is - I've never understood why Slackware users are assumed to be snobs and elitists because we like a no frills, stable, platform to work with.
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it that way!
I don't assume Slackware users are elitists, not by any stretch. One of my first Linux mentors and friends was a Slackware user, and yeah, the KISS philosophy is good and admirable. Slackware is great.
On the other hand, I do assume that an elitist who is just out to prove that they can use an O.S. that "Jane Soccer Mom" couldn't would like Slackware. Even if he doesn't appreciate the good design, at least they can go "oh it's all text files!"
Basically I was offering Slackware as a platform on which he could exercise his snobbery, instead of trying to keep Ubuntu out of the hands of those he considers lesser beings. Sorry for the unintended insult to Slackware, and for trying to steer such an elitist to the Slackware community. Not that I seriously thought they would, though.;)
All the actual good ones were. Just because you make a suggestion doesn't mean it's actually a good idea to incorporate it. Your assumption that it is, and that by not doing everything you said Ubuntu has somehow failed, is stupid and wrong and narcissistic.
(If you had given any hint that the alternative you were expecting was to post under a different name, the rationalization you're about to give in response would be more reasonable.)
Hint? Your name itself is an insult. I assumed you had the two brain cells to rub together to figure out the solution without me "hinting". My bad!
I could go on, but it's more important to note your post as an excellent study in the depths people will go to rationalize and engage in groupthink over their sacred cows.
No, it's an excellent study in how people get sick of whiny douches who TWO YEARS ago had a couple decent points even though they were complete cock gobblers that completely eliminated any sympathy they may have deserved, no longer has anything relevant to add to the discussion, but continues to be a whiny douche TWO YEARS later long after any sane individual would have long ago moved on with their life.
You just really, really don't get it.
I'm sorry for lashing out at forum members. Really, I am.
No you're not, because you are still doing it. Quick life lesson: Nobody gives a shit about an apology unless you change your behavior. But you still rant about how little help you got from the forums, you've done it right here in this thread, so kindly shut the fuck up about how sorry you are when the words are so hollow.
By the way, I'm really, really sorry I called you a whiny sociopathic douche, you whiny sociopathic douche.
But: failing to have a human centered design
Please shut the fuck up. It is a human centered design, it's just not perfect. But that particular imperfection at least has been fixed. Maybe if you had continued to use Ubuntu, adding additional criticism as the problems came and went only without the douchebagery that defines you, you would have something relevant to talk about today. But you're still so hung up on an issue that has been fixed for years, you are completely useless and nothing but a whiny trolling douchebag with a persecution complex.
Oh noes, a program has a bug in a somewhat unusual graphics mode! Linux will never be ready on the desktop!
Because [insert random image viewer that comes with a digital camera] has no bugs, otherwise Windows would never be ready for the desktop!
Really? Some bugs and weird behavior make it impossible for Linux to succeed? As if Windows users are completely intolerant of bugs! Ha!
Anyway, not that Linux doesn't have polish problems, but it's getting better at a rapid rate "moving target" notwithstanding. There's no reason it can't ever become a solid desktop experience, it's very near it now. I don't think you're trolling, but I don't think you can seriously deny that either.
Last number I heard, the dumb/smart bomb ratio was at 50/50 and rising.
Huh, okay, I guess I'll have to check out more recent info.
They don't so much care about saving innocents, as they care about not making life difficult for themselves. And, in most places they operate, that means not hitting a church or blowing up an innocent without either advance warning or a clear intention on doing so.
No you're not, or you'd be shutting the fuck up about how badly you got helped, which you are STILL whining about in this very thread. You got way better help than you deserved. Admit that, shut the fuck up about how nobody helped you, or your words mean nothing.
Your very name is offensive towards the Ubuntu community, and you say you're sorry? That's fucking ridiculous! This is almost literally you saying "I'm sorry for calling you fuckface, fuckface."
My *technical* criticisms were still valid, and have mostly gone uncorrected.
No, your only valid technical criticisms are gone: The bug itself, and the lack of having a LiveCD by default. Both the problem you had, and your lack of tools necessary to solve it, are gone. They have been gone for years. You still keep harping on it, even though there is zero relevance left.
Except for the part about how being a douche doesn't help your problems go away, in fact all they do is make them linger long past their practical end. That is a valuable lesson to all, and one that you unwittingly demonstrate with every post.
Yes, Mr. Clue-Impaired, it has been an ongoing problem!
When I said ongoing problem, I wasn't referring to your ongoing sociopathy. Ubuntu neither caused nor can fix that.
You getting modded down is not a technical problem, and the only reason you still get jumped on about it is because you won't shut the fuck up about it. If you shut the fuck up, people might even begin to forget that your fucking name is slander against the community you claim you feel sorry about slandering.
You thinking Ubuntu should listen to your addel-pated suggestions about where to put the boot loader is delusional.
You fucking up your drive using a Windows partition tool just makes me wonder when FdiskFedMe is going to start posting to the Windows forums declaring how you were lied to by the Windows community.
There is no "problem" remaining that isn't of your own creation.
You'd call him a fuckin' hero , and you know it.
Not after I found out the real story was he had one bill that was $20 higher because of a glitch, and it got fixed, but in the meantime he spent endless hours being as big a prick to the customer service rep as possible (who, in this hypothetical situation, is a fucking volunteer for a non-profit insurance company). No, I might be sympathetic at first, but after two fucking years any sympathy for this incessantly whiny bitch would be completely lost.
Hell, I had sympathy for you up until you made the stupid decision to link to the thread you were so hurt by, thereby proving what a giant douche you were and remain to this day... still whining.
That's the way it works in real life. Nobody gives you any pity when you heap pity on yourself a thousand times more than your situation actually deserves.
Yeah, that's it: I provide a genuine case study of someone attempting to convert but was unable;
Long since solved, and the good suggestions you've made long ago incorporated without need of your input thank you. Your case has no relevance any more, it serves no practical use. You're just bitching because you can't let go. You still think you're owed something.
Like attention.
And *I'm* the one who doesn't "get it".
No, you don't get it. You don't get that whatever happened to you happened years ago, it's no longer relevant, nobody cares, you shouldn't care if you weren't obsessed.
That's not going to happen though. As your very name proves, you're so stuck on the past, you can't let go, you can't move on, you can't realize it isn't relevant to anyone any more, even yourself.
Or, more like, you know that if you stop harping on the past, you won't be relevant in the present.
We both know it'll be 2025 and as long as Slashdot is still arou
How does that lame apology mean anything? You're screaming about how you said sorry, but at the same time you're acting in the same "I'm terribly hurt, I need restitution" asshole manner that you did originally. Like a bug from 2006 is something for which an accounting must be made. You still act like you were fucking lied to because it turned out Ubuntu wasn't perfect and bug free, and that the community wasn't willing to bust their ass to help you when you were treating them like that. If you haven't so much as changed your tone when describing the problem, how could that apology possibly be sincere?
You hold onto this for years. YEARS. What happened that was so bad? Is this an ongoing problem for you? I take it you aren't using Ubuntu any more, and regardless the bug has been fixed. So what's worth holding onto? Do you remember the jerk who cut you off five years back? Still waiting for your apology? Do you keep a list? Or do you just register a forum account for each wrong done against you?
Is there a GeicoDidntSaveMeMoney forum troll out there? Does he still actively post about his problems with the company from 2003? Does he have have a journal where he apologizes for specific phrases he used, but not actually the sentiment behind them?
Let. It. Go.
Your handle itself is a pathetic whine that you were "duped" by the community.
You want to save your precious karma? Try shutting the fuck up about it, like you actually get it. There's nothing useful you have to contribute, the bug was fixed, and no the volunteer community is never going to treat pricks like you with exceptional amounts of accommodation. It was years ago, it's over. Deal with it. And please, for the love of all that is holy, shut the fuck up.
The US uses smart bombs designed to NOT kill innocent people, to save the civillian lives. it avoids churches (who am i kidding, mosques), etc. back in the day Hannibal would just start in the north and kill or enslave everyone till he hit the water in the south. Much closer but still back int he day, it was carpet bombing back to the stone age, sorry if we hit the daycare.
Smart bombs are a tiny, tiny fraction of ordinance dropped -- they just kept replaying the footage of the laser guided bomb dropping down a chimney to make you think all war we wage is nice and tidy like that. The vast majority are traditional bombs not all that much more accurate than the ones dropped in WWII -- which means, like in WWII, you need to drop a lot of them to make sure you hit anything, and they surely are going to cause "collateral damage". We've hit plenty of daycares in both Gulf Wars, and most of the time there isn't so much as a "sorry". Between that, and the "we don't do body counts" (meaning we don't measure our collateral damage), I have a hard time believing that the U.S. military really cares that much about saving innocents.
Of course I'm not saying the U.S. is like the Mongol hordes or anything, raping and pillaging wantonly. Then again in the global political environment, and the realities of Iraq, we really couldn't be either. We're not trying to literally conquer Iraq by beating the whole country into submission, so if we started acting like it, well, two things would happen: 1) the insurgency in Iraq would explode to levels orders of magnitude beyond what we've seen and 2) our few remaining allies would bail on us, and we would probably start to figure out in short order why our trade deficit is a bad thing.
We're doing our best, and we're a lot better than plenty of countries you could name, but lets not pretend that we're actually doing all that well. It's only by admitting our failings that we can keep getting better; if we just assume we're the best and that's that, we will surely backslide (and I think this has very much happened).
Do you really think that swords is going to be fullt autonomous, like there isnt going to be a pilot to make sure. Of course there will be remote control to overide.
Yeah I was very suspicious when I heard the story, because everything I'd heard was that the military was 100% committed to always having a human decision maker in the firing loop for these robots. And I think anyone who has watched Terminator, War Games, Matrix, or Short Circuit for that matter would agree that is a wise decision.
Oh great, when that happens I'll truly never get any work done. Hopefully that day is soon followed by an Ubuntu variant that disables any access to games in the repos.
You seem to fear the day where your last remaining productivity vanishes.
Can I at least blame *that* on Ubuntu? You know... vindicating 2 years of whining?
Nothing will ever vindicate those 2 years of whining. If Ubuntu had killed your dog, you'd be justified to still be complaining. But your own problem and the bug that caused it have both been fixed for years now. Whatever you want to blame on Ubuntu of 2006, be my guest, but let it go. Your continued obsession over this singular event is a sign of OCD, or paranoia, or some other kind of mental disorder that will never be "vindicated" as sane and proportionate behavior.
Yes, the instructions should have said that you should have a LiveCD or other method of booting an OS in case something goes wrong. It doesn't need to be said now, because they've fixed the problem by making the install CD also work as a Live CD.
Plenty of people on the forums asked about booting off a CD, but you didn't have one available so you never got to the next step of the steps needed to fix your problem, though apparently you eventually found one. Nevertheless, it was mentioned plenty.
And where exactly have you apologized? I see you admit that you were a dick, but that's not an apology, especially since it's followed by a "but". And this is after two years. Seems to me you have a huge problem apologizing for rudeness. But you expect not just an apology, but a gold plated one?
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Uh, not exactly. Hydroponics doesn't magically solve the nutrient problem, it just does it with something other than soil.
One interesting fact about earthworms -- they are an exotic invasive species in North America. In fact, if you ever use worms as bait, you should never just toss them away except where you got them.
That's an interesting fact, but I can't see how the second part could possibly matter. They're already introduced; they're everywhere. If I shoved a shovel in any random dirt around me it'd come up loaded with worms. If I dumped my bait cup in the whole, and replaced the dirt, I've increased the number of worms in my yard by maybe 0.01%.
I'd certainly love to hear it if there is a good rational behind that advice, but really, I think the damage has already been done.
I think the most interesting thing about research like this is, not only the technology behind the interface, but the fact that the brain it self will adapt to use the new interface.
:P
Yeah, it's amazing. I've seen a lesser version of this in the "thought controlled mouse" some years ago, where a clip on your finger measure electrical pulses (or something, don't remember technical details), and after about an hour of "training" people were able to control the mouse without moving, just thinking about it.
Or look at people who've had the corpus collosum severed, and are still able to function at some degree of normalcy with their brain literally cut in half.
Amazingly flexible machines, our brains. If only my software was as versatile as my wetware.
It takes about 2 minutes to point out the error in every retarded thing you say. If you were less of an idiot, or maybe if this whole thing wasn't basically you being a whiny sociopathic douche who can't let go, you'd be able to waste more of my time. At least you realize that's all you are, a waste of time.
Less whining, more shutting the fuck up.
It guess it probably does to some extent, but hey, I've never claimed to not be crazy. :)
Anyhow, I hate to be the one to tell you, but insults comprise 98% of all Internet traffic which isn't consumed by porn. If a comment from a retard with a chip on his shoulder about an OS has sufficient power to provoke you to type 6 paragraphs of careful, even-handed vitriol, I shudder to think how little spare time even a single visit to YouTube would leave you.
:)
I'm not provoked, I pick my targets carefully. Basically I look for two things: First, the person must be a giant douche who deserves it; second, I look for easy targets. An idiot who was a total dick to volunteers, and is still unable to move on after two years? Perfect.
And you'd be surprised how little effort it takes to dish out six paragraphs against such an easy target. It's like getting a double when playing T-ball. And now that I've made my point and had my fun, I'm set for quite some time. Don't worry, Youtube won't ruin my productivity.
Oh, I'm still plenty serious, I just also enjoy pointing out what a douchebag you are, so it doesn't bother me knowing that you're just trolling for attention.
And I know everything you've been willing to share. According to you, you didn't have a Live CD. Not my fault if you are a liar. That would match your sociopathic tendencies though. But your big complaint about how you were never told to make a Live CD, and didn't have the tools to correct the problem you had? Fixed.
There is no serious criticism you have made that is still relevant. You are still harping on it as though you are a "messenger" of anything but whiny douchbaggery. But you aren't. It's over and done with. TWO YEARS AGO. There are no words for how sad and pathetic that is, how petty you are. You either have the most sheltered, easy, and trouble-free life on earth where this is worth holding onto for two years, or you're the saddest, angriest sociopath bristling with the pain of a million tiny insults and injuries collected over the years that no normal human would consider past the end of the day.
Less whining douchebaggery, more getting over it. Snap to it.
You must understand that the more you guys reply to this guy the more he's going to reply to you.
I'm not an idiot, I know he enjoys it. I also enjoy mocking him.
Offensive? Offensive? Is software allegiance an ethnic group, complete with identity politics and racial epithets? Jesus Christ. Relax.
No, it's people, volunteers and enthusiasts, who tried to help him with his problem, for which they got nothing but insults.
Yes that's offensive. Don't blow the word out of proportion, as if it only applies to the Holocaust, especially if you're going to tell me to relax.
Why a suit, instead of an armed, semi-autonomous ROV?
Because we are a long, long way off from developing a robot as flexible and dependable as the human body in the field. Asimo can barely climb stairs, a soldier can bound up them, scramble over a pile of rubble, and perform all other manner of ad-hoc behaviors that no robot could duplicate and no remove control system is sophisticated enough to convey.
Augmenting the human soldier will yield much greater dividends sooner than trying to go for an ROV.
The Cylons were created by Man. They Evolved. They Rebelled. There are many copies. And they have a Plan.
And then it turned out the Cylons were just normal dudes in body armor, and they were pissed because we kept trying to feed them oil instead of food.
Ignoring the fact that the kilogram is a measure of mass, not force, this sentence still makes no sense. I can "pull down" double my weight with my little finger. Pulling it UP would be hard.
;)
Translation: "I've never seen the inside of a gym before."
It's okay, this is an understanding crowd for such things.
Lifting stuff, we have forklifts for that. Much simpler and cheaper.
But, but, that only works if you stack the stuff on a pallet first! How does the heavy stuff get on the pallet, huh? That's right, guy in power armor.
Heavy weapons? Is the US military's problem really a lack of firepower? I seriously doubt it. Maybe there is a lack of ethics and diplomacy but they can bounce corpses and ashes pretty high already.
They're sick of "Army of One" being a marketing slogan about how they teach you personal strength and confidence and such. Oh, there's widespread clashes between militias and police in Basra? Send in Private Pile in his Army Battle Suit!
It's okay, I wasn't careful with words and I completely understand how someone could have taken what I said to mean "Slackware is for elitists". So my bad too. :)
(All you old timers...how long since you've heard of four bits as a nibble? Wasn't that the name of an Apple magazine?)
Actually I still use it all the time. Especially when discussing say the hexadecimal value of a config register or a page table entry, we'll say things like "The 3rd nibble should be F".
What's with the Slackware slam, man? Slackware was my first distro and I love it for what it is - I've never understood why Slackware users are assumed to be snobs and elitists because we like a no frills, stable, platform to work with.
;)
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it that way!
I don't assume Slackware users are elitists, not by any stretch. One of my first Linux mentors and friends was a Slackware user, and yeah, the KISS philosophy is good and admirable. Slackware is great.
On the other hand, I do assume that an elitist who is just out to prove that they can use an O.S. that "Jane Soccer Mom" couldn't would like Slackware. Even if he doesn't appreciate the good design, at least they can go "oh it's all text files!"
Basically I was offering Slackware as a platform on which he could exercise his snobbery, instead of trying to keep Ubuntu out of the hands of those he considers lesser beings. Sorry for the unintended insult to Slackware, and for trying to steer such an elitist to the Slackware community. Not that I seriously thought they would, though.
My suggestions were not incorporated,
All the actual good ones were. Just because you make a suggestion doesn't mean it's actually a good idea to incorporate it. Your assumption that it is, and that by not doing everything you said Ubuntu has somehow failed, is stupid and wrong and narcissistic.
(If you had given any hint that the alternative you were expecting was to post under a different name, the rationalization you're about to give in response would be more reasonable.)
Hint? Your name itself is an insult. I assumed you had the two brain cells to rub together to figure out the solution without me "hinting". My bad!
I could go on, but it's more important to note your post as an excellent study in the depths people will go to rationalize and engage in groupthink over their sacred cows.
No, it's an excellent study in how people get sick of whiny douches who TWO YEARS ago had a couple decent points even though they were complete cock gobblers that completely eliminated any sympathy they may have deserved, no longer has anything relevant to add to the discussion, but continues to be a whiny douche TWO YEARS later long after any sane individual would have long ago moved on with their life.
You just really, really don't get it.
I'm sorry for lashing out at forum members. Really, I am.
No you're not, because you are still doing it. Quick life lesson: Nobody gives a shit about an apology unless you change your behavior. But you still rant about how little help you got from the forums, you've done it right here in this thread, so kindly shut the fuck up about how sorry you are when the words are so hollow.
By the way, I'm really, really sorry I called you a whiny sociopathic douche, you whiny sociopathic douche.
But: failing to have a human centered design
Please shut the fuck up. It is a human centered design, it's just not perfect. But that particular imperfection at least has been fixed. Maybe if you had continued to use Ubuntu, adding additional criticism as the problems came and went only without the douchebagery that defines you, you would have something relevant to talk about today. But you're still so hung up on an issue that has been fixed for years, you are completely useless and nothing but a whiny trolling douchebag with a persecution complex.
It's over.
Let. It. Go.
Oh noes, a program has a bug in a somewhat unusual graphics mode! Linux will never be ready on the desktop!
Because [insert random image viewer that comes with a digital camera] has no bugs, otherwise Windows would never be ready for the desktop!
Really? Some bugs and weird behavior make it impossible for Linux to succeed? As if Windows users are completely intolerant of bugs! Ha!
Anyway, not that Linux doesn't have polish problems, but it's getting better at a rapid rate "moving target" notwithstanding. There's no reason it can't ever become a solid desktop experience, it's very near it now. I don't think you're trolling, but I don't think you can seriously deny that either.
Last number I heard, the dumb/smart bomb ratio was at 50/50 and rising.
Huh, okay, I guess I'll have to check out more recent info.
They don't so much care about saving innocents, as they care about not making life difficult for themselves. And, in most places they operate, that means not hitting a church or blowing up an innocent without either advance warning or a clear intention on doing so.
Yes, that's a very good way of putting it.
I am *sorry* for rudeness toward the forum.
No you're not, or you'd be shutting the fuck up about how badly you got helped, which you are STILL whining about in this very thread. You got way better help than you deserved. Admit that, shut the fuck up about how nobody helped you, or your words mean nothing.
Your very name is offensive towards the Ubuntu community, and you say you're sorry? That's fucking ridiculous! This is almost literally you saying "I'm sorry for calling you fuckface, fuckface."
My *technical* criticisms were still valid, and have mostly gone uncorrected.
No, your only valid technical criticisms are gone: The bug itself, and the lack of having a LiveCD by default. Both the problem you had, and your lack of tools necessary to solve it, are gone. They have been gone for years. You still keep harping on it, even though there is zero relevance left.
Except for the part about how being a douche doesn't help your problems go away, in fact all they do is make them linger long past their practical end. That is a valuable lesson to all, and one that you unwittingly demonstrate with every post.
Yes, Mr. Clue-Impaired, it has been an ongoing problem!
When I said ongoing problem, I wasn't referring to your ongoing sociopathy. Ubuntu neither caused nor can fix that.
You getting modded down is not a technical problem, and the only reason you still get jumped on about it is because you won't shut the fuck up about it. If you shut the fuck up, people might even begin to forget that your fucking name is slander against the community you claim you feel sorry about slandering.
You thinking Ubuntu should listen to your addel-pated suggestions about where to put the boot loader is delusional.
You fucking up your drive using a Windows partition tool just makes me wonder when FdiskFedMe is going to start posting to the Windows forums declaring how you were lied to by the Windows community.
There is no "problem" remaining that isn't of your own creation.
You'd call him a fuckin' hero , and you know it.
Not after I found out the real story was he had one bill that was $20 higher because of a glitch, and it got fixed, but in the meantime he spent endless hours being as big a prick to the customer service rep as possible (who, in this hypothetical situation, is a fucking volunteer for a non-profit insurance company). No, I might be sympathetic at first, but after two fucking years any sympathy for this incessantly whiny bitch would be completely lost.
Hell, I had sympathy for you up until you made the stupid decision to link to the thread you were so hurt by, thereby proving what a giant douche you were and remain to this day... still whining.
That's the way it works in real life. Nobody gives you any pity when you heap pity on yourself a thousand times more than your situation actually deserves.
Yeah, that's it: I provide a genuine case study of someone attempting to convert but was unable;
Long since solved, and the good suggestions you've made long ago incorporated without need of your input thank you. Your case has no relevance any more, it serves no practical use. You're just bitching because you can't let go. You still think you're owed something.
Like attention.
And *I'm* the one who doesn't "get it".
No, you don't get it. You don't get that whatever happened to you happened years ago, it's no longer relevant, nobody cares, you shouldn't care if you weren't obsessed.
That's not going to happen though. As your very name proves, you're so stuck on the past, you can't let go, you can't move on, you can't realize it isn't relevant to anyone any more, even yourself.
Or, more like, you know that if you stop harping on the past, you won't be relevant in the present.
We both know it'll be 2025 and as long as Slashdot is still arou
How does that lame apology mean anything? You're screaming about how you said sorry, but at the same time you're acting in the same "I'm terribly hurt, I need restitution" asshole manner that you did originally. Like a bug from 2006 is something for which an accounting must be made. You still act like you were fucking lied to because it turned out Ubuntu wasn't perfect and bug free, and that the community wasn't willing to bust their ass to help you when you were treating them like that. If you haven't so much as changed your tone when describing the problem, how could that apology possibly be sincere?
You hold onto this for years. YEARS. What happened that was so bad? Is this an ongoing problem for you? I take it you aren't using Ubuntu any more, and regardless the bug has been fixed. So what's worth holding onto? Do you remember the jerk who cut you off five years back? Still waiting for your apology? Do you keep a list? Or do you just register a forum account for each wrong done against you?
Is there a GeicoDidntSaveMeMoney forum troll out there? Does he still actively post about his problems with the company from 2003? Does he have have a journal where he apologizes for specific phrases he used, but not actually the sentiment behind them?
Let. It. Go.
Your handle itself is a pathetic whine that you were "duped" by the community.
You want to save your precious karma? Try shutting the fuck up about it, like you actually get it. There's nothing useful you have to contribute, the bug was fixed, and no the volunteer community is never going to treat pricks like you with exceptional amounts of accommodation. It was years ago, it's over. Deal with it. And please, for the love of all that is holy, shut the fuck up.
Obviously, they're not mutually exclusive. I'm a strong supporter of ease-of-use back-ended by configuration files.
Hell yeah.
The US uses smart bombs designed to NOT kill innocent people, to save the civillian lives. it avoids churches (who am i kidding, mosques), etc. back in the day Hannibal would just start in the north and kill or enslave everyone till he hit the water in the south. Much closer but still back int he day, it was carpet bombing back to the stone age, sorry if we hit the daycare.
Smart bombs are a tiny, tiny fraction of ordinance dropped -- they just kept replaying the footage of the laser guided bomb dropping down a chimney to make you think all war we wage is nice and tidy like that. The vast majority are traditional bombs not all that much more accurate than the ones dropped in WWII -- which means, like in WWII, you need to drop a lot of them to make sure you hit anything, and they surely are going to cause "collateral damage". We've hit plenty of daycares in both Gulf Wars, and most of the time there isn't so much as a "sorry". Between that, and the "we don't do body counts" (meaning we don't measure our collateral damage), I have a hard time believing that the U.S. military really cares that much about saving innocents.
Of course I'm not saying the U.S. is like the Mongol hordes or anything, raping and pillaging wantonly. Then again in the global political environment, and the realities of Iraq, we really couldn't be either. We're not trying to literally conquer Iraq by beating the whole country into submission, so if we started acting like it, well, two things would happen: 1) the insurgency in Iraq would explode to levels orders of magnitude beyond what we've seen and 2) our few remaining allies would bail on us, and we would probably start to figure out in short order why our trade deficit is a bad thing.
We're doing our best, and we're a lot better than plenty of countries you could name, but lets not pretend that we're actually doing all that well. It's only by admitting our failings that we can keep getting better; if we just assume we're the best and that's that, we will surely backslide (and I think this has very much happened).
Do you really think that swords is going to be fullt autonomous, like there isnt going to be a pilot to make sure. Of course there will be remote control to overide.
Yeah I was very suspicious when I heard the story, because everything I'd heard was that the military was 100% committed to always having a human decision maker in the firing loop for these robots. And I think anyone who has watched Terminator, War Games, Matrix, or Short Circuit for that matter would agree that is a wise decision.
Oh great, when that happens I'll truly never get any work done. Hopefully that day is soon followed by an Ubuntu variant that disables any access to games in the repos.
;)
You seem to fear the day where your last remaining productivity vanishes.
I, however, look forward to it.
Can I at least blame *that* on Ubuntu? You know ... vindicating 2 years of whining?
Nothing will ever vindicate those 2 years of whining. If Ubuntu had killed your dog, you'd be justified to still be complaining. But your own problem and the bug that caused it have both been fixed for years now. Whatever you want to blame on Ubuntu of 2006, be my guest, but let it go. Your continued obsession over this singular event is a sign of OCD, or paranoia, or some other kind of mental disorder that will never be "vindicated" as sane and proportionate behavior.
Yes, the instructions should have said that you should have a LiveCD or other method of booting an OS in case something goes wrong. It doesn't need to be said now, because they've fixed the problem by making the install CD also work as a Live CD.
Plenty of people on the forums asked about booting off a CD, but you didn't have one available so you never got to the next step of the steps needed to fix your problem, though apparently you eventually found one. Nevertheless, it was mentioned plenty.
And where exactly have you apologized? I see you admit that you were a dick, but that's not an apology, especially since it's followed by a "but". And this is after two years. Seems to me you have a huge problem apologizing for rudeness. But you expect not just an apology, but a gold plated one?
Get real. And get over it.