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As I read this, the post was modded only 4, which is crimminal. It is best thing I have read in long time. Bump please. I guess this means less seti at home and more spamkill at home?
-Iowa
Personally, I am impressed by the themes and symbols interwoven in slashdot. For instance, look at the name itself. "Slash"--in ancient Latin this implies a decrease and "dot"---Greek for really small. This implies the quest for the ever smaller, to look beyond minutia with a trained eye. Buddhist if I ever saw it.
Then, there is all the bad spelling and grammer, even found in this post. This is the Post-modern idea that we live in an imperfect world, and there is nothing we can do to fix it. But, oh, the Christian irony since spell checkers do exist and we can be saved if only you take the effort to love what is beyond yourself.
Oh, I could go on. And, if I was an English major, I would. But to suffice it to say, if you have a million philosophers look at something for a million hours, they will find it to be profound, no matter what it is.
As Frued could have said, "Sometimes a posting is just a posting."
-Iowa
The missing idea in this thread that no one wants to talk about is the question "IS NEW SOFTWARE NEEDED?" There will always be a need for specialized apps etc, but commerical software is gaining less every year. We have been through how many revisions of MS word and what has been gained since Word 5? Is it really that much better? At some point, software will die in a way because nothing new is being produced outside of version numbers. Ask yourself this, what can you do this year that you could not two years ago? Five?....
-Iowa
First off, Pmuse, nice post. I wish I had moderator points.
You got me to thinking in your descriptions. In many of the descriptions, the essance of the characters were described as fleshed out in certain series of runs of the comments. For example, your iron man is definately from the Armor Wars, where Tony Stark finds out his tech was used to create all armored villans.
It struck me how sometimes, someone rights a hero and just nails it. Another example is Frank Miller's "Batman Returns." He has forever left is mark on Batman and has changed the character. The show Batman Beyond is truly a product of his vision. In all these cases, look at the initial character, and compare to the changes made. Sometimes, not even the original author gets it "right."
My question is, for the Hulk, has there ever been such a defining momment. I will invite yells here, but for me the comic has been cheesy the few times I read it. If it carries any weight, I think of Bill Bixby in the TV show who put so much humanity into Banner.
Ok, I am not a coder, so don't flame me much. I am just curious about something. People write programs that hunt through the entire web, parse the pages, and find email to record for spam. This does not seem easy to me. So, why are there not effective, agressive counter measures? It seems to me there is a vast and bright talent pool on slashdot. Why are there not programs that spam the spamers with email adresses or something like that? Take the fight to them. In the old west, there was no law until the people stopped helplessly looking around and saying why me?
My two cents,
-Iowa
Oh good, I thought it was just me. At one point, I can remember reading Sci Amer and getting a headache from the hard concepts and math. Now, I struggle more with trying to divine the secrets in COSMO. But then again, who does understand women?
-Iowa
What a silly question! Everyone knows that your civilization only truly WINS when we get to Alpha Centuri, and mars is a first step. And, now with the new cooperative alliance system found in CIV IV, we can even win with allies. How cool is that?
-Iowa
Everything in the above comment is true and correct, yet misses a wider truth of the slashdot mantra. Many times on many threads, I hear it argued that linux is a viable alternative to windows. Threads proclaiming that Linux *should* replace Windows in the world are not uncommon either. It is easy to proclaim a revolution, but it is another thing to take the responsibility to run a civilization.
My two cents,
-Iowa
Hey, wait a minute, weren't we just complaining about this in yesterday's thread about people cheating by using the wireframe views to track and kill there enemies? Sheez, do we ever learn. F--ing Noobs.
-Iowa
Current pentiums are hot; future ones will be volcanic. Overclocking the chip of the near future will lead to a plasma that will destroy the world as we no it. So, be glad Intel is looking out for you!
-Iowa
"While this is true moreso today than in years past, the Mac market still constitutes a large enough percentage of Adobe's bottom-line that they would have to be mad to alienate this constituency... "
A person uses a PC, but from the Mac standpoint, they are a constituency not to be offended. Ie, adobe be careful or we will declare jihad upon them!
Long live the leader!!!!!!
-Iowa
SJBaker,
Thanks for the insiteful stats. From my perspective, I have never heard of someone stating or even implying that the UK was not holding up its end. Everyone I know views Britain as a valuable ally both politically and militarily. In fact, most I have talked to believe that the UK is one of the few countries that will "put its money where its mouth is" when it comes to military action. For these reasons, I think Americans take the UK very seriously. I hope you never get the impression otherwise.
-Iowa
Even though his citizens suffer from war weariness, he can just crank up the luxeries to counter the revolt. So, no, nothing happens until his last phalanx is dead.
-Iowa
While I agree with the above posts about the importance of civil disobedience, I think it would be a tough go to argue that abolition, sufferage, and war are on the same level as your "moral" imperative to steal mp3's. The previous issues are large issues that effect the suffering of a great many people. The ability to rip-off Nora Jones does not seem quite as critical to the well being of the world to me.
my two cents,
Iowa
Can't believe you guys missed this one, but....
Cost of win 2k $150
Cost of admin, 1 year $50,000
Cost of all your data being erased because of yet another security hole in a microsoft product.....
Priceless
This is the real reason to use Linux.
my 2 cents,
Iowa
Efficiency of mirrors aside, keep in mind the purpose of war is to kill people. Sure, having a nice shiny surface for laser defense can work (in principal) but it also makes you really, really, really visable. This would make you a great target. So, if we can mount a laser and make all the bad-guys dress in shiny suits, GREAT. The the camo guys with guns can just clean up. Any solution can't be that one sided.
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As I read this, the post was modded only 4, which is crimminal. It is best thing I have read in long time. Bump please. I guess this means less seti at home and more spamkill at home? -Iowa
Personally, I am impressed by the themes and symbols interwoven in slashdot. For instance, look at the name itself. "Slash"--in ancient Latin this implies a decrease and "dot"---Greek for really small. This implies the quest for the ever smaller, to look beyond minutia with a trained eye. Buddhist if I ever saw it. Then, there is all the bad spelling and grammer, even found in this post. This is the Post-modern idea that we live in an imperfect world, and there is nothing we can do to fix it. But, oh, the Christian irony since spell checkers do exist and we can be saved if only you take the effort to love what is beyond yourself. Oh, I could go on. And, if I was an English major, I would. But to suffice it to say, if you have a million philosophers look at something for a million hours, they will find it to be profound, no matter what it is. As Frued could have said, "Sometimes a posting is just a posting." -Iowa
Lineage is a nice rpg that is fairly addictive and an excellent community. You may want to give it a look at less than 20 bucks a month. -Iowa
After reading this last post, it got me to wondering that if I make a post in slashdot with lots of random random references and questionable assertions will I get moded up because it looks like I am smart?
The missing idea in this thread that no one wants to talk about is the question "IS NEW SOFTWARE NEEDED?" There will always be a need for specialized apps etc, but commerical software is gaining less every year. We have been through how many revisions of MS word and what has been gained since Word 5? Is it really that much better? At some point, software will die in a way because nothing new is being produced outside of version numbers. Ask yourself this, what can you do this year that you could not two years ago? Five?.... -Iowa
First off, Pmuse, nice post. I wish I had moderator points. You got me to thinking in your descriptions. In many of the descriptions, the essance of the characters were described as fleshed out in certain series of runs of the comments. For example, your iron man is definately from the Armor Wars, where Tony Stark finds out his tech was used to create all armored villans. It struck me how sometimes, someone rights a hero and just nails it. Another example is Frank Miller's "Batman Returns." He has forever left is mark on Batman and has changed the character. The show Batman Beyond is truly a product of his vision. In all these cases, look at the initial character, and compare to the changes made. Sometimes, not even the original author gets it "right." My question is, for the Hulk, has there ever been such a defining momment. I will invite yells here, but for me the comic has been cheesy the few times I read it. If it carries any weight, I think of Bill Bixby in the TV show who put so much humanity into Banner.
Ok, I am not a coder, so don't flame me much. I am just curious about something. People write programs that hunt through the entire web, parse the pages, and find email to record for spam. This does not seem easy to me. So, why are there not effective, agressive counter measures? It seems to me there is a vast and bright talent pool on slashdot. Why are there not programs that spam the spamers with email adresses or something like that? Take the fight to them. In the old west, there was no law until the people stopped helplessly looking around and saying why me? My two cents, -Iowa
Oh good, I thought it was just me. At one point, I can remember reading Sci Amer and getting a headache from the hard concepts and math. Now, I struggle more with trying to divine the secrets in COSMO. But then again, who does understand women? -Iowa
What a silly question! Everyone knows that your civilization only truly WINS when we get to Alpha Centuri, and mars is a first step. And, now with the new cooperative alliance system found in CIV IV, we can even win with allies. How cool is that? -Iowa
Everything in the above comment is true and correct, yet misses a wider truth of the slashdot mantra. Many times on many threads, I hear it argued that linux is a viable alternative to windows. Threads proclaiming that Linux *should* replace Windows in the world are not uncommon either. It is easy to proclaim a revolution, but it is another thing to take the responsibility to run a civilization. My two cents, -Iowa
I think you are off by a few versions. I believe it was supposed to read: WIndows 640 K, because who would ever need a higher verison? -Iowa
Hey, wait a minute, weren't we just complaining about this in yesterday's thread about people cheating by using the wireframe views to track and kill there enemies? Sheez, do we ever learn. F--ing Noobs. -Iowa
Current pentiums are hot; future ones will be volcanic. Overclocking the chip of the near future will lead to a plasma that will destroy the world as we no it. So, be glad Intel is looking out for you! -Iowa
"While this is true moreso today than in years past, the Mac market still constitutes a large enough percentage of Adobe's bottom-line that they would have to be mad to alienate this constituency... " A person uses a PC, but from the Mac standpoint, they are a constituency not to be offended. Ie, adobe be careful or we will declare jihad upon them! Long live the leader!!!!!! -Iowa
Now, a guy in Redmond announces a product which is known to basically not work, and people go in droves to buy it....
SJBaker, Thanks for the insiteful stats. From my perspective, I have never heard of someone stating or even implying that the UK was not holding up its end. Everyone I know views Britain as a valuable ally both politically and militarily. In fact, most I have talked to believe that the UK is one of the few countries that will "put its money where its mouth is" when it comes to military action. For these reasons, I think Americans take the UK very seriously. I hope you never get the impression otherwise. -Iowa
Even though his citizens suffer from war weariness, he can just crank up the luxeries to counter the revolt. So, no, nothing happens until his last phalanx is dead. -Iowa
Shouldn't the logo for this section be a penguin instead of a foot? -Iowa
Deep space nine just re-routed the deflectors to provide enough push to get to worm whole in mere minutes! We should do that too..... -Iowa
While I agree with the above posts about the importance of civil disobedience, I think it would be a tough go to argue that abolition, sufferage, and war are on the same level as your "moral" imperative to steal mp3's. The previous issues are large issues that effect the suffering of a great many people. The ability to rip-off Nora Jones does not seem quite as critical to the well being of the world to me. my two cents, Iowa
Bill Gates is an authority on what's cool? Just look at the man. Lordy, lordy...
Can't believe you guys missed this one, but.... Cost of win 2k $150 Cost of admin, 1 year $50,000 Cost of all your data being erased because of yet another security hole in a microsoft product..... Priceless This is the real reason to use Linux. my 2 cents, Iowa
Efficiency of mirrors aside, keep in mind the purpose of war is to kill people. Sure, having a nice shiny surface for laser defense can work (in principal) but it also makes you really, really, really visable. This would make you a great target. So, if we can mount a laser and make all the bad-guys dress in shiny suits, GREAT. The the camo guys with guns can just clean up. Any solution can't be that one sided.