When I was reading/. 4 years ago, it would have been unimaginable to have to argue against a pro-creationism content. I mean, it was clear at that time that if someone really believe in creationism, his intelligence might not be enough to eat with a fork, so clearly not enough to use a computer and read slashdot.
It's frightenning to see how, in 4 years, the creationism vs evolution has become, in both parts, an accepted "debat".
Well, if it's the same person, then I'm wrong and I'm very sorry for this comment.
I simply don't see anything common between the two (but it might be that the pictures are taken in very different situations). As "Jari" doesn't appear anywhere on PHP list or whatever, it could lead to confusion.
It's Jani vs Jari. It seems that they are two different people so it's highly plausible that someone saw this on the web (when looking for "Jani Taskinen" on Google, "Jari Taskinen" is automatically proposed) and did a fake log or a steal the nickname on IRC.
Well, perhaps the real PHP dev Jani was also part of the army. But it seems too much of a coincidence to me.
So, unless more proof is showed, I consider this IRC log as a fake intended to bring the Israel/Lebanon troll on/. (sadly one of those trolls who is played with guns instead of puns) and under the spotlights of the web => digg and site like. This is a very common practice.
It's no more brown ! It's orange ! There is even a Dapper Car ! Of course, this was before! If you look closely, you will see that the car has 4 wheels. This is not true anymore as we are now all using flying cars.
You can see that only two faces of the pyramid remain. But I must admit that by seeing this map, I would think "it looks like a pyramid with a collapsed part".
We also learn that the pyramid is 300m high ! This is huge !
Now, the strange things are : - not a lot of pictures. The most used picture is a 1950's postal card. Why ? (it could be simply bad communication but we always have to be careful with pictures, remember the martian face). - If the pictures are real, it must be really easy to have a proof. If the stair is a real stair, well, there is few doubt about it.
Both part being equals, the probable story is that we have a semi-natural pyramid. A natural hill with some human constructions to make it more "pyramid".
But, in this case :
- Why nobody ever saw it ? Why is there no legend ? No other trace of a civilization ? No artifact ? - How can the global form of the pyramid in a such good state after years of erosion ? This is very strange that the good sides are on the river side ! 10000 years ago, the river was probably higher. In fact, the pyramid itself was probably done by the river.
The weakest point is certainly this river. Without the river, I would have say "why not ?". But if you look at the map, you will immediatly understand that "I looks like but it's not possible".
"In the sacred Mayan book, the Popul Vuh, there are descriptions of cosmic travelers, the use of the compass, the fact that the Earth is round, and **knowledge of the secrets of the universe**...."
I agree with that and my theory is only about gaming.
When we was young, we were attracted a lot by computers because we knew we could play games on it.
But, at this time, games were not so easy to have (no internet) and were not always running on your system and, also, were less polished, less complex.
In order to play games, we had to understand the system, type commands (even without understanding them), wait patiently for the game to load itself,...
Some of us had perhaps hundred games on floppy disk, but we were always looking for more. Eventually, we would found some BASIC manual with code of games as examples. And patiently copying all the code without understanding it in order to play the game. The game itself were not so different than commercial games.
My personnal experience is the following : in order to play quickly one of my hundred floppy disk, I programmed my first QuickBasic application to have a menu displayed on my DOS screen. I also discovered "Gorillaz", in DOS 5.0, and wanted to have bigger explosion. I tried (with success) to understand the code of the game. (but I didn't understand why I had to "compile & run" in order to play... Well, I did it without further question.
I also had a game that would not launch itself if you have less than 4 Mo of RAM. As I wanted to play it anyway, I read the whole DOS 5.0 book and discovered that you can fool the system by carefully editing some autoexec.bat, system.ini, etc.... Indeed, the system would be very unstable, Windows 3.1 would not start but at least I could play. It tooks me two or three major crashes (and computer back to store with my father not very happy) to find the suitable change.
In conclusion, I wanted to play game and I discovered that hacking the system in order to play the game was more amusing than the game itself ! A lot of my geek friends followed the same way.
In today's computer, you simply have to click on a button to play the game. More, games are so complex and so polished that a litle self-written game is nothing but crap. Try to show "gorillaz" or "nibbles" to a young WoW player....
I don't think that they are dumber than us. They just have less opportunities to discover how hacking and programming is cool.
I was on the UserLinux since the beginning and it's absolutely true. Please mod this as "informative", not "funny" !
In fact, the mailing list was more grumbling about the logo and the name than anything else. The only constructive work was done by an Italian guy who did the paperplane logo because he tought it was a good idea (and it was right).
Then, for the next two months, everyone was discussing the color of the plane, if it must point to left or right.
After 6 months of effort, we had... a paperplane ! woohoo !
As long as we use so old technology, we will not able to really deal with spam.
This is why I have developped a revolutionnar technology. Really, give it a try, you will see : The ultimate way to fight spam
They forgot DotClear ( http://www.dotclear.net/en/ ). It's really a nice blogging tool, with a lot of plugins (I mean *a lot*) and a lot of available themes.
"I have a feeling that if he had chosen his equipment better, or done a little more research before buying everything, he wouldn't have had the problems. "
I tought that only people who want Linux have to care about this ?
Slashdot Mirror
Mmm, am I the only one for which giant sea scorpions sounds more like songs of distant earth than rock music ?
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Songs_of_Distant_Earth )
I exactly think the same but with the army. Just think one second about that...
When I was reading /. 4 years ago, it would have been unimaginable to have to argue against a pro-creationism content. I mean, it was clear at that time that if someone really believe in creationism, his intelligence might not be enough to eat with a fork, so clearly not enough to use a computer and read slashdot.
It's frightenning to see how, in 4 years, the creationism vs evolution has become, in both parts, an accepted "debat".
Mmm, I think that changing the name doesn't affect the DRM equation : http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?145-do-i-have-to-protec t-my-content-with-drm-the-drm-equation
So we (they) can still use the result.
Hey, look : Stardict
An opensource equivalent has been available for years ! And it works very well under Linux too.
:s/XP/2000 :s/Vista/XP
Oh ! Look ! You posted exactly the same comment five years ago !
"an Ubunto update deleted the entire home directory of users" o_O
The real shame is that nobody on all Ubuntu forums/mailings-lists/planets never talked about this bug.
Oh wait !
In fact nobody was even complaining about this kind of bug in the whole Ubuntu history !
That the harder bugs to catch : those bugs that don't even exist, that nobody report and nobody can reproduce.
Seriously : I don't think Ubuntu can be blamed because *you* accidentaly typed "rm -rf ~"
Ok, I saw other pictures and I'm convinced. It just looks totaly different when on duty and when geeking ;-)
As an finnish officer was really killed in Lebanon, this would make sense.
Well, if it's the same person, then I'm wrong and I'm very sorry for this comment.
I simply don't see anything common between the two (but it might be that the pictures are taken in very different situations). As "Jari" doesn't appear anywhere on PHP list or whatever, it could lead to confusion.
Well, of course if people that know Jani personnaly assure that he was a UN soldier too, I would be totally wrong and I would be sorry for that.
Hopefully, my mistake would be less deadly than any bullet in this awful war.
Hm, I'm highly in doubt about this.
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/. (sadly one of those trolls who is played with guns instead of puns) and under the spotlights of the web => digg and site like. This is a very common practice.
The php developper is Jani Taskinen : http://photos.derickrethans.nl/album/album02/Jani
The UN peace keeper, also computer scientist, seems to be Jari Taskinen :
http://users.tkk.fi/~jtaskine/
http://users.tkk.fi/~jtaskine/kosovo/2004_10_05/A
It's Jani vs Jari. It seems that they are two different people so it's highly plausible that someone saw this on the web (when looking for "Jani Taskinen" on Google, "Jari Taskinen" is automatically proposed) and did a fake log or a steal the nickname on IRC.
Well, perhaps the real PHP dev Jani was also part of the army. But it seems too much of a coincidence to me.
So, unless more proof is showed, I consider this IRC log as a fake intended to bring the Israel/Lebanon troll on
It's no more brown ! It's orange ! There is even a Dapper Car ! Of course, this was before! If you look closely, you will see that the car has 4 wheels. This is not true anymore as we are now all using flying cars.
BTW, there's even Ubuntu in Belgium now...
that's my favourite one
http://www.bosnianpyramid.com/index_files/image490 1.jpg is interesting.
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You can see that only two faces of the pyramid remain. But I must admit that by seeing this map, I would think "it looks like a pyramid with a collapsed part".
We also learn that the pyramid is 300m high ! This is huge !
Pictures of the stairs are also astonishing.
http://www.bosnianpyramid.com/Archive_files/24042
Now, the strange things are :
- not a lot of pictures. The most used picture is a 1950's postal card. Why ? (it could be simply bad communication but we always have to be careful with pictures, remember the martian face).
- If the pictures are real, it must be really easy to have a proof. If the stair is a real stair, well, there is few doubt about it.
Both part being equals, the probable story is that we have a semi-natural pyramid. A natural hill with some human constructions to make it more "pyramid".
But, in this case :
- Why nobody ever saw it ? Why is there no legend ? No other trace of a civilization ? No artifact ?
- How can the global form of the pyramid in a such good state after years of erosion ? This is very strange that the good sides are on the river side ! 10000 years ago, the river was probably higher. In fact, the pyramid itself was probably done by the river.
The weakest point is certainly this river. Without the river, I would have say "why not ?". But if you look at the map, you will immediatly understand that "I looks like but it's not possible".
Read on http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/osmanag ic/ :
"In the sacred Mayan book, the Popul Vuh, there are descriptions of cosmic travelers, the use of the compass, the fact that the Earth is round, and **knowledge of the secrets of the universe**...."
They can count to 42 ! OMG PYRAMIDS !
I agree with that and my theory is only about gaming.
...
....
When we was young, we were attracted a lot by computers because we knew we could play games on it.
But, at this time, games were not so easy to have (no internet) and were not always running on your system and, also, were less polished, less complex.
In order to play games, we had to understand the system, type commands (even without understanding them), wait patiently for the game to load itself,
Some of us had perhaps hundred games on floppy disk, but we were always looking for more. Eventually, we would found some BASIC manual with code of games as examples. And patiently copying all the code without understanding it in order to play the game. The game itself were not so different than commercial games.
My personnal experience is the following : in order to play quickly one of my hundred floppy disk, I programmed my first QuickBasic application to have a menu displayed on my DOS screen. I also discovered "Gorillaz", in DOS 5.0, and wanted to have bigger explosion. I tried (with success) to understand the code of the game. (but I didn't understand why I had to "compile & run" in order to play... Well, I did it without further question.
I also had a game that would not launch itself if you have less than 4 Mo of RAM. As I wanted to play it anyway, I read the whole DOS 5.0 book and discovered that you can fool the system by carefully editing some autoexec.bat, system.ini, etc.... Indeed, the system would be very unstable, Windows 3.1 would not start but at least I could play. It tooks me two or three major crashes (and computer back to store with my father not very happy) to find the suitable change.
In conclusion, I wanted to play game and I discovered that hacking the system in order to play the game was more amusing than the game itself !
A lot of my geek friends followed the same way.
In today's computer, you simply have to click on a button to play the game. More, games are so complex and so polished that a litle self-written game is nothing but crap. Try to show "gorillaz" or "nibbles" to a young WoW player
I don't think that they are dumber than us. They just have less opportunities to discover how hacking and programming is cool.
I was on the UserLinux since the beginning and it's absolutely true. Please mod this as "informative", not "funny" !
... a paperplane ! woohoo !
In fact, the mailing list was more grumbling about the logo and the name than anything else. The only constructive work was done by an Italian guy who did the paperplane logo because he tought it was a good idea (and it was right).
Then, for the next two months, everyone was discussing the color of the plane, if it must point to left or right.
After 6 months of effort, we had
If someone gives me as much money as Ballmer has and tells me :
;-)
"Just look like you were crazy ! Throw chairs and sing developpers, developpers. Say you will kill google."
Well, for that money, I think I will do it.. even for a bit less in fact.
"I WILL F**** KILL GOOGLE !"
this one was free
There are also a lot of new things with Epiphany.
- should-try-epiphany-as-your-default-browser-with-g nome-214 (lot of screenshots) and http://raphael.slinckx.net/blog/2006-03-15/epiphan y-is-hype-get-over-it and http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/avahi-epip hany-2006-02-11-17-50
Read : http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?2006/03/15/100-why-you
Pfff...
As long as we use so old technology, we will not able to really deal with spam. This is why I have developped a revolutionnar technology. Really, give it a try, you will see : The ultimate way to fight spam
etc ? I tought I was a good unix administrator but I didn't know about etc :
whereis etc ?
man etc ?
nothing...
They forgot DotClear ( http://www.dotclear.net/en/ ). It's really a nice blogging tool, with a lot of plugins (I mean *a lot*) and a lot of available themes.
Give it a try, it worth it !
"I have a feeling that if he had chosen his equipment better, or done a little more research before buying everything, he wouldn't have had the problems. "
I tought that only people who want Linux have to care about this ?
"silent movie" by mel brooks. Ok, in fact there's one word in this movie. And that's one of the best joke I ever seen in a Mel Brooks movie.
Everybody know it was impossible. Then came an idiot who didn't know it. And who do it...