I think that the parent to your comment is refering to this:
although it would be helpful if you skimmed the list of bugs before submitting new ones so we don't have 300 of you tell us that your user info page has other people's comments listed on it again
I think that there are about as many "slashdot is slashdotted" posts, so yeah - Im essentially agreeing with your post, just clarifying.
As an aside, I think that saying "banjo is plucked" has a better ring to it
I too carry a shoulder pack, by Burton (not the exact bag but similar) - the Kelty didn't have the "size for the buck" factor that I needed. I got a larger bag because I live in Las Vegas and drive a Jeep and don't like leaving anything of value in my car with the top off. It has room for my CD binder, my day timer (sorry, no palm for this geek - I prefer the old fashioned method that doesn't need to be backed up) it has a cell phone pocket on teh shoulder strap perfect for 99% of the phones out there (and water resistant too !!) plus a pouch that is perfect for me to carry my insulin (yuppers, a diabetic geek). The front pocket is perfect sized for my CD/MP3 plater. It even has a pocket on the side that is perfect size for the 1 Litre coke bottles (Diet of course;). This bag goes where ever I go and doesn't look clunky and is quite comfortable for a day of walking on the Las Vegas Strip. Ok, Im done advertising.
Interesting comment. I'd like to further extend your comments by saying that this is yet another attempt by the government to institutionalize morals. First it is the school taking over the role of disciplinarian and slowly withering away the ability of the family to maintain itself. Now it is controlled content.
There are many motives withing the fed to try and stop something of this nature.
They can implement morals by restricting what the people can have access too.
They can control content.
They can please their customers....Im sorry did I say "customers", I meant to say they can please Big Business by shutting down anything that may potentially tap their revenue stream.
Im tired of the people calling the Slashdot Crowd a bunch of whiners when we don't get our way. We are people who diagree with popular opinion and we are people who respect and value our freedom. I think that it is such a phony argument to say that this whole file sharing witch hunt is about one group wanting to control files while the other group wants the freedom to "steal" them. It is about one group wanting to maintain control and another group wanting to take control back and give it to the people. It's just too bad that the people who matter in this situation are the ones who share the popular opinion that the people can't handle their freedom and must be protected from it.
I am a programmer and I have been studying Kempo for about a year and a half now. I started because there were a couple of guys at my last job who studied and it sounded like fun. It has really whipped my ass into shape, and has been a great experience at the same time. For those of you who do like to leave the house and play some REAL fighting games, I highly recommend it.
Plus, chicks always ask about scars and bruises. I cant imagine a game so intense that it leaves you with injuries. --------
ahem.... THC is not a dangerous drug nor is MDMA (used to be perscribed by marriage ecounselers). The dangers of MDMA include dancing like the white boy you are while thinking you look cool (more so than alcohol), thinking that you are popular, and completely depleating your seretonin levels for the next two weeks so that you feel like a blathering idiot.
Stop trying to say that the drugs your mommie told you are illegal are bad for you. --------
"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
no, that's linux. And according to Microsoft that is a cancer, not a fungus.
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"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
I personally have trouble with the cancerous analogy that Ballmer uses. Viral is more accurate, but still somwhat lacking in my eyes. To me the GPL is more reflective of a gene or a meme if you will. It truly is infectious, but only if you let it infect you. It is a selectable infection. Nobody makes you use the GPL, you choose to use the GPL and pass on its traits, much like genes. Most people aren't FORCED into passing on their genes, it is typically a situation where there is a meeting between two people and they decide (not necessarily consciously) to pass their genes on through a child.
Meme theory is very similar. People talk, discuss ideas/beliefs/thoughts and pass them on. The ideas that people share with you tend to infect you if you agree with them or they are potent enough to penetrate any kind of preconceived idea that you may have.
To me this is a more accurate description of how the GPL works. Cancer is something that happens and you don't plan on it. Virii are able to penetrate you if you want them to or not. The GPL is more genetic if you are going to use a biological analogy. --------
"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
One other problem that I had with this specific line is that Mundie also makes it sound like these are the only two options for software developers. Apparently sharing your ideas with others didn't occur to him. To some this may fall under the category of relinquishing your IP, but to relinquish http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=rel inquish for the link paranoid) something implies that you give up all control. If you think that you have to relinquish your IP just to share it with others, ask Linus what he thinks about relenquishing his IP. --------
"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
This isn't the most recent quote, but I love this. It is what I think of everytime someone talks about video game violence.
"Claiming that video-games affects kids is ridiculous. If that was the point, then everyone who played Pac-man in the late 80s would be running around a dark room eating pills to monotonous music." - Swedish culture-journalist Staffan Blomsjø in newspaper Aftonbladet -
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"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
not to mention that this story is being carried by the mass media on 4/20 of all days. --------
"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
GRRRRR.... you read my mind my friend, and had you logged in I would have showered you with all five of the moderation points that I have right now. People here are getting upset about a monkey who sits in a booth and plays the CDs that someone above them tells them too. Give me a DJ who is sent to educate a crowd and lift them up and play a set of music that the target audience hasn't heard, hasn't requested and connot predict.
Give me Digweed and his brooding house. Give me Kimball Collins and his uplifting trance. Give me DJ Rap and her gorgeous breasts...I mean bumpin jungle vibe. Give me Robert Oleyseck and his massive ability to put together 20 records in 15 minutes and create a tune of his own out of the fruits of others labors....keep you canned music and keep it off the internet. To me this union labor dispute is no big loss to me. --------
"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
One sure way to get a lot of people attracted to your site is to put a pointless picture of Ask Jeeves on your front page. --------
"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
check out the movies on that page. Just to be sure that the three people who *didn't* think that the paper clip wasn't annoying, they used Gilbert Gottfried's voice to seal the deal. It is just how I always imagined it - *shudder*. --------
"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
ahhhkkkk...whoops...thanks dude. I didn't even notice that, and it has been there for a while.:) --------
"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
here is an even simpler solution to all of you conspiracy theorists that are going to say "the NSA is going to visit you in the night" before ever even seeing a bit of code or product (consequently it also is a beautiful excersize of your freedom to choos and use what you desire)...don't use their distro
I expect that I'll get modded down because I am thinking with common sense rather than stating my thought with the grace of the typical knee jerk reaction...*sigh* welcome to slashdot. --------
"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
Yet another theory is that Cain and Abel represent the split of modern agricultural man from the hunter-gather man. Abel was the gatherer and Cain killed him, much like man used to be a gathering animal who then learned how to harvest and use the land strictly for themselves by means of agriculture, effectively killing off the gathering man's land.
just a little food for thought. --------
"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
again, readers with knee jerk reactions. What I said before still applies "If you post on Slashdot expecting to get rewarded, let alone paid, then you are in for a surprise." If I invented something that was substantial, then I wouldn't go posting it publicly so that someone could rip it off. That same logic applies to slashdot. --------
"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
maybe I used to many big words for you in my post, essentially what I said was (paraphrase)
slashdot did a bad thing. people said it was bad. slashdot tried their best to make it all better.
fucking retards - not once did I even mention the word "linux" in my post, nor imply it. go take you bitterness somewhere else where it is appreciated. like aol. --------
"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
didnt Katz use a bunch of them, without permission or payment?
yes he did, but at least when the masses shouted "foul" slashdot fessed up to it, went out and tried to track down as many of the posters as they could, and tried to get their permission in re-printing the posts.
As far as payment...I don't even see how this is relevant. Be happier that your voice is being heard and be less concerned about whether your voice is making you money or not. If you post on Slashdot expecting to get rewarded, let alone paid, then you are in for a surprise. --------
"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
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I think that the parent to your comment is refering to this:
although it would be helpful if you skimmed the list of bugs before submitting new ones so we don't have 300 of you tell us that your user info page has other people's comments listed on it again
I think that there are about as many "slashdot is slashdotted" posts, so yeah - Im essentially agreeing with your post, just clarifying.
As an aside, I think that saying "banjo is plucked" has a better ring to it
Rendering isn't everything. Nothing is everything
/me ponders statement
/me head explodes
Heretic or hexen maybe?
I too carry a shoulder pack, by Burton (not the exact bag but similar) - the Kelty didn't have the "size for the buck" factor that I needed. I got a larger bag because I live in Las Vegas and drive a Jeep and don't like leaving anything of value in my car with the top off. It has room for my CD binder, my day timer (sorry, no palm for this geek - I prefer the old fashioned method that doesn't need to be backed up) it has a cell phone pocket on teh shoulder strap perfect for 99% of the phones out there (and water resistant too !!) plus a pouch that is perfect for me to carry my insulin (yuppers, a diabetic geek). The front pocket is perfect sized for my CD/MP3 plater. It even has a pocket on the side that is perfect size for the 1 Litre coke bottles (Diet of course ;). This bag goes where ever I go and doesn't look clunky and is quite comfortable for a day of walking on the Las Vegas Strip. Ok, Im done advertising.
anyone else notice that michael posted a link to a site that has made the /. front page for some big patent issue
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There are many motives withing the fed to try and stop something of this nature.
- They can implement morals by restricting what the people can have access too.
- They can control content.
- They can please their customers....Im sorry did I say "customers", I meant to say they can please Big Business by shutting down anything that may potentially tap their revenue stream.
Im tired of the people calling the Slashdot Crowd a bunch of whiners when we don't get our way. We are people who diagree with popular opinion and we are people who respect and value our freedom. I think that it is such a phony argument to say that this whole file sharing witch hunt is about one group wanting to control files while the other group wants the freedom to "steal" them. It is about one group wanting to maintain control and another group wanting to take control back and give it to the people. It's just too bad that the people who matter in this situation are the ones who share the popular opinion that the people can't handle their freedom and must be protected from it.I'll shut up now, thank you.
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I am a programmer and I have been studying Kempo for about a year and a half now. I started because there were a couple of guys at my last job who studied and it sounded like fun. It has really whipped my ass into shape, and has been a great experience at the same time. For those of you who do like to leave the house and play some REAL fighting games, I highly recommend it.
Plus, chicks always ask about scars and bruises. I cant imagine a game so intense that it leaves you with injuries.
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ahem.... THC is not a dangerous drug nor is MDMA (used to be perscribed by marriage ecounselers). The dangers of MDMA include dancing like the white boy you are while thinking you look cool (more so than alcohol), thinking that you are popular, and completely depleating your seretonin levels for the next two weeks so that you feel like a blathering idiot.
Stop trying to say that the drugs your mommie told you are illegal are bad for you.
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"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
grrrr, and I just used all my mod points.
I made sure that I did a search to see if anyone else mentioned the word "exclamation" in this article so I wasn't redundant, but I guess now I am.
Moderators, you may have your way with me.
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"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
no, that's linux. And according to Microsoft that is a cancer, not a fungus.
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"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
I personally have trouble with the cancerous analogy that Ballmer uses. Viral is more accurate, but still somwhat lacking in my eyes. To me the GPL is more reflective of a gene or a meme if you will. It truly is infectious, but only if you let it infect you. It is a selectable infection. Nobody makes you use the GPL, you choose to use the GPL and pass on its traits, much like genes. Most people aren't FORCED into passing on their genes, it is typically a situation where there is a meeting between two people and they decide (not necessarily consciously) to pass their genes on through a child.
Meme theory is very similar. People talk, discuss ideas/beliefs/thoughts and pass them on. The ideas that people share with you tend to infect you if you agree with them or they are potent enough to penetrate any kind of preconceived idea that you may have.
To me this is a more accurate description of how the GPL works. Cancer is something that happens and you don't plan on it. Virii are able to penetrate you if you want them to or not. The GPL is more genetic if you are going to use a biological analogy.
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"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
One other problem that I had with this specific line is that Mundie also makes it sound like these are the only two options for software developers. Apparently sharing your ideas with others didn't occur to him. To some this may fall under the category of relinquishing your IP, but to relinquish http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=rel inquish for the link paranoid) something implies that you give up all control. If you think that you have to relinquish your IP just to share it with others, ask Linus what he thinks about relenquishing his IP.
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"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
*snort* you're uncle's name is ... *chuckle* ... Yablonski???
This is all I have to say
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"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
So in that scenario:
sex == networking
orgy == beowulf cluster
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"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
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"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
not to mention that this story is being carried by the mass media on 4/20 of all days.
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"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
GRRRRR.... you read my mind my friend, and had you logged in I would have showered you with all five of the moderation points that I have right now. People here are getting upset about a monkey who sits in a booth and plays the CDs that someone above them tells them too. Give me a DJ who is sent to educate a crowd and lift them up and play a set of music that the target audience hasn't heard, hasn't requested and connot predict.
Give me Digweed and his brooding house. Give me Kimball Collins and his uplifting trance. Give me DJ Rap and her gorgeous breasts...I mean bumpin jungle vibe. Give me Robert Oleyseck and his massive ability to put together 20 records in 15 minutes and create a tune of his own out of the fruits of others labors....keep you canned music and keep it off the internet. To me this union labor dispute is no big loss to me.
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"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
One sure way to get a lot of people attracted to your site is to put a pointless picture of Ask Jeeves on your front page.
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"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
check out the movies on that page. Just to be sure that the three people who *didn't* think that the paper clip wasn't annoying, they used Gilbert Gottfried's voice to seal the deal. It is just how I always imagined it - *shudder*.
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"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
ahhhkkkk...whoops...thanks dude. I didn't even notice that, and it has been there for a while. :)
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"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
here is an even simpler solution to all of you conspiracy theorists that are going to say "the NSA is going to visit you in the night" before ever even seeing a bit of code or product (consequently it also is a beautiful excersize of your freedom to choos and use what you desire)...don't use their distro
I expect that I'll get modded down because I am thinking with common sense rather than stating my thought with the grace of the typical knee jerk reaction...*sigh* welcome to slashdot.
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"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
Yet another theory is that Cain and Abel represent the split of modern agricultural man from the hunter-gather man. Abel was the gatherer and Cain killed him, much like man used to be a gathering animal who then learned how to harvest and use the land strictly for themselves by means of agriculture, effectively killing off the gathering man's land.
just a little food for thought.
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"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
again, readers with knee jerk reactions. What I said before still applies "If you post on Slashdot expecting to get rewarded, let alone paid, then you are in for a surprise." If I invented something that was substantial, then I wouldn't go posting it publicly so that someone could rip it off. That same logic applies to slashdot.
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"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
maybe I used to many big words for you in my post, essentially what I said was (paraphrase)
slashdot did a bad thing.
people said it was bad.
slashdot tried their best to make it all better.
fucking retards - not once did I even mention the word "linux" in my post, nor imply it. go take you bitterness somewhere else where it is appreciated. like aol.
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"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."
didnt Katz use a bunch of them, without permission or payment?
yes he did, but at least when the masses shouted "foul" slashdot fessed up to it, went out and tried to track down as many of the posters as they could, and tried to get their permission in re-printing the posts.
As far as payment...I don't even see how this is relevant. Be happier that your voice is being heard and be less concerned about whether your voice is making you money or not. If you post on Slashdot expecting to get rewarded, let alone paid, then you are in for a surprise.
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"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs."