I've found that Bittorrent is a great app to mention when people go "Huh? Python?" on me. I almost always get the "Oooooh, coooool! I'll have to check that!" answer when I go "You know, the lang that bittorrent is made in."
As someone who lives in a socialist democratic country, I cant see how the parent post got modded as "+5 insightful" instead of "-1 flamebait or -1 troll"
Taxes, here in Sweden, are high as hell. From what I've heard, we've got like the highest taxes in the world, end of discussion. However, we have a very high social standard. Those taxes do good. The hospitals are all owned by the state and provide a great service to the people who needs it for a much cheaper service than it would be provided otherwise. From what I've heard of USA hospitals, you dont want to get sick or hurt since they all rip you off and take every last penny. In sweden we can get sick and hurt and we STILL will be able to live a normal life economically speaking. Why is this? Our taxes.
The infrastructure has great use of our, the taxpayers money, as has the police departments, the social services departments, the schools, universities. Socialism is good. The thought of everyone pitching in and helping those who cant for one reason or another help themselves is a good thought. As long as it is done in a democratic manner. We have a good chance of influencing the politicians which we vote for, and unlike other countries the people who gets the most votes actually do win an election. (Take that Bush!)
I wouldnt mind raising my taxes with a couple of dollars in order to help out the OpenSource evolution. Not to mention, to make it implemented more in the public services. The costs that we could do away with (licenses and MS shit) by making sure that OSS did away with windows and such in our infrastructure could be diverted to the OSS community instead and as thus help everyone out. We probably wouldnt even need a large taxraise.
I so wish that I'm able to metamoderate the parent post.
In recent news, after the shocking news that beer was good for you a lot of canadians started living on beer alone. This much to the pleasure of a nearby flock of grizzly bears who had a giant feast on the now weakened and permanently drunk population of beer-a-holics.
Well, then my 2k installation can be affected.
So be it.
I would rather shoot myself in my hand, leaving me unable to use a keyboard and doomed to clicking my way through computers for the rest of my life (oh the ultimate horror! O.o) than accept the license terms on SP3 and SP4.
I guess this only strengthens my resolve to drop windows totally except for the occasional fling with blizzard..Perhaps one should consider supporting transgaming instead.
Actually... I use DOS at a regular basis (regular being when I'm in windows). My linux experience has gotten me used to doing things via console since that's faster for me than going *click* *click* *click* (Oh how I loath the mouse sometimes:P)
So, I use the DOS prompt as soon as I'm in windows. Not pure DOS though, but I have one or two prompts open at all times.
Why do I use windows? I'm forced to do so at times, just like we all are. The DOS prompt keeps me sane. ^_^
Telephone? No, thats obsolete.
There's this new technology called "Palladium", it will help you with problems like this ^_~ as soon as your computer gets disconnected a little red light goes on at Redmond and a certified la...technician comes to your house and asks why you disconnected your computer.
This slashdotting of such a site shows the need of a new distributed computing project. I wish to propose that we all sit down and share our cpu cycles to prevent slashdotting. How about we call the project "SARS: Some people Are likely to Risk Slashdotting this project" (Ok, I know that was a lame attempt at a name, but try coming up with a better one instead of complaining:P )
It would in essence work the way that we'd all put aside ~200k disk space and ~5k bandwidth for storing the most recently posted websites and files on our computers, then people could put together impromptu mirrors from this distributed project and behold! No more slashdottings of sites, articles and programs that one actually wants to read or download!
So, who's with me on this trek into the land where no slashdotter has ever ventured before?
Anyone?
Actually, I found that gentoo's compile-it-yourself is best for us geeks that do have hot girlfriends.
#!/bin/bash
su -c "emerge program-that-takes-forever-to-compile"
whereis girlfriend
locate bed
mv -r/home/fridge/alcohol/*/home/bedroom/
(oh, I think you can figure the rest out by yourselves)
Suffice to say, gentoo rocks for people that has girlfriends. Lots of spare time that needs to be spent somewhere thats not in front of the computer.
Trees and plants support terrorism!
Converting carbondioxide into oxygen that can be used by the terrorists to breathe and thus live, the tree and plant population of the planet earth is hereby marked as terrorist supporters. Kill on sight.
In other news, the destruction of the rainforests is well on its way, god bless those who fights the evil terrorists!
I believe that the reason is/was that religion clouds the minds of people, makes them believe in the "oh so good"-afterlife instead of concentrating on making the best out of the life their living at the moment.
IMHO that's not such a bad way to view it...Too bad that we can't just have that part of communism ~_^
Why should one not use winamp?
It's a 100% working mp3-player with tons of good plugins and nice skins, it has never let me down and is an allround good program. Why should I use anything else?
(Oh, wait...I'm not using winamp anymore...it's all XMMS for me now ~_^ Ok, so apart from changing OS, why should I not use winamp?)
If no one has guns, no one can get shot?
Basically I'd name anything that was built with the sole purpose to harm another human being.
It's really interesting how humans build things for the sole purpose of harming other humans, I guess it just proves the old quote that "Mankind is destined to burn in the flames of its own creations".
Of course. Air rifles can hurt people. I still can't believe how USA can motivate not having any decent gun control, australia is a perfect example on how good it is.
If people don't have guns, they don't shoot people (No? Really?! how strange...)
Now, I also think that modchips being illegal is bullshit. How the hell can they motivate that? What if I want to run linux on my xbox? It's my damned hardware, I paid for it. I can run it over with my car if I want, I can set fire to it if I want, I can throw it out of my window if I want, I can use it as a toaster if I want, but if I open it and put in an extra chip I'm a criminal. Bullshit.
"Howto" -- Clear indicator that you want to learn how to do something instead of hiring a government approved official to do it for you. There's something weird with people that want to know how to do things themselves. They're probably all terrorists.
"linux" -- Communism. Sign that you want to destroy the land of the free and....uhm...more expensive... Let's rid the world of communism! Rally under me fellow windows-users! Bill Gates will be world-president!
"pop3" -- This is a sign that you want to pop 3 US senators. You are a murderer and a communist and a terrorist! I hope that the google-police will catch you soon so we can all be saved from the horrors of your mind!
The laugh track is sadly patented by the RIAA and the MPAA and four native american kangaroo-hunters. They all demand around 2000000 $ and a new set of matching shoes for a license to use the laugh track.
You are more than welcome to donate to the "save the laugh track"-fun though. If we ever get enough money to pay a lawyer, I'll take it and go buy some beer. ^_~
Exactly, and disallowing the opposing side to speak is a very good way at showing elitism. I guess one of the sides has to show that it is the better side that listens to what the other side says...let's make sure that MS isnt the side that does so first ^_^
Oh, and I'm praying to god that there'll be a webcast of this. I havent had as fun as when I listened to the MS representative debating with the mySQL founder on Stockholm challenge in months. Damn that poor MS rep was funny, thought I'd laugh myself to death when he began talking about how lousy the support is for opensource software and how fast MS fixes bugs.
Slashdot Mirror
YES!
Something like this would be perfect!
Why hasnt anyone thought of it before?
I wish I had mod points right now.
How about Bittorrent?
I've found that Bittorrent is a great app to mention when people go "Huh? Python?" on me. I almost always get the "Oooooh, coooool! I'll have to check that!" answer when I go "You know, the lang that bittorrent is made in."
As someone who lives in a socialist democratic country, I cant see how the parent post got modded as "+5 insightful" instead of "-1 flamebait or -1 troll"
Taxes, here in Sweden, are high as hell. From what I've heard, we've got like the highest taxes in the world, end of discussion. However, we have a very high social standard. Those taxes do good. The hospitals are all owned by the state and provide a great service to the people who needs it for a much cheaper service than it would be provided otherwise. From what I've heard of USA hospitals, you dont want to get sick or hurt since they all rip you off and take every last penny. In sweden we can get sick and hurt and we STILL will be able to live a normal life economically speaking. Why is this? Our taxes.
The infrastructure has great use of our, the taxpayers money, as has the police departments, the social services departments, the schools, universities.
Socialism is good. The thought of everyone pitching in and helping those who cant for one reason or another help themselves is a good thought. As long as it is done in a democratic manner. We have a good chance of influencing the politicians which we vote for, and unlike other countries the people who gets the most votes actually do win an election. (Take that Bush!)
I wouldnt mind raising my taxes with a couple of dollars in order to help out the OpenSource evolution. Not to mention, to make it implemented more in the public services. The costs that we could do away with (licenses and MS shit) by making sure that OSS did away with windows and such in our infrastructure could be diverted to the OSS community instead and as thus help everyone out. We probably wouldnt even need a large taxraise.
I so wish that I'm able to metamoderate the parent post.
you forgot
Lands on it's edge = Profit!
In recent news, after the shocking news that beer was good for you a lot of canadians started living on beer alone. This much to the pleasure of a nearby flock of grizzly bears who had a giant feast on the now weakened and permanently drunk population of beer-a-holics.
Well, then my 2k installation can be affected.
So be it.
I would rather shoot myself in my hand, leaving me unable to use a keyboard and doomed to clicking my way through computers for the rest of my life (oh the ultimate horror! O.o) than accept the license terms on SP3 and SP4.
I guess this only strengthens my resolve to drop windows totally except for the occasional fling with blizzard..Perhaps one should consider supporting transgaming instead.
Actually... :P)
I use DOS at a regular basis (regular being when I'm in windows).
My linux experience has gotten me used to doing things via console since that's faster for me than going *click* *click* *click* (Oh how I loath the mouse sometimes
So, I use the DOS prompt as soon as I'm in windows. Not pure DOS though, but I have one or two prompts open at all times.
Why do I use windows? I'm forced to do so at times, just like we all are. The DOS prompt keeps me sane. ^_^
Telephone? No, thats obsolete.
There's this new technology called "Palladium", it will help you with problems like this ^_~ as soon as your computer gets disconnected a little red light goes on at Redmond and a certified la...technician comes to your house and asks why you disconnected your computer.
It's the future!
Microsoft is saying that a product of theirs is nearing workable status, thats an april fools joke in my world.
Perhaps it's april fools day in redmond now?
Sorry people, couldn't resist...you forgot:
2008: ---
2009: Profit!
This slashdotting of such a site shows the need of a new distributed computing project. I wish to propose that we all sit down and share our cpu cycles to prevent slashdotting. How about we call the project "SARS: Some people Are likely to Risk Slashdotting this project" (Ok, I know that was a lame attempt at a name, but try coming up with a better one instead of complaining :P )
It would in essence work the way that we'd all put aside ~200k disk space and ~5k bandwidth for storing the most recently posted websites and files on our computers, then people could put together impromptu mirrors from this distributed project and behold! No more slashdottings of sites, articles and programs that one actually wants to read or download!
So, who's with me on this trek into the land where no slashdotter has ever ventured before?
Anyone?
Just consider for a moment what you could do if you got all of those 5000 participants computers connected in a beowulf cluster...
Step 1) Knock all participants unconcious
Step 2) Connect all computers to giant beowulf cluster and run SETI@Home
Step 3) Profit!
So...this is basically an article telling us what we already knew? (Mozilla rocks, IE sucks)
Can I mark it as +5(redundant)? ^_~
Actually, I found that gentoo's compile-it-yourself is best for us geeks that do have hot girlfriends. /home/fridge/alcohol/* /home/bedroom/
#!/bin/bash su -c "emerge program-that-takes-forever-to-compile"
whereis girlfriend
locate bed
mv -r
(oh, I think you can figure the rest out by yourselves)
Suffice to say, gentoo rocks for people that has girlfriends. Lots of spare time that needs to be spent somewhere thats not in front of the computer.
An update to the earlier newsflash:
Trees and plants support terrorism!
Converting carbondioxide into oxygen that can be used by the terrorists to breathe and thus live, the tree and plant population of the planet earth is hereby marked as terrorist supporters. Kill on sight.
In other news, the destruction of the rainforests is well on its way, god bless those who fights the evil terrorists!
I believe that the reason is/was that religion clouds the minds of people, makes them believe in the "oh so good"-afterlife instead of concentrating on making the best out of the life their living at the moment.
IMHO that's not such a bad way to view it...Too bad that we can't just have that part of communism ~_^
Why should one not use winamp?
It's a 100% working mp3-player with tons of good plugins and nice skins, it has never let me down and is an allround good program. Why should I use anything else?
(Oh, wait...I'm not using winamp anymore...it's all XMMS for me now ~_^ Ok, so apart from changing OS, why should I not use winamp?)
Guns.
If no one has guns, no one can get shot?
Basically I'd name anything that was built with the sole purpose to harm another human being.
It's really interesting how humans build things for the sole purpose of harming other humans, I guess it just proves the old quote that "Mankind is destined to burn in the flames of its own creations".
Of course.
Air rifles can hurt people.
I still can't believe how USA can motivate not having any decent gun control, australia is a perfect example on how good it is.
If people don't have guns, they don't shoot people (No? Really?! how strange...)
Now, I also think that modchips being illegal is bullshit. How the hell can they motivate that? What if I want to run linux on my xbox? It's my damned hardware, I paid for it. I can run it over with my car if I want, I can set fire to it if I want, I can throw it out of my window if I want, I can use it as a toaster if I want, but if I open it and put in an extra chip I'm a criminal. Bullshit.
Where's EFF when you need them?
Do you Yahoo?
Oh gawd!
"Howto" -- Clear indicator that you want to learn how to do something instead of hiring a government approved official to do it for you. There's something weird with people that want to know how to do things themselves. They're probably all terrorists.
"linux" -- Communism. Sign that you want to destroy the land of the free and....uhm...more expensive... Let's rid the world of communism! Rally under me fellow windows-users! Bill Gates will be world-president!
"pop3" -- This is a sign that you want to pop 3 US senators. You are a murderer and a communist and a terrorist! I hope that the google-police will catch you soon so we can all be saved from the horrors of your mind!
New exciting lawsuit brought to you from the RIAA/MPAA: "The government ate my copyrights, so we sued it and won!"
Shush you, they are all vital parts when you write words like
Zpmq, qzmp, pmmzqm and the oh-so-important zqzmpzq
Consider how many times your typewriter would've jammed if you'd tried to write that without qwerty!
The laugh track is sadly patented by the RIAA and the MPAA and four native american kangaroo-hunters. They all demand around 2000000 $ and a new set of matching shoes for a license to use the laugh track.
You are more than welcome to donate to the "save the laugh track"-fun though. If we ever get enough money to pay a lawyer, I'll take it and go buy some beer. ^_~
Exactly, and disallowing the opposing side to speak is a very good way at showing elitism. I guess one of the sides has to show that it is the better side that listens to what the other side says...let's make sure that MS isnt the side that does so first ^_^
Oh, and I'm praying to god that there'll be a webcast of this. I havent had as fun as when I listened to the MS representative debating with the mySQL founder on Stockholm challenge in months. Damn that poor MS rep was funny, thought I'd laugh myself to death when he began talking about how lousy the support is for opensource software and how fast MS fixes bugs.