matts: bikes go faster than cars...a bike at 60 mph is a lot faster than a car at 60 mph <matts> kritical: um no... <kritical> matts: um yes <kritical> my sisters sport car at 60 mph goes faster than my dads explorer at 60 mph <kritical> a bike at 60 mph will blow by a car at 60 mph
Dear Penthouse Forum, My freshman year (2000) in college started with me not knowing what a "linux" was. This all changed when a friend encouraged me to repartition my hard drive and install this next to my installation. I ended up doing fresh installs and getting the dual boot to work.
The next day in class, the guy couldn't get me to shut up about how great it was.
My first college kegger could not compare to the first time I ran Linux. Nor would a kegger ever be as memorable.
Ok, so my first encounter with Linux people working against Linux people in a childish d*ck measuring contest. To my horror, I overheard the following conversation thereafter ensue between him and a person in the class looking for a Linux installation experience:
Student B: "I use Windows and I'm confused even as where to start..." Student A: "That's easy, just install Gentoo." Student B: "I... Where do I get a disc for that?" Student A: "They're freely online, you just have to find them and install them. And with Gentoo, you can just emerge whenever you want." Student B: "'Emerge'--what does that mean?"
When I got home, I tried to install Gentoo. It took forever, I hit a million snags but eventually got it working. I hated it. After talking again to them, Student A revealed that he spent every Sunday night "emerging."
Luckily, I intevened and gave him something close. I told him all the cautionary advice I had to give and I feel that he most closely identified with me.
The truth is: not all Linux experiences are for everybody.
There was an older article (six months to a year and a half ago, maybe) about the elderly in Japan turning to robots.
The article had an especially strong lead paragraph about an immigrant who would never be able to get a job taking care of the elderly because she was a foreigner and because she wasn't a robot; the point of the article was that racism is so strong in Japan that old people actually shy away from a human's touch when the human isn't the right kind, and that they prefer robots. (Well, that was one possible conclusion -- certainly there are others.)
Does anyone remember seeing this? Any hints on how to track it down?
the dollar of 1800 was equal to the dollar of 1912 minus maybe 2-3%
Can you explain that please? According to a reliable inflation estimate, we had significant deflation: in particular, $1 in 1800 dollars is $0.55 in 1912 dollars, or $10.84 in 2005 dollars.
When you're faced with a hostile audience (e.g. Slashdot), it can be tricky to slip your PR messages past the filters. After all, you aren't AMD; you don't want to have your own Slashdot Vendors section to give you a straight feed to the PR bin, since you know that skeptical readers will just ignore your message.
So what you do instead is construct a message that seems threatening for about forty-five seconds -- just as long as an editor will review it in the pending articles queue: you say, hey, my new software product is going to have really stringent hardware requirements. Oh, the editors say, this is perfect! It's interesting, controversial, and definitely front page material.
What they don't see is the second touch: you subtly phrase the article so that the impression left on reader is not that your product is incompatible, but that it is exclusive. Oh, they think -- I have a high-end system! I've got to try out this Vista thing on it!
I just saw that episode. It wasn't funny at all, and the characters had the most unspeakably annoying voices I've ever heard, even counting dubbed anime.
For the rest of his article, I'll give you a secret about E3: the real industry insiders don't care anymore. E3 is a consumer show now, no matter how much they try to say it isn't. The industry wants schmucks to go there, gawk at the hot scantily-clad babes, and crow about the next big game. E3 years ago was a blast when it was real insider scoops and communications with industry heavyweights. Now it is just another festival to get drunk, get laid, and then go home and tell everyone about the great new gadgets and games that you saw. The girlies are just a great way to get the geeks to come and take part in the festivities of consumer marketing.
I guess now all thats left to update is the 'Idiot Outside' that doesn't know anything about using a computer."
Hint to submitter: if you're going to broadly describe large segments of the population as idiots, be absolutely sure that when you do so, you use impeccable grammar.
Slashdot Mirror
When you posted this, I don't think you realized that the whole reason this 'Internet disclaimer' was written is that somebody noticed an impressively bizarre disclaimer at ... the entrance of a park!
HTH.
matts: bikes go faster than cars...a bike at 60 mph is a lot faster than a car at 60 mph
<matts> kritical: um no...
<kritical> matts: um yes
<kritical> my sisters sport car at 60 mph goes faster than my dads explorer at 60 mph
<kritical> a bike at 60 mph will blow by a car at 60 mph
source
The text as originally decrypted, with the judge's supposedly intentional typographical error, reads in part "Jackie Fister who are you".
I am not making this up.
Love and kisses,
esr
i prefer barbie kthxplz :)
If you think there's no ego in academia, you clearly don't go to enough faculty senate meetings...
Unfortunately, comics or cartoons are not very popular in this part of the world.
I see our man in Jordan is a fan of understatement.
There was an older article (six months to a year and a half ago, maybe) about the elderly in Japan turning to robots.
The article had an especially strong lead paragraph about an immigrant who would never be able to get a job taking care of the elderly because she was a foreigner and because she wasn't a robot; the point of the article was that racism is so strong in Japan that old people actually shy away from a human's touch when the human isn't the right kind, and that they prefer robots. (Well, that was one possible conclusion -- certainly there are others.)
Does anyone remember seeing this? Any hints on how to track it down?
MelbourneIT representative: "To us it looks like a phishing site."
Not bloody likely.
the dollar of 1800 was equal to the dollar of 1912 minus maybe 2-3%
Can you explain that please? According to a reliable inflation estimate, we had significant deflation: in particular, $1 in 1800 dollars is $0.55 in 1912 dollars, or $10.84 in 2005 dollars.
Mrh?
but does the community need to resort to using third-class promotional tactics with total downloads number?
If I could figure out what that meant I might have a witty retort.
Presuambly he had just finished reading "Neuromancer" and was having a bit of a laugh with a gullible employee.
The joy of this game lies in being a member of a tiny, cute, furry community.
Not in public, please.
When you're faced with a hostile audience (e.g. Slashdot), it can be tricky to slip your PR messages past the filters. After all, you aren't AMD; you don't want to have your own Slashdot Vendors section to give you a straight feed to the PR bin, since you know that skeptical readers will just ignore your message.
So what you do instead is construct a message that seems threatening for about forty-five seconds -- just as long as an editor will review it in the pending articles queue: you say, hey, my new software product is going to have really stringent hardware requirements. Oh, the editors say, this is perfect! It's interesting, controversial, and definitely front page material.
What they don't see is the second touch: you subtly phrase the article so that the impression left on reader is not that your product is incompatible, but that it is exclusive. Oh, they think -- I have a high-end system! I've got to try out this Vista thing on it!
Suckers.
I just saw that episode. It wasn't funny at all, and the characters had the most unspeakably annoying voices I've ever heard, even counting dubbed anime.
Is all Futurama like that?
I'll be darned if I can find the /. article, though. here's one blog post that mentioned it...
Wait until you see the MIT fashion blog :/
Micro isn't smaller than nano. Perhaps you meant pico?
For the rest of his article, I'll give you a secret about E3: the real industry insiders don't care anymore. E3 is a consumer show now, no matter how much they try to say it isn't. The industry wants schmucks to go there, gawk at the hot scantily-clad babes, and crow about the next big game. E3 years ago was a blast when it was real insider scoops and communications with industry heavyweights. Now it is just another festival to get drunk, get laid, and then go home and tell everyone about the great new gadgets and games that you saw. The girlies are just a great way to get the geeks to come and take part in the festivities of consumer marketing.
So it's like Defcon with girls?
Um, you might have wanted to pick a better example.
No way, mate!
It's a "repostbangle".
I guess now all thats left to update is the 'Idiot Outside' that doesn't know anything about using a computer."
Hint to submitter: if you're going to broadly describe large segments of the population as idiots, be absolutely sure that when you do so, you use impeccable grammar.
It may be unfashionable, but I still rely on a clip art CD set that comes in WMF.
(Illustrator CS2 on OS X opens the things just fine.)