no matter the fluff, I don't believe it is dangerous. it is another reason for you to have to use inflight phones and to pay attention to the captain.
Although it would be REALLY fucking annoying if cellphones were allowed. I already have trouble sleeping on the plane as I somehow always pick the seat RIGHT in front of the "seat kicker baby". Not only is it a "seat kicker baby" it has a mother/father that is a "seat kicker baby's parent who doesn't care when the person in front of them asks them to restrain their child". Imagine 99% of the plane talking to people on the phone. Grr.
you're right, people do take IRC too seriously. Whether it be drama about online relationships (friendship or sexual) or channel happenings, there is always some sort of fighting going on.
But this brings a whole new development that I have never seen before. The actual person running it has created a LARGE IRC soap-opera for little or no reason.
If you don't have the time to do something there are two choices. a) give it up, apologize, and make the people move. b) give it up, apologize, delegate the responsibilities to someone who CAN afford to take the time.
From what I have read about this invdividual, he feels that he is NECESSARY to run this particular IRC server. Thus he is God. He will not delegate any part of the running of the network to anyone else (taht includes giving operator status to those who host the ircd on THEIR machines on THEIR bandwith).
Most would probably think that those marks were either a) gang related or b) random garbage.
Re:and I thought I was bored on Friday night....
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I wasn't bored. INstead I got completely fucking drunk and came home at 3:17am EST and saw shit about people saying, "yay, it's a Friday night and I am READING about LAN parties".
Umm, you are MAKING FUN of people who are posting about LAN parties on a Friday night while you are SITTING AT HOME reading about them.
we already have standards. MS already doesn't follow them. What's the point of pushing for something either a) MS won't adopt b/c they don't have to, or more likely b) will adopt but will change to suit their needs?
the booth that "was packed all the time, was Red Hat's. These guys are big. They ran the whole show at LinuxWorld. You go to Sun, they use Red Hat. You go to Google, they use Red Hat. You go to some other booths and products, and they still use Red Hat."
I ran RedHat for many years, it is still running on my Alpha UDB because I am just too damn lazy to wait for Debian to install on that lowly machine. Why is there such a buzz around RedHat as far as their distribution goes?
I know that they do A LOT for the community but I just don't see their distribution as being the cleanest and safest of all.
Any ideas on why they would be such a popular choice? Is it just their physical popularity or is there something else I am missing?
you are right, but in most cases student opinion really doesn't matter.
I graduated from Bowling Green State University this past December. They completed our new student union sometime around then (I really don't remember when it was done, maybe Spring Break). Anyway, this fucking project was funded in part by a large donation from Pepsi Co. which came from the school deciding to go 100% w/Pepsi instead of multiple vendors.
I never have and never will like Pepsi. It's not b/c of them being stupid w/Spears, etc, it's just b/c it tastes like shit. Anyway. My last year or so I didn't have the choice of what drink to have on campus (no, I didn't have cash on hand to buy Coke somewhere else and drink it on campus).
The student body was asked what their opinion was. A panel was formed, they decided, fuck Pepsi and the Union donation, we were sticking w/choice.
The school OTOH decided that 8 million dollars was worth pissing on the students and building a huge Union (with a lot of empty space I might add).
back to the original comment. Yes, they make these deals but w/o really caring for the students. $ > students, always.
no, it seems that more of those people complaining about the diamond ring were more interested in being selfish.
They were saying, "well if she gets something, why don't I?" (ie a laptop)
I am not a fan of having to fork over 2 months salary to get married but I am willing to do it (grandmom left me an amazing diamond;)) b/c I love her.
I have lived w/the same desktop since 1998 and I have lived w/the same laptop since 1996 (it's still serving MP3s to the stereo and gets use as a check for Word documents (resumes)).
Case mods, laptops, new video games > anything else in a geeks life. Apparently us "geeks-with-gfs" are in the middle somewhere. Scary.
Re:Doesn't matter if they count them or not...
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see that is a problem for me.
That was like the time that a bartender wouldn't serve me anymore because I wouldn't "ask nicely for drinks".
I am paying for a service. Just b/c I am winning a lot does NOT mean that I have not paid my dues in the past or in the future. Their job is for MY entertainment. When they kick you out for card counting they usually notify other Casinos in the area of your activities and you are watched there as well.
You are there for entertainment, not to get shunned from every Casino b/c god forbid they lose some of the billions of dollars they make every year.
This guy makes this card-counting ring sound like an action movie (something like Rounders, sorta). I think that Vegas in general is a place full of crooks, Casinos and players alike.
This was almost as bad as a Travel channel special on Vegas. It's an advertisement to the public trying to tempt them to go there.
If we tell them that THEY too can afford to lose money, they will come!
There are none. The girlfriend will be bombarded w/her friends pissing her off w/the fact that she doesn't have one, and how dare her fiance not buy one for her.
My gf's brother just got engaged. His fiance announced this to my gf by saying, "here's mine, where's yours?"
Whether or not this is obnoxious is not the point. Her friends are going to do much the same.
Time honored is true, but expected is more the reality.
yeah I have one. She's naked a lot. Doesn't make up for the fact that I have sound w/her too. There's no "mute" option nor is there the ability to remove her speakers...
maybe it is b/c the web is 2D but I really don't see a need for 3D web. I use the web to read news, do research, find jobs, and look at porn. Yeah, I suppose 3D porn would be nice but not really necessary.
Research materials in 3D, hmm, it still would not be the same as holding reference material from 1863 in an archive.
News in 3D? Not really necessary, shit on TV is too real as it is.
The only thing I really care to actually deal w/in 3D MYSELF is video games (Gran Turismo and Madden).
What's the point of having a digital device and not keeping it digital?
Re:Perhaps they got something right!
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oh yes, my point was that it's not that they don't want flexibility they really don't have a choice. MS appeals to the laziness inherent in every person. If the complete functionality is there and is easily accessable, why bother worrying about something else?
Re:Perhaps they got something right!
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they are less than familiar w/OE. It's the fact that they are either a) too clueless or b) too lazy to go out and get something else.
OE has that neat little icon on their taskbar, it is usually auto-linked from their Mail option under the IE menubar, and it has a big icon on their desktop.
The people who get email through this software have no idea how to use it. They call up tech support who sets it up for them. You ask them to do a "Send and Receive" and they go huh? "You know the big button near the menu bar, Send/Receive", "I don't see any button that says that."
They close and then reopen OE and there's their mail. They want the attachments to auto-open, god forbid they have to click on the little paperclip!
They downloaded McAfee remember? They don't need to worry about viruses.
from the guys at Microsoft...
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"Just please don't ignore us."
For how many years did they pretend like they ignored us while plotting certain death?
Until that booth has "MS Office TUX" I have no desire to see them at the Expo.
Re:Haven't we been here before?
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it wouldn't make them pause...
;)
I think they would have to clean up a lot more shit than just their WLAN's security
no matter the fluff, I don't believe it is dangerous. it is another reason for you to have to use inflight phones and to pay attention to the captain.
Although it would be REALLY fucking annoying if cellphones were allowed. I already have trouble sleeping on the plane as I somehow always pick the seat RIGHT in front of the "seat kicker baby". Not only is it a "seat kicker baby" it has a mother/father that is a "seat kicker baby's parent who doesn't care when the person in front of them asks them to restrain their child". Imagine 99% of the plane talking to people on the phone. Grr.
are they going to mark the locations by skywriting? :)
you're right, people do take IRC too seriously. Whether it be drama about online relationships (friendship or sexual) or channel happenings, there is always some sort of fighting going on.
But this brings a whole new development that I have never seen before. The actual person running it has created a LARGE IRC soap-opera for little or no reason.
If you don't have the time to do something there are two choices. a) give it up, apologize, and make the people move. b) give it up, apologize, delegate the responsibilities to someone who CAN afford to take the time.
From what I have read about this invdividual, he feels that he is NECESSARY to run this particular IRC server. Thus he is God. He will not delegate any part of the running of the network to anyone else (taht includes giving operator status to those who host the ircd on THEIR machines on THEIR bandwith).
Drama on the Internet. Nothing like it.
you don't, but the companies do.
Most would probably think that those marks were either a) gang related or b) random garbage.
I wasn't bored. INstead I got completely fucking drunk and came home at 3:17am EST and saw shit about people saying, "yay, it's a Friday night and I am READING about LAN parties".
Umm, you are MAKING FUN of people who are posting about LAN parties on a Friday night while you are SITTING AT HOME reading about them.
At least I am wasted and laughing!
these are not targeted at people who can use a SPARC. Nor are they targeted at people are who EBay savvy.
Get real.
we already have standards. MS already doesn't follow them. What's the point of pushing for something either a) MS won't adopt b/c they don't have to, or more likely b) will adopt but will change to suit their needs?
the booth that "was packed all the time, was Red Hat's. These guys are big. They ran the whole show at LinuxWorld. You go to Sun, they use Red Hat. You go to Google, they use Red Hat. You go to some other booths and products, and they still use Red Hat."
I ran RedHat for many years, it is still running on my Alpha UDB because I am just too damn lazy to wait for Debian to install on that lowly machine. Why is there such a buzz around RedHat as far as their distribution goes?
I know that they do A LOT for the community but I just don't see their distribution as being the cleanest and safest of all.
Any ideas on why they would be such a popular choice? Is it just their physical popularity or is there something else I am missing?
how about I am not a member of any "faith". I don't believe in god, nor do I believe that there are any "sins".
It was a point. You apparently took it too far, just as most posters here do.
last I checked, greed was one of the seven deadly sins.
Remember, search engines now ask for money and they will make sure your page gets to the top of the list.
you are right, but in most cases student opinion really doesn't matter.
I graduated from Bowling Green State University this past December. They completed our new student union sometime around then (I really don't remember when it was done, maybe Spring Break). Anyway, this fucking project was funded in part by a large donation from Pepsi Co. which came from the school deciding to go 100% w/Pepsi instead of multiple vendors.
I never have and never will like Pepsi. It's not b/c of them being stupid w/Spears, etc, it's just b/c it tastes like shit. Anyway. My last year or so I didn't have the choice of what drink to have on campus (no, I didn't have cash on hand to buy Coke somewhere else and drink it on campus).
The student body was asked what their opinion was. A panel was formed, they decided, fuck Pepsi and the Union donation, we were sticking w/choice.
The school OTOH decided that 8 million dollars was worth pissing on the students and building a huge Union (with a lot of empty space I might add).
back to the original comment. Yes, they make these deals but w/o really caring for the students. $ > students, always.
no, it seems that more of those people complaining about the diamond ring were more interested in being selfish.
;)) b/c I love her.
They were saying, "well if she gets something, why don't I?" (ie a laptop)
I am not a fan of having to fork over 2 months salary to get married but I am willing to do it (grandmom left me an amazing diamond
I have lived w/the same desktop since 1998 and I have lived w/the same laptop since 1996 (it's still serving MP3s to the stereo and gets use as a check for Word documents (resumes)).
Case mods, laptops, new video games > anything else in a geeks life. Apparently us "geeks-with-gfs" are in the middle somewhere. Scary.
see that is a problem for me.
That was like the time that a bartender wouldn't serve me anymore because I wouldn't "ask nicely for drinks".
I am paying for a service. Just b/c I am winning a lot does NOT mean that I have not paid my dues in the past or in the future. Their job is for MY entertainment. When they kick you out for card counting they usually notify other Casinos in the area of your activities and you are watched there as well.
You are there for entertainment, not to get shunned from every Casino b/c god forbid they lose some of the billions of dollars they make every year.
This guy makes this card-counting ring sound like an action movie (something like Rounders, sorta). I think that Vegas in general is a place full of crooks, Casinos and players alike.
This was almost as bad as a Travel channel special on Vegas. It's an advertisement to the public trying to tempt them to go there.
If we tell them that THEY too can afford to lose money, they will come!
yeah, but that could possibly mess up the circuitry.
;-)
THAT would be tacticle feedback.
There are none. The girlfriend will be bombarded w/her friends pissing her off w/the fact that she doesn't have one, and how dare her fiance not buy one for her.
My gf's brother just got engaged. His fiance announced this to my gf by saying, "here's mine, where's yours?"
Whether or not this is obnoxious is not the point. Her friends are going to do much the same.
Time honored is true, but expected is more the reality.
yeah I have one. She's naked a lot. Doesn't make up for the fact that I have sound w/her too. There's no "mute" option nor is there the ability to remove her speakers...
maybe it is b/c the web is 2D but I really don't see a need for 3D web. I use the web to read news, do research, find jobs, and look at porn. Yeah, I suppose 3D porn would be nice but not really necessary.
Research materials in 3D, hmm, it still would not be the same as holding reference material from 1863 in an archive.
News in 3D? Not really necessary, shit on TV is too real as it is.
The only thing I really care to actually deal w/in 3D MYSELF is video games (Gran Turismo and Madden).
What do I know though right?
What's the point of having a digital device and not keeping it digital?
oh yes, my point was that it's not that they don't want flexibility they really don't have a choice. MS appeals to the laziness inherent in every person. If the complete functionality is there and is easily accessable, why bother worrying about something else?
they are less than familiar w/OE. It's the fact that they are either a) too clueless or b) too lazy to go out and get something else.
OE has that neat little icon on their taskbar, it is usually auto-linked from their Mail option under the IE menubar, and it has a big icon on their desktop.
The people who get email through this software have no idea how to use it. They call up tech support who sets it up for them. You ask them to do a "Send and Receive" and they go huh? "You know the big button near the menu bar, Send/Receive", "I don't see any button that says that."
They close and then reopen OE and there's their mail. They want the attachments to auto-open, god forbid they have to click on the little paperclip!
They downloaded McAfee remember? They don't need to worry about viruses.
"Just please don't ignore us."
For how many years did they pretend like they ignored us while plotting certain death?
Until that booth has "MS Office TUX" I have no desire to see them at the Expo.
from the no-you-are-just-seeing-things-dept:
:
Oblivious writes, Even though you may think you have seen this on Slashdot before, you really haven't, the editors would catch it otherwise you see! People who submit worthy stories get rejected but those that submit old and worthless shit get through you see!
from the I-am-getting-really-annoyed-with-the-repeats-dept
Aggrivated writes, Editors, I have supported you on this in the past, now it is just out of hand. What is this, the third, fourth+ time this week that this has happened? It's fucking Tuesday morning boys. I am no longer in support of your lack of effort. This is now a job. Editors get in trouble for small mis-spellings. You should be fired for failure to do your job.