"Welp, reckon that storm front's finally breakin' up, Edgar." "Ayup. Haven't seen a storm like that since the hundred-fifty-year* one back up near the poles." "Yup, yup, that one had the cattle all rustled up somethin' fierce." "Reckon y'don't see storms like that any more."
For some reason, this entire story strikes me as just realizing that Jupiter has weather systems. They just might be longer than Earth ones.
I was going to go with "STOP THAT LAUGHING! One of these days you're going to wind up DEAD! Just like your idiot hyena cousins!!" But you did it in fewer words and didn't require a movie reference.
Hm... While it might very well make a decent sequel, they'll need to talk to marketing to come up with a better name. I mean, Hungry Hungry Hippos had the entire alliteration thing going for it, but I can't see anyone buying something with as unwieldy of a name as Hungry Hungry Crustaceans.
Not only that, but the fact that goal is to eat climate change experiments won't fly in the current eco-conscious culture.
Here, now, I'm not the one saying desktop Linux doesn't have a future, nor were the parent posts. The summary (and article) are saying that the CEO of Red Hat is asserting that, and we're presuming his reasons for doing so.
I realize the way I phrased it might've been confusing, but we ARE with you..:-)
That's not what the parent and GP were talking about. You're talking as a user of Linux. They're talking as a producer of Linux (or more specifically, desktop Linux distributions and software). That is, like Canonical (Ubuntu), Red Hat, etc. As in, the assumption that Red Hat can't find a way to make money by producing desktop Linux, and that's why they're trying to say there's no future in it.
This is Slashdot, after all. We all know we can save money using Linux and will most likely fight tooth and nail in long, protracted threads with lots and lots of numbers to show this to others.;-)
[...] cry at the plight of 2 dimensional characters [...]
Er... perhaps you should clarify that "characters" means personalities, not character art. In my travels, I've found a fair amount of sci-fi geeks are quite willing to cry at the plights of two-dimensional animated characters.:-)
Except that a better comparison is if you named your dog "Farciot-Shake", "Sadi-RollOver", "Satyendra-Heel", or, in general, some combination of a name completely outside of your native culture and a verb which sounds like a command you've already given the dog.
(note: obviously, I'm assuming an American English culture; substitute names alien to your culture to fill in the gaps if need be)
Forget Debian/Ubuntu/etc. Then, ask yourself what an "apt" is. And why it has anything to do with installing programs. Then, still remembering that you're forgetting you know Debian/Ubuntu, ask why you need "install" at the end of "apt-get", which sounds like you're already asking the system to get the program you're asking for. Non-geeks don't care about the difference between "get" and "install", and the redundancy throws a wrench in their understanding.
Same goes with "yum" (same situation as apt, minus the redundant verb). Same with "emerge" (which is on a system with far more baffling points for a non-geek). Same with "ports" or "portmanager" (while "manager" helps, the "ports" part of it can cause non-BSD geeks to puzzle over the new meaning). It's the sometimes strange, it-made-sense-at-the-time command line names that, at times, drive the laypersons away from the command line.
Aw, come on! I just spent the weekend fighting with Windows to get it to cooperate with Linux in a dual-booting scenario, with countless unpluggings and repluggings of SATA cables and partition rearrangings and no less than two Windows reinstalls, all for gaming purposes, just to see THIS?!?
Nah, seriously, this should be pretty sweet once it comes to fruition. Assuming it also brings with it further compatibility enhancements to other games (I really should open a ticket that Audiosurf seemed to stop working with a recent Steam update...). "Mad" "props" to the Crossover and WINE teams!
Go buy a USB thumb drive and see what kind of package it comes in.
Not to lessen the impact of that statement (which, for almost all cases, is true), but the last time I was at a Micro Center, they had bulk thumb drives and SD cards stocked at the cash registers the same way grocery stores would stock impulse buys. No packing*, no fuss; just a small box of media. Ah, the bliss of Micro Center...
Shame, of course, that's only one case.
*: Well, okay, grocery stores usually stock impulse buys with packaging, yes...
The only alternative here is for Mozilla or another OS browser to reimplement mshtml.dll from scratch - a daunting task of questionable logic.
"Daunting" puts it lightly, apparently. WINE, for instance, attempts to reimplement mshtml.dll via the Gecko engine for all the things that use it for HTML rendering. Like, say, Steam. To date, I still don't think it's possible to complete a purchase or demo download from start to finish entirely within the Steam client under WINE/Crossover. You still need to start the purchase externally, enter Steam, and finish it there because they haven't fully reimplemented all the calls properly.
So, yes, it has been tried, and it isn't quite perfect yet.
Hm... nope, nope, they're going too deep with it. They should just make it hamster-powered, not guided. That is, use the ball to run a generator and use some sort of Roomba-like navigation system. That way, the noise from the vacuum will frighten the hamster, which will make it run, which will make the vacuum operate, which will...
Okay, granted, this would require a forty-pound hamster and a giant hamster ball, but other than THAT, it would be the perfect perpetual motion vacuum! It would WORK, people!:-)
Hrmph. Call me when the switch in question is tied to a massive, mad scientist-quality switch, clearly labeled in big letters with "LINUX" on one side, "WINDOWS" on the other. It should also make a satisfying mechanical switching noise whenever I pull it. And if you can make lightning crack outside my window every time, that'd be nice, too.
All right, let me get this straight: First you people bitch and moan when Facebook says they'll save user data forever. NOW you people bitch and moan when this site loses user data forever! You're never happy, are you?!?
Well, it IS a bit unusual for a company with which you have a vendor relationship to send YOU an order, but if your company makes the best in a variety of gags and other imprisonment equipment and they have a specific use for them, then there could be perfectly reasonable explanations as to why they might want to...
What?
That's not it?
Oh.
Doesn't matter. In fact, makes more sense, really, there's not much business in the gag industry. Might raise some eyebrows, especially with a company acting as a vendor to others. However, everybody needs a good laugh now and then, and if your company makes some decent gags and other tomfoolery to go around, then I can certainly...
What NOW?
It isn't?
Are you serious?
Well, that IS a bit shameful, then. I mean, your company's time and effort is very important, and it can't be stuck wasting both dealing with phony "gag" orders. In fact, there should be laws against it, though I get the feeling these are a bunch of punk kids trying to...
Look, if you're going to keep interrupting me...
What do you MEAN "wrong again"?!?
*sigh* All right, fine, YOU make your own damn comments, all right?
Honestly, can't figure out just what it is you people want from me...
Unfortunately, if I were to see one of these cats outside when the ad campaign is live, the entire spooky/creepy effect would be lost on me and I'd assume many others like me, as I'd immediately associate cats with messages on them with "o hai! u can haz feer 2?"
Man, it's been a while since we've broken out the classic story of the benchmarks!
Tomorrow: Windows-centric website refutes claims of this benchmark, posts its own. Saturday: Linux geeks refute claims of yesterday's benchmarks due to funding by Microsoft and/or lack of actual data, and post their own. Sunday: Microsoft fans declare themselves independent, refute Saturday's benchmarks, and post their own. Monday: Mainstream media refutes Sunday's benchmarks and posts their own claiming Ubuntu is far faster. Tuesday: Hardcore gaming website refutes Monday's benchmarks, claims Windows 7 is so much faster, claims XP is faster still, wonders why Ubuntu was invented if it can't play Counterstrike. Benchmarks are provided to show how much faster Windows 7 is and how much Ubuntu doesn't run Counterstrike out of the box. Wednesday: Business news site refutes Tuesday's benchmarks and claims, announces it is switching to Ubuntu. Benchmarks are provided to show how much faster Ubuntu is when dealing with MySQL and Apache. Thursday: Another business news site refutes Wednesday's benchmarks and claims, announces it is giving up on Ubuntu, claiming MySQL is stupid and the previous news site is stupid for using it. Benchmarks are provided to show how much faster Windows 7 is when running MSSQL and IIS. Friday: A lone Amiga geek refutes everyone's claims, brags about how much faster and better life is with Amiga, promises a new version any year now. Saturday: (no claims or benchmarks; Linux and Windows camps simply issue condescending stares at Friday's Amiga geek) Sunday: Linux website refutes Thursday's claims...
Come on, the way you started out with the whole bit about the warmer Earth, I was expecting a string of sophomoric jokes about how snakes started getting smaller as Earth cooled, making numerous not-so-subtle references to shrinkage! You had to ruin it by being all serious and such!:-)
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30 minutes? Hm, nah, that won't do. Better make it 45. Gotta save all my work first.
Somewhere on Jupiter...
"Welp, reckon that storm front's finally breakin' up, Edgar."
"Ayup. Haven't seen a storm like that since the hundred-fifty-year* one back up near the poles."
"Yup, yup, that one had the cattle all rustled up somethin' fierce."
"Reckon y'don't see storms like that any more."
For some reason, this entire story strikes me as just realizing that Jupiter has weather systems. They just might be longer than Earth ones.
*: Jupiter years.
When it starts gathering cake recipes, we better get free portal guns.
I was going to go with "STOP THAT LAUGHING! One of these days you're going to wind up DEAD! Just like your idiot hyena cousins!!" But you did it in fewer words and didn't require a movie reference.
Hm... While it might very well make a decent sequel, they'll need to talk to marketing to come up with a better name. I mean, Hungry Hungry Hippos had the entire alliteration thing going for it, but I can't see anyone buying something with as unwieldy of a name as Hungry Hungry Crustaceans.
Not only that, but the fact that goal is to eat climate change experiments won't fly in the current eco-conscious culture.
Here, now, I'm not the one saying desktop Linux doesn't have a future, nor were the parent posts. The summary (and article) are saying that the CEO of Red Hat is asserting that, and we're presuming his reasons for doing so.
I realize the way I phrased it might've been confusing, but we ARE with you.. :-)
That's not what the parent and GP were talking about. You're talking as a user of Linux. They're talking as a producer of Linux (or more specifically, desktop Linux distributions and software). That is, like Canonical (Ubuntu), Red Hat, etc. As in, the assumption that Red Hat can't find a way to make money by producing desktop Linux, and that's why they're trying to say there's no future in it.
This is Slashdot, after all. We all know we can save money using Linux and will most likely fight tooth and nail in long, protracted threads with lots and lots of numbers to show this to others. ;-)
[...] cry at the plight of 2 dimensional characters [...]
Er... perhaps you should clarify that "characters" means personalities, not character art. In my travels, I've found a fair amount of sci-fi geeks are quite willing to cry at the plights of two-dimensional animated characters. :-)
Except that a better comparison is if you named your dog "Farciot-Shake", "Sadi-RollOver", "Satyendra-Heel", or, in general, some combination of a name completely outside of your native culture and a verb which sounds like a command you've already given the dog.
(note: obviously, I'm assuming an American English culture; substitute names alien to your culture to fill in the gaps if need be)
Forget Debian/Ubuntu/etc. Then, ask yourself what an "apt" is. And why it has anything to do with installing programs. Then, still remembering that you're forgetting you know Debian/Ubuntu, ask why you need "install" at the end of "apt-get", which sounds like you're already asking the system to get the program you're asking for. Non-geeks don't care about the difference between "get" and "install", and the redundancy throws a wrench in their understanding.
Same goes with "yum" (same situation as apt, minus the redundant verb). Same with "emerge" (which is on a system with far more baffling points for a non-geek). Same with "ports" or "portmanager" (while "manager" helps, the "ports" part of it can cause non-BSD geeks to puzzle over the new meaning). It's the sometimes strange, it-made-sense-at-the-time command line names that, at times, drive the laypersons away from the command line.
Aw, come on! I just spent the weekend fighting with Windows to get it to cooperate with Linux in a dual-booting scenario, with countless unpluggings and repluggings of SATA cables and partition rearrangings and no less than two Windows reinstalls, all for gaming purposes, just to see THIS?!?
Nah, seriously, this should be pretty sweet once it comes to fruition. Assuming it also brings with it further compatibility enhancements to other games (I really should open a ticket that Audiosurf seemed to stop working with a recent Steam update...). "Mad" "props" to the Crossover and WINE teams!
Go buy a USB thumb drive and see what kind of package it comes in.
Not to lessen the impact of that statement (which, for almost all cases, is true), but the last time I was at a Micro Center, they had bulk thumb drives and SD cards stocked at the cash registers the same way grocery stores would stock impulse buys. No packing*, no fuss; just a small box of media. Ah, the bliss of Micro Center...
Shame, of course, that's only one case.
*: Well, okay, grocery stores usually stock impulse buys with packaging, yes...
The only alternative here is for Mozilla or another OS browser to reimplement mshtml.dll from scratch - a daunting task of questionable logic.
"Daunting" puts it lightly, apparently. WINE, for instance, attempts to reimplement mshtml.dll via the Gecko engine for all the things that use it for HTML rendering. Like, say, Steam. To date, I still don't think it's possible to complete a purchase or demo download from start to finish entirely within the Steam client under WINE/Crossover. You still need to start the purchase externally, enter Steam, and finish it there because they haven't fully reimplemented all the calls properly.
So, yes, it has been tried, and it isn't quite perfect yet.
Hm... nope, nope, they're going too deep with it. They should just make it hamster-powered, not guided. That is, use the ball to run a generator and use some sort of Roomba-like navigation system. That way, the noise from the vacuum will frighten the hamster, which will make it run, which will make the vacuum operate, which will...
Okay, granted, this would require a forty-pound hamster and a giant hamster ball, but other than THAT, it would be the perfect perpetual motion vacuum! It would WORK, people! :-)
Yes, but they want something they can use for THIS presidential term.
Thank you! Thank you! I'm here all week! Try the veal!
Nah, if you're a lumberjack, you're okay.
Hrmph. Call me when the switch in question is tied to a massive, mad scientist-quality switch, clearly labeled in big letters with "LINUX" on one side, "WINDOWS" on the other. It should also make a satisfying mechanical switching noise whenever I pull it. And if you can make lightning crack outside my window every time, that'd be nice, too.
[...] so all that is needed is for someone to make an Android emulator.
The Android SDK comes with a development emulator for Windows, Linux, and OS X. Does the job quite nicely, I'd say.
All right, let me get this straight: First you people bitch and moan when Facebook says they'll save user data forever. NOW you people bitch and moan when this site loses user data forever! You're never happy, are you?!?
Well, it IS a bit unusual for a company with which you have a vendor relationship to send YOU an order, but if your company makes the best in a variety of gags and other imprisonment equipment and they have a specific use for them, then there could be perfectly reasonable explanations as to why they might want to...
What?
That's not it?
Oh.
Doesn't matter. In fact, makes more sense, really, there's not much business in the gag industry. Might raise some eyebrows, especially with a company acting as a vendor to others. However, everybody needs a good laugh now and then, and if your company makes some decent gags and other tomfoolery to go around, then I can certainly...
What NOW?
It isn't?
Are you serious?
Well, that IS a bit shameful, then. I mean, your company's time and effort is very important, and it can't be stuck wasting both dealing with phony "gag" orders. In fact, there should be laws against it, though I get the feeling these are a bunch of punk kids trying to...
Look, if you're going to keep interrupting me...
What do you MEAN "wrong again"?!?
*sigh* All right, fine, YOU make your own damn comments, all right?
Honestly, can't figure out just what it is you people want from me...
*** CaptainSpam quietly logs into his server and adds a 5
Unfortunately, if I were to see one of these cats outside when the ad campaign is live, the entire spooky/creepy effect would be lost on me and I'd assume many others like me, as I'd immediately associate cats with messages on them with "o hai! u can haz feer 2?"
So, I assume they'll be bludgeoning HP, Dell, etc for installing crapware after crapware to the tune of nearly 30 extra processes on first boot?
...well, crap, if a side effect is getting rid of all that, I think we have to love Microsoft now.
Man, it's been a while since we've broken out the classic story of the benchmarks!
Tomorrow: Windows-centric website refutes claims of this benchmark, posts its own.
Saturday: Linux geeks refute claims of yesterday's benchmarks due to funding by Microsoft and/or lack of actual data, and post their own.
Sunday: Microsoft fans declare themselves independent, refute Saturday's benchmarks, and post their own.
Monday: Mainstream media refutes Sunday's benchmarks and posts their own claiming Ubuntu is far faster.
Tuesday: Hardcore gaming website refutes Monday's benchmarks, claims Windows 7 is so much faster, claims XP is faster still, wonders why Ubuntu was invented if it can't play Counterstrike. Benchmarks are provided to show how much faster Windows 7 is and how much Ubuntu doesn't run Counterstrike out of the box.
Wednesday: Business news site refutes Tuesday's benchmarks and claims, announces it is switching to Ubuntu. Benchmarks are provided to show how much faster Ubuntu is when dealing with MySQL and Apache.
Thursday: Another business news site refutes Wednesday's benchmarks and claims, announces it is giving up on Ubuntu, claiming MySQL is stupid and the previous news site is stupid for using it. Benchmarks are provided to show how much faster Windows 7 is when running MSSQL and IIS.
Friday: A lone Amiga geek refutes everyone's claims, brags about how much faster and better life is with Amiga, promises a new version any year now.
Saturday: (no claims or benchmarks; Linux and Windows camps simply issue condescending stares at Friday's Amiga geek)
Sunday: Linux website refutes Thursday's claims...
Me, I was perfectly cool with him until the ads with Seinfeld. He ruined the way I look at shoes. I can never forgive him for that.
Come on, the way you started out with the whole bit about the warmer Earth, I was expecting a string of sophomoric jokes about how snakes started getting smaller as Earth cooled, making numerous not-so-subtle references to shrinkage! You had to ruin it by being all serious and such! :-)