I don't want to hear that the unpopular and misunderstood should all band together against repression... yada yada yada. There is a difference between being misunderstood due to an interest (obsession?) with math, science, and computer programming that the unwashed masses have no interest in, and being misunderstood due to have little or no writing talent. I was never unpopular in my age group due to being that dweeb in the corner of cafeteria who got pelted with spitballs, I was unpopular in my age group becuase I dropped out of junior high school, took the GED, and went to college 5 years early.
Please, don't tell us that you are qualified to speak on/. because you can "relate". I want to hear a rational explaination on why you write to an audience that you cannot relate to. And don't tell me "alternate viewpoint" either. I go to Slate and Salon for editorial opinions. I come to/. to find little bits of useful data amongst the noise, and JonKatz, hot grits, and Don Knotts only make that harder.
I for one cannot believe that they defiled poor little Tux like that. Its like they put thier stupid symbol right on his belly, like a bullseye. Who has the copyright for Tux, and can we get an injunction against LinuxOne for using an altered version without permission?
If you send e-mail to webmaster@dotcomnow.com you get a nice little response that is both entertaining and informative. (although I had no idea who could have put up such a amusing bit of text) *grin*
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!
If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, And your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash, Then your situation's hopeless, and your system's gonna crash!
If the label on the cable on the table at your house, Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse, But your packets want to tunnel on another protocol, That's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall, And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss, So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang, 'Cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!
When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk, And the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risc, Then you have to flash your memory and you'll want to ram your rom. Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom!
Thank you for writing dotcomnow.
P.S. As you can probably guess, the security of dotcom mail is less than stellar. If NSI had a clue, they would probably recommend that you do not utilize the dotcom mail service for mission critical or sensitive communications.
There should be a link or some excerpt of the original story that would allow me know what story the original comment was in response to... and allow me to go look at the article briefly to refresh my memory. I think that this is necessary for accurate meta-moderation. For example... a comment of "wouldn't a Beowulf cluster of those things be cool" comment really isn't that funny on the 4th story about the Sony Playstation II... but asking for a Beowulf cluster in response to the story about the head transplant, that was wickedly funny.
Also, I noticed that I was asked to meta-moderate the same moderation to the same comment. Even if different moderators made the same moderation, it should roll those multiple identical moderations up, and present it to me as a single request for meta-moderation. Once meta-moderated, it could apply the karma to all the moderators who moderated the comment with the same moderation.
P.S. I understood what I was trying to say when I first wrote this... but reading it really confused me. I hope someone with better reading comprehension skills than I can figure it out.:)
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I don't want to hear that the unpopular and misunderstood should all band together against repression... yada yada yada. There is a difference between being misunderstood due to an interest (obsession?) with math, science, and computer programming that the unwashed masses have no interest in, and being misunderstood due to have little or no writing talent. I was never unpopular in my age group due to being that dweeb in the corner of cafeteria who got pelted with spitballs, I was unpopular in my age group becuase I dropped out of junior high school, took the GED, and went to college 5 years early.
Please, don't tell us that you are qualified to speak on /. because you can "relate". I want to hear a rational explaination on why you write to an audience that you cannot relate to. And don't tell me "alternate viewpoint" either. I go to Slate and Salon for editorial opinions. I come to /. to find little bits of useful data amongst the noise, and JonKatz, hot grits, and Don Knotts only make that harder.
I for one cannot believe that they defiled poor little Tux like that. Its like they put thier stupid symbol right on his belly, like a bullseye. Who has the copyright for Tux, and can we get an injunction against LinuxOne for using an altered version without permission?
FIRST CLONE!!
I have taken the DNA from pickled slashdot columns and cloned them to create this scientifically advanced post.
P.S. I refuse to participate in any further tiger cloning unless the DNA is released under an Open Source licence.
There should be a link or some excerpt of the original story that would allow me know what story the original comment was in response to... and allow me to go look at the article briefly to refresh my memory. I think that this is necessary for accurate meta-moderation. For example... a comment of "wouldn't a Beowulf cluster of those things be cool" comment really isn't that funny on the 4th story about the Sony Playstation II... but asking for a Beowulf cluster in response to the story about the head transplant, that was wickedly funny.
:)
Also, I noticed that I was asked to meta-moderate the same moderation to the same comment. Even if different moderators made the same moderation, it should roll those multiple identical moderations up, and present it to me as a single request for meta-moderation. Once meta-moderated, it could apply the karma to all the moderators who moderated the comment with the same moderation.
P.S. I understood what I was trying to say when I first wrote this... but reading it really confused me. I hope someone with better reading comprehension skills than I can figure it out.