Freud would have a field day with all of the mental disorders geeks have. I mean, he could call wanting to have sex with your computer a kenjib complex. And obsession with first post? An anonymous coward complex of course.
And people here wonder why we geeks rarely get dates until our mid 20's...
Whoa... I wish I had parents like AtariAmarok's when I was young. Having to get off the computer to watch a sci fi show doesn't sound so bad. Unless it was Battlefield Earth. I feel sorry for L. Ron Hubbard's kids.:(
Don't you mean a quasi capitalist totalitarian regime? China is nothing like Europe, and still doesn't respect human rights. If anything, it'll become a model for what corporations want America to be like: a country ruled by the corporations for the corporations with no rights given to the individual.
From Brazil:
Sam: Don't you need a 24/b7 form to fix the heating unit
maintenence guty starts choking at the mention of the form
maintenence guy 2: never mention that again
Sam: What can I say? I'm a stickler for paperwork
God, that movie was so great. like a combination between 1984 and office space.
Not only are they sapping and impurifying our precious bodily fluids, they're in league with the aliens. close off all communications at the base, Col. Mandrake.
I don't think it's possible to have sex with a programming language and if you're talking about having sex with the perl mascot, I think that beastiality is illegal in most places, no matter how old the animal is. Plus, who'd want to have sex with a camel?
They'd need to be African swallows to carry the load and those are nonmigratory. Otherwise you'd need two of them to carry the coconuts...er I mean DVDs or hard drives. Though you could engrave the binary on the coconuts but that would lose a lot of storage space compared to a DVD or hard drive.
old-school Democrats (read: socialists in populists' clothing)
he seems to be an impartial flamebaiter at least. I think we need more of them, as it would be better than the zealots we have now.
I always thought it was because of so much perl code being obfuscated purposefully. After all, if you can figure out what some of that does without frying your brain from confusion, translating mandarin chinese is no big deal.
Yes, but the aformentioned books are actually fairly good, and while I didn't like the sequels to Ender's Game that much, Orson Scott Card is still an excellent writer and is unlikely to stoop to using sci-fi cliches.
However most bad sci-fi does portray the insectoid beings as evil, and it seems like the reviever is talking more about those.
Throughout human history, we've modified the appearance and behavior of living things through less drastic methods. Since the beginning of civilization we've done that through selective breeding of livestock and plants. There is nothing innately wrong with genetic modification, though, like all technologies, it can be misused.
To condemn a technology on the claim it is tampering with life is a flimsy stance. We've been tampering with life forever and no one has complained. It's just that now it's more readily apparent.
No, that was something that should've made people very nervous. At that point it probably was no big deal to most people because MS DOS was primarily a desktop operating system at that point. Plus, the internet as we now know it did not exist and hacking most boxes would have required physical access due to that. The real problem was that Microsoft didn't figure out how important security really was until it was too late.
the point is that everyone can acquire what they want or need. If designers could get all the things they wanted anyway, so how would one compensate them for their ideas?
Plus, money would be valueless, owing to the fact that you could not purchase anything tangible with it and you could simply create identical copies at will, effectively creating infinite inflation.
I think they may well want to do that. The internet(in it's current form) is a threat to their monopoly. small bands can gain a large following due to various free music services and webcasts and filesharing provide listeners with free music, a price the RIAA cannot undercut.
Plus, the internet is not easily controllable and has no central authority, so the music industry cannot simply strike a deal with some big company and get their old way of doing business back.
What he's talking about is the dialogs.
Most users have never heard about the various printing protocols and are simply looking for an easy to use and consistent print dialog. just using the standard cups interface would work wonders for eliminating user confusion.
I think most video game stores do this already or at least pay lip service to doing it. Unless you have cops staking out video game stores and asking the cashiers if they let anyone under 18 buy an M rated game it's not going to do a whole lot. And video games only cause a slight increase in violent tendencies if any, certainly not enough to demonize them so.
The trick is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime about them. --Aubrey from the webcomic Something positive.
That basically sums up my feelings about this crime. It's so over the top and ridiculous you wonder how on earth anyone would be so stupid to do it.
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Well, the mental image of that is going to scar me for life and make my therapist very rich. And that's without seeing it.
Freud would have a field day with all of the mental disorders geeks have. I mean, he could call wanting to have sex with your computer a kenjib complex. And obsession with first post? An anonymous coward complex of course.
And people here wonder why we geeks rarely get dates until our mid 20's...
Whoa... I wish I had parents like AtariAmarok's when I was young. Having to get off the computer to watch a sci fi show doesn't sound so bad. Unless it was Battlefield Earth. I feel sorry for L. Ron Hubbard's kids. :(
Don't you mean a quasi capitalist totalitarian regime? China is nothing like Europe, and still doesn't respect human rights. If anything, it'll become a model for what corporations want America to be like: a country ruled by the corporations for the corporations with no rights given to the individual.
From Brazil:
Sam: Don't you need a 24/b7 form to fix the heating unit
maintenence guty starts choking at the mention of the form
maintenence guy 2: never mention that again
Sam: What can I say? I'm a stickler for paperwork
God, that movie was so great. like a combination between 1984 and office space.
Not only are they sapping and impurifying our precious bodily fluids, they're in league with the aliens. close off all communications at the base, Col. Mandrake.
Umm... Japan relies on nuclear power just as much. Though the French have a lot of experience with this kind of stuff, probably more than the Japanese
I hate to break it to you but a python is a type of snake. Just like a camel is a type of dromedary and an SCO exec is a type of pond scum
I don't think it's possible to have sex with a programming language and if you're talking about having sex with the perl mascot, I think that beastiality is illegal in most places, no matter how old the animal is. Plus, who'd want to have sex with a camel?
Of course not, she just sends viagra spam. Nice little loophole that is.
there are losts of spammers in Florida, there are also lots of old people in Florida. Coincidence I think not! old people are spammers!
They'd need to be African swallows to carry the load and those are nonmigratory. Otherwise you'd need two of them to carry the coconuts...er I mean DVDs or hard drives. Though you could engrave the binary on the coconuts but that would lose a lot of storage space compared to a DVD or hard drive.
I heard that when they found him they found him covered in paperclip wounds and his last words were, "And you also, McBr...?"
old-school Democrats (read: socialists in populists' clothing)
he seems to be an impartial flamebaiter at least. I think we need more of them, as it would be better than the zealots we have now.
I always thought it was because of so much perl code being obfuscated purposefully. After all, if you can figure out what some of that does without frying your brain from confusion, translating mandarin chinese is no big deal.
Yes, but the aformentioned books are actually fairly good, and while I didn't like the sequels to Ender's Game that much, Orson Scott Card is still an excellent writer and is unlikely to stoop to using sci-fi cliches.
However most bad sci-fi does portray the insectoid beings as evil, and it seems like the reviever is talking more about those.
So instead of rtfa it should be rtfep(read the fucking error page)
Considering the majority of /. readers are male, chances are you'd need to do quite a bit of modification(though not necessarily genetic).
To condemn a technology on the claim it is tampering with life is a flimsy stance. We've been tampering with life forever and no one has complained. It's just that now it's more readily apparent.
No, that was something that should've made people very nervous. At that point it probably was no big deal to most people because MS DOS was primarily a desktop operating system at that point. Plus, the internet as we now know it did not exist and hacking most boxes would have required physical access due to that. The real problem was that Microsoft didn't figure out how important security really was until it was too late.
the point is that everyone can acquire what they want or need. If designers could get all the things they wanted anyway, so how would one compensate them for their ideas?
Plus, money would be valueless, owing to the fact that you could not purchase anything tangible with it and you could simply create identical copies at will, effectively creating infinite inflation.
I think they may well want to do that. The internet(in it's current form) is a threat to their monopoly. small bands can gain a large following due to various free music services and webcasts and filesharing provide listeners with free music, a price the RIAA cannot undercut.
Plus, the internet is not easily controllable and has no central authority, so the music industry cannot simply strike a deal with some big company and get their old way of doing business back.
What he's talking about is the dialogs.
Most users have never heard about the various printing protocols and are simply looking for an easy to use and consistent print dialog. just using the standard cups interface would work wonders for eliminating user confusion.
I think most video game stores do this already or at least pay lip service to doing it. Unless you have cops staking out video game stores and asking the cashiers if they let anyone under 18 buy an M rated game it's not going to do a whole lot. And video games only cause a slight increase in violent tendencies if any, certainly not enough to demonize them so.
The trick is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime about them. --Aubrey from the webcomic Something positive.
That basically sums up my feelings about this crime. It's so over the top and ridiculous you wonder how on earth anyone would be so stupid to do it.