lotus... who are they? didn't they once market the hell out of a DOS/Unix (yeah 1-2-3 ran on SCO) spreadsheet program? so... have i missed something??? *grin*
ok... flames aside, you are obviously misled in your interpretation of "geek". hmm... lessee... i'm the usual, codefreak, unix commands tatoo'ed all over my body, 5 computers at my desk kinda garden variety geek (i have a personal serve-switch at my desk). i breathe sed and awk. but i am also a member of a salsa band, and member of a kick-ass modern afro-cuban group. i play three different instruments and i sing, as well as compose and arrange. i own more music cd's than cd-roms, and one of my biggest kicks is driving down the freeway with the windows open and the music going full-blast out to the people around. and dr. strangelove is one of my favourite movies. i think the type of person that i am represents more "geeks" than your obviously narrow vision of sci-fi nerds with pocket protectors and high obnoxious voices. incidently... i have a friend who is a unix sysadmin who is one of the most sought-after amateur sax players (no jokes please) in the midwest. so there! *grin*
always trying to break down ignorance and stereotypes,
Guiness is just pissed that he hasn't been able to cash in on the latest round of Star Wars fanatisism and that he hasn't recognized for anything else that he's ever done. I think it was Don McLean (sp) that wouldn't play "American Pie" because it was the only song of his ever requested by people. it's understandable that Guiness would feel this way, but IMHO he shouldn't be spouting anti-Lucas sentiment because of it. The real irony is that he is using his noteriety as ObiWan to get people to listen.
Must _everything_ be an "open source" issue?? keerist already. there is a place for commercial information and software on this rock. some of us would be _very_ unemployed if it weren't for commercial apps/information technologies and to be honest, most of the mainstream devel would not have gone as far as it has (albeit the open source community has taken their knowledge of the commercial world and used it to create and extend current technology, but that is another story). and that's the point, isn't it? not _everything_ has to be open source to be a good thing(tm).
The ending was the best part of the whole movie. I was sitting there hoping as the final fade happened that they wouldn't go into come cheesy newstory type of ending that tidyed the whole thing up. They didn't and I was happy. But as the credits rolled, a vast number of people groaned and shot obcenities at the screen as they left the theatre.
This led me to a thought. People have been spoonfed the emotions that they are supposed to have for so long that they no longer have the imagination to scare the living shit out of themselves. I personally find it pathetic.
I thought it was a great movie... instantly went on my top ten of all time.
actually... a lot of things (including certain rights) are excluded until age 18. I do believe this is why it is illegal to sell porno to 12 year olds. you are a second-class citizen as a child (basically... you aren't a citizen, but property of your parents... to an extent). Kids, under current law, don't have a "right" to knowledge. I'm not saying this is a good thing at all. don't get me wrong. kids should be educated, but we need to change some ideals first.
It's really hard to look at the top of one's head in the mirror, but the last I checked, I wasn't balding. Maybe if I moved my awkwardly long hair to one side.
Why is it that they must always take me for some puttering old fool?
sounds like I've been patented by Transmeta again... may as well just hand them over brain, spinal cord, arms and fingers and get it over with. Sounds like they are trying to patent the average troubleshooting IS guy. *grin*
That's not what I'm saying. I never said it was "ok" to pirate software. I won't even get into the fact that stock has nothing to do with profit sharing nor is it affected by piracy, rather than to probably make your stock rise ever so *slightly* because of increased market share. This does NOT mean that I condone or support piracy at all. And yes... the independant developer is hurt by piracy. People who crack shareware programs hurt those people who put their time and love into a piece of useful software. I just don't think that you are personally hurt by piracy and it irritates me that you think you are.
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And then there are those of us who wish software companies would release products that weren't full of buggy, bloated code chugged out by recent college grads who don't know optimized code from a hole in the ground.
It's an interesting debate, but you are nothing more than a programming drone. You got paid. Shut up. No one is taking money away from you unless you are involved in some kind of high-level profit sharing there at Mickeysoft AND you weren't paid hourly/salary for the work you did. No one is taking anything from you if you were paid for your labor. They are, however, taking something from the software companies because the company DID pay for your time. The question is what and how much.
The commercialization of the 'net/www has caused all this. Oh, well... in a few years, the www and television will merge, leaving a text/graphics based www to the geeks once more.
BTW... why in the _hell_ would i pay to have some company to reg a domain for me when it takes all of 30 seconds to do it myself?
hmm... but it already is primarily a linux-only forum. just make a statement like Photoshop beats the living snot outta Gimp, and see what kind of reaction you get. the readers/posters are primarily pro-linux/anti-mickeysoft, which is kind of interesting in light of the fact that a good number of the readers/posters are probably gainfully employed as a result of mickeysoft's influence in the marketplace (how many of you fix NT server problems for a living and if the damned thing worked _all_ the time, would you have a job?)
Just my two bits coming from a person who is gainfully employed working with both mickeysoft and UNIX.
and btw... the best piece of luggage for your average-every-day (*grin*) hacker is my personal favourite, the stainless steel briefcase. makes ya look like you are carrying a bomb.
hacker luggage? huh? *scratches head* that has _got_ to be the dumbest fsck'ing thing i've ever heard of. the world would be a better place without humans fucking things up all the damned time.
I see your point and you're probably right... it was just my 8am paranoid ramblings. If given the option of paying a buck to download an mp3, i'd probably opt to that as well. 99% of my mp3 collection is ripped from my own cd's (i own over 400 cd's). i like the medium as a form of backup and i get a little paranoid about having that option taken away from me... 13 albums on one disc is great... now i have to figure out a way to play them in the car. *grin*
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is it true that the man on the moon wears pink fuzzy flipflops?? just figured you'd know. thanks.
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lotus... who are they? didn't they once market the hell out of a DOS/Unix (yeah 1-2-3 ran on SCO) spreadsheet program? so... have i missed something??? *grin*
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ok... flames aside, you are obviously misled in your interpretation of "geek". hmm... lessee... i'm the usual, codefreak, unix commands tatoo'ed all over my body, 5 computers at my desk kinda garden variety geek (i have a personal serve-switch at my desk). i breathe sed and awk. but i am also a member of a salsa band, and member of a kick-ass modern afro-cuban group. i play three different instruments and i sing, as well as compose and arrange. i own more music cd's than cd-roms, and one of my biggest kicks is driving down the freeway with the windows open and the music going full-blast out to the people around. and dr. strangelove is one of my favourite movies. i think the type of person that i am represents more "geeks" than your obviously narrow vision of sci-fi nerds with pocket protectors and high obnoxious voices. incidently... i have a friend who is a unix sysadmin who is one of the most sought-after amateur sax players (no jokes please) in the midwest. so there! *grin*
always trying to break down ignorance and stereotypes,
--bc
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Guiness is just pissed that he hasn't been able to cash in on the latest round of Star Wars fanatisism and that he hasn't recognized for anything else that he's ever done. I think it was Don McLean (sp) that wouldn't play "American Pie" because it was the only song of his ever requested by people. it's understandable that Guiness would feel this way, but IMHO he shouldn't be spouting anti-Lucas sentiment because of it. The real irony is that he is using his noteriety as ObiWan to get people to listen.
--bc
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Must _everything_ be an "open source" issue?? keerist already. there is a place for commercial information and software on this rock. some of us would be _very_ unemployed if it weren't for commercial apps/information technologies and to be honest, most of the mainstream devel would not have gone as far as it has (albeit the open source community has taken their knowledge of the commercial world and used it to create and extend current technology, but that is another story). and that's the point, isn't it? not _everything_ has to be open source to be a good thing(tm).
l8r.
--bc
The ending was the best part of the whole movie. I was sitting there hoping as the final fade happened that they wouldn't go into come cheesy newstory type of ending that tidyed the whole thing up. They didn't and I was happy. But as the credits rolled, a vast number of people groaned and shot obcenities at the screen as they left the theatre.
This led me to a thought. People have been spoonfed the emotions that they are supposed to have for so long that they no longer have the imagination to scare the living shit out of themselves. I personally find it pathetic.
I thought it was a great movie... instantly went on my top ten of all time.
--bc
actually... a lot of things (including certain rights) are excluded until age 18. I do believe this is why it is illegal to sell porno to 12 year olds. you are a second-class citizen as a child (basically... you aren't a citizen, but property of your parents... to an extent). Kids, under current law, don't have a "right" to knowledge. I'm not saying this is a good thing at all. don't get me wrong. kids should be educated, but we need to change some ideals first.
It's really hard to look at the top of one's head in the mirror, but the last I checked, I wasn't balding. Maybe if I moved my awkwardly long hair to one side.
Why is it that they must always take me for some puttering old fool?
sounds like I've been patented by Transmeta again... may as well just hand them over brain, spinal cord, arms and fingers and get it over with. Sounds like they are trying to patent the average troubleshooting IS guy. *grin*
That's not what I'm saying. I never said it was "ok" to pirate software. I won't even get into the fact that stock has nothing to do with profit sharing nor is it affected by piracy, rather than to probably make your stock rise ever so *slightly* because of increased market share. This does NOT mean that I condone or support piracy at all. And yes... the independant developer is hurt by piracy. People who crack shareware programs hurt those people who put their time and love into a piece of useful software. I just don't think that you are personally hurt by piracy and it irritates me that you think you are.
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And then there are those of us who wish software companies would release products that weren't full of buggy, bloated code chugged out by recent college grads who don't know optimized code from a hole in the ground.
It's an interesting debate, but you are nothing more than a programming drone. You got paid. Shut up. No one is taking money away from you unless you are involved in some kind of high-level profit sharing there at Mickeysoft AND you weren't paid hourly/salary for the work you did. No one is taking anything from you if you were paid for your labor. They are, however, taking something from the software companies because the company DID pay for your time. The question is what and how much.
Has any machine passed the Turing test? Not to my knowledge... no concern then.
hear hear.
Now _this_ is exciting... 300mhz RISC... Mmm... Mmm... Mmm... I know which machine I'll be buying.
why is it that every time anyone makes a reference to windows, some clueless idgit has to say something negative?
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The commercialization of the 'net/www has caused all this. Oh, well... in a few years, the www and television will merge, leaving a text/graphics based www to the geeks once more.
BTW... why in the _hell_ would i pay to have some company to reg a domain for me when it takes all of 30 seconds to do it myself?
yeah... but having seen their site before... the low-qual jpeg doesn't look like something they would have done... just my two bits ($.25)
hmm... but it already is primarily a linux-only forum. just make a statement like Photoshop beats the living snot outta Gimp, and see what kind of reaction you get. the readers/posters are primarily pro-linux/anti-mickeysoft, which is kind of interesting in light of the fact that a good number of the readers/posters are probably gainfully employed as a result of mickeysoft's influence in the marketplace (how many of you fix NT server problems for a living and if the damned thing worked _all_ the time, would you have a job?)
Just my two bits coming from a person who is gainfully employed working with both mickeysoft and UNIX.
and btw... the best piece of luggage for your average-every-day (*grin*) hacker is my personal favourite, the stainless steel briefcase. makes ya look like you are carrying a bomb.
hacker luggage? huh? *scratches head* that has _got_ to be the dumbest fsck'ing thing i've ever heard of. the world would be a better place without humans fucking things up all the damned time.
"It's not a cookie, it's fruit and cake". *grin*
trademark 'com' 'org' and 'net' and sue every person who holds a domain on the 'net. the insanity must end! mandatory death penalty for idiocy!
Let's see... i think it _might_ be dark seeing as how it is evening in Montreal, and winter...
post 6pm + post Oct 23, but previous to ~ March 20 = dark.
So this would, in effect, make all the pay-per-view services on the globe liable to pay licensing to these guys... kinda funny.
I see your point and you're probably right... it was just my 8am paranoid ramblings. If given the option of paying a buck to download an mp3, i'd probably opt to that as well. 99% of my mp3 collection is ripped from my own cd's (i own over 400 cd's). i like the medium as a form of backup and i get a little paranoid about having that option taken away from me... 13 albums on one disc is great... now i have to figure out a way to play them in the car. *grin*