I've got a 7 year old daughter, she lives with her mum and the only computer in the house is running Windows XP. I've been toying with the idea of getting her a PC and installing Fedora on it for her.
I think its an excellent way to market linux to a bunch of men, but it still bugs me that people think like that.
While I thinks it's a bad thing that people are judging you by your gender I hope you don't think that men are holding all the cards. There is one situation where men suffer horrific sexual inequality on a regular basis and this when it comes to child custody. Women almost always get custody. About the only time that a father gets custody is if the mother has a serious mental, drug or alcohol problem. There have been many cases where it has been the father who has stayed at home and brought up the children while the woman worked and the woman still gets custody. These miscarriages of justice happen all the time. I don't mean to belittle your suffering, but it isn't always easy being a man either.
As an aside, congratulations on getting modded up to +5. I hope they people who gave you those points did so because they were moved by your plight and not because you are a woman.;-)
I promptly shrunk my hands, bathed in cabbage, and joined a carnival.
Austin Powers: There are only two things in this world that scare me and one is nuclear war.
Basil Exposition: What's the other?
Austin Powers: Huh?
Basil Exposition: What's the other thing that scares you?
Austin Powers: Carnies. Circus folk. Nomads, you know. Smell like cabbage. Small hands.
I went to the gym the other day to do some weight training and I wanted to get warmed up first. I decided that a gentle jog on the treadmill would get the blood moving. As soon as I started jogging a really pretty girl got on the treadmill next to me and started running and I ended running a lot faster and longer than I had originally intended to and my weight training suffered because of it.
The worst part is that I knew exactly what I was doing, but I did it anyway.
Anyone else thinking of the Bill Hicks routine where he and his friends borrow his dad's car while they are tripping and it tells them that "the door is a jar"?
If they built robots in actual human corpses, people would be horrified.
Here's a strange concept. There is a medical condition called anencephaly, where a person is born without a brain. If robot manufacturers wanted to save themselves a lot of manufacturing costs they could tinker with human DNA and grow bodies without brains and then implant robot brains in the empty skulls. You would have a completely realistic robot. If the AI was good enough you would be unable to tell a robot from a human without scanning the contents of the head. I think that if someone attempted this with a human there would be a public outcry on a global level, but people might accept it being done to animals like dogs and primates. Once people were used to this then human bodies would be the next stage.
I'm not saying I think this is a good idea, I'm just knocking ideas around.
One advantage of OpenOffice is that it runs on windows and linux. If I was an admin planning to switch to linux then I would install openoffice and get people used to it before the switch took place.
I'd just like to say a hearty F**K YOU to the pirates who are causing more and more of the software I buy to require increasingly awkward and intrusive copy-protection systems.
I used to get pissed of with copy protection systems, especially when I'd lost the code and could only play a game by trawling the internet for a crack. Nowadays I only have Linux (Fedora) on my pc and have to use WINE or get ported games.
I was wondering what's happening with open source games. Has anyone made a decent first person shooter with an open source game engine yet?
"I consider it an ethical mandate to avoid giving my money to pimps, so if I see a girl I want and she won't sleep with me I'll just rape her."
To some extent I agree with you. I personally don't use microsoft products because I dislike their unethical behaviour. I don't pirate their software because I feel that would be an unethical move on my behalf.
The problem I have is with you comparing software piracy with raping a woman. I understand the point you are trying to make but comparing an act of theft with something as horrific as rape is a bad analogy. I don't take theft lightly, a few years ago my house was burgled. Some of the things taken had great sentimental value and at the time it really upset me, but there were few long term effects apart from me beefing up my security. A good friend of mine was raped a long time ago and the psycological scars will always be there. It has destroyed much of her self confidence and has left with deep problems with trusting men and forming relationships. I don't mean to preach but your analogy did kind of stick in my throat.
Not a bad idea. Space tourism could be marketed as the ultimate "romantic" holiday. Even if people only went up for one orbit of the earth it would be an amazing experience. Couples could stay in a simple cabin with staggering views and explore the possibilities of zero G sex. The karma sutra has some amazing positions in it, but many of them are extremely physically demanding, in zero G they would be a lot more feasable. New positions could be invented that are only possible in zero G.
There would be a risk of space travel getting a sleazy image, but that could be avoided by clever marketing.
I wouldn't consider the parent post a troll. I'll admit that it's tone was somewhat confrontational, but it contained some very valid arguements and the Asimov quote was spot on.
If you don't agree with what they are saying why don't you come up with some intelligent counter-arguements? There are some trolls who need to be modded down and ignored, but I don't think this is one of them.
Guy faulkes and his gang were trying to blow up the King and Parliment at the same time. They were doing it for religious reasons, but it was still pretty anarchic. I treat fireworks night as a tribute to their efforts. :-)
Why would they need to do a kernel recompile?
I've got a few friends who wanted to play with linux, so I installed Fedora and a few extra programs and away they went. I will be very surprised if they start calling me with questions about kernel recompiling!
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I've got a 7 year old daughter, she lives with her mum and the only computer in the house is running Windows XP. I've been toying with the idea of getting her a PC and installing Fedora on it for her.
Sad but true. ;-)
While I thinks it's a bad thing that people are judging you by your gender I hope you don't think that men are holding all the cards. There is one situation where men suffer horrific sexual inequality on a regular basis and this when it comes to child custody. Women almost always get custody. About the only time that a father gets custody is if the mother has a serious mental, drug or alcohol problem. There have been many cases where it has been the father who has stayed at home and brought up the children while the woman worked and the woman still gets custody. These miscarriages of justice happen all the time. I don't mean to belittle your suffering, but it isn't always easy being a man either.
As an aside, congratulations on getting modded up to +5. I hope they people who gave you those points did so because they were moved by your plight and not because you are a woman. ;-)
Austin Powers: There are only two things in this world that scare me and one is nuclear war.
Basil Exposition: What's the other?
Austin Powers: Huh?
Basil Exposition: What's the other thing that scares you?
Austin Powers: Carnies. Circus folk. Nomads, you know. Smell like cabbage. Small hands.
I went to the gym the other day to do some weight training and I wanted to get warmed up first. I decided that a gentle jog on the treadmill would get the blood moving. As soon as I started jogging a really pretty girl got on the treadmill next to me and started running and I ended running a lot faster and longer than I had originally intended to and my weight training suffered because of it.
The worst part is that I knew exactly what I was doing, but I did it anyway.
Mozilla makes it look perfect while completely ravaging the page? Are you sure about that?
it worked perfectly.
(you are using linux, right?)
Due to an unfortunate soldering accident he is now known as.... Soldermember.
Anyone else thinking of the Bill Hicks routine where he and his friends borrow his dad's car while they are tripping and it tells them that "the door is a jar"?
Here's a strange concept. There is a medical condition called anencephaly, where a person is born without a brain. If robot manufacturers wanted to save themselves a lot of manufacturing costs they could tinker with human DNA and grow bodies without brains and then implant robot brains in the empty skulls. You would have a completely realistic robot. If the AI was good enough you would be unable to tell a robot from a human without scanning the contents of the head. I think that if someone attempted this with a human there would be a public outcry on a global level, but people might accept it being done to animals like dogs and primates. Once people were used to this then human bodies would be the next stage.
I'm not saying I think this is a good idea, I'm just knocking ideas around.
One advantage of OpenOffice is that it runs on windows and linux. If I was an admin planning to switch to linux then I would install openoffice and get people used to it before the switch took place.
I used to get pissed of with copy protection systems, especially when I'd lost the code and could only play a game by trawling the internet for a crack. Nowadays I only have Linux (Fedora) on my pc and have to use WINE or get ported games.
I was wondering what's happening with open source games. Has anyone made a decent first person shooter with an open source game engine yet?
To some extent I agree with you. I personally don't use microsoft products because I dislike their unethical behaviour. I don't pirate their software because I feel that would be an unethical move on my behalf.
The problem I have is with you comparing software piracy with raping a woman. I understand the point you are trying to make but comparing an act of theft with something as horrific as rape is a bad analogy. I don't take theft lightly, a few years ago my house was burgled. Some of the things taken had great sentimental value and at the time it really upset me, but there were few long term effects apart from me beefing up my security. A good friend of mine was raped a long time ago and the psycological scars will always be there. It has destroyed much of her self confidence and has left with deep problems with trusting men and forming relationships. I don't mean to preach but your analogy did kind of stick in my throat.
Just out of curiousity, how many slashdotters have experimented with psychadelics?
Tell the interviewer that you want a pony.
When he agrees to that say "No, I want you to be the pony".
(From Dilbert)
"Florida is America's wang".
Homer Simpson.
Then the martians could warm their hands at the vent.
Or "Google is my friend".
Yes, I'm more used to "pissed" being a slang term for "drunk".
There would be a risk of space travel getting a sleazy image, but that could be avoided by clever marketing.
If you don't agree with what they are saying why don't you come up with some intelligent counter-arguements? There are some trolls who need to be modded down and ignored, but I don't think this is one of them.
Guy faulkes and his gang were trying to blow up the King and Parliment at the same time. They were doing it for religious reasons, but it was still pretty anarchic. I treat fireworks night as a tribute to their efforts.
:-)
Why would they need to do a kernel recompile?
I've got a few friends who wanted to play with linux, so I installed Fedora and a few extra programs and away they went. I will be very surprised if they start calling me with questions about kernel recompiling!
Sounds like you have a blocked up nose.
:-)
Isn't that pointy haired bosses? (Dilbert)