Well, at least they were honest. They said 1984 was not going to be like "1984". It was 2010 that was going to be like "1984", they still needed a few years and job's walkabout to polish their techniques.
What pisses me off the most is people that think pc = windose. Well, if Apple is catholicism, and PCs with windorze are protestantism, then GNU/Linux is Atheism, and I'm so happy to be on that last side.
The late Ghandi? You mean the one that slept naked with small girls, and paraded himself like a demigod?
And don't mention my antisemitism like that's racism, I don't have the jews out of any racial bullshit, I hate them as a political and economical group, because that's what they are. They are a a huge political and economical organization that masquerades behind religion and race and a huge wall of guilt so they can go about their business without being questioned at all. They are a racist group that is currently murdering people to still their land, while gathering funding for that operation throughout the entire world. What's not to hate about that?
I don't buy bullshit. Call things for what they are. And cut the double standards. A black guy screaming 'black power' is as racist as a kkk member, he's just on the loosing side of the battle, and I hate them both for being so shallow. Because that's all racism is: shallowness at its worse.
I won't stop criticizing political groups just because they masquerade behind race or religion. There is no god, religions are destructive and fallacious. Their believes are stupid and destructive, and I have every right to tell them exactly that. Race, skin colour, number of fingers, chromosomes, or fucking sexual preference are completely irrelevant things, and I have the right and obligation to call bullshit whenever anyone uses any such distinction, regardless of their status as oppressors/oppressed or winners/losers.
There are several figures in history that people honour, that I think should be desecrated for what they did and for what they were. Whore Theresa, Ghandi, Jozef Wojtyla (the fucking previous pope), Malcom Little and so many others where sincerely bad people. A racist catholic with a sadomasochism fetish, a racist pedophile and opportunist, a racist opus dei member that hated woman and helped pedophiles, and a violent muslim that wanted to segregate black people into their own country have no place being remembered as heroes.
You call me racist, when I have never discriminated against anyone on any grounds that weren't strictly ethical or political, just because I use some strong words. But you call a hero someone that actually ADVOCATED THE MURDERING OF BLACK PEOPLE IN SOUTH AFRICA, and BEGGED THE BRITISH TO INCORPORATE INDIANS IN THEIR MURDERING SQUADS.
Ghandi was a disgusting racist. He thought Indians were the superior race, and that blacks where inferior to them, and not real people.
He believed in the Caste system, where Skin colour determined who was on top. There are, according to this disgusting and racist system, 4 castes, ordered by how light the skin is, with black at the bottom.
He was in favor of the Zulu war (That was a massacre, not a war). He said that the white race was superior, and was meant to be the dominant race in South Africa.
On the other hand, RMS started a movement that changed the entire world, and provided us with incredibly useful tools, free for everyone, under non-discriminatory terms. The web revolution has been possible thanks to free software. Go to any hosting company and compare the pricing of windows and GNU/Linux hosting. Go check the price of some privative CMS software. Imagine companies like Google without GNU/Linux.
I have 10+ years of experience as a Unix sysadmin, and that article was a serious WTF.
1 - Linuxconf is nothing but old school. I am old school, and I rarely leave my emacs session. Linuxconf was a dumbed down, braindead tool, one of many. Certainly not old school. 2 - Computing is always a challenge, if he has lost that, it's because he stopped looking for new challenges, or maybe all he wanted was a working printer. In any case, I find more challenges now when I have to use one of the automatic-for-the-people distros like Ubuntu, and I ran into something that just doesn't work, and debugging is nearly impossible because everything is done in some crappy non-standard way, using DBs instead of config files, and everything is hidden from the user 3 - WTF. Just WTF. 4 - Install fests where anything but fun. We did them because we had to. Because we were trying to spread the word. We spent an entire saturday giving free tech support to ungrateful idiots, ended the day totally screwed up and tired like we just ran a marathon, then we got drunk and went home. Good ridance. 5 - The author manages to sound like a gay and nerdy twilight fan talking about his heroes. Torvalds is a jerk, if you want to look up to someone, think of RMS, he actually has made countless sacrifices so that we can have all the free software we enjoy everyday, and he actually funded the community that helped Linus get his kernel done, and provided the compiler, tools and the motherfucking rest of the OS. 6 - Last time I checked, I was still running X11 (Xorg) and a WM (Gnome). 7 - Wow, the gayness is back. 8 - The community never wanted games. We wanted GPL games, if anything. Loki was trying to pollute our beautiful environment with privative crap, and it's a good thing it's dead. 9 - I use Chrome with the emacs extension, typing this in emacs. Your editor is still inferior. Enjoy your beeping. 10 - That's probably one of the biggest issues of GNU/Linux. The grand reunification of all the efforts is going to come, eventually, but in the meantime, less distros is a very good thing for everybody.
Your thinking process (if I can call that thinking...) is so flawed.
You can't accept the fact that life simply evolved. To you, the idea that life and the universe just came to be is impossible. So you put god as a proxy. He created everything, and that's it. So, when I ask you who created god, and how did god get to be here, you just answer that god as always been, and he's eternal, and all that bullshit.
So, you say that god just exists, why do you need that proxy? Why can't the universe just exist?
Your justification for the existence of god nullifies your argument against evolution, therefore taking you back to there-is-no-god land.
Your kind are the worst thing that has ever happened to humanity, and I hope you are sterile and can't reproduce, so you don't further pollute our gene pool with your defective religious genes.
- It comes with windows, I don't give money to microsoft.
- It's plastic
- It's a thinkpad. I had a PII Thinkpad years ago. This ones look exactly the same, but on the wrong side of the century.
I have that feeling all the time, and it pisses me off. Sadly, the ONLY company producing quality right now (in that area) is apple.
It ain't just the screen and the unibody: the touchpad, the battery, the power supply, everything about it is awesome. Except the privative software, job's walled garden, and awful microsoft-like business practices. That's why I refuse to buy apple. What I want is a macbook-quality laptop with no software, no restrictions, and no logos or any other identifiable marks. NOBODY is producing such a thing. Same thing with tablets. What is so hard about it? Just take the best touchscreen you can get, the best camera, the best mobo with a good processor and lots of ram and stick Honeycomb in that motherfucker. How hard can it be? It isn't. I own several tablets: an aPad with Rockchip 2808A, a Wopad with Rockchip 2818, another generic one with W8505, another generic one with a Samsung S5PV210 and yet another generic with a Telechips 8902. None of them is what they are supposed to be. The Wopad has the beautiful aluminum body, and the awesome capacitive multitouch screen, but a crappy processor, only 256MB of RAM and crappy hardware acceleration, and the battery sucks. The Samsung S5PV210 is almost perfect regarding hardware, but the latest firmware for that one is Froyo, and the casing is awful cheap plastic, and it's resistive. The other ones are crap.
Why isn't there a single manufacturer that gets it, and starts producing hardware I would actually want to buy?
He does. He never liked the GPL, and didn't want to make his kernel free. He eventually did it, and then regretted it. That's why he refuses to switch to GPLv3, why he has failed to give credit to the FSF, and consistently worked to create confusion with the name of the system (Which was GNU before linus came along, and still is). He doesn't care about freedom at all.
There's nothing geeky about facebook and all the similar new age web 2.0 super mumbo jumbo. Real geeks don't use it, and hate those that do. So, not only is facebook the most retarded thing ever created, but its creator is a disgusting jew. So, no, as a geek, you shouldn't use facebut, and certainly shouldn't see a movie about a filthy jew that ripped people of to create a mind-numbing tool.
I'm not from the united states, and I wasn't talking specifically about them. I only spoke about "constitutional democracies"... in most of them, the states don't have as much power as they do in the US.
That is the most uninformed comment I've ever seen.
In every constitutional democracy the constitution is ABOVE everything. If a law, local or otherwise contradicts the constitution, it can be declared unconstitutional and derogated. If you have broken a law, and you can prove that the law was unconstitutional, you won't be prosecuted.
You don't need to ask permission to follow the constitution, and while following it, you can (in most countries) disregard laws if they conflict with the constitution.
You are completely disregarding the facts I presented. Windows has consistently failed in the mobile market, it has no marketshare, and this ain't gonna be different. Android, on the other hand, has been gaining marketshare every day, and all companies that went with it are relevant and successful. Nobody has ever talked about samsung's mobiles so much as they do since it released android phones.
This is incredible. It's hard to believe how stupid are some companies. Nokia had some awesome assets. How could they not see it?
- You are the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones - You own one of the best development frameworks in the world, a framework that is 100% cross platform, and totally Unix friendly - The world is changing. Windows is decaying on desktops. Unix runs most servers, many desktops (combining Apple + GNU/Linux + other free Unix-like systems), and is the biggest mobile player (33% Android + 16% Apple) - You have an awesome linux-based mobile platform (meego). - Microsoft has consistently failed on the mobile market, and is irrelevant - Every organization that has ever partnered with microsoft has lost, big time
So, the logical step is to throw away everything you have, ignore the market trend, and move to windows?
What. The. Fuck.
Partnering with Google, porting QT to Android, merging all cool meego functionality into Android, and cleaning up your product line didn't ever cross your mind, Nokia?
But you can see their main mistake was hiring Stephen Elop. Since he left Macromedia he couldn't hold a job for more than a year. Nothing screams failure like a CEO that roams through 3 companies in 2 years. And he got to Nokia from Microsoft. Really Nokia, just WTF.
Regardless, it doesn't seem to be the only company that doesn't get it. Most technology companies nowdays just plain don't get it. This morning I broke my samsung phone (android 1.6), so I bought a new one (Galaxy, 2.1 Eclair). It came with a shitload of crappy samsung apps, an awful theme, gmail replaced for some stupid mail app, and Yahoo as the search engine (can't be changed). I just rooted it, and installed Froyo. Looks awesome now. Why are technology companies boycotting themselves so badly lately? I just don't get it./rant
Maybe because we are looking for creatures that are sort of like us?
Sure, there are many extremophiles living on earth, but they are small, simple organisms. That's all that can thrive in those conditions. Sure, finding microorganisms outside of earth will be absolutely awesome, and we would learn a lot, but we would still feel like the only intelligent species on the planet. Our ultimate goal regarding the search for life in the universe, is to find other intelligent species, and we do know that more complex and intelligent organisms require certain conditions. The habitable zone is no guarantee, sure, but it's a start. Also, even if the impossible were possible, and we discovered that there are mammal-like creatures with advanced brains living in Jupiter, we know for a fact that a manned mission to Jupiter would be impossible. We are looking for advanced creatures living in planets that we could eventually visit without dying.
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Well, at least they were honest. They said 1984 was not going to be like "1984". It was 2010 that was going to be like "1984", they still needed a few years and job's walkabout to polish their techniques.
What pisses me off the most is people that think pc = windose. Well, if Apple is catholicism, and PCs with windorze are protestantism, then GNU/Linux is Atheism, and I'm so happy to be on that last side.
The late Ghandi? You mean the one that slept naked with small girls, and paraded himself like a demigod?
And don't mention my antisemitism like that's racism, I don't have the jews out of any racial bullshit, I hate them as a political and economical group, because that's what they are. They are a a huge political and economical organization that masquerades behind religion and race and a huge wall of guilt so they can go about their business without being questioned at all. They are a racist group that is currently murdering people to still their land, while gathering funding for that operation throughout the entire world. What's not to hate about that?
I don't buy bullshit. Call things for what they are. And cut the double standards. A black guy screaming 'black power' is as racist as a kkk member, he's just on the loosing side of the battle, and I hate them both for being so shallow. Because that's all racism is: shallowness at its worse.
I won't stop criticizing political groups just because they masquerade behind race or religion. There is no god, religions are destructive and fallacious. Their believes are stupid and destructive, and I have every right to tell them exactly that. Race, skin colour, number of fingers, chromosomes, or fucking sexual preference are completely irrelevant things, and I have the right and obligation to call bullshit whenever anyone uses any such distinction, regardless of their status as oppressors/oppressed or winners/losers.
There are several figures in history that people honour, that I think should be desecrated for what they did and for what they were. Whore Theresa, Ghandi, Jozef Wojtyla (the fucking previous pope), Malcom Little and so many others where sincerely bad people. A racist catholic with a sadomasochism fetish, a racist pedophile and opportunist, a racist opus dei member that hated woman and helped pedophiles, and a violent muslim that wanted to segregate black people into their own country have no place being remembered as heroes.
You call me racist, when I have never discriminated against anyone on any grounds that weren't strictly ethical or political, just because I use some strong words. But you call a hero someone that actually ADVOCATED THE MURDERING OF BLACK PEOPLE IN SOUTH AFRICA, and BEGGED THE BRITISH TO INCORPORATE INDIANS IN THEIR MURDERING SQUADS.
Actually, that was Bill Hicks, during his famous "suck your own cock" routine ;)
They are both fucking awesome, so the confusion is understandable :)
Mein Fhurer! I can walk!
Ghandi was a disgusting racist. He thought Indians were the superior race, and that blacks where inferior to them, and not real people.
He believed in the Caste system, where Skin colour determined who was on top. There are, according to this disgusting and racist system, 4 castes, ordered by how light the skin is, with black at the bottom.
He was in favor of the Zulu war (That was a massacre, not a war). He said that the white race was superior, and was meant to be the dominant race in South Africa.
On the other hand, RMS started a movement that changed the entire world, and provided us with incredibly useful tools, free for everyone, under non-discriminatory terms. The web revolution has been possible thanks to free software. Go to any hosting company and compare the pricing of windows and GNU/Linux hosting. Go check the price of some privative CMS software. Imagine companies like Google without GNU/Linux.
So, yes, I'll take RMS over Ghandi any day.
I have 10+ years of experience as a Unix sysadmin, and that article was a serious WTF.
1 - Linuxconf is nothing but old school. I am old school, and I rarely leave my emacs session. Linuxconf was a dumbed down, braindead tool, one of many. Certainly not old school.
2 - Computing is always a challenge, if he has lost that, it's because he stopped looking for new challenges, or maybe all he wanted was a working printer. In any case, I find more challenges now when I have to use one of the automatic-for-the-people distros like Ubuntu, and I ran into something that just doesn't work, and debugging is nearly impossible because everything is done in some crappy non-standard way, using DBs instead of config files, and everything is hidden from the user
3 - WTF. Just WTF.
4 - Install fests where anything but fun. We did them because we had to. Because we were trying to spread the word. We spent an entire saturday giving free tech support to ungrateful idiots, ended the day totally screwed up and tired like we just ran a marathon, then we got drunk and went home. Good ridance.
5 - The author manages to sound like a gay and nerdy twilight fan talking about his heroes. Torvalds is a jerk, if you want to look up to someone, think of RMS, he actually has made countless sacrifices so that we can have all the free software we enjoy everyday, and he actually funded the community that helped Linus get his kernel done, and provided the compiler, tools and the motherfucking rest of the OS.
6 - Last time I checked, I was still running X11 (Xorg) and a WM (Gnome).
7 - Wow, the gayness is back.
8 - The community never wanted games. We wanted GPL games, if anything. Loki was trying to pollute our beautiful environment with privative crap, and it's a good thing it's dead.
9 - I use Chrome with the emacs extension, typing this in emacs. Your editor is still inferior. Enjoy your beeping.
10 - That's probably one of the biggest issues of GNU/Linux. The grand reunification of all the efforts is going to come, eventually, but in the meantime, less distros is a very good thing for everybody.
Your thinking process (if I can call that thinking ...) is so flawed.
You can't accept the fact that life simply evolved. To you, the idea that life and the universe just came to be is impossible. So you put god as a proxy. He created everything, and that's it. So, when I ask you who created god, and how did god get to be here, you just answer that god as always been, and he's eternal, and all that bullshit.
So, you say that god just exists, why do you need that proxy? Why can't the universe just exist?
Your justification for the existence of god nullifies your argument against evolution, therefore taking you back to there-is-no-god land.
Your kind are the worst thing that has ever happened to humanity, and I hope you are sterile and can't reproduce, so you don't further pollute our gene pool with your defective religious genes.
They cost more than a macbook and they ship with windows. I don't give money to microsoft.
- It comes with windows, I don't give money to microsoft.
- It's plastic
- It's a thinkpad. I had a PII Thinkpad years ago. This ones look exactly the same, but on the wrong side of the century.
I have that feeling all the time, and it pisses me off. Sadly, the ONLY company producing quality right now (in that area) is apple.
It ain't just the screen and the unibody: the touchpad, the battery, the power supply, everything about it is awesome. Except the privative software, job's walled garden, and awful microsoft-like business practices. That's why I refuse to buy apple. What I want is a macbook-quality laptop with no software, no restrictions, and no logos or any other identifiable marks. NOBODY is producing such a thing. Same thing with tablets. What is so hard about it? Just take the best touchscreen you can get, the best camera, the best mobo with a good processor and lots of ram and stick Honeycomb in that motherfucker. How hard can it be? It isn't. I own several tablets: an aPad with Rockchip 2808A, a Wopad with Rockchip 2818, another generic one with W8505, another generic one with a Samsung S5PV210 and yet another generic with a Telechips 8902. None of them is what they are supposed to be. The Wopad has the beautiful aluminum body, and the awesome capacitive multitouch screen, but a crappy processor, only 256MB of RAM and crappy hardware acceleration, and the battery sucks. The Samsung S5PV210 is almost perfect regarding hardware, but the latest firmware for that one is Froyo, and the casing is awful cheap plastic, and it's resistive. The other ones are crap.
Why isn't there a single manufacturer that gets it, and starts producing hardware I would actually want to buy?
He does. He never liked the GPL, and didn't want to make his kernel free. He eventually did it, and then regretted it. That's why he refuses to switch to GPLv3, why he has failed to give credit to the FSF, and consistently worked to create confusion with the name of the system (Which was GNU before linus came along, and still is). He doesn't care about freedom at all.
That's not geeky, that's just plain stupid.
There's nothing geeky about facebook and all the similar new age web 2.0 super mumbo jumbo. Real geeks don't use it, and hate those that do.
So, not only is facebook the most retarded thing ever created, but its creator is a disgusting jew. So, no, as a geek, you shouldn't use facebut, and certainly shouldn't see a movie about a filthy jew that ripped people of to create a mind-numbing tool.
Writing it as anything but dysxelia is -1 too.
I'm not from the united states, and I wasn't talking specifically about them. I only spoke about "constitutional democracies" ... in most of them, the states don't have as much power as they do in the US.
That is the most uninformed comment I've ever seen.
In every constitutional democracy the constitution is ABOVE everything. If a law, local or otherwise contradicts the constitution, it can be declared unconstitutional and derogated. If you have broken a law, and you can prove that the law was unconstitutional, you won't be prosecuted.
You don't need to ask permission to follow the constitution, and while following it, you can (in most countries) disregard laws if they conflict with the constitution.
In 2006 I was using a Motorola A1200, a fucking Linux-based phone. The screen was too small to use without a stylus, but it was still awesome.
No, the reason he didn't accept it as evidence is that it would:
a) establish jurisprudence.
b) held him liable.
I wish you weren't replying to me so I could mod you up (awesome)
Apple had a very special relationship with microsoft, and they knew how to pull their strings, everyone else, just lost.
You mean my carrier asked for all the samsung-branded apps? Come on.
Anyway, I rooted and changed the firmware, so I don't really care.
You are completely disregarding the facts I presented. Windows has consistently failed in the mobile market, it has no marketshare, and this ain't gonna be different. Android, on the other hand, has been gaining marketshare every day, and all companies that went with it are relevant and successful. Nobody has ever talked about samsung's mobiles so much as they do since it released android phones.
This is incredible. It's hard to believe how stupid are some companies. Nokia had some awesome assets. How could they not see it?
- You are the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones
- You own one of the best development frameworks in the world, a framework that is 100% cross platform, and totally Unix friendly
- The world is changing. Windows is decaying on desktops. Unix runs most servers, many desktops (combining Apple + GNU/Linux + other free Unix-like systems), and is the biggest mobile player (33% Android + 16% Apple)
- You have an awesome linux-based mobile platform (meego).
- Microsoft has consistently failed on the mobile market, and is irrelevant
- Every organization that has ever partnered with microsoft has lost, big time
So, the logical step is to throw away everything you have, ignore the market trend, and move to windows?
What. The. Fuck.
Partnering with Google, porting QT to Android, merging all cool meego functionality into Android, and cleaning up your product line didn't ever cross your mind, Nokia?
But you can see their main mistake was hiring Stephen Elop. Since he left Macromedia he couldn't hold a job for more than a year. Nothing screams failure like a CEO that roams through 3 companies in 2 years. And he got to Nokia from Microsoft. Really Nokia, just WTF.
Regardless, it doesn't seem to be the only company that doesn't get it. Most technology companies nowdays just plain don't get it. This morning I broke my samsung phone (android 1.6), so I bought a new one (Galaxy, 2.1 Eclair). It came with a shitload of crappy samsung apps, an awful theme, gmail replaced for some stupid mail app, and Yahoo as the search engine (can't be changed). I just rooted it, and installed Froyo. Looks awesome now. Why are technology companies boycotting themselves so badly lately? I just don't get it. /rant
You know what I hate? People that don't use reply to all, and force me to forward emails I receive. Idiots.
She actually has different ASNs, one for each timezone she spans.
Maybe because we are looking for creatures that are sort of like us?
Sure, there are many extremophiles living on earth, but they are small, simple organisms. That's all that can thrive in those conditions. Sure, finding microorganisms outside of earth will be absolutely awesome, and we would learn a lot, but we would still feel like the only intelligent species on the planet. Our ultimate goal regarding the search for life in the universe, is to find other intelligent species, and we do know that more complex and intelligent organisms require certain conditions. The habitable zone is no guarantee, sure, but it's a start.
Also, even if the impossible were possible, and we discovered that there are mammal-like creatures with advanced brains living in Jupiter, we know for a fact that a manned mission to Jupiter would be impossible. We are looking for advanced creatures living in planets that we could eventually visit without dying.