What praying actually does is self-hypnosis. You close your eyes, go into a relaxed state and send programming to your mind... all the prerequisites for hypnosis. In other religions this is known as meditation.
Perhaps this is also how humans and other species evolve as well. By instructing their minds to change to meet problems.
Taking the metaphor then, if one "prays" to "God", then it explains a lot about the combined identity of God.
This is great. When I get another free day off I'm going to try this out. If it makes me a lot in consulting and hence improves my CV, then all the better for me.
The thing with articles like NGJ, is that readers can sometimes get confused. That is to say that some readers need an instant buying decision and those percentage scores often help them.
Of course, they'd probably like the works of creative journalism as well, but it gets tricky to include commentary articles about products because you run the risk of annoying the reader when they're looking for a percentage score and find that there is none.
"We have still room to sclae the chip through 2005 and 2006 and expect the chip to be the best performing enthusiast and gaming processor," (sic) from article.
I wonder how one sclaes a chip through several years?;)
I didn't see it as antagonism so much, but you are of course entitled to your impression and view of the world and I won't deny you that.
I perceived the article to have Cox and Torvalds making friendly jabs at each other. I'm sure both their personalities are hackable and fixable by others as much as the Linux source they both work on is.
There are so many virus definitions out there these days that occasionally hotmail rejects one of my clean attachments because the binary code in the archived attachment accidently happens to have a virus definition in it.
RIAA Bastards (Sung to the tune of "Radio Ga Ga" by Queen)
I sit alone and watch the lights, on my PC for several nights. And ev'rything I want to load, I find it on the net, you know
You gave us all those boyband stars. Their CD price -- a total farce. You made 'em sing - which made us cry. We just want all those bands to die
RIAA
You'll just become some background noise, suing groups of girls and boys, who just don't know and just don't care, about your new idea of "fair"
You had your time, you've had the power. You're going to have your final hour
RIAA
All we hear is, RIAA bastards, RIAA sue you, RIAA wankers.
All we hear is, RIAA retards, RIAA blah blah
Peer to peer is new. RIAA no one now needs you!
We taped CDs - we dubbed the stars, off radio for hours and hours. Now we swap files amongst our peers, The tech just changes through the years
Let's hope you leave 'cause you're no friend. Like all good things they come to an end. Don't stick around, as we won't miss you. We're growing tired of all your bullshit
You had your time, you've had the power. You're going to have your final hour
RIAA
All we hear is, RIAA bastards, RIAA screw you, RIAA smacktards.
All we hear is, RIAA wankers, RIAA losers, RIAA ha ha.
All we hear is, RIAA retards, RIAA blah blah
Peer to Peer is new. RIAA, no one now needs you!
RIAA bastards, RIAA bastards, RIAA bastards
RIAA
You had your time you've had the power. You're going to have your final hour
RIAA
While I think the issue of drivers is an important one, WHY must some people even give credence to Dvorak's heated columns - knowing full well that he always writes something sensational and occasionally ridiculous - simply to work the ad banners on his site.
Personally, I'm quite fine with managing Debian thank you very much.
Unfortunately when it comes to your employers wanting to try out Linux, they are going to go the whole hog and demand a solution - backed up by a company with a contact number, who will move mountains to serve them in the event that they just happen to just *think* on the spur of the moment (and without any basis in rational argument), that their product blows.
Unfortunately, none of the free distros can offer that service ("service" being the key word here)
FreeBSD is sure nice, but unless you've administered it for a considerable amount of time, you'll know it has its upgrade shortcomings (and that lack of support thing). Not to mention that it will scare the bejeezuz out of somebody who hasn't seen C compile, CVSup work, and "make buildworld" run before, and would probably send an unexperienced MCSE admin running away with their head between their legs.
Red Hat not only has the support option for their enterprise releases, but they also provide a STABLE platform for certain commercial applications (such as enterprise security/backup/management software) that you might want to run.
That's not to say that RedHat is my favourite distro... but since they make more money than me, I will shut up.
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There is a Commodore 64 version of that game in BASIC.
LOOK HERE
I think this just boils down to a case of peer pressure. The geeks are having their abilities judged by other people and in this case math professors.
Socially untrained geeks are more likely to strive to impress other people or avoid getting themselves into sticky social situations IMHO. Meanwhile, all the socially adapted people just didn't care what everyone was going to think, and did things their way.
In essence, it's not the situation that pressured the geeks, but rather the geeks pressuring THEMSELVES when they didn't really have to.
Actually, judging by some of the responses to my original post, you made a very good point.
If slahsdot readers wrote documentation, it'd start out by insulting you, telling you to find some text configuration file in some remote folder, and insult you again when it tells you that you should know how to fix it.
Linus is really talking about OS developers, and people who tikner with the source code. Not so much the sys admins and sales people. I think it's a fair enough comment. Only those with a passion for coding will motivate themselves to excel at it.
In my experience, all the money motivated people that got into IT want to desperately jump on the Microsoft bandwagon. They saw how software licencing could be a total money rort (thanks to the MS experience) they wanted a piece of the pie. When they failed to get into MS, they turned into IT sales managers.
I've met good sales managers, and bad ones of course. The difference is that good sales managers do their job PRIMARILY because they gain satisfaction from helping people. The bad sales managers are only motivated to sell the product as fast as they can and wrangle as much money as they can in the deal. And they're also a pain to be around.
I won't ask "who makes more money?" because the answer is misleading. I will ask "Who enjoys their job more, has a happier less stressful life, and plenty of friends?" and the answer is quite clear.
Who sleeps better at night? Bill or Linus? That's the real question.
True. Documentation for Linux is still pretty sparse in distributions.
Many average joe's expect there to be a help icon somewhere in the distro. I know Linspire has one, and Windoes always has it's "Help" tab and chm files.
Frankly who the heck is going to bother with the man pages and the command line? I know I will cause I'm a sysadmin, but my mother would have a heart attack upon seeing the command line! Anyone who intends to use the command line will have to learn about it from a GUI first, and quite frankly, I can't see the documentation for that in Gnome at the moment.
Maybe it's time the distributions (or Gnome or KDE or whoever) provided us with some decent pdfs from tldp and stuck them in their packages. Maybe it's time that all the linux zealots stopped posting on slashdot so much and helped out....
The Gnome "help" function is really sparse and doesn't go into enough detail. I'm using the latest version, and the "find" function is hidden in the menu bar. To add injury to insult, a search on "mp3" yields nothing. Now imagine you are a cluser who wants to know where the mp3 app is....
All my folks back home are stuck on dial-up. The pricing is just not competitive enough to make them want to switch. They can get most of what they want done over dial up. Local calls aren't timed either. It has to happen eventually. My mother will go insane if my father keeps using her phone line for the PC.
------ halt Whoops. I confused my laptop's terminal for the production mail server's.
Umm.... I think you could actually do this with some kind of PERL script. You set up a user agent to access slashdot every so often, hit the right buttons, and post an inane message.
I think slahdot has adequate defense against this in the moderation system though. Too many -1 moderations and the user (in this case an account for a bot) gets a temporary ban.
There was one thing I never understood from the plot of Terminator 3.
Skynet acted like a virus and operated over the internet by turning all the computers in the world into a huge cluster.
At the end of the movie, skynet blows the world to smithereens, but somehow still continues to function despite undoubtedly nuking a huge proportion of it's own computational infrastructure!
The grapevine says that AOL is currently having a few issues with people not being able to connect from AOL to other networks which AOL has blocked. So bad, in fact, that this is the last straw for many of their customers.
Some people I know think that AOL is using their netscape brand as an attempt to divert their operations onto a brand with not such a long history in customer complaints.....then again, I could be completely wrong......
This is nothing compared to the brilliance of the Milton Bradley (tm) Pac-man Board Game!
1-4 players have their own coloured pacman as they attempt to eat as many dots out of the maze as possible. You have two 6-sidewd dice. One roll moves your pacman around the maze. The other roll moves one of the two ghosts around the maze. A player using a ghosts to eat a players results in a trade of pellets with the unlucky player. There are 4 power pellets which act as get-out-of-jail-free cards should you get munched... but you have to get them before everyone else.
And believe it or not, the board game was quite fun to play back then! (cue lots of swearing when one of your friends makes the ghost eat you)
Slashdot Mirror
... .... .....in Japan.
See you all there!
You sure you don't have a motherboard with one of those onboard ATI IXP chipsets?
What praying actually does is self-hypnosis. You close your eyes, go into a relaxed state and send programming to your mind... all the prerequisites for hypnosis. In other religions this is known as meditation. Perhaps this is also how humans and other species evolve as well. By instructing their minds to change to meet problems. Taking the metaphor then, if one "prays" to "God", then it explains a lot about the combined identity of God.
This is great. When I get another free day off I'm going to try this out. If it makes me a lot in consulting and hence improves my CV, then all the better for me.
Thanks Asterisk!
The thing with articles like NGJ, is that readers can sometimes get confused. That is to say that some readers need an instant buying decision and those percentage scores often help them. Of course, they'd probably like the works of creative journalism as well, but it gets tricky to include commentary articles about products because you run the risk of annoying the reader when they're looking for a percentage score and find that there is none.
I wonder how one sclaes a chip through several years? ;)
I didn't see it as antagonism so much, but you are of course entitled to your impression and view of the world and I won't deny you that.
I perceived the article to have Cox and Torvalds making friendly jabs at each other.
I'm sure both their personalities are hackable and fixable by others as much as the Linux source they both work on is.
There are so many virus definitions out there these days that occasionally hotmail rejects one of my clean attachments because the binary code in the archived attachment accidently happens to have a virus definition in it.
Yes, it is that bad.
I, for one, welcome our invisible robo-army overlords.
I sit alone and watch the lights, on my PC for several nights. And ev'rything I want to load, I find it on the net, you know
You gave us all those boyband stars. Their CD price -- a total farce. You made 'em sing - which made us cry. We just want all those bands to die
RIAA
You'll just become some background noise, suing groups of girls and boys, who just don't know and just don't care, about your new idea of "fair"
You had your time, you've had the power. You're going to have your final hour
RIAA
All we hear is, RIAA bastards, RIAA sue you, RIAA wankers.
All we hear is, RIAA retards, RIAA blah blah
Peer to peer is new. RIAA no one now needs you!
We taped CDs - we dubbed the stars, off radio for hours and hours. Now we swap files amongst our peers, The tech just changes through the years
Let's hope you leave 'cause you're no friend. Like all good things they come to an end. Don't stick around, as we won't miss you. We're growing tired of all your bullshit
You had your time, you've had the power. You're going to have your final hour
RIAA
All we hear is, RIAA bastards, RIAA screw you, RIAA smacktards.
All we hear is, RIAA wankers, RIAA losers, RIAA ha ha.
All we hear is, RIAA retards, RIAA blah blah
Peer to Peer is new. RIAA, no one now needs you!
RIAA bastards, RIAA bastards, RIAA bastards
RIAA
You had your time you've had the power. You're going to have your final hour
RIAA
While I think the issue of drivers is an important one, WHY must some people even give credence to Dvorak's heated columns - knowing full well that he always writes something sensational and occasionally ridiculous - simply to work the ad banners on his site.
Well, if it plays anything like Namco's "Speed Racer" game (which was actually a lot like Mario Kart), then it will be a really playable game.
I agree.
Personally, I'm quite fine with managing Debian thank you very much.
Unfortunately when it comes to your employers wanting to try out Linux, they are going to go the whole hog and demand a solution - backed up by a company with a contact number, who will move mountains to serve them in the event that they just happen to just *think* on the spur of the moment (and without any basis in rational argument), that their product blows.
Unfortunately, none of the free distros can offer that service ("service" being the key word here)
FreeBSD is sure nice, but unless you've administered it for a considerable amount of time, you'll know it has its upgrade shortcomings (and that lack of support thing). Not to mention that it will scare the bejeezuz out of somebody who hasn't seen C compile, CVSup work, and "make buildworld" run before, and would probably send an unexperienced MCSE admin running away with their head between their legs.
Red Hat not only has the support option for their enterprise releases, but they also provide a STABLE platform for certain commercial applications (such as enterprise security/backup/management software) that you might want to run.
That's not to say that RedHat is my favourite distro... but since they make more money than me, I will shut up.
There is a Commodore 64 version of that game in BASIC. LOOK HERE
I think this just boils down to a case of peer pressure. The geeks are having their abilities judged by other people and in this case math professors.
Socially untrained geeks are more likely to strive to impress other people or avoid getting themselves into sticky social situations IMHO. Meanwhile, all the socially adapted people just didn't care what everyone was going to think, and did things their way.
In essence, it's not the situation that pressured the geeks, but rather the geeks pressuring THEMSELVES when they didn't really have to.
If you have FreeBSD, try this:-
/usr/src/games/fortune/datfiles/limerick*
grep -r fuck
(Not Safe For Work)
uh.... they are!
Actually, judging by some of the responses to my original post, you made a very good point.
If slahsdot readers wrote documentation, it'd start out by insulting you, telling you to find some text configuration file in some remote folder, and insult you again when it tells you that you should know how to fix it.
Linus is really talking about OS developers, and people who tikner with the source code. Not so much the sys admins and sales people. I think it's a fair enough comment. Only those with a passion for coding will motivate themselves to excel at it.
In my experience, all the money motivated people that got into IT want to desperately jump on the Microsoft bandwagon. They saw how software licencing could be a total money rort (thanks to the MS experience) they wanted a piece of the pie.
When they failed to get into MS, they turned into IT sales managers.
I've met good sales managers, and bad ones of course. The difference is that good sales managers do their job PRIMARILY because they gain satisfaction from helping people.
The bad sales managers are only motivated to sell the product as fast as they can and wrangle as much money as they can in the deal. And they're also a pain to be around.
I won't ask "who makes more money?" because the answer is misleading. I will ask "Who enjoys their job more, has a happier less stressful life, and plenty of friends?" and the answer is quite clear.
Who sleeps better at night? Bill or Linus?
That's the real question.
True. Documentation for Linux is still pretty sparse in distributions.
Many average joe's expect there to be a help icon somewhere in the distro. I know Linspire has one, and Windoes always has it's "Help" tab and chm files.
Frankly who the heck is going to bother with the man pages and the command line? I know I will cause I'm a sysadmin, but my mother would have a heart attack upon seeing the command line! Anyone who intends to use the command line will have to learn about it from a GUI first, and quite frankly, I can't see the documentation for that in Gnome at the moment.
Maybe it's time the distributions (or Gnome or KDE or whoever) provided us with some decent pdfs from tldp and stuck them in their packages. Maybe it's time that all the linux zealots stopped posting on slashdot so much and helped out....
The Gnome "help" function is really sparse and doesn't go into enough detail. I'm using the latest version, and the "find" function is hidden in the menu bar. To add injury to insult, a search on "mp3" yields nothing.
Now imagine you are a cluser who wants to know where the mp3 app is....
All my folks back home are stuck on dial-up. The pricing is just not competitive enough to make them want to switch. They can get most of what they want done over dial up.
Local calls aren't timed either.
It has to happen eventually. My mother will go insane if my father keeps using her phone line for the PC.
------
halt
Whoops. I confused my laptop's terminal for the production mail server's.
Umm.... I think you could actually do this with some kind of PERL script. You set up a user agent to access slashdot every so often, hit the right buttons, and post an inane message. I think slahdot has adequate defense against this in the moderation system though. Too many -1 moderations and the user (in this case an account for a bot) gets a temporary ban.
There was one thing I never understood from the plot of Terminator 3.
Skynet acted like a virus and operated over the internet by turning all the computers in the world into a huge cluster.
At the end of the movie, skynet blows the world to smithereens, but somehow still continues to function despite undoubtedly nuking a huge proportion of it's own computational infrastructure!
The grapevine says that AOL is currently having a few issues with people not being able to connect from AOL to other networks which AOL has blocked. So bad, in fact, that this is the last straw for many of their customers.
....then again, I could be completely wrong......
Some people I know think that AOL is using their netscape brand as an attempt to divert their operations onto a brand with not such a long history in customer complaints.
This is nothing compared to the brilliance of the Milton Bradley (tm) Pac-man Board Game!
1-4 players have their own coloured pacman as they attempt to eat as many dots out of the maze as possible. You have two 6-sidewd dice. One roll moves your pacman around the maze. The other roll moves one of the two ghosts around the maze. A player using a ghosts to eat a players results in a trade of pellets with the unlucky player. There are 4 power pellets which act as get-out-of-jail-free cards should you get munched... but you have to get them before everyone else.
And believe it or not, the board game was quite fun to play back then! (cue lots of swearing when one of your friends makes the ghost eat you)