It's from TFA, but it found a sympathetic/. story editor.
I mean... "Wrestling with the devil in a pit of molten steel?"
It's only a quick (and short-of-breath) waddle to the next degree of Knowlesian Hyperbole, in which the speaker proclaims his delight in receiving a tremendous albeit figurative kick in his literally gargantuan buttocks.
Hombre, you are on Slashdot. Complaining to Americans that your country is swinging to the Right is like complaining to Jim Bakker that your wife wears too much make-up.
If China respected foreign investors' money sufficiently, we wouldn't be censuring China either.
India is the "largest democracy in the world" but if there is social justice there, then I'm CowboyNeal and I have a date tonight.
Capitalism wants cheap labour and Western Politics is the art of smooth-talking mostly ignorant NIMBY voters. Western leaders don't have the guts to stand for and live by principles and the truth is that most of the people in the West don't have the guts either.
"Outbeat"... It's not a known verb, but "to beat out" is valid although not formal. If we take "outbeat" seriously (this is Slashdot, where we can get into a tizzy for less), "outbeat" suggests:
1. to beat more (victims) than others who are beating 2. to out-drum other drummers 3. if spelled "outbeet", to turn more red in the face in shame than any other competitor in the Shame Olympics
I could see SCO outbeeting several competitors. The final match against Microsoft would be a tough call, though.
Why would you expect the public to feel any special sympathy for tech support workers when you didn't support the farmers, autoworkers and shoe-manufactureres who suffered before you?
Special sympathy? No, these examples are all bad.
The plight of the farmers is different and much more serious. There, we have betrayed ourselves. But let us not discuss it... This is/. where food means 2-for-1 pizza and 10 cups of coffee.
Yes, an employee might be asked to train a replacement. But in this case, the replacement is bringing value to the employer (as a less expensive employee) and taking value away from the community and the country.
The employee losing the job is still part of the community and country. Are you prepared to say that the Global Economy makes communities and countries irrelevant?
Most people don't question where money comes from as long as they get it, and people who get rich seem to forget the community and country that helped them become successful.
Out-sourcing to workers outside your country is a betrayal. If you can look calmly at this phenomenon of the Global Economy, it's because you and those whom you love have not been affected.
If all the Chinese want to do is eavesdrop, please pick up your telephone, dial any number, and let the NSA know that you feel much safer because of your government's security measures.
Ya like Im watching the grey haired guy win Idol altho I would of picked the hot chick. I should of been studying and the next day the teacher totally rags me out for flunking the test. She's like, you have to study more, and I'm like, i know that, do you think i'm stupid?
I mean, what are they teaching teachers these days?
So this summer i landed a McJob flipping burgers and my supervisor is this ESL immigrant lewser from my math class whose a total outcast. What's up with that?
Please have the tireless generosity to note that all my future meta-moderation and precocious-buttock repartee will henceforth be conveyed to your worthy consideration by "Smitty" and "Pete" in Bangalore.
be it Linux or FreeBSD, or you'll get bitten by the missing/broken essential program that I really wanted problem
I understand your generalisation but you cannot dismiss Ubuntu's success this way.
Ubuntu on AMD64 has been nigh-perfect for both essential and "nice-to-have" tools. And Synaptic is far, far ahead of ports management on FreeBSD.
I'm glad to hear that Java is available for FreeBSD now. But that wasn't the only misery that I encountered, as I said. Ubuntu has performed brilliantly on this computer and has not wasted even 15 minutes of my time.
I suffered through FreeBSD 5.3 and 5.4 on an AMD64 box. Trying to build Java (because of Sun's restrictions) and OpenOffice, trying to get KDE or Gnome stable, and managing the ports tree were horrible experiences comparable to installing OS/2 2.1.
Then 5.4 crashed fatally because of a file-system problem. I had a choice: try FreeBSD 6.0 or try Ubuntu.
I chose Ubuntu and it has been bliss. I wish I had never even bothered with FreeBSD.
Your mileage may vary, but Ubuntu got me there on a quarter-tank... whereas FreeBSD consistently just tanked.
of course, a thousand people who love their work will get more work done than ten people that love their work
This is not always true. As one increases the number of humans, one increases the inherent inefficiency.
A more interesting question is whether a thousand people who love their work can do more work than 10 people who ~hate~ one another. (I'll let you know how it turns out. CV available upon request.)
The BBC can be pointless if its senior management so decrees, but I can't stand their use of REAL.
I have gone beyond joking, BBC! I am holding Mike Myers prisoner in a dark cell in my basement. If you do not cease forcing innocent people to defile themselves with REAL video within 7 seven days, I will release the virus Myers. Then there shall be such a catastrophic spreading of Austin Powers sequels that England shall be forced to re-unite the Spice Girls to get some international respect.
"Flawlessness" is unattainable. No intelligent design team would aim for it. But reasonable security via a reasonable effort is certainly attainable. UNIX is proof.
Is it possible to design an easy to use, accessible, and reliable application that has no security holes?
These are not even the worst years of M-Windows; the worst years of M-Windows were when there was not even ~reasonable~ security in the design of the OS. Then the poor simpleton was encouraged to wander the mean streets of the Internet.
Now the simpleton has been equipped with a bike helmet, one knee pad, and a small radio that tells him how simple he is.;o)
Ease of use certainly can be built within a secure system. Look at Gnome and KDE atop UNIX and Linux; moreover, look at OS X.
I think not, but if you could, you may become richer than Gates himself.
Gates and his lieutenants got very rich with little consideration being given to security in his company's products.
Jobs and his team did turn a dying company around and get rich, in part, by using good OS technology and making it easy to use.
Torvalds and Friends created a clone of UNIX using GNU tools (hello, RMS), and the clone is an excellent OS that is now very easy to use. (See Ubuntu.)
But Jobs isn't as rich or richer than Gates, and Torvalds makes less than Gates' chauffeur. So my argument must be flawed.;o)
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It's from TFA, but it found a sympathetic /. story editor.
I mean... "Wrestling with the devil in a pit of molten steel?"
It's only a quick (and short-of-breath) waddle to the next degree of Knowlesian Hyperbole, in which the speaker proclaims his delight in receiving a tremendous albeit figurative kick in his literally gargantuan buttocks.
So Taco, when did Harry Knowles join the editorial staff?
Hombre, you are on Slashdot. Complaining to Americans that your country is swinging to the Right is like complaining to Jim Bakker that your wife wears too much make-up.
Labodomy - having one's lips ripped off by Tie Domi (Toronto Maple Leafs)
Frontal - from the front
If China respected foreign investors' money sufficiently, we wouldn't be censuring China either.
India is the "largest democracy in the world" but if there is social justice there, then I'm CowboyNeal and I have a date tonight.
Capitalism wants cheap labour and Western Politics is the art of smooth-talking mostly ignorant NIMBY voters. Western leaders don't have the guts to stand for and live by principles and the truth is that most of the people in the West don't have the guts either.
"Outbeat"... It's not a known verb, but "to beat out" is valid although not formal. If we take "outbeat" seriously (this is Slashdot, where we can get into a tizzy for less), "outbeat" suggests:
1. to beat more (victims) than others who are beating
2. to out-drum other drummers
3. if spelled "outbeet", to turn more red in the face in shame than any other competitor in the Shame Olympics
I could see SCO outbeeting several competitors. The final match against Microsoft would be a tough call, though.
Why would you expect the public to feel any special sympathy for tech support workers when you didn't support the farmers, autoworkers and shoe-manufactureres who suffered before you?
/. where food means 2-for-1 pizza and 10 cups of coffee.
Special sympathy? No, these examples are all bad.
The plight of the farmers is different and much more serious. There, we have betrayed ourselves. But let us not discuss it... This is
Yes, an employee might be asked to train a replacement. But in this case, the replacement is bringing value to the employer (as a less expensive employee) and taking value away from the community and the country.
The employee losing the job is still part of the community and country. Are you prepared to say that the Global Economy makes communities and countries irrelevant?
Most people don't question where money comes from as long as they get it, and people who get rich seem to forget the community and country that helped them become successful.
Out-sourcing to workers outside your country is a betrayal. If you can look calmly at this phenomenon of the Global Economy, it's because you and those whom you love have not been affected.
Yet.
I'd like to say that the Captious Grammarians afflicting Slashdot must be stopped or... Oh no! I used the conditional verb tense in a casual manner!
Well, they haven't introduced an "iPod Killer" yet...
They can use the Grid to generate and distribute résumés faster than ever before.
If all the Chinese want to do is eavesdrop, please pick up your telephone, dial any number, and let the NSA know that you feel much safer because of your government's security measures.
Ya like Im watching the grey haired guy win Idol altho I would of picked the hot chick. I should of been studying and the next day the teacher totally rags me out for flunking the test. She's like, you have to study more, and I'm like, i know that, do you think i'm stupid?
I mean, what are they teaching teachers these days?
So this summer i landed a McJob flipping burgers and my supervisor is this ESL immigrant lewser from my math class whose a total outcast. What's up with that?
It's an honour, Sir.
:o)
If your organisation is hiring, perhaps you could brighten ~my~ day.
All they have to do is rebrand their anti-virus product "PC Anywhere SE".
"This is a big outreach campaign for developers," said Hailing MacIntels, senior director of futility computing at Sun.
"We're reaching out and we're saying, 'SAVE US PLEEEEAAASE!'"
Please have the tireless generosity to note that all my future meta-moderation and precocious-buttock repartee will henceforth be conveyed to your worthy consideration by "Smitty" and "Pete" in Bangalore.
Does it also mean that there is ONE LESS OS that can be cited in the 15-year long kernel dispute between Andy Tanenbaum and Linus Torvalds?
Every little bit helps!
Just so I fully grasp your analogy, do you mean Perl < 6.0, which was damnably hard to read, or Perl >= 6.0, which will be impossible to understand?
I understand your generalisation but you cannot dismiss Ubuntu's success this way.
Ubuntu on AMD64 has been nigh-perfect for both essential and "nice-to-have" tools. And Synaptic is far, far ahead of ports management on FreeBSD.
I'm glad to hear that Java is available for FreeBSD now. But that wasn't the only misery that I encountered, as I said. Ubuntu has performed brilliantly on this computer and has not wasted even 15 minutes of my time.
FreeBSD was a very bad previous relationship.
I suffered through FreeBSD 5.3 and 5.4 on an AMD64 box. Trying to build Java (because of Sun's restrictions) and OpenOffice, trying to get KDE or Gnome stable, and managing the ports tree were horrible experiences comparable to installing OS/2 2.1.
Then 5.4 crashed fatally because of a file-system problem. I had a choice: try FreeBSD 6.0 or try Ubuntu.
I chose Ubuntu and it has been bliss. I wish I had never even bothered with FreeBSD.
Your mileage may vary, but Ubuntu got me there on a quarter-tank... whereas FreeBSD consistently just tanked.
This is not always true. As one increases the number of humans, one increases the inherent inefficiency.
A more interesting question is whether a thousand people who love their work can do more work than 10 people who ~hate~ one another. (I'll let you know how it turns out. CV available upon request.)
The BBC can be pointless if its senior management so decrees, but I can't stand their use of REAL.
I have gone beyond joking, BBC! I am holding Mike Myers prisoner in a dark cell in my basement. If you do not cease forcing innocent people to defile themselves with REAL video within 7 seven days, I will release the virus Myers. Then there shall be such a catastrophic spreading of Austin Powers sequels that England shall be forced to re-unite the Spice Girls to get some international respect.
No intelligent design team would wait for Intelligent Design to take place. ;o)
"Flawlessness" is unattainable. No intelligent design team would aim for it. But reasonable security via a reasonable effort is certainly attainable. UNIX is proof.
These are not even the worst years of M-Windows; the worst years of M-Windows were when there was not even ~reasonable~ security in the design of the OS. Then the poor simpleton was encouraged to wander the mean streets of the Internet.
Now the simpleton has been equipped with a bike helmet, one knee pad, and a small radio that tells him how simple he is.
Ease of use certainly can be built within a secure system. Look at Gnome and KDE atop UNIX and Linux; moreover, look at OS X.
Gates and his lieutenants got very rich with little consideration being given to security in his company's products.
Jobs and his team did turn a dying company around and get rich, in part, by using good OS technology and making it easy to use.
Torvalds and Friends created a clone of UNIX using GNU tools (hello, RMS), and the clone is an excellent OS that is now very easy to use. (See Ubuntu.)
But Jobs isn't as rich or richer than Gates, and Torvalds makes less than Gates' chauffeur. So my argument must be flawed.