Don't be *too* surprised; that applies to every post ever written by a Slashdot editor or a "geek" celebrity like John Carmack or Wil Wheaton. I think Wil was bored one day and said, "I just burped and it tasted like sausage. Weird." and he got +5, Insightful.
You noticed the coincidence too, eh? The missing piece is the fact that Steve is a 33rd Degree Freemason and was roommates with a former director of the CIA in college. Throw in the strange map of Area 51 that is steganographically hidden within the default desktop picture, and I think the facts speak for themselves.
Steve is building an army of mind-controlled minions set to overthrow the alien beings who have taken over Western Civilization and are currently raising us for food.
Of course, give me a G5 PowerBook and I'll overlook all that.
[Associated Press] Darl McBride (news, quote) and Steven P. Jobs (news, quote) today announced the blessed merging of their respective companies into the one true innovator: Scapple (symbol:SCPL). Scapple is now the biggest Unix vendor, the inventor of Unix, the newest Unix, the best looking Unix, the most closed Unix, the laggiest Unix, the hippest Unix, the most artsy-fartsy Unix, and the most litigious Unix.
Look forward to more great Innovations(TM) from Scapple in the near future, coming to a courtroom near you! And don't forget to check out Scapple's iSueMusicStore for more great Innovations(TM)!!!
Next time some bonehead friend of mine starts yammering about how America is the greatest place on earth, "the source of all freedom", and that the rest of the world should be forced to remake themselves in our image, I'll be sure to point this out.
Where the government doesn't directly control you, a private cartel has likely stepped in to dominate you in their stead. Just because the government isn't involved doesn't mean you're free.
Just like you're not allowed to do 'whatever you want' to a rental car just because its in your garage.
You're not "renting" songs off the iTunes Music Store, are you? Do you have to give them back after 30 days? No? Then you OWN them.
If I OWN my car, I can spray paint it with polka dots and grow a chia pet on the hood and the government can't do jack. And even if they could, that wouldn't make it right, because the car is MINE. Private Property rights are the fundamental building block of western civilization; if you're trying to overthrow America you couldn't find a better way than to undermine societal freedom.
BillG: Okay, the four-hundred and eighty sixth meeting of the MS Evil All-Stars has now come to order.
Ballmer: Ah ha ha ha ha! (sweats profusely)
BillG: At the last meeting, we discussed paying off the DoJ and those SCO guys... That's all going well, nobody has a clue -- these Freedom Fighter guys are really in the dark on this one, as usual. And we discussed paying off ESR to say that he couldn't make his printer work, but thanks to CUPS, we didn't have to. The fool and his commandline are soon parted.
Ballmer: Ah ha ha ha ha! (sweats profusely)
BillG: This week, we've got a new MS Evil initiative to discuss.
Ballmer: Ah ha ha ha ha! (sweats profusely)
BillG: Yeah. Okay. We release code onto SourceForge (the enemy of all that is good); then we leak the news to Slashdot (the enemy of all that is holy); then the little evil Slashdot Monkey Attack Army will SLASHDOT THEMSELVES OUT OF EXISTENCE!!!
Ballmer: Ah ha ha ha ha! (sweats profusely)
BillG: Perfect, Perfect. We'll wipe them out AND be seen as the good guys! Little do they realize the Trojan of Doom we've put out there! And all the little monkeys will be downloading it all at once! Ahh, the bloat of it all... Sweet sweet bloat, how I love you.
Ballmer: Ah ha ha ha ha! (sweats profusely)
Hilary Duff: Dude, you're GROSS. Here's a towel.
Ballmer: Ah ha ha ha ha! (sweats profusely)
BillG: Next order of business, MS agent Hilary Duff's evil catfight with that other hot teen idol chick... we think you two should get naked this week and roll around in oil in anger. That's be EEEVIL.
Ballmer: Ah ha ha ha ha! (sweats profusely)
Hilary Duff: Don't think so, geek. I saw how your brilliant Madonna/Britney smooch thing and that Janet Jackson nipple thing turned out. You're just a perv and a dweeb and you haven't had a good idea since Notepad. I quit. Apple invited me to join their board of directors -- apparently I'm more popular than that Al guy now. He's out and I'm in, baby. If you're gonna be evil, at least be evil with STYLE... not like monkey-boy over there. Gross.
Dude! Don't dis the Gimp. I just downloaded the new one today, and I was SHOCKED to see how much better it was than the old one. Nice layout, faster, everything. Makes me wanna switch to Linux exclusively. If they keep coming out with GREAT software like that, I won't need or want anything the proprietary guys at MS or Apple are trying to charge me for. I mean, the new Gimp ROCKS; Mozilla is all I use online; Gnome is really getting good; if OpenOffice.org really is faster as they claim, what else do I need? I'm hooked on iTunes, but if someone else gets good playlists, I'm gone. I listed all the apps I use daily and pretty much everything I want is covered by open-source....
I am not an Astroturfer, I honestly was amazed. Kudos, Gimp team, you kick ass!
I personally can't wait for the first PPC64 Thinkpad.:)
Amen to THAT, brother. But it won't happen until Gates gets on board and supports it with MonopOS. Linux doesn't have the install base yet to justify IBM's development expenses -- but it will, and hopefully soon. I'd definitely buy one. Hell yeah.
No, Zero Installs is the future of Windows. Give it 10 years -- there will be zero installs done worldwide. RMS will end up buying the newly-defunct Microsoft for $3000 just for the nostalgia value (the same way collectors buy Nazi paraphernalia)...
Now you understand why BSD is dying -- we can't seem to figure out the tricky art of reproduction. After programming for so long, we take everything literally.
Remember last year when every story was obviously completely false?... I have to say that the stories this year a much better. Likely false, but there is enough behind them that they could be true.
Yeah, I hear they trained for this by watching Fox News.
The client will be completely undetectable and unremovable by even the most skilled hacker.
So what? You're describing Longhorn. It's been posted about 4 million times on Slashdot. Big deal, by then Linux will rule the desktop. And as long as Microsoft has their greedy little incompetent fingers in there, my mamma could hack it using only her Palm Pilot and Froogle.
Why would I trust Snopes? I could make a website called BFG9000's Urban Legends site, say that the Rectangle doesn't exist, and people would be linking it on Slashdot as fact.
All of the self-made rich people I know are pretty sharp. If you can provide a pointer to any research showing a reverse correlation, I'd be fascinated to see it.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't feel bad, dude. *I* get it.
Don't be *too* surprised; that applies to every post ever written by a Slashdot editor or a "geek" celebrity like John Carmack or Wil Wheaton. I think Wil was bored one day and said, "I just burped and it tasted like sausage. Weird." and he got +5, Insightful.
I just installed the patch and I don't know what you're all whining about! Everything's working per
Two words for all you Googling friends: Nadia Nyce.
You know too much. The Council has been informed.
You noticed the coincidence too, eh? The missing piece is the fact that Steve is a 33rd Degree Freemason and was roommates with a former director of the CIA in college. Throw in the strange map of Area 51 that is steganographically hidden within the default desktop picture, and I think the facts speak for themselves.
Steve is building an army of mind-controlled minions set to overthrow the alien beings who have taken over Western Civilization and are currently raising us for food.
Of course, give me a G5 PowerBook and I'll overlook all that.
[Associated Press] Darl McBride (news, quote) and Steven P. Jobs (news, quote) today announced the blessed merging of their respective companies into the one true innovator: Scapple (symbol:SCPL). Scapple is now the biggest Unix vendor, the inventor of Unix, the newest Unix, the best looking Unix, the most closed Unix, the laggiest Unix, the hippest Unix, the most artsy-fartsy Unix, and the most litigious Unix.
Look forward to more great Innovations(TM) from Scapple in the near future, coming to a courtroom near you! And don't forget to check out Scapple's iSueMusicStore for more great Innovations(TM)!!!
Yikes!...
Next time some bonehead friend of mine starts yammering about how America is the greatest place on earth, "the source of all freedom", and that the rest of the world should be forced to remake themselves in our image, I'll be sure to point this out.
Where the government doesn't directly control you, a private cartel has likely stepped in to dominate you in their stead. Just because the government isn't involved doesn't mean you're free.
Just like you're not allowed to do 'whatever you want' to a rental car just because its in your garage.
You're not "renting" songs off the iTunes Music Store, are you? Do you have to give them back after 30 days? No? Then you OWN them.
If I OWN my car, I can spray paint it with polka dots and grow a chia pet on the hood and the government can't do jack. And even if they could, that wouldn't make it right, because the car is MINE. Private Property rights are the fundamental building block of western civilization; if you're trying to overthrow America you couldn't find a better way than to undermine societal freedom.
I just got my May copy of Playboy, and it had My NAME IN BOLD PRINT AND A PICTURE OF ME NAKED ON THE COVER!!!
And that's not just my copy, that's *all of them*. I hear Hugh Hefner was pissed because I dissed him on Fark.
The Lesson? Don't mess with guys who buy ink by the barrel and can photoshop a tattoo of Fabio onto your butt.
He's a Nazi just like Hitler!
No, the OTHER Al.
aka Weird Al NotAtAllSharpton.
Dude! Don't dis the Gimp. I just downloaded the new one today, and I was SHOCKED to see how much better it was than the old one. Nice layout, faster, everything. Makes me wanna switch to Linux exclusively. If they keep coming out with GREAT software like that, I won't need or want anything the proprietary guys at MS or Apple are trying to charge me for. I mean, the new Gimp ROCKS; Mozilla is all I use online; Gnome is really getting good; if OpenOffice.org really is faster as they claim, what else do I need? I'm hooked on iTunes, but if someone else gets good playlists, I'm gone. I listed all the apps I use daily and pretty much everything I want is covered by open-source....
I am not an Astroturfer, I honestly was amazed. Kudos, Gimp team, you kick ass!
I personally can't wait for the first PPC64 Thinkpad. :)
Amen to THAT, brother. But it won't happen until Gates gets on board and supports it with MonopOS. Linux doesn't have the install base yet to justify IBM's development expenses -- but it will, and hopefully soon. I'd definitely buy one. Hell yeah.
Zero Install: The Future of Linux on the Desktop?
No, Zero Installs is the future of Windows. Give it 10 years -- there will be zero installs done worldwide. RMS will end up buying the newly-defunct Microsoft for $3000 just for the nostalgia value (the same way collectors buy Nazi paraphernalia)...
You'll never see it on my computer. ;-)
Now you understand why BSD is dying -- we can't seem to figure out the tricky art of reproduction. After programming for so long, we take everything literally.
Remember last year when every story was obviously completely false?... I have to say that the stories this year a much better. Likely false, but there is enough behind them that they could be true.
Yeah, I hear they trained for this by watching Fox News.
The client will be completely undetectable and unremovable by even the most skilled hacker.
So what? You're describing Longhorn. It's been posted about 4 million times on Slashdot. Big deal, by then Linux will rule the desktop. And as long as Microsoft has their greedy little incompetent fingers in there, my mamma could hack it using only her Palm Pilot and Froogle.
I'm not worried.
Why would I trust Snopes? I could make a website called BFG9000's Urban Legends site, say that the Rectangle doesn't exist, and people would be linking it on Slashdot as fact.
...belong in apple.slashdot.org?
It's pretty sad; the unexpected part was that it remained for sale at the Apple Store for six years without an update.
Being in the market for a new PowerBook (and waiting anxiously for new revisions), this is a truly terrifying statistic.
All of the self-made rich people I know are pretty sharp. If you can provide a pointer to any research showing a reverse correlation, I'd be fascinated to see it.
Your
wish
is
my
command.
Looking at this list, it's a bit blonde-heavy. It seems further research into this strange pattern formation is required.
It's good to see that it's not just me. I thought it was time to reformat Windows again.