Uhhh were the fives seconds that it took you to go from my site to the reply window too long to remember three simple words or do you find that you can't even bring yourself to direct traffic to my site when you are making fun of it?
I hate to be totally pedantic (mildly pedantic is usually sufficient), but I read the first two paragraphs of this and had to stop. It reads like a creative writing exercise in poor writing. Too many words that need to be cut, laden with cliches. I rarely read the articles around here, are they really this bad? I'll stick to scanning the comments for "+5 Funny", thanks.
Do you know how many times I have heard this sad old trope? Yes websites where people write their own content are so annoying! I mean, imagine a news site where the readers submitted stories, and people commented on them! Imagine all the bland, meaningless crap those people would be writing in the comments. Things that have been said dozens of times before. The humanity! And imagine that such a website developed into a community, maybe a gasp! social network. OH MY GOD. That would be SO terrible.
There is nothing new under the sun, my friend - yet you keep speaking, in order to criticize all the other people who decide that THEY want to keep speaking. You are a silly, silly person.
I think your analysis of little johnny 133t is completely wrong. People, children in particular, are much more likely to take immediate gratification over long term benefits. The system that is out will be the one he throws his tantrum over.
According to my clock, this was posted one minute into the future. Wait, maybe all those dupes are originals, it's the FIRST one that's a dupe! In advance! It's a preemptive dupe! Someone must be invaded!
I am a computer tech at the School of Business here at UConn. All of the professors here having been dealing heavily with technology in the classroom (all Business students will be required to have laptops this next semester), you should contact them about how they use it. We already have WebCT, essentially a website for online teaching available to all classes. Why not go paperless? I know some professors here who have managed to do it. But contact your coworkers at the University.
Nothing worse THAN having to read people say 'then' when they should say 'than'. I realize this is offtopic and flamebait, but really, it happens SO often... why can't people just think this stuff out? It's bad enough that the/. editors can't spell or properly manage their grammar, let alone the posters... Please, think before you type!
... with running a dual-boot system? I understand the desire to get Linux on every desktop that some people have, but it seems to me that Linux ahs strengths and weaknesses. Frivolous wasting of time, such as videogaming (ignoring/., of course) is not it's strong suit. Windows is great if you want waste your time. Why not let Linux do what it does best, be productive, and get better at those things, and let Windows be the big time waster? Is it really so difficult for a person who really wants to play games to get a copy of Windows and slap it on their machine for playing games? Let Linux do what it does best and don't waste money on projects that in the end may not help the system continue to build its reputation.
If I have been duped because I look at the Middle East as a 5000+ year fight that it has been, instead of just 1%, then duped I am.
Well, as long as we are looking at the big picture, I guess you would propose that we leave the US and give all the land back to people of native American descent. Alright, well, I'll get on the boat right after you.
The point is, it is totally unpractical to try and base our current borders and boundaries on 5000 of history. Recent history, and the plan that created the state of Israel in the first place must be our guides.
"Do you bitch when gas prices are high? Well then STFU when the US gets involved for control of oil. Should we allow Jews to be massacred for no reason
whatsoever? (And don't give me the crap about displaced Palestinians, the Jews have been living there just as long."
You obviously don't have any sense of the history of the conflict. In 1948, when the United Nations set forth to create an Israeli state, they divided modern-day Israel into land for the Jews, land for the Palestinians, and internationally controlled lands (specifically Jerusalem) so as to avoid conflict. What occurred was that the Jews ended up taking all of the land, but since pro-Jewish sentiment was so immense in the wake of the Holocaust, we were reluctant to stop them and implement the fair plan of the UN. Then over the next couple of decades, especially in 1967, Israeli boundaries were augmented through war. For 50 years now the Jews have occupied that land unlawfully. They did not have a state there before World War II, and yet there was, historically, a Palestinian state. So I would ask, before you go spouting the blind pro-Israel bullshit that has been American foreign policy for 50 years, grab a history book and read up. Not everything is as it seems, friend, but obviously you've been successfully duped. And everyone wonders why Arabs in the Middle East resent America?
They've been working on this since before The Matrix. Plus, if you know the books, you know that everything is...... well, shiny and metallic and high-tech. As for the music, isn't techno just the taste of the day for movies anyway? It all sounds the same...........
I was wondering if anyone has ever heard of someone dying from Lego injuries? The other day my friends and I were on the long busride home and we were talking about how much it hurts to step on them and stuff, and how it's be funny to slit your wrists with a Lego. Have Legos ever been the cause of death?
So he was using a 22 year-old computer to do his day-to-day work, now he gets a server, a desktop, and a laptop??? What the hell? He obviously doesn't need all of that. But you know what? I DO! My mom is pretty old, I'll give her to a museum for $15,000 dollars worth of computer love. Just send those computers to...
As I think Rob or jeff said a few weeks ago, a tax on email might stop or reduce the amount os spammers. But I honestly would rather get spam than have to pay for email. Luckily, I think that the Internet is too convoluted for the government to manage to directly tax individual emails. As someone else said, they might tax ISPs, but as that same perosn said, AOL would tihs a brick. I think that the government of any country has no right to try and regulate or tax the Internet, it is the first thing that is truly owned by the world community, and it belongs to Us and not the governments. Maybe if Al gore invents something else like he invented the Internet they will be able to tax that, but leave us alone. And BTW, even if they tried to tax individual emails, how long would it take before somone had figured a way around it?
Actually I was wrong and so were you greg. as the original poster above said in an email to me, it was "What do you think of Western civilization? I think it would be a good idea." My apologiesfor misreading.
First off, let me say that I wish I could get here sooner when these things come up so that I could get a post people would actually see, but it never happens.
So here is what I think of the subject. Most people seem to realize that those who are loud and motivated tend to change society. Look at the American Revolution (was it either of those things?), where most people didn't want any sort of war and would have been perfectly content to remain under British rule. However, there was a small group of radicals who, through the use of propaganda and a lot of shouting, managed to convince the apathetic Americans that a Revolution was necessary. So my point? When you have a few very loud people, they can effectively change perceptions and make it seem that there are a lot of people similar to them. This seems to me to be the same with the geek community. I'd say that the majority is quite diverse, ranging from Christian to Hindu (programming is probably popular among Jains and Hindus because it doesn't harm the environment) to atheist, from "conservative" to "liberal". However, that extreme group of very loud, "Us Liberal Anti-Government Anti-Authority-of-Any-Sort Geeks Must Stick Together" people (not to name names *coughJonKatz*) makes it look like the entire geek community is the same and united in beliefs and practices which it isn't necessarily. Let's face it, the only thing that geeks have absolutely in common is that: we are geeks. We like geek stuff. And once the Jon Katz's of the world begin to paint that picture (Katz scares me because his Hellmouth series was popular, and people reading his articles who don't really know Slashdot might think that he epitomizes Slashdot), THEN the media takes over and solidifies it. So my basic hope is that people in life will take this advice: be careful with stereotypes in the first place, but if you must use a stereotype like 'geek' (and we must use stereotypes, it is not something we will ever give up), don't read anything more into it than what it is. Geek means geek. I am a geek, most people reading this are geeks, that means that we like things like technology and toys and computers, and some other things. That does not mean that we are all liberal or that we are all Christian or all anti-Christian, so stop making those assumptions. We are all very different people, united only (by default) by our geekiness.
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Uhhh were the fives seconds that it took you to go from my site to the reply window too long to remember three simple words or do you find that you can't even bring yourself to direct traffic to my site when you are making fun of it?
I hate to be totally pedantic (mildly pedantic is usually sufficient), but I read the first two paragraphs of this and had to stop. It reads like a creative writing exercise in poor writing. Too many words that need to be cut, laden with cliches. I rarely read the articles around here, are they really this bad? I'll stick to scanning the comments for "+5 Funny", thanks.
Do you know how many times I have heard this sad old trope? Yes websites where people write their own content are so annoying! I mean, imagine a news site where the readers submitted stories, and people commented on them! Imagine all the bland, meaningless crap those people would be writing in the comments. Things that have been said dozens of times before. The humanity! And imagine that such a website developed into a community, maybe a gasp! social network. OH MY GOD. That would be SO terrible.
There is nothing new under the sun, my friend - yet you keep speaking, in order to criticize all the other people who decide that THEY want to keep speaking. You are a silly, silly person.
I think your analysis of little johnny 133t is completely wrong. People, children in particular, are much more likely to take immediate gratification over long term benefits. The system that is out will be the one he throws his tantrum over.
According to my clock, this was posted one minute into the future. Wait, maybe all those dupes are originals, it's the FIRST one that's a dupe! In advance! It's a preemptive dupe! Someone must be invaded!
I am a computer tech at the School of Business here at UConn. All of the professors here having been dealing heavily with technology in the classroom (all Business students will be required to have laptops this next semester), you should contact them about how they use it. We already have WebCT, essentially a website for online teaching available to all classes. Why not go paperless? I know some professors here who have managed to do it. But contact your coworkers at the University.
Wait, Windows isn't already free? Hmmm... odd, I don't remember paying for my copy...
Nothing wrong with anarchism.
Slashdot, once again proving that obscure poll topics are totally useless.
"Nothing worse then having to be tech support"
/. editors can't spell or properly manage their grammar, let alone the posters... Please, think before you type!
Nothing worse THAN having to read people say 'then' when they should say 'than'. I realize this is offtopic and flamebait, but really, it happens SO often... why can't people just think this stuff out? It's bad enough that the
The fate of the non-previewer: please excuse my use of "it's" where "its" is quite sufficient. Thanks.
... with running a dual-boot system? I understand the desire to get Linux on every desktop that some people have, but it seems to me that Linux ahs strengths and weaknesses. Frivolous wasting of time, such as videogaming (ignoring /., of course) is not it's strong suit. Windows is great if you want waste your time. Why not let Linux do what it does best, be productive, and get better at those things, and let Windows be the big time waster? Is it really so difficult for a person who really wants to play games to get a copy of Windows and slap it on their machine for playing games? Let Linux do what it does best and don't waste money on projects that in the end may not help the system continue to build its reputation.
If I have been duped because I look at the Middle East as a 5000+ year fight that it has been, instead of just 1%, then duped I am.
Well, as long as we are looking at the big picture, I guess you would propose that we leave the US and give all the land back to people of native American descent. Alright, well, I'll get on the boat right after you.
The point is, it is totally unpractical to try and base our current borders and boundaries on 5000 of history. Recent history, and the plan that created the state of Israel in the first place must be our guides.
"Do you bitch when gas prices are high? Well then STFU when the US gets involved for control of oil. Should we allow Jews to be massacred for no reason
whatsoever? (And don't give me the crap about displaced Palestinians, the Jews have been living there just as long."
You obviously don't have any sense of the history of the conflict. In 1948, when the United Nations set forth to create an Israeli state, they divided modern-day Israel into land for the Jews, land for the Palestinians, and internationally controlled lands (specifically Jerusalem) so as to avoid conflict. What occurred was that the Jews ended up taking all of the land, but since pro-Jewish sentiment was so immense in the wake of the Holocaust, we were reluctant to stop them and implement the fair plan of the UN. Then over the next couple of decades, especially in 1967, Israeli boundaries were augmented through war. For 50 years now the Jews have occupied that land unlawfully. They did not have a state there before World War II, and yet there was, historically, a Palestinian state. So I would ask, before you go spouting the blind pro-Israel bullshit that has been American foreign policy for 50 years, grab a history book and read up. Not everything is as it seems, friend, but obviously you've been successfully duped. And everyone wonders why Arabs in the Middle East resent America?
They've been working on this since before The Matrix. Plus, if you know the books, you know that everything is...... well, shiny and metallic and high-tech. As for the music, isn't techno just the taste of the day for movies anyway? It all sounds the same...........
I was wondering if anyone has ever heard of someone dying from Lego injuries? The other day my friends and I were on the long busride home and we were talking about how much it hurts to step on them and stuff, and how it's be funny to slit your wrists with a Lego. Have Legos ever been the cause of death?
Um, no, it's Rob Zombie. White Zombie is an entire band, Rob is a single guy.
Moderate this up you jerks, it's relevant and it is exactly what CmdrTaco said on either the first or second episode of Geeks in Space!
So he was using a 22 year-old computer to do his day-to-day work, now he gets a server, a desktop, and a laptop??? What the hell? He obviously doesn't need all of that. But you know what? I DO! My mom is pretty old, I'll give her to a museum for $15,000 dollars worth of computer love. Just send those computers to...
hey man I'm not a newbie at all, I've been here for over a year! Just because you I have a bad short term mem... what were we talking about...?
I like that icon. It is nice to see a new one around here.
As I think Rob or jeff said a few weeks ago, a tax on email might stop or reduce the amount os spammers. But I honestly would rather get spam than have to pay for email. Luckily, I think that the Internet is too convoluted for the government to manage to directly tax individual emails. As someone else said, they might tax ISPs, but as that same perosn said, AOL would tihs a brick. I think that the government of any country has no right to try and regulate or tax the Internet, it is the first thing that is truly owned by the world community, and it belongs to Us and not the governments. Maybe if Al gore invents something else like he invented the Internet they will be able to tax that, but leave us alone. And BTW, even if they tried to tax individual emails, how long would it take before somone had figured a way around it?
Actually I was wrong and so were you greg. as the original poster above said in an email to me, it was "What do you think of Western civilization? I think it would be a good idea." My apologiesfor misreading.
hey buddy, you should change your sig so that it is attributed to Ghandi. The question was asked by a reporter, Ghandi asnwered.
First off, let me say that I wish I could get here sooner when these things come up so that I could get a post people would actually see, but it never happens.
So here is what I think of the subject. Most people seem to realize that those who are loud and motivated tend to change society. Look at the American Revolution (was it either of those things?), where most people didn't want any sort of war and would have been perfectly content to remain under British rule. However, there was a small group of radicals who, through the use of propaganda and a lot of shouting, managed to convince the apathetic Americans that a Revolution was necessary. So my point? When you have a few very loud people, they can effectively change perceptions and make it seem that there are a lot of people similar to them. This seems to me to be the same with the geek community. I'd say that the majority is quite diverse, ranging from Christian to Hindu (programming is probably popular among Jains and Hindus because it doesn't harm the environment) to atheist, from "conservative" to "liberal". However, that extreme group of very loud, "Us Liberal Anti-Government Anti-Authority-of-Any-Sort Geeks Must Stick Together" people (not to name names *coughJonKatz*) makes it look like the entire geek community is the same and united in beliefs and practices which it isn't necessarily. Let's face it, the only thing that geeks have absolutely in common is that: we are geeks. We like geek stuff. And once the Jon Katz's of the world begin to paint that picture (Katz scares me because his Hellmouth series was popular, and people reading his articles who don't really know Slashdot might think that he epitomizes Slashdot), THEN the media takes over and solidifies it. So my basic hope is that people in life will take this advice: be careful with stereotypes in the first place, but if you must use a stereotype like 'geek' (and we must use stereotypes, it is not something we will ever give up), don't read anything more into it than what it is. Geek means geek. I am a geek, most people reading this are geeks, that means that we like things like technology and toys and computers, and some other things. That does not mean that we are all liberal or that we are all Christian or all anti-Christian, so stop making those assumptions. We are all very different people, united only (by default) by our geekiness.