I had a fairly large coworker with sleep apnea.
A few years ago I met him again about a year after he had surgery for it. He lost a massive amount of wait.
Okay, five years and drain his bank account or something similar for reckless endangerment, but sending him to jail for what most life sentences after parole is a bit stiff
I would like to add one big gian "DITTO" to your comment. I had moderator points when I read your comment and the only reason I didn't mod you up was that your comment was already at 5
I can remember as a kid, way before PCs, cable tv, blackberrys and cellphones existed.....of journalists commenting on how people rarely cared about anything outside of their lives.
If there is a malaise it is probably a matter of people being self centered, overloaded, and/or not managing their time properly.
You'll get them complaining that nobody is answering them, while the next guy got an answer in 5 minutes. It goes on. You have to reply to keep your sanity sometimes.
I don't agree. You can just stop reading or avoid the post when you see who it is from, what is about.
What you fail to realize is that Linux doesn't exist for newbies to switch off of Windows. It's not there to "Fight The Power."
No? Who says so? What central authority? You?
Many organized ( disorganized ) linux efforts aim for just that purpose. If you read slashdot and other linux groups regularly you will see that is what many linux afficinados hope for. That linux will gain market share at the expense of windows.
That people will want to use it.
To be fair, these groups that put work into making linux more appealing don't own the linux mission either.
Nobody is obligated to read or respond to a question on usenet so the way I see it they don't have a right to complain. They don't have to spend their time on anything they do not want to.
Some people just get off on grousing or slamming others.
If I don't like a post, I just ignore it. It saves me time, it saves me aggravation, and ignoring a post discourages that type of post.
Given the skill and experience that it takes, in my experience, to be able to run Unix as naturally as some people do... perhaps they've earned that attitude.
That's complete nonsense. Installing and running Unix hardly counts as one of the more difficult intellectual tasks. It's hard, sure, if you're used to something different, but the description 'windows people' includes novelists, artists and nuclear scientists who just don't give a damn about the stupid OS their computer runs.
Would you like it if an artist made fun of your pens and call you and your friends BIC people? Well, that's how stupid this sounds.
Very well put.
It is being provincial and is the sign of an uneducated person to think "if you don't know what I know you must be inferior"
This story, and the picture of the rail thin Asian man who is a tsunami victim I asw this morning in the paper reminded me of the lyrics from a RUSH song I heard back in the 80s, paraphrasing, "They feed the machines, not the people"
You state that as an accepted fact, when until a few years ago, you didn't have to give your SSN to the DMV.
In the right now, which I am talking about, it is a fact.
I agree with you otherwise. I am just informing people what they can/cannot legally do. I have to tell you that it is a blast the first time you refuse to give out your SSN when some authoritative sounding person asks for it.
To this end, I highly recommend Spam Gourmet which allows the on-the-fly creation of disposable email addresses.
If you walk into McDonalds and really want to sign up for their win a free cheeseburger contest, you give them an email address like cheesy.n.youraccount@spamgourmet.com and you will only ever receive 'n' emails to that address before it dies.
Of course if you then receive emails from Pizza Hut, you know exactly where they got the email from.
That is one of the reasons why I pay for my yahoo email account. I can make a ton of fake email addresses that forward to my real account.
I have done just what you mentioned. I have made aliases for people who required an email address, caught them giving it to someone else, scolding them for passing it out, and then deleting those aliases to let all of those spams flail about in the void of cyberspace.
I would like to add that if you are an American citizen the ONLY people you have to give your social security number too are your employer and your department of motor vehicles.
You can also ask motor vehicles to not use it nor to distribute your personal information.........they do.....every wonder how those "welcome to the neighborhood" coupon books and sales circulars find you?
The only reason I am not using sunbird, or another OSS Personal organization tool is that yahoo doesn't support iCal ( I have written to them suggesting it: http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/my/cgi_feedbac k).
Even though I like downloading my email I use yahoo because the convenience of getting to my information anywhere is compelling.
I even pay ( gladly ) for pop access
I would love to use the sunbird client and the other OSS PIM tools in combination with yahoo so that I could download ( and update ) my PIM stuff anywhere.
Even more, I would love to pay GNU or some other OSS org for this rather then paying yahoo.
If GNU or another OSS org implemented this kind of yahoo-like service ( using all OS software ) it would kill 4 birds with one Free(dom) software stone.
1. I get the services I want
2. GNU gets money, which it always needs
3. GNU employs programmers to build an maintain
GNUYahoo ( GNUwho ? ) -- a worthy thing these
days in itself
4. Free(dom) & OS software gets showcased and put
into use.
Almost Geeks have some sort of webmail account and would love to support GNU or another OSS org rather then ________, especially if they implement featurs geeks want like better spam filtering.
If these sites were made user friendly GNU would get a bonus____ giving something to ordinary people that they would like____ which would make GNU, as well as Free(dom) software relevant to their lives.
GNU and OSS especially needs this if they want to fight and win political battles.
I love the gumption of Slashdotters. Such an arrogance to everything. A guy decides to more or less code an entire OS by himself, ports nearly all the apps, and has a running OS that does things in a pretty unique way, and some holier-than-thou nerd, with, I might add, zero credentials that we know of, immediately dismisses it. No wonder OSS gets a bad rap, this is the attitude of our citizens.
I have had similar observations.
If Slashdot was a religion people would call us fundamentalists or the "geek taliban".
If most slashdotters were women people would say we were catty and cliquish like high school girls.
I do see a handful of really cool people here and there though.
Being a regular knoppix user I have seen them make some ridiculous decisions to save space on the CD. For example...not installing an English dictionary for the spellchecker in mozilla, but including a full suite of games and 4 text editors.
I wonder with a whole DVD is they will start supporting gnome again?
What about an installer that will give you some choice about what to install on your system?
If they are going to give you an entire DVD's worth of software taking an "install it all or install none of it" approach is going to seem a bit ridiculous.
What are your reasons for running the old standby suite over the Firefox/Thunderbird combo?"
1. Because it is a suite. I do want my email client to work with my browser and my irc client to work with my browser. The extensions that tie firefox to these other things seem to be lacking quality and availability outside of windows.
2. Resource savings. Using a firefox/thunderbird combo I have to wait for the browser to startup and I have to wait for my mail clien to start up everytime I start it. When I start mozilla I only have to wait once.
3. I don't have to download an extension or post to forum everytime I want to change a less then totally common option.
What about all open source word processors use ONE common open source file format?
That would make it more likely that commercial word processors, corporations, the government etc would support it.....which would make it easier for people to eventually migrate to open source word processors.
Slashdot Mirror
I had a fairly large coworker with sleep apnea. A few years ago I met him again about a year after he had surgery for it. He lost a massive amount of wait.
Okay, five years and drain his bank account or something similar for reckless endangerment, but sending him to jail for what most life sentences after parole is a bit stiff
25 years is a bit harsh, but OTOH I don't want people distracting aircraft pilots as the article I read said this guy did.
Fine the hell out of him and give him a year in jail
I would like to add one big gian "DITTO" to your comment. I had moderator points when I read your comment and the only reason I didn't mod you up was that your comment was already at 5
I can remember as a kid, way before PCs, cable tv, blackberrys and cellphones existed.....of journalists commenting on how people rarely cared about anything outside of their lives.
If there is a malaise it is probably a matter of people being self centered, overloaded, and/or not managing their time properly.
You'll get them complaining that nobody is answering them, while the next guy got an answer in 5 minutes. It goes on. You have to reply to keep your sanity sometimes. I don't agree. You can just stop reading or avoid the post when you see who it is from, what is about.
My only regret about your post is that it already has the highest score it can get and is already marked "insightful" which it truly is.
Many organized ( disorganized ) linux efforts aim for just that purpose. If you read slashdot and other linux groups regularly you will see that is what many linux afficinados hope for. That linux will gain market share at the expense of windows. That people will want to use it.
To be fair, these groups that put work into making linux more appealing don't own the linux mission either.
Nobody is obligated to read or respond to a question on usenet so the way I see it they don't have a right to complain. They don't have to spend their time on anything they do not want to.
Some people just get off on grousing or slamming others.
If I don't like a post, I just ignore it. It saves me time, it saves me aggravation, and ignoring a post discourages that type of post.
Very well put.
It is being provincial and is the sign of an uneducated person to think "if you don't know what I know you must be inferior"
This story, and the picture of the rail thin Asian man who is a tsunami victim I asw this morning in the paper reminded me of the lyrics from a RUSH song I heard back in the 80s, paraphrasing, "They feed the machines, not the people"
I agree with you otherwise. I am just informing people what they can/cannot legally do. I have to tell you that it is a blast the first time you refuse to give out your SSN when some authoritative sounding person asks for it.
Peace
Steve
That is one of the reasons why I pay for my yahoo email account. I can make a ton of fake email addresses that forward to my real account.
I have done just what you mentioned. I have made aliases for people who required an email address, caught them giving it to someone else, scolding them for passing it out, and then deleting those aliases to let all of those spams flail about in the void of cyberspace.
I would like to add that if you are an American citizen the ONLY people you have to give your social security number too are your employer and your department of motor vehicles.
You can also ask motor vehicles to not use it nor to distribute your personal information.........they do.....every wonder how those "welcome to the neighborhood" coupon books and sales circulars find you?
Seems like a step down after Farscape, but work is work.
What about this?
http://mirror.open-xchange.org/ox/EN/community/
There is also a "not for profit" organizational status that allow organizations to earn income.
GNU or another OSS org could change their status.
It might be a bonus for them. It would reinforce the rap they are trying to sell that free(dom) software can make money.
The only reason I am not using sunbird, or another OSS Personal organization tool is that yahoo doesn't support iCal ( I have written to them suggesting it:c k).
http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/my/cgi_feedba
Even though I like downloading my email I use yahoo because the convenience of getting to my information anywhere is compelling.
I even pay ( gladly ) for pop access
I would love to use the sunbird client and the other OSS PIM tools in combination with yahoo so that I could download ( and update ) my PIM stuff anywhere.
Even more, I would love to pay GNU or some other OSS org for this rather then paying yahoo.
If GNU or another OSS org implemented this kind of yahoo-like service ( using all OS software ) it would kill 4 birds with one Free(dom) software stone.
1. I get the services I want
2. GNU gets money, which it always needs
3. GNU employs programmers to build an maintain
GNUYahoo ( GNUwho ? ) -- a worthy thing these
days in itself
4. Free(dom) & OS software gets showcased and put
into use.
Almost Geeks have some sort of webmail account and would love to support GNU or another OSS org rather then ________, especially if they implement featurs geeks want like better spam filtering.
If these sites were made user friendly GNU would get a bonus____ giving something to ordinary people that they would like____ which would make GNU, as well as Free(dom) software relevant to their lives.
GNU and OSS especially needs this if they want to fight and win political battles.
Just a thought
I have had similar observations.
If Slashdot was a religion people would call us fundamentalists or the "geek taliban".
If most slashdotters were women people would say we were catty and cliquish like high school girls.
I do see a handful of really cool people here and there though.
No offense to anyone, just an observation.
Being a regular knoppix user I have seen them make some ridiculous decisions to save space on the CD.
For example...not installing an English dictionary for the spellchecker in mozilla, but including a full suite of games and 4 text editors.
I wonder with a whole DVD is they will start supporting gnome again?
What about an installer that will give you some choice about what to install on your system?
If they are going to give you an entire DVD's worth of software taking an "install it all or install none of it" approach is going to seem a bit ridiculous.
2. Resource savings. Using a firefox/thunderbird combo I have to wait for the browser to startup and I have to wait for my mail clien to start up everytime I start it. When I start mozilla I only have to wait once.
3. I don't have to download an extension or post to forum everytime I want to change a less then totally common option.
Tell google, politely, your constructive criticism about their new interface:
groups-support@google.com
What about all open source word processors use ONE common open source file format?
That would make it more likely that commercial word processors, corporations, the government etc would support it.....which would make it easier for people to eventually migrate to open source word processors.
I don't get the popularity of RSS.
I personally rather have content sans a gui, but most people consider going from a web site to text a step backwards.
Some sites also get RSS feeds from other sites, but why bother? Why not just go to that other site? Usually they do a better job.
So, what is the appeal or am I misunderstanding RSS?