I don't see any scared people. I see defeatists, but you all are outnumbered by those of us who aren't afraid. Are you scared, really? And what of? Bush? So he's the terrorist now? Look around you, America isn't scared, the terrorists haven't won a thing. And I appreciate you calling me a higher life form than you are. That was nice.
??? Won what? Just who the heck declared fear as the determining factor of if we're whipped? what lily livered book worm pacifist came up with that grand scheme? Look kids, life is a lot different from what you think it's like from your ivory towers, so get with the freaking program already.
Sorry kids, but it's just plain wrong to complain about this stuff. Please move away and take some other country and pervert it to your own ideals of free and open and liberal garbage and leave this country alone, or there won't be a "this country" anymore.
No, I(dio)T departments are in it for the money. Usually, the people who they work for think of their department as some voodoo witchdoctor shop, and believe anything they are told regarding security. Then you have these weekend wizards who couldn't figure out which side of a burger to flip, so they decided to take on getting a promising IT career at some tech school they saw advertised on TV, and now they follow the Microsoft line all the way to the hilt. Right... let's see, use Microsoft's instructions on how to keep their virus magnet hole riddled software safe. Pardon me while I retch. So these wonderful IT pros snow the bosses about what they do, and how they do it, and the bosses are none the brighter, and say sure, go for it. Meanwhile productivity is stifled, and the boss has got no clue in hell what is going on, but BY GOD, DON'T DARE ASK ME TO GET THE WITCH DOCTORS TO DO ANYTHING DIFFERENT!!!! Thus sayeth the boss. All hail the boss. Whee. Can you tell I have to deal with a first class I(dio)T department where I work?
I trust it enough to use it for email. Anybody who would email stuff that was sensitive is kinda nutty. I mean come on, it's the internet, crackerland, insecurenet, etc. So what if you use super encryption and all that jazz? If you send something sensitive, somebody can get hold of it one way or another. I guess there's some thrill involved in all of that, but when I contact the mothership, it's always face to face. No reason letting you humans in on the secret.
Back when DAT came around, my boss told me it was the wave of the future. I told him that I believed (and still do) that one day you will be able to take a simple solid state memory device (think Nintendo cartridge type thing, me says) and plug it in, and listen to music that way. He laughed at me, said I didn't know what I was talking about, and went on to probably be the only person on the planet to have a total DAT set-up. I think he had a Sony Beta machine, too, come to think of it.... I tried to warn him off of that, too. (for the record, I also predicted digital animation using a human's movement for reference way back in 74)
If you were running Ubuntu, you could go to synaptic and install a free astronomy program and set it up for your location and time, and find out exactly where perseus is or is going to be, then stroll outdoors and realize it's cloudy. Dang.
You do realize when it was first created, it was PIMP? I don't think it was ever actually known by that acronym, but the name could have been called PIMP.
The one thing that makes GIMP better than Photoshop for anyone who is not a professional is that it's free. I would rather have a mutt than a full blooded dog any day. Let the bluebloods and the pros have the inbred dogs, I'll take a free range (OMG, I can't believe I said that) mutt any day.
At least the command line has a GUI! (gnome-terminal, xterm, whatever)
I am an extreme advocate of the GUI in Linux, and I am also an extreme advocate of making Linux as non-terminal intensive as possible. My main reason I want to see Linux as totally user friendly as possible is the simple reason that there are so many people out there whose only desire is to use a computer to browse the internet and use email. Linux is perfect for this as long as it's as simple as possible, meaning never ever ever having to do anything in the command line. And why would I be so driven to being Linux to these people? Because they're stupid. God love them, but they are. They have no idea what they are doing, so they browse the internet, open emails, get ungodly amounts of crap on their machines, and end up with a totally useless box. When they try to have these boxes repaired, they are told that it will cost 200 dollars. I fix them in little or no time for usually 50 bucks in my spare time. Now I would turn these people on to Ubuntu, which I use, but it's still just not quite totally there yet.
I expect it will be within two years IF and only IF the developers stop focusing on eye candy, and stick to the fundamentals of what would make Ubuntu THE primary Linux distro that any moron could install, run, upgrade and never be locked out of X, or have any catastrophic failures.
Ubuntu excites me because of the vision they have. They will be bringing this to the masses one day, I'm sure of it. The beauty of it is; on the one hand you have a KISS operating system that anyone can use without the fear of ending up with a useless box that will cost $$ to fix, and on the other hand, you have a highly technical operating system with a terminal that tech-oriented folks can use any way they want. Remember, no matter how much gui based an os is, as long as there's a command line, the techies ought to feel at home. And what is the problem in that?
I wonder, why don't DVDs come with the codecs/etc necessary for people to view them in the first place? Included in the price of the DVD would be a small fee for the codecs. Imagine how much MORE money those capitalist pigs would make if they implemented this.
I think you did. Look at the weather radar for the southeast. We're supposed to get rain all week (it rained yesterday). Whoo hooo. Almost as exciting as snow come to think of it.
Well I wish they'd WMD us up here in North Georgia! Atlanta is almost out of drinking water, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky, parts of North and South Carolina are also suffering from this devastating drought. We pull our water from a river that has over 40 times the amount of water we use, yet we're under the same mandate as Atlanta, which pulls its water from a lake. Dang EPD needs to come up and see what's going on. I don't think they have a clue that we're not as bad off as Atlanta is. But we do need the rain. Our yard has huge cracks all over the place, and lakes up here are drying up left and right.
It's not like we'll see an immediate change in the Earth's temperature the instant we see a slackening of solar activity. I see you subscribe to the notion (whether you accept it or not, and apparently you don't) that the sun is noted to have an affect on global temperature change, yet you pooh pooh it as if it's total bunk. Not very scientific of you to present it that way. And yes, what he said was totally hilarious. Get both brain cells oscillating at the same time, and you might see the humour in it. (Please note the typical "politically driven mod point system" at work here at slash dot. I really wish they would do away with mod points, as they are not used intelligently at all. The post I'm replying to isn't the least bit informative. It's actually not informative and reactionary.)
Gosh, thank you for that! I don't think I ever would have understood all of this without your insight. So.... okay, there once was a man named deckard, who's wife, not by him was peckered. He said with a grin, Pearl Harbor again! And his life is now sullied and checkered... no wait. How does Afghanistan fit into this again?
I'm still waiting for Unreal Tournament to be open source. I like it way better than other games based on the simple fact that I can sit down, raise cain for a few maps, then leave. I don't have time to learn a bunch of stuff just to play a game, but I do have time to sit down, get an adrenaline rush, then get up and walk away. I understand the draw that the other more complicated games have, but they aren't for me due to time restraints. I have AA on here (Ubuntu) and it's every bit as good as Q3 ever was. (a simple duh will suffice here). Frag on.
FINALLY, a reason to use Linux and feel like you're getting away with something! If this doesn't cause an incredible increase in the community, then nothing will. "Hey, run Linux, dude, it's got illegal stuff in it". (he said, jokingly) (he said in order to fend off the inevitable trolls calling him a troll) (he said, knowing it wouldn't do any good)
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Hot Damn, I"m moving to Canada!!!
Why would we want to go through the whole slave thing again?
I don't see any scared people. I see defeatists, but you all are outnumbered by those of us who aren't afraid. Are you scared, really? And what of? Bush? So he's the terrorist now? Look around you, America isn't scared, the terrorists haven't won a thing. And I appreciate you calling me a higher life form than you are. That was nice.
??? Won what? Just who the heck declared fear as the determining factor of if we're whipped? what lily livered book worm pacifist came up with that grand scheme? Look kids, life is a lot different from what you think it's like from your ivory towers, so get with the freaking program already.
Sorry kids, but it's just plain wrong to complain about this stuff. Please move away and take some other country and pervert it to your own ideals of free and open and liberal garbage and leave this country alone, or there won't be a "this country" anymore.
No, I(dio)T departments are in it for the money. Usually, the people who they work for think of their department as some voodoo witchdoctor shop, and believe anything they are told regarding security. Then you have these weekend wizards who couldn't figure out which side of a burger to flip, so they decided to take on getting a promising IT career at some tech school they saw advertised on TV, and now they follow the Microsoft line all the way to the hilt. Right... let's see, use Microsoft's instructions on how to keep their virus magnet hole riddled software safe. Pardon me while I retch. So these wonderful IT pros snow the bosses about what they do, and how they do it, and the bosses are none the brighter, and say sure, go for it. Meanwhile productivity is stifled, and the boss has got no clue in hell what is going on, but BY GOD, DON'T DARE ASK ME TO GET THE WITCH DOCTORS TO DO ANYTHING DIFFERENT!!!! Thus sayeth the boss. All hail the boss. Whee. Can you tell I have to deal with a first class I(dio)T department where I work?
RingTFA, if you please. Thank you. (sorry!!)
Oops.
I'd mod that +10 hilarious if I had any idea how to "usefully" use my mod points I keep seeing that I have that I keep seeing that I'll lose.
Back when DAT came around, my boss told me it was the wave of the future. I told him that I believed (and still do) that one day you will be able to take a simple solid state memory device (think Nintendo cartridge type thing, me says) and plug it in, and listen to music that way. He laughed at me, said I didn't know what I was talking about, and went on to probably be the only person on the planet to have a total DAT set-up. I think he had a Sony Beta machine, too, come to think of it.... I tried to warn him off of that, too. (for the record, I also predicted digital animation using a human's movement for reference way back in 74)
If you were running Ubuntu, you could go to synaptic and install a free astronomy program and set it up for your location and time, and find out exactly where perseus is or is going to be, then stroll outdoors and realize it's cloudy. Dang.
You do realize when it was first created, it was PIMP? I don't think it was ever actually known by that acronym, but the name could have been called PIMP.
The one thing that makes GIMP better than Photoshop for anyone who is not a professional is that it's free. I would rather have a mutt than a full blooded dog any day. Let the bluebloods and the pros have the inbred dogs, I'll take a free range (OMG, I can't believe I said that) mutt any day.
I am an extreme advocate of the GUI in Linux, and I am also an extreme advocate of making Linux as non-terminal intensive as possible. My main reason I want to see Linux as totally user friendly as possible is the simple reason that there are so many people out there whose only desire is to use a computer to browse the internet and use email. Linux is perfect for this as long as it's as simple as possible, meaning never ever ever having to do anything in the command line. And why would I be so driven to being Linux to these people? Because they're stupid. God love them, but they are. They have no idea what they are doing, so they browse the internet, open emails, get ungodly amounts of crap on their machines, and end up with a totally useless box. When they try to have these boxes repaired, they are told that it will cost 200 dollars. I fix them in little or no time for usually 50 bucks in my spare time. Now I would turn these people on to Ubuntu, which I use, but it's still just not quite totally there yet.
I expect it will be within two years IF and only IF the developers stop focusing on eye candy, and stick to the fundamentals of what would make Ubuntu THE primary Linux distro that any moron could install, run, upgrade and never be locked out of X, or have any catastrophic failures.
Ubuntu excites me because of the vision they have. They will be bringing this to the masses one day, I'm sure of it. The beauty of it is; on the one hand you have a KISS operating system that anyone can use without the fear of ending up with a useless box that will cost $$ to fix, and on the other hand, you have a highly technical operating system with a terminal that tech-oriented folks can use any way they want. Remember, no matter how much gui based an os is, as long as there's a command line, the techies ought to feel at home. And what is the problem in that?
I wonder, why don't DVDs come with the codecs/etc necessary for people to view them in the first place? Included in the price of the DVD would be a small fee for the codecs. Imagine how much MORE money those capitalist pigs would make if they implemented this.
I think you did. Look at the weather radar for the southeast. We're supposed to get rain all week (it rained yesterday). Whoo hooo. Almost as exciting as snow come to think of it.
Well I wish they'd WMD us up here in North Georgia! Atlanta is almost out of drinking water, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky, parts of North and South Carolina are also suffering from this devastating drought. We pull our water from a river that has over 40 times the amount of water we use, yet we're under the same mandate as Atlanta, which pulls its water from a lake. Dang EPD needs to come up and see what's going on. I don't think they have a clue that we're not as bad off as Atlanta is. But we do need the rain. Our yard has huge cracks all over the place, and lakes up here are drying up left and right.
It's not like we'll see an immediate change in the Earth's temperature the instant we see a slackening of solar activity. I see you subscribe to the notion (whether you accept it or not, and apparently you don't) that the sun is noted to have an affect on global temperature change, yet you pooh pooh it as if it's total bunk. Not very scientific of you to present it that way. And yes, what he said was totally hilarious. Get both brain cells oscillating at the same time, and you might see the humour in it. (Please note the typical "politically driven mod point system" at work here at slash dot. I really wish they would do away with mod points, as they are not used intelligently at all. The post I'm replying to isn't the least bit informative. It's actually not informative and reactionary.)
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/10/13/1191696214489.html
Lmao, I can't believe I missed that! Good one!
Gosh, thank you for that! I don't think I ever would have understood all of this without your insight. So .... okay, there once was a man named deckard, who's wife, not by him was peckered. He said with a grin, Pearl Harbor again! And his life is now sullied and checkered... no wait. How does Afghanistan fit into this again?
I'm still waiting for Unreal Tournament to be open source. I like it way better than other games based on the simple fact that I can sit down, raise cain for a few maps, then leave. I don't have time to learn a bunch of stuff just to play a game, but I do have time to sit down, get an adrenaline rush, then get up and walk away. I understand the draw that the other more complicated games have, but they aren't for me due to time restraints. I have AA on here (Ubuntu) and it's every bit as good as Q3 ever was. (a simple duh will suffice here). Frag on.
Do you take this robot to be your lawfully wedded husband?
I do
Do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife?
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
FINALLY, a reason to use Linux and feel like you're getting away with something! If this doesn't cause an incredible increase in the community, then nothing will. "Hey, run Linux, dude, it's got illegal stuff in it". (he said, jokingly) (he said in order to fend off the inevitable trolls calling him a troll) (he said, knowing it wouldn't do any good)
So the Nobel can be awarded for fiction? That's great news for South Park!