Report everyone (yourself included), without exception and favouritism.
That's rather conspicuous. Don't you think reporting EVERYONE would look a little suspicious to Pinkerton's assorted staticians? A less obvious idea would be to report a random 10%, 5%, something like that, of your school. Kill the signal/noise ratio.
If 90% of everything isn't crap, your standards are too high. We will never be able to come to a consensus on which 10% ISN'T crap.
Am i the only one that thinks that the number of people who took the Advogato/Andover thing seriously is representative of how much trust the community generally puts in/. nowadays? Sad, really...
If 90% of everything isn't crap, your standards are too high. We will never be able to come to a consensus on which 10% ISN'T crap.
With the M15 laptop stolen, how are we going to get our next Mozilla milestone? This will set back development immensely, and it's all the English government's fault. I bet Microsoft paid off the English government to have them lose it.
Wait...that's an I, not a 1...
If 90% of everything isn't crap, your standards are too high. We will never be able to come to a consensus on which 10% ISN'T crap.
No offense, but rob's rant should have been moderated to (0, Offtopic). If he needed to say that, he could have posted it as an another article. The corel thing is interesting as heck to me, and now i'm going to have to search through comments pertaining to rob's rant, which i don't paticuarly care about (let the kiddies whine all they want, i've had stories rejected before and don't care) to see comments pertaining to the corel thing. *sigh*
That read that as "Microsoft Says Windows More Reliable Than The Sun" at first? I can just imagine them saying "While the sun often has chaotic events known as sunspots, which often interefere with electronics on Earth, causing them to malfunction, Windows 2000 has never caused malfunctions in electronics other than what it was running on in our labratory tests."
This is where it gets interesting. Condense quark soup, and you can get another stable construct, made of -TWO- quarks, rather than three. The question is, will Campbells be selling cans of condensed quark soup now? I'd just love some Chunky Strange right about now...
The knobs are awesome, click on a knob, move a mouse, seems pretty simple to me. No, that's not my point. It is simple. It's also stupid. You can't click on a point on a knob and have it move to that value, as you can with a slider or something else. My point was that the sonique interface enforces physical limitations where they aren't needed. I suggest reading up on interface design at a sight like this one.
XMMS is not just an mp3 player. With the aid of the mikmod libraries, it is also a mod file player(that's the music kind of mod file, as in the stuff at the hornet archive). Given the right plugin, it is also a viable alternative to many hallucinogens:)
tell your friend running winamp to go get sonique and you can be jealous again. I keep bugging them for a linux version, but my bug isn't loud enough. Sonique, while it looks pretty and actually plays.mods correctly(which winamp doesn't), has a pretty damn bad interface, with a bad case of "I-really-want-to-look-like-a-hand-held-player-iti s". For example, you have to move the knobs with your mouse, while knobs in real life are designed to be frobbed with one's finger. You can't frob a knob on a screen with your fingers, which makes it a pain. Sliders would be a much better choice. And want to, say, use the equalizer while looking at the spectral analyzer? Too bad. Sonique's interface won't let you. You can cycle through playlist to equalizer to spectral analyzer, but you can't view any of them at the same time. IMHO, the only thing sonique has over winamp is that it plays mods correctly, and xmms already plays mods correctly.
And the episode where Bart had an evil power that made everything he thought of real. Sitting at the breakfast table he observes "Same old boring cat..." and turns it into an umbrella-tailed-fire breathing hybrid cat-thing. That episode (well, part of it) was actually a Simpsonization of an old episode of The Twilight Zone where there was this 6-year old kid that had pretty much the same powers Bart did. However, the freak-o-cat was pure simpson. I loved it.:)
2) God decided to make DNA an interpreted language! It actually kind of is. A sequence of DNA will get transcripted to a sequence of RNA by a RNA polymerase, and the RNA will get "interpreted" by a ribosome. (That's not the only thing DNA does: the ribosomes only create amino acids.) I'm oversimplifying like hell here buy you get the idea
First, JWZ's own software, i.e. xscreensaver, xkeycaps, and other things, are not "f**ked up". In fact, i consider them quite good. Additionally, you have given no real proof that JWZ caused the braindamage in stated packages. If you have any, please show it.
Second, we could have done without that gratuitous piece of MS-bashing at the end of your post. I'm not defending MS. But MS bashing is counter-productive.
Note that during the radio show section of this happy chunk of BS, when they recieved a letter from an AOLer asking how to get credit card numbers or something like that, the people on the radio show responded with something along the lines of "you don't just ask those kind of questions." I was quite suprised that they didn't start suggesting things about the AOL user's sexuality, mother, etc... Probably took a lot of takes to get something airable.
"Take 7! *thack*" "Okay, we have a letter from someone here, asking us `how to hack into NORAD'... Now, if this person is listening, i think the answer can be found up your---" "CUT! No! We can't air stuff like that! And i think this scene needs more random electronic thingies. Someone go to Radio Shack, buy a bunch of clock radios, take the thingies with the wires and stuff---" "Boards?" "Yeah, boards. Take them out and put them in good places in the scene. Remember, this has to look good on TV."
I wonder if people who write bad things about Windows, or support Linux get flamed like this. Maybe the people who run linux.org or such sites should put up a site like this.
Okay, who here's actually read the book? If you've read it, you should know that all it really is is the same essays, rants, and overviews by open/free/blah software programmers/figureheads/zealots/blahs that we've already heard before (like ESR's A Brief History of Hackerdom, Bruce Peren's The Open Source Definition, that really cool Larry Wall thing that i can't remember the name of). The open sourcing of this book is wholly redundant, since afaik all the content of this book was already free/open/blah.
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You also said you'ld choose the dwarf female before the halfling female. So, i'd say that's worthy of about a truckload more of salt.
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You're expecting drunk people to think about being objective?
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Easy way to avoid the RIAA: Buy non-american music. :)
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Report everyone (yourself included), without exception and favouritism.
That's rather conspicuous. Don't you think reporting EVERYONE would look a little suspicious to Pinkerton's assorted staticians? A less obvious idea would be to report a random 10%, 5%, something like that, of your school. Kill the signal/noise ratio.
If 90% of everything isn't crap, your standards are too high.
We will never be able to come to a consensus on which 10% ISN'T crap.
Am i the only one that thinks that the number of people who took the Advogato/Andover thing seriously is representative of how much trust the community generally puts in /. nowadays?
Sad, really...
If 90% of everything isn't crap, your standards are too high.
We will never be able to come to a consensus on which 10% ISN'T crap.
With the M15 laptop stolen, how are we going to get our next Mozilla milestone? This will set back development immensely, and it's all the English government's fault. I bet Microsoft paid off the English government to have them lose it.
Wait...that's an I, not a 1...
If 90% of everything isn't crap, your standards are too high.
We will never be able to come to a consensus on which 10% ISN'T crap.
No offense, but rob's rant should have been moderated to (0, Offtopic). If he needed to say that, he could have posted it as an another article. The corel thing is interesting as heck to me, and now i'm going to have to search through comments pertaining to rob's rant, which i don't paticuarly care about (let the kiddies whine all they want, i've had stories rejected before and don't care) to see comments pertaining to the corel thing. *sigh*
That read that as "Microsoft Says Windows More Reliable Than The Sun" at first? I can just imagine them saying "While the sun often has chaotic events known as sunspots, which often interefere with electronics on Earth, causing them to malfunction, Windows 2000 has never caused malfunctions in electronics other than what it was running on in our labratory tests."
This is where it gets interesting. Condense quark soup, and you can get another stable construct, made of -TWO- quarks, rather than three.
The question is, will Campbells be selling cans of condensed quark soup now? I'd just love some Chunky Strange right about now...
The knobs are awesome, click on a knob, move a mouse, seems pretty simple to me. No, that's not my point. It is simple. It's also stupid. You can't click on a point on a knob and have it move to that value, as you can with a slider or something else. My point was that the sonique interface enforces physical limitations where they aren't needed. I suggest reading up on interface design at a sight like this one.
XMMS is not just an mp3 player. With the aid of the mikmod libraries, it is :)
also a mod file player(that's the music kind of mod file, as in the stuff at the hornet archive). Given the
right plugin, it is also a viable alternative to many hallucinogens
tell your friend running winamp to go get sonique and you can be jealous again. I keep bugging them for a linux version, but my bug isn't loud enough. .mods correctly(which winamp doesn't), has a pretty damn bad interface, with a bad case of "I-really-want-to-look-like-a-hand-held-player-iti s". For example, you have to move the knobs with your mouse, while knobs in real life are designed to be frobbed with one's finger. You can't frob a knob on a screen with your fingers, which makes it a pain. Sliders would be a much better choice. And want to, say, use the equalizer while looking at the spectral analyzer? Too bad. Sonique's interface won't let you. You can cycle through playlist to equalizer to spectral analyzer, but you can't view any of them at the same time.
Sonique, while it looks pretty and actually plays
IMHO, the only thing sonique has over winamp is that it plays mods correctly, and xmms already plays mods correctly.
Rob, are you sure you didn't mean to post this to Taco Hell instead?
And the episode where Bart had an evil power that made everything he thought of real. Sitting at the breakfast table he observes "Same old boring cat..." and turns it into an umbrella-tailed-fire breathing hybrid cat-thing. :)
That episode (well, part of it) was actually a Simpsonization of an old episode of The Twilight Zone where there was this 6-year old kid that had pretty much the same powers Bart did. However, the freak-o-cat was pure simpson. I loved it.
the guy who invented 0 (maybe that was the previous millenium)
Yes, it was. It was around 650 ad, if i recall correctly.
But what about RMS's resolutions for himself? I mean, maybe he could resolve to use a shampoo/conditioner that makes his hair less wily or something?
I thought the Digital Milennium Copyright Act didn't go into effect until next year.
But the new millennium doesn't start until 2001!
2) God decided to make DNA an interpreted language!
It actually kind of is. A sequence of DNA will get transcripted to a sequence of RNA by a RNA polymerase, and the RNA will get "interpreted" by a ribosome. (That's not the only thing DNA does: the ribosomes only create amino acids.) I'm oversimplifying like hell here buy you get the idea
First, JWZ's own software, i.e. xscreensaver, xkeycaps, and other things, are not "f**ked up". In fact, i consider them quite good. Additionally, you have given no real proof that JWZ caused the braindamage in stated packages. If you have any, please show it.
Second, we could have done without that gratuitous piece of MS-bashing at the end of your post. I'm not defending MS. But MS bashing is counter-productive.
Note that during the radio show section of this happy chunk of BS, when they recieved a letter from an AOLer asking how to get credit card numbers or something like that, the people on the radio show responded with something along the lines of "you don't just ask those kind of questions." I was quite suprised that they didn't start suggesting things about the AOL user's sexuality, mother, etc... Probably took a lot of takes to get something airable.
"Take 7! *thack*"
"Okay, we have a letter from someone here, asking us `how to hack into NORAD'... Now, if this person is listening, i think the answer can be found up your---"
"CUT! No! We can't air stuff like that! And i think this scene needs more random electronic thingies. Someone go to Radio Shack, buy a bunch of clock radios, take the thingies with the wires and stuff---"
"Boards?"
"Yeah, boards. Take them out and put them in good places in the scene. Remember, this has to look good on TV."
Not just fists! Proverbial fists!
Btw, what's the metric equivilant of that? Metaphorical ankles?
I wonder if people who write bad things about Windows, or support Linux get flamed like this.
Maybe the people who run linux.org or such sites should put up a site like this.
"IPIX" looks a heck of a lot like "IRIX" when you've only gotten 2 hours of sleep in the past 3 days. I need penguin mints. Guuuuh...
Okay, who here's actually read the book? If you've read it, you should know that all it really is is the same essays, rants, and overviews by open/free/blah software programmers/figureheads/zealots/blahs that we've already heard before (like ESR's A Brief History of Hackerdom, Bruce Peren's The Open Source Definition, that really cool Larry Wall thing that i can't remember the name of). The open sourcing of this book is wholly redundant, since afaik all the content of this book was already free/open/blah.
Been playing MUDs, Rob? :)