I dun want to get up and say that anybody should be denied the right to bitch about what I think was one of the worst atrocities ever exacted against a race or group of people, but I don't like it when people try and bring up the past on stuff like this.
The situation in Australia is probably much better than how it used to be, though there's still much room for improvement. I don't know about American Indians, but subcontinental Indians have their fair share of blood on our hands (just to cite one example), and we are pretty bad at stepping up and admiting to our mistakes.
What's the answer? I don't know, but ending up in an international slapfest is probably not the best way to go about it...
Oh yeah:P... thought my idea sounded kinda familiar.
Well, categorization would be better, commenting would be more slashdot-like, and the site would be more SFW. Also less squirrels with big nuts:P
Also, getting stuff up on the site would be more of a community thing (yes, like K5) and would be tech-focussed (like/.). Sorta like the quicker, faster, neater younger brother/. never had...
I could be just dreaming. It's all I ever do at college, anyway:P.
Slashdot-like website, except that every article *has* to be a single "shot" - a one line single statement, with either a word or sentence limit? So the front page will be like: * Google changes dictionary provider [categories: google, business, wikipedia, dupe] * Adam West in new Batman cartoon [notserious, batman] * Apple litigation in ending stages [legal, apple]
Some suitably smart mechanism will make the categories be votable (allowing category tags like "w00t", "dupe" and, heck, "boobies" to be added by readers, for instance). The most visited websites will get onto the front page. People posting crap will get categorized "crap", and stuff which is silly but funny can become "unintentional-funny" or something.
My rather worthless two cents:P. But slashshot.org sounds cool - keep us updated. Why don't you write about it in your journal?
Speaking to "the haves and the have-mores." George W. smirks: "Some people call you the elite, I call you my base"
It's a quote from a charity dinner in New York in 2000, where Presidential candidates are invited to come and poke fun at themselves. In the same dinner, Al Gore poked fun at the "Al Gore invented the Internet" joke by claiming to have invented that particular dinner tradition. See CBS News and a blog.
Show them the boot up sequence - I bet you every protogeek in the audience will begin salivating on the spot. Then show them the console - programs like fortune, or the text version of computer games. Explain to them how somebody actually had to sit and write every one of these programs, and that's what you do. Show them "Hello, world" and "what's your name?" as very simple shell scripts. Tell them that's there one rather special program that took a whole lot of people to write... and then start X with the glitsiest, shiniest, most sparkling window manager you can find. They'll be impressed.
Double points if you do this on a dilapidated computer, which you open them up and explain how everything goes together.:)
I completely agree with you. When I was eleven, I tried learning C. Of course, it took me ages to understand anything major, but even back then I knew I was dealing with something aweseome.
My favourite "first program" is the one my mum used to teach me programming: the computer would ask you what your name is, and on being told, would say hello to you. It's a nice three line program, uses both input and ouput, and atleast as a kid I got a kick out of the fact that the computer could remember my name. Of course, back then, we had a ZX Spectrum Plus, so kids today might not be quite as shocked...
Seriously! I was a huge fan of the Batman TV series, Dick Van Dyke is a legend, and Mark Hamill, once his second 'L' has been restored to him, is probably a demigod of sorts in these here parts... this, I have got to see!
Did anyone else notice that we actually hit *every single major flamewar* with this one submission? I've see Macs vs PCs, Linux is/isn't ready for the Desktop, Linus is/isn't God, openBSD is/isn't dead (as a component of MacOS), hell, someone even dredged out the ancient AST vs. LT macrokernels vs microkernel flame war for the occasion!
Is this a new record of some sort? Someone should note this!
In that vein: has Linus ever owned up to which EDITOR he uses? Vi vs Emacs is the *one* Holy War I haven't seen yet:). Can't disappoint the flamers, can we?;)
There are NO enemies of Linux! Yes, what I tell you is the truth, Stallman be praised, all the enemies are dying surrounded by confirmations from Netcraft! Yes, we shall cut them up and hang them by their intestines, the worthless sons of a peebrained 16-bit operating system! All our enemies have already been vanquished and sent into the afterlife to be burned by daemons over the fires of hell and to swim in blue streams of death and to face the ravages of General Protection Fault and Colonel Panic... yes! They are dead already! Gone! Vanquished! Kill -9ed! I tell you again, THERE ARE NO ENEMIES OF LINUX!
(You know I am telling the truth; our wise leader Linus, may Stallman praise him or atleast let him call his OS Linux, believes in absolute honestly;)
Stage #5: Embrace and Extend Stage #6: Profit (for microsoft)
Remember, they weren't always the biggest boys in town, and if anything, they're probably *better* at going after good competitors than dominating the industry from above...
because it doesn't have the world's most *@#!* irritating dog built in, maybe?
(my comp is a little old, and everything grinds to a halt every time I need to search for something and that damn dog turns up... and the search interface is so user friendly, too)
yes, I have rage against the Windows Search Dog >:(
Well, I for one am glad somebody finally came up with a "this book sucks, don't touch it with with a ten foot pole" type review, after the boring slashvertisements we've been seeing lately.
I do agree with the reviewer review that the review was confused, spending way too much time talking about how he would have prefered the book to be organised, rather than just telling us how it was and letting us make up our minds (or bringing his own feelings up in the conclusion).
Other than that, I'd say the review was interesting. Also, the reviewer review was fair and balanced, correcting the reviewer's mistakes without too much flaming. Kudos.
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I dun want to get up and say that anybody should be denied the right to bitch about what I think was one of the worst atrocities ever exacted against a race or group of people, but I don't like it when people try and bring up the past on stuff like this.
...
The situation in Australia is probably much better than how it used to be, though there's still much room for improvement. I don't know about American Indians, but subcontinental Indians have their fair share of blood on our hands (just to cite one example), and we are pretty bad at stepping up and admiting to our mistakes.
What's the answer? I don't know, but ending up in an international slapfest is probably not the best way to go about it
You actually rtfa???
*shock and horror*
Oh yeah :P ... thought my idea sounded kinda familiar.
:P
/.). Sorta like the quicker, faster, neater younger brother /. never had ...
:P.
Well, categorization would be better, commenting would be more slashdot-like, and the site would be more SFW. Also less squirrels with big nuts
Also, getting stuff up on the site would be more of a community thing (yes, like K5) and would be tech-focussed (like
I could be just dreaming. It's all I ever do at college, anyway
Slashdot-like website, except that every article *has* to be a single "shot" - a one line single statement, with either a word or sentence limit? So the front page will be like:
:P. But slashshot.org sounds cool - keep us updated. Why don't you write about it in your journal?
* Google changes dictionary provider [categories: google, business, wikipedia, dupe]
* Adam West in new Batman cartoon [notserious, batman]
* Apple litigation in ending stages [legal, apple]
Some suitably smart mechanism will make the categories be votable (allowing category tags like "w00t", "dupe" and, heck, "boobies" to be added by readers, for instance). The most visited websites will get onto the front page. People posting crap will get categorized "crap", and stuff which is silly but funny can become "unintentional-funny" or something.
My rather worthless two cents
Just fyi, your sig:
Speaking to "the haves and the have-mores." George W. smirks: "Some people call you the elite, I call you my base"
It's a quote from a charity dinner in New York in 2000, where Presidential candidates are invited to come and poke fun at themselves. In the same dinner, Al Gore poked fun at the "Al Gore invented the Internet" joke by claiming to have invented that particular dinner tradition. See CBS News and a blog.
*g* Interesting post on your blog on perspectives, btw. Why don't you let people post on your blog?
Show them the boot up sequence - I bet you every protogeek in the audience will begin salivating on the spot. Then show them the console - programs like fortune, or the text version of computer games. Explain to them how somebody actually had to sit and write every one of these programs, and that's what you do. Show them "Hello, world" and "what's your name?" as very simple shell scripts. Tell them that's there one rather special program that took a whole lot of people to write ... and then start X with the glitsiest, shiniest, most sparkling window manager you can find. They'll be impressed.
:)
Double points if you do this on a dilapidated computer, which you open them up and explain how everything goes together.
I completely agree with you. When I was eleven, I tried learning C. Of course, it took me ages to understand anything major, but even back then I knew I was dealing with something aweseome.
My favourite "first program" is the one my mum used to teach me programming: the computer would ask you what your name is, and on being told, would say hello to you. It's a nice three line program, uses both input and ouput, and atleast as a kid I got a kick out of the fact that the computer could remember my name. Of course, back then, we had a ZX Spectrum Plus, so kids today might not be quite as shocked ...
Seriously! I was a huge fan of the Batman TV series, Dick Van Dyke is a legend, and Mark Hamill, once his second 'L' has been restored to him, is probably a demigod of sorts in these here parts ... this, I have got to see!
:|
Once the slashdotting lets off, of course
to the Brick Testament! And yup, totally agree with parent.
They won't *all* end up EA employees ...
kthnx :)
...
brbgtgbbqcul8rk
It's VB (SCREW YOU FOR JUDGING ME!)
:).
It's VB. You're already screwed
Did anyone else notice that we actually hit *every single major flamewar* with this one submission? I've see Macs vs PCs, Linux is/isn't ready for the Desktop, Linus is/isn't God, openBSD is/isn't dead (as a component of MacOS), hell, someone even dredged out the ancient AST vs. LT macrokernels vs microkernel flame war for the occasion!
:). Can't disappoint the flamers, can we? ;)
Is this a new record of some sort? Someone should note this!
In that vein: has Linus ever owned up to which EDITOR he uses? Vi vs Emacs is the *one* Holy War I haven't seen yet
Parent has successfully identified the chief problem with the article: not enough acronyms! :P
Don't they already? I thought google.com implicitly had a pagerank of one.
AIYEEEE!
*falls over backwards*
There are NO enemies of Linux! Yes, what I tell you is the truth, Stallman be praised, all the enemies are dying surrounded by confirmations from Netcraft! Yes, we shall cut them up and hang them by their intestines, the worthless sons of a peebrained 16-bit operating system! All our enemies have already been vanquished and sent into the afterlife to be burned by daemons over the fires of hell and to swim in blue streams of death and to face the ravages of General Protection Fault and Colonel Panic ... yes! They are dead already! Gone! Vanquished! Kill -9ed! I tell you again, THERE ARE NO ENEMIES OF LINUX!
;)
(You know I am telling the truth; our wise leader Linus, may Stallman praise him or atleast let him call his OS Linux, believes in absolute honestly
Stage #5: Embrace and Extend
...
Stage #6: Profit (for microsoft)
Remember, they weren't always the biggest boys in town, and if anything, they're probably *better* at going after good competitors than dominating the industry from above
but the built in search already does that.
... and the search interface is so user friendly, too)
because it doesn't have the world's most *@#!* irritating dog built in, maybe?
(my comp is a little old, and everything grinds to a halt every time I need to search for something and that damn dog turns up
yes, I have rage against the Windows Search Dog >:(
Parent is up to +2, Troll ... any bets he'll make it to +5, Troll? :)
haven't seen Dr. Who, so dun have an opinion on it either ways
Netscape 6.0: Oh God. ...
That's funny, all I remember was a stunned silence
100,000,000 Romanian Leu! :D
Well, I for one am glad somebody finally came up with a "this book sucks, don't touch it with with a ten foot pole" type review, after the boring slashvertisements we've been seeing lately.
I do agree with the reviewer review that the review was confused, spending way too much time talking about how he would have prefered the book to be organised, rather than just telling us how it was and letting us make up our minds (or bringing his own feelings up in the conclusion).
Other than that, I'd say the review was interesting. Also, the reviewer review was fair and balanced, correcting the reviewer's mistakes without too much flaming. Kudos.