Now you're tossing out additional words you didn't mention. 'Creative' brings to mind different meanings than 'original' or 'useful.' The multiple journalists who've been fired in the last year or so were being 'creative.'
People who fritter about UIDs are people who don't have any other basis to stand on. You're being like the musty old fuck at work who's been sitting at that same entry level bench for 27 years and DAMNED if he doesn't think his inertia means he knows more than other people who've moved up and around.
The only basis I can find for a low UID on Slashdot showing merit is that it means you've towed the party line for longer than most.
It is, in fact, a four day weekend. So the people who actually work for a living have extra time off. I guess you're not used to them being around, eh?
ah, Monday, you can't get here soon enough!
Yeah, the forum is all yours again on Monday, in your basement full of 486's running Linux. Is your Mom working Monday? Will you have to heat up your own frozen pizza?
The last time I was at Frys Electronics, one of the things I noticed in the Software Aisle was that there were TONS of software purchasing choices that consumers could make. And only a small number of the products available for sale were Microsoft products. There are a LOT of commercial software produces besides Microsoft and they're all providing choices to consumers.
All those software companies aren't going to roll over and die. And people seem to like buying that stuff, or it wouldn't get the shelf space. Rumors that 'commercial software is in it's death throes' are greatly overblown.
Actually, the only software I actually bought on that trip was an OpenBSD CD set (gotta admit I was pleased to see a software product for sale at Frys that said right on the outer package that it would run on my MicroVAX 3100).
Their enterprise was a necessary expense in the age of dead trees,
People like you keep saying that, over and over, but it doesn't make any sense.
If the printing and distribution cost were the only expense involved, you'd be right. However, Readers Digest magazine has been widely available for many decades, at a far lower cost than many scientific journals, and yet it has aprox. the equivalent physical production and distribution costs.
So there must be something more than that involved here.
Obviously there is. So please, simplisitic approaches to the issue need to go away.
Oh, come on. There have been changes that keep this forum from being a crapflooder's swamp, but there is a very, very vocal unqualified peer-group on this forum that slants things STRONGLY in directions that diverge away from the truth.
How any academic could think that the wide spread distribution of information could HURT academia is beyond me.
Indeed. There's this magical property that once 'information' is widely distributed, it magically improves in quality. You have only to look at Television or the Supermarket Tabloids to see this in practice.
In other words, give it up with your 'obsolete' comment, guy.
Now, it's true that there is more than one party here,
Huh? I guess you've never had any of the 'mystery' mod points taken off your comments, yet. Every once in awhile mod markdowns 'without comment' appear.
This might appear to be a pocket democracy, but this is really a private domain. Almost all web forums are. You have to go to the anarchy of Usenet to get away from that, and even Usenet has it's limits (as well as all the problems associated with being an totally out-of-control forum)
Those of us who have been online for decades in different forums know many of the limits of the medium.
It makes it harder to send the message that Linux doesn't suffer from the same problems that Windows does when you have to restart the browser.
That it does. But Linux isn't any better than Windows when running an equivalent browser. Mozilla on Windows and Mozilla on Linux is about the same in almost all regards.
So the important thing is to point out that there are plenty of other advantages in running Linux.
The history of the Powerbook is just another instance, like OS X, of a narcissistic company, detracted with irrelevant issues like wether employees can keep their dog in their cubicle, having to reach outside the company to bring in innovation. Apple, for their mythological 'wunderkid' roots, is and has been just another company full of arrogant self-aggrandizing braggarts.
Heck, they had to 'outsource' development of the Mac to a skunkworks because the regular Apple corporate culture wasn't working. The lap-busting boat anchor called the 'Portable' was a running joke until Apple hired in outsiders to build the PowerBook line.
I still have a really nice (needs more memory, though) Powerbook 165c.
The 'fingerprint' can be a dynamic-range pattern. Load up a music file into a 'graphical' editor like Cool Edit sometime. The overall pattern for a particular piece of music is very unique. The unique coding and/or waveform pattern for the sound is irrelevant.
But presumably somebody who calls is more likely to buy than somebody who clicks, and at least you know it's not a click-bot.
Well, up until now, at least. Now it will be so much easier to casually call the vendor that the call center may get just a tad bit more congested than in the past.
I particularly like the alt-F4 keyboard shortcut in Windows.
You can walk up to the average Windows user, who is leaving his/her keyboard unguarded, and hit alt-F4 four or five times and every app and window is closed, and the machine is at the prompt to shut down.
What's particularly fun about this is the way the Windows user desperately clings to the mouse while it's happening.
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Now you're tossing out additional words you didn't mention. 'Creative' brings to mind different meanings than 'original' or 'useful.' The multiple journalists who've been fired in the last year or so were being 'creative.'
Lousy guess, btw.
People who fritter about UIDs are people who don't have any other basis to stand on. You're being like the musty old fuck at work who's been sitting at that same entry level bench for 27 years and DAMNED if he doesn't think his inertia means he knows more than other people who've moved up and around.
The only basis I can find for a low UID on Slashdot showing merit is that it means you've towed the party line for longer than most.
33-1/3 Revolutions per Minute used to be enough.
You keep spinning in one place, there, dood.
Nobody cares much what you call for. Are you going to get a sling shot and shoot your mouse balls at the police??
Let's see here, is it a four-day weekend?
It is, in fact, a four day weekend. So the people who actually work for a living have extra time off. I guess you're not used to them being around, eh?
ah, Monday, you can't get here soon enough!
Yeah, the forum is all yours again on Monday, in your basement full of 486's running Linux. Is your Mom working Monday? Will you have to heat up your own frozen pizza?
The last time I was at Frys Electronics, one of the things I noticed in the Software Aisle was that there were TONS of software purchasing choices that consumers could make. And only a small number of the products available for sale were Microsoft products. There are a LOT of commercial software produces besides Microsoft and they're all providing choices to consumers.
All those software companies aren't going to roll over and die. And people seem to like buying that stuff, or it wouldn't get the shelf space. Rumors that 'commercial software is in it's death throes' are greatly overblown.
Actually, the only software I actually bought on that trip was an OpenBSD CD set (gotta admit I was pleased to see a software product for sale at Frys that said right on the outer package that it would run on my MicroVAX 3100).
Their enterprise was a necessary expense in the age of dead trees,
People like you keep saying that, over and over, but it doesn't make any sense.
If the printing and distribution cost were the only expense involved, you'd be right. However, Readers Digest magazine has been widely available for many decades, at a far lower cost than many scientific journals, and yet it has aprox. the equivalent physical production and distribution costs.
So there must be something more than that involved here.
Obviously there is. So please, simplisitic approaches to the issue need to go away.
Maybe a PhD should be based on creativity and not quantity.
It probably is, if you're talking about a PhD at a Music Conservatory.
We're talking about Science with a capital 'S' here.
Oh, come on. There have been changes that keep this forum from being a crapflooder's swamp, but there is a very, very vocal unqualified peer-group on this forum that slants things STRONGLY in directions that diverge away from the truth.
I don't think I even need to name examples.
How any academic could think that the wide spread distribution of information could HURT academia is beyond me.
Indeed. There's this magical property that once 'information' is widely distributed, it magically improves in quality. You have only to look at Television or the Supermarket Tabloids to see this in practice.
In other words, give it up with your 'obsolete' comment, guy.
Now, it's true that there is more than one party here,
Huh? I guess you've never had any of the 'mystery' mod points taken off your comments, yet. Every once in awhile mod markdowns 'without comment' appear.
This might appear to be a pocket democracy, but this is really a private domain. Almost all web forums are. You have to go to the anarchy of Usenet to get away from that, and even Usenet has it's limits (as well as all the problems associated with being an totally out-of-control forum)
Those of us who have been online for decades in different forums know many of the limits of the medium.
It makes it harder to send the message that Linux doesn't suffer from the same problems that Windows does when you have to restart the browser.
That it does. But Linux isn't any better than Windows when running an equivalent browser. Mozilla on Windows and Mozilla on Linux is about the same in almost all regards.
So the important thing is to point out that there are plenty of other advantages in running Linux.
You can't do good science if your personal emotions and ego are wrapped up too tightly with the experiment.
Whoah! That would rule out just about any scientist. Or anybody else doing any kind of work they care about.
Which leaves the work for dispassionate drones and the mediocre, I suppose.
The history of the Powerbook is just another instance, like OS X, of a narcissistic company, detracted with irrelevant issues like wether employees can keep their dog in their cubicle, having to reach outside the company to bring in innovation. Apple, for their mythological 'wunderkid' roots, is and has been just another company full of arrogant self-aggrandizing braggarts.
Heck, they had to 'outsource' development of the Mac to a skunkworks because the regular Apple corporate culture wasn't working. The lap-busting boat anchor called the 'Portable' was a running joke until Apple hired in outsiders to build the PowerBook line.
I still have a really nice (needs more memory, though) Powerbook 165c.
Give me no valid source, and I have no choice but to make my own.
So you're taking piano/guitar/singing lessons, or do you really _not_ get it at all?
The 'fingerprint' can be a dynamic-range pattern. Load up a music file into a 'graphical' editor like Cool Edit sometime. The overall pattern for a particular piece of music is very unique. The unique coding and/or waveform pattern for the sound is irrelevant.
they're trying to prop it up by bending the law to make using the same cd in both the car and the home illegal.
How so? There's a big mean dude out by your carport who frisks you every time you might be carrying a CD out from your house to your car??
If you don't know how to filter out 'current, new stock' camera gear from your 'used professional gear' searches on eBay, it's your own fault.
I'm pretty sure that he was referring to pre-pubescent children.
But go ahead and twist the arguement. It makes it obvious you have no chance of making your point.
Cripes. The McMaster-Carr catalog probably weighs more than that.
On Slashdot, you can estimate the degree of something bad about Microsoft by simply looking at the folds in the palm of your hand.
The thing that really bodes will for RPM is that people actually use it.
.tar and Makefile for even longer, and with very good results.
Agreed. But people have been using
I use the ls command to see what is installed, and where. And I can do it even on systems that aren't RPM-based.
With the source rpm, you can simply tweak and build off of someone else's work, rather than doing it over from scratch.
Ummm, you didn't mention anything that a gzipped tarball and a Makefile doesn't do pretty well.
Google hasn't even figured out that I don't like advertising yet.
And I used to think the 'nerd community' frowned on advertising, too. But now we have these ad-men who we're supposed to admire called 'Google'. . .
But presumably somebody who calls is more likely to buy than somebody who clicks, and at least you know it's not a click-bot.
Well, up until now, at least. Now it will be so much easier to casually call the vendor that the call center may get just a tad bit more congested than in the past.
I particularly like the alt-F4 keyboard shortcut in Windows.
You can walk up to the average Windows user, who is leaving his/her keyboard unguarded, and hit alt-F4 four or five times and every app and window is closed, and the machine is at the prompt to shut down.
What's particularly fun about this is the way the Windows user desperately clings to the mouse while it's happening.