That has the potential to be very good. The writers would have the freedom to kill off or transform any crew
Well, well, if it's good because many die, then I don't want any of it thankyouverymuch. New characters in a new movie/series is quite ok, and can just deeply ad silently hope that they will manage to gather a crew at the level of the DS9 gang. Man, how greatly I enjoyed almost every episode of that stuff.
Of Troi hating Worf... I don't know, I think you stuck with the wrong memories:) remember instead how they became married in the episode where Worf returns from a bathlet contest and some time discontinuities cause him to bounce among many realities of Enterprise, and in one of them they are married. That was rocking:)
I don't say I'd never work in cubicles, since it could happen that all other positions in the world are filled, but other than that... no, thanks. I happened to go to a job interview a few years back, for a position which I think I would've liked pretty much. After the whole tests, management and professional interviews were over, also the money wouldn't have been that bad, they showed me the "offices"... something which I call a partitioned football field... I thanked them everything and phoned them the next day to say goodbye.
/* note: it seems all my today's comments will be titled BS:( */
As always: some big player (or at least thinks it is) starts bashing something other do but he doesn't have the capacity, will, resources, etc. to do. Support of "minor" platforms has always been one of the many strengths of Linux ! Now some pongo comes around and thinks better. Oh, get lost.
I can certainly understand the extra work and resources and knowledge needed to concurrently support multiple architectures - think debian as a classic example, though they also started dropping some -, still, the benefits can be huge: bug discovery, nicer design, easier portability (yes, given portability makes further portability easier:), fame:), appreciation from the "minority" users, etc. And think, Linux today, in some form, is ubiquitous, meaning realtime systems, embedded systems, pda's, development boards, general-purpose computers, control systems, etc. If you think all these don't mean portability, you're wrong.
I trust my 465w a-pfc enermax anytime over some slashvertised psu with -Rs in its name from sites with Xs in its name. whatever. Anyways, someone who uses such cpus and don't have the clue to take care of a proper psu, they deserve what they end up with.
MS Word with the auto-correct "feature" enabled.:-)
[I'll be mostly off topic]
:D thing is, I typed it from work (well, from where else should I, this being/.:) ) and you can tell that because when I'm typing from home I usually use Konqueror (most of the time, the rest Ffox) which does a very nice job at integrated spell checking, even in such web forms.
In the case of word processing, I mostly type my stuff in latex with kile and I use ispell for spell checking. Great combination, yet, for me, unbeatable.
My problem here, besides finding the whole idea quite aberrated and obnoxious, is that these kids will grow up being monitored with gps, cells, what they eat, how they spend, what they do on the net, etc. etc., and - god forbid - they will grow so used to being monitored that when grown up they will accept more easily all the stuff their government is even now trying to impose.
.NET is the most advanced RAD environment on the market today
Get a f*cking clue, like it or not,.net is _not_ an rad environment. Secondly, NET is also standardized with open, publicly available specification - there's nothing wrong with this: the problem is MS implementing a secure nation-wide id system... hell, I'd feel safer in the jungle amongst mad tigers.
Maybe it's not the AOL who has the fault, but the people. Hell, I've heard people finding it nice that they have that buddy thing installed:) - oh, that's not funny
Shouldn't India be worrying about more important things like reducing the population, and feeding it? Computers, and even moreso such specific things like what development model is used for software, are so trivial when compared with war and starvation.
Yup, one more american who "knows" how the world looks like outside the US, and giving "advice". No wonder, really. And not even exasperating anymore.
Thing is, I am less and less interested to read such "unsuccess-stories" recently. Why ? Because they are almost all from newbies, frequently not just linux newbies, but in everything [as judged from their writing, use of words and concepts and tools]. In other cases I frequently feel some sort of - maybe wrong word - superiority, meaning that they try something and if they fail then that's it, don't try, don't touch, don't ask, but start complaining and bashing, and drawing mostly [if not always] wrong conclusions.
I never say, to nobody, that learning linux is easy. It's not, for multiple reasons: learning and coming in contact just with the MS ways from the beginning; easily being accostumed to Windows' ways that suggest that every joe5pack can click together anything; very many of them never ever have built a computer in their life, and very few have ever seen one's insides - that's not necvessarily a bad thing, I'm just trying to point out a pattern in their ways of thinking; most of them never have installed even a Windows version, they just buy them preinstalled and if something doesn't work they take it back to the "shop" to get it fixed. I could continue, but it's somewhat pointless.
When I first came in contact with linux was a very early version of slackware which I installed on a 386dx40 with 4 megs of ram. It was a pain, and because I didn't know much of it, it took my quite a few trials and about a week to get it running. But it worked in the end and I was happy. I was thrilled I could do it, and I learned _very _very_ much about the internals of linux during that period. That was very many years back. Compared to those times - and even my ater redhat times - linux today is very easy and very nice. And, seeing all the work that has been done, I can really greatly value and appreciate the work of the hundreds of people who code FOSS software.
Sometimes, when I get really mad about this whole topic - not that frequent, but it happens -, I tend to just wave the whole things of by saying those windows folks that they are just ignorant and lazy and basically computer illiterate and I stop the conversation. But - obviously - such words don't help. Not me, not them, not anyone.
What can help is spreading the word, spreading the knowledge, spreading the most userfriendly distros, lifting somewhat the cloud that has been dropped on most everyday people by MS's PR and marketing divisions. Letting people know that free software is not just good because it costs less money (I'm talking about everyday people here, not enterprises !), hell, that can't be much of an argument in the states or western europe anymore, but because linux is far superior to Windows in so many aspects one could spend long hours to explain them to people who live in the dark.
Sorry, but Linux has a LONG way to go.
Maybe, mostly for reasons you and many people think "for the desktop" means. And many of you think wrong. If "for the desktop" means dumbed down the point that Mr. 6pack can clickety click his life away, then yes, there is some work to be done. For some of us linux distros are quite usable for home, work, entertainment and "Desktop" for quite a long time now.
Not that I'm a big fan of outsourcing because it totally sucks for those of us left in the tech industry in the U.S., but...
You know, first, you're not the only country where companies do outsourcing, so forgive me if I'm not sorry for you guys. Second, judging outsourcing is always relative, and it's always better for those who get work because some companies bring them work. Poorer countries also need to raise from poverty, and foreign companies investing in this form or the other, is a help, even if it is only for a given time [till it's worth being there]. And, always, they take most of their money out of the country to which they outsorce the jobs, very little money they leave there: mostly they get a tax discounts for longish times and their profit leaves the country. And, after a few years they mostly leave for another.
He is suggesting the next step is to find Linux distro CDs at convence stores for like $5 a disk.
A beginning is what many people do: distribute freely. E,g, I ordered Ubuntu Hoary disks both i386&amd64, gave some of them to a friend, keep one and I'll leave the rest for the public at my former university. Good thing is, that generally there have always been a significant number of linux people.
It's an advice. And a good one, for the record. If you can prove me that nobody nowhere made an advice for studsnts on MS Office usage, I'd say nothing. But, this is absolutely not the case. In the majority of schools nothing else [than MS Office] is even mentioned, let alone recommended for use. Now you say it's "questionable" to even recommend OO.org. Hell, you say "bullshit", maybe you should sit and think a bit next time.
marking any Office user as a hopeless moron
Well, if they are all like you, then yes, they are hopeless [I won't comment on the moron part].
Take this from someone who uses OO.org, MS Office and KOffice regularly and not just for fun.
do people have to link to a pfd file directly without any notice?
For god's sake, use the TargetAlert extension for FireFox, one of my favourite ~dozen. You'll allways know what you click on.
motivation, you ignorant f*ck, motivation
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But if the world goes to 100% open source, innovation goes to zero. The open source guys hate it when I say this, but it's true.
Ok, clearly some people can not comprehend that there exists motivation sources and goals for exceptional software creation far beyond and besides corporate welfare, higher salary or making William Gates yet another good day. Don't get me wrong - hey, this is/.:) - I don't say people are making good free software, don't have any income, but still are happy, no. But the wast majority of FOSS developers have regular jobs, families, they live their lives somehow and still they provide us with an extreme amount of qualuty free software.
...as always. Still: want better Internet security and easier network management. they write. Thing is, those IT folks they speak about probably know exactly what IPv6 is for, which is not better security and easier management. It's mostly the extended address space, not much more, think of it as IPv4 on lower-end steroids. So they probably don't expect such features from it. Which is not true for ignorant article writers.
"top" movies these days are infinitely more entertaining, moving, spectacular, and in other ways better than movies were fifty years ago
Don't get mad too quickly because I'm saying this: this is so American. The whole description is just what current American movies are. And you know, there are people out there who value a good storyline with spectacular acting and not mostly spectacular view quite a lot more than the average movie-going people. And yes, there were a few decades which produced overwhelmingly good movies, with stories and acting very hard to match these days, in or out of US/HWood. On the other side, there were (still are, but not so many) exceptionally great non-american writers, directors and cameramen for example in the 60-70s whose work is even by today's measures very well above the average. A few of what you call spectacular new hollywood movies are just not enough to erase memories of these. And it's very good so. I could come up wth very many examples, but I won't since I don't want to start another flamewar about why I think some older movies are in so many ways better than almost everything I saw in the last let's say 10 years (and I'm only 26).
If you're someone who has real knowledge about the movie history than you just can't deny the very great heritage which we have in the international movie arena. Today most movies' goal is to shock the crowds with stunning visuals and sudden drama sometimes with depressingly wrong, unpolished, uncomplete, childish storylines. This, in cases, can be good, I dont' argue. But after a certain amount one just gets fed up with them.
I can very highly appreciate good acting, good stories, good filming, good directing. I also can value some of the trials which want to break out from the Hollywood school of directing and cameramanship, which - and this is not just my opinion but of some great cameramen whose work [i.e. books...] I've read - has more and more become a cliche in recent years. No wonder so many actors become directors over the great pond (really no offence ment here).
And no wonder so many remakes are coming into the movies these days. But this is not really news or unknown, this is a tendency which also shows e.g. in the music businness, but that is something which I quite frequently despise, but that's another story.
I'm happy all over, from head to toe
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Why am I so happy ? beacuse with such game consoles out there (despit the fact that I'm a full fledged PS3 fan, coolest thang, great stuff) Linux has a greater chance than ever.
I, for one, will probably no way buy PC games in the future. Why the hell would I do that when I can have a quite powerfull and nice looking console hooked up to a hdtv in the living room. I ain't gona need no PC to play my brains out, the wish should arise.
And, added to the above and returning to my Linux idea at the beginning, don't forget that very very very many average clicking guys come with the "argument" that they won't even consider chaning or even trying Linux, because all the games run on Windows.
All in all, these consoles will probably be great, I hope so. Given the specs, the reviews, etc., I'm still nto convinced any bit of XBox's superiority over the PS3, but that's no problem if I can buy which I want and play, play, play:D
- we found you password-protected your bios and your boot is password protected, you obivously have something to hide
- we found your leeloo, oh, sorry lilo is password protected too, so you obviously have something to hide
- we found your OS keeps asking for a password, you obviously have something to hide
- we found your e-mail program asks for a password to access your account passwords, your have something to hide, on the double
- we found you digitally sign and gpg-encrypt your e-mails, you obviously have something to hide
- we found you use several archiver applications which have the option to password-protect your archives, you obviously have something to hide
- we found your IM accounts all need passwords, you obviously have something to hide
- we found your home, car, safe all have locks and we don't have the keys, what are you hiding ?
Yes, in fact I've read all this and saw the pictures a few days ago. I'm not that surprised to read 1-2.. days' old stuff on/. these days. And even those become duplicates eventually.
Life is supposed to look normal, well trimmed, green and conforming.
Yup, kinda sound like "it plays america the beautiful and tie a yellow ribbon". Thing is, life is not that simple. Of course I can understand that in a wider scope, the value of the neighborhood effects the value of the individual properties. Still, despite of being quite open minded [uhmm, or not] I'd feel a certain raise in my blood pressure if my neighbors would start thinking my porch is their porch. My work, my money, my life. Maybe I'm stupid, could happen. That said, I also can value a nice neighborhood, a nice front yard, and I probably wouldn't just smile on someone covering their house in aluminium or whatever. Thing is, I've seen very nice neighborhoods, in my country and in other countries, but such ridiculous stories usually doesn't originate from them.
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Nemesis was the 10th. They can count alright, that's not their main problem :)
That has the potential to be very good. The writers would have the freedom to kill off or transform any crew
:) remember instead how they became married in the episode where Worf returns from a bathlet contest and some time discontinuities cause him to bounce among many realities of Enterprise, and in one of them they are married. That was rocking :)
Well, well, if it's good because many die, then I don't want any of it thankyouverymuch. New characters in a new movie/series is quite ok, and can just deeply ad silently hope that they will manage to gather a crew at the level of the DS9 gang. Man, how greatly I enjoyed almost every episode of that stuff.
Of Troi hating Worf... I don't know, I think you stuck with the wrong memories
I don't say I'd never work in cubicles, since it could happen that all other positions in the world are filled, but other than that... no, thanks. I happened to go to a job interview a few years back, for a position which I think I would've liked pretty much. After the whole tests, management and professional interviews were over, also the money wouldn't have been that bad, they showed me the "offices"... something which I call a partitioned football field... I thanked them everything and phoned them the next day to say goodbye.
/* note: it seems all my today's comments will be titled BS :( */
:), fame :), appreciation from the "minority" users, etc. And think, Linux today, in some form, is ubiquitous, meaning realtime systems, embedded systems, pda's, development boards, general-purpose computers, control systems, etc. If you think all these don't mean portability, you're wrong.
As always: some big player (or at least thinks it is) starts bashing something other do but he doesn't have the capacity, will, resources, etc. to do. Support of "minor" platforms has always been one of the many strengths of Linux ! Now some pongo comes around and thinks better. Oh, get lost.
I can certainly understand the extra work and resources and knowledge needed to concurrently support multiple architectures - think debian as a classic example, though they also started dropping some -, still, the benefits can be huge: bug discovery, nicer design, easier portability (yes, given portability makes further portability easier
I trust my 465w a-pfc enermax anytime over some slashvertised psu with -Rs in its name from sites with Xs in its name. whatever. Anyways, someone who uses such cpus and don't have the clue to take care of a proper psu, they deserve what they end up with.
MS Word with the auto-correct "feature" enabled. :-)
:D thing is, I typed it from work (well, from where else should I, this being /. :) ) and you can tell that because when I'm typing from home I usually use Konqueror (most of the time, the rest Ffox) which does a very nice job at integrated spell checking, even in such web forms.
[I'll be mostly off topic]
In the case of word processing, I mostly type my stuff in latex with kile and I use ispell for spell checking. Great combination, yet, for me, unbeatable.
My problem here, besides finding the whole idea quite aberrated and obnoxious, is that these kids will grow up being monitored with gps, cells, what they eat, how they spend, what they do on the net, etc. etc., and - god forbid - they will grow so used to being monitored that when grown up they will accept more easily all the stuff their government is even now trying to impose.
Get a f*cking clue, like it or not,
Maybe it's not the AOL who has the fault, but the people. Hell, I've heard people finding it nice that they have that buddy thing installed :) - oh, that's not funny
Shouldn't India be worrying about more important things like reducing the population, and feeding it? Computers, and even moreso such specific things like what development model is used for software, are so trivial when compared with war and starvation.
Yup, one more american who "knows" how the world looks like outside the US, and giving "advice". No wonder, really. And not even exasperating anymore.
Thing is, I am less and less interested to read such "unsuccess-stories" recently. Why ? Because they are almost all from newbies, frequently not just linux newbies, but in everything [as judged from their writing, use of words and concepts and tools]. In other cases I frequently feel some sort of - maybe wrong word - superiority, meaning that they try something and if they fail then that's it, don't try, don't touch, don't ask, but start complaining and bashing, and drawing mostly [if not always] wrong conclusions.
I never say, to nobody, that learning linux is easy. It's not, for multiple reasons: learning and coming in contact just with the MS ways from the beginning; easily being accostumed to Windows' ways that suggest that every joe5pack can click together anything; very many of them never ever have built a computer in their life, and very few have ever seen one's insides - that's not necvessarily a bad thing, I'm just trying to point out a pattern in their ways of thinking; most of them never have installed even a Windows version, they just buy them preinstalled and if something doesn't work they take it back to the "shop" to get it fixed. I could continue, but it's somewhat pointless.
When I first came in contact with linux was a very early version of slackware which I installed on a 386dx40 with 4 megs of ram. It was a pain, and because I didn't know much of it, it took my quite a few trials and about a week to get it running. But it worked in the end and I was happy. I was thrilled I could do it, and I learned _very _very_ much about the internals of linux during that period. That was very many years back. Compared to those times - and even my ater redhat times - linux today is very easy and very nice. And, seeing all the work that has been done, I can really greatly value and appreciate the work of the hundreds of people who code FOSS software.
Sometimes, when I get really mad about this whole topic - not that frequent, but it happens -, I tend to just wave the whole things of by saying those windows folks that they are just ignorant and lazy and basically computer illiterate and I stop the conversation. But - obviously - such words don't help. Not me, not them, not anyone.
What can help is spreading the word, spreading the knowledge, spreading the most userfriendly distros, lifting somewhat the cloud that has been dropped on most everyday people by MS's PR and marketing divisions. Letting people know that free software is not just good because it costs less money (I'm talking about everyday people here, not enterprises !), hell, that can't be much of an argument in the states or western europe anymore, but because linux is far superior to Windows in so many aspects one could spend long hours to explain them to people who live in the dark.
Sorry, but Linux has a LONG way to go.
Maybe, mostly for reasons you and many people think "for the desktop" means. And many of you think wrong. If "for the desktop" means dumbed down the point that Mr. 6pack can clickety click his life away, then yes, there is some work to be done. For some of us linux distros are quite usable for home, work, entertainment and "Desktop" for quite a long time now.
Yes, and they self-destruct if one puts them in an optical drive.
Not that I'm a big fan of outsourcing because it totally sucks for those of us left in the tech industry in the U.S., but...
You know, first, you're not the only country where companies do outsourcing, so forgive me if I'm not sorry for you guys. Second, judging outsourcing is always relative, and it's always better for those who get work because some companies bring them work. Poorer countries also need to raise from poverty, and foreign companies investing in this form or the other, is a help, even if it is only for a given time [till it's worth being there]. And, always, they take most of their money out of the country to which they outsorce the jobs, very little money they leave there: mostly they get a tax discounts for longish times and their profit leaves the country. And, after a few years they mostly leave for another.
He is suggesting the next step is to find Linux distro CDs at convence stores for like $5 a disk.
A beginning is what many people do: distribute freely. E,g, I ordered Ubuntu Hoary disks both i386&amd64, gave some of them to a friend, keep one and I'll leave the rest for the public at my former university. Good thing is, that generally there have always been a significant number of linux people.
Advising the students to use it is questionable
It's an advice. And a good one, for the record. If you can prove me that nobody nowhere made an advice for studsnts on MS Office usage, I'd say nothing. But, this is absolutely not the case. In the majority of schools nothing else [than MS Office] is even mentioned, let alone recommended for use. Now you say it's "questionable" to even recommend OO.org. Hell, you say "bullshit", maybe you should sit and think a bit next time.
marking any Office user as a hopeless moron
Well, if they are all like you, then yes, they are hopeless [I won't comment on the moron part].
Take this from someone who uses OO.org, MS Office and KOffice regularly and not just for fun.
do people have to link to a pfd file directly without any notice?
For god's sake, use the TargetAlert extension for FireFox, one of my favourite ~dozen. You'll allways know what you click on.
But if the world goes to 100% open source, innovation goes to zero. The open source guys hate it when I say this, but it's true.
/. :) - I don't say people are making good free software, don't have any income, but still are happy, no. But the wast majority of FOSS developers have regular jobs, families, they live their lives somehow and still they provide us with an extreme amount of qualuty free software.
Ok, clearly some people can not comprehend that there exists motivation sources and goals for exceptional software creation far beyond and besides corporate welfare, higher salary or making William Gates yet another good day. Don't get me wrong - hey, this is
...as always. Still: want better Internet security and easier network management. they write. Thing is, those IT folks they speak about probably know exactly what IPv6 is for, which is not better security and easier management. It's mostly the extended address space, not much more, think of it as IPv4 on lower-end steroids. So they probably don't expect such features from it. Which is not true for ignorant article writers.
"top" movies these days are infinitely more entertaining, moving, spectacular, and in other ways better than movies were fifty years ago
...] I've read - has more and more become a cliche in recent years. No wonder so many actors become directors over the great pond (really no offence ment here).
Don't get mad too quickly because I'm saying this: this is so American. The whole description is just what current American movies are. And you know, there are people out there who value a good storyline with spectacular acting and not mostly spectacular view quite a lot more than the average movie-going people. And yes, there were a few decades which produced overwhelmingly good movies, with stories and acting very hard to match these days, in or out of US/HWood. On the other side, there were (still are, but not so many) exceptionally great non-american writers, directors and cameramen for example in the 60-70s whose work is even by today's measures very well above the average. A few of what you call spectacular new hollywood movies are just not enough to erase memories of these. And it's very good so. I could come up wth very many examples, but I won't since I don't want to start another flamewar about why I think some older movies are in so many ways better than almost everything I saw in the last let's say 10 years (and I'm only 26).
If you're someone who has real knowledge about the movie history than you just can't deny the very great heritage which we have in the international movie arena. Today most movies' goal is to shock the crowds with stunning visuals and sudden drama sometimes with depressingly wrong, unpolished, uncomplete, childish storylines. This, in cases, can be good, I dont' argue. But after a certain amount one just gets fed up with them.
I can very highly appreciate good acting, good stories, good filming, good directing. I also can value some of the trials which want to break out from the Hollywood school of directing and cameramanship, which - and this is not just my opinion but of some great cameramen whose work [i.e. books
And no wonder so many remakes are coming into the movies these days. But this is not really news or unknown, this is a tendency which also shows e.g. in the music businness, but that is something which I quite frequently despise, but that's another story.
Why am I so happy ? beacuse with such game consoles out there (despit the fact that I'm a full fledged PS3 fan, coolest thang, great stuff) Linux has a greater chance than ever.
:D
I, for one, will probably no way buy PC games in the future. Why the hell would I do that when I can have a quite powerfull and nice looking console hooked up to a hdtv in the living room. I ain't gona need no PC to play my brains out, the wish should arise.
And, added to the above and returning to my Linux idea at the beginning, don't forget that very very very many average clicking guys come with the "argument" that they won't even consider chaning or even trying Linux, because all the games run on Windows.
All in all, these consoles will probably be great, I hope so. Given the specs, the reviews, etc., I'm still nto convinced any bit of XBox's superiority over the PS3, but that's no problem if I can buy which I want and play, play, play
and it sounds like "I used Windows to learn the hard way why Linux is better".
- we found you password-protected your bios and your boot is password protected, you obivously have something to hide
... I got tired ...
- we found your leeloo, oh, sorry lilo is password protected too, so you obviously have something to hide
- we found your OS keeps asking for a password, you obviously have something to hide
- we found your e-mail program asks for a password to access your account passwords, your have something to hide, on the double
- we found you digitally sign and gpg-encrypt your e-mails, you obviously have something to hide
- we found you use several archiver applications which have the option to password-protect your archives, you obviously have something to hide
- we found your IM accounts all need passwords, you obviously have something to hide
- we found your home, car, safe all have locks and we don't have the keys, what are you hiding ?
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Yes, in fact I've read all this and saw the pictures a few days ago. I'm not that surprised to read 1-2.. days' old stuff on /. these days. And even those become duplicates eventually.
Life is supposed to look normal, well trimmed, green and conforming.
Yup, kinda sound like "it plays america the beautiful and tie a yellow ribbon". Thing is, life is not that simple. Of course I can understand that in a wider scope, the value of the neighborhood effects the value of the individual properties. Still, despite of being quite open minded [uhmm, or not] I'd feel a certain raise in my blood pressure if my neighbors would start thinking my porch is their porch. My work, my money, my life. Maybe I'm stupid, could happen. That said, I also can value a nice neighborhood, a nice front yard, and I probably wouldn't just smile on someone covering their house in aluminium or whatever. Thing is, I've seen very nice neighborhoods, in my country and in other countries, but such ridiculous stories usually doesn't originate from them.