I'm not sure about nostalgia actually. I can clearly remember the thrill, as a physical feeling, of finding a new number and browsing file areas or disussions. Same with games, it's not often I get the same buzz today as when I played through Zelda, Monkey Island or Superfrog for the first time. Either I'm getting old or games and computers more boring, guess what I'm hoping for.;)
For sure, some of it has surely to do with the loss of "intimacy" that the pseudonymity of the Internet brings. The BBS scene was waaaaay smaller, and you kinda got to know a lot of the people that hung out at your favourite BBS:s, you felt a connection of shared interest that I miss today.
And yeah, that's probably mostly cos no matter where you go on the Internet and what you discuss, a host of fuckwads are sure to swarm around.
I used to own an Amiga500 back in the day, and got me a A1200 when they were released. Everyone I knew who were into computers had an Amiga, PC:s were more or less unheard of and generally ridiculed as clunky, ugly and unsexy (to a bunch of greasy-haired computer nerds anyhow:) ).
It always bugs me how the Amiga is forgotten when media - mainstream as well as trade press - do pieces on the "history" pf home computing. Back when no one outside universities and the military had heard of the "internet", and computers were considered wierd and anti-social, we were cruising BBS:s on our 1200 baud modems....and you know, everything was a hell of a lot more fun back then.;)
...this sounds interesting, as long as they "involve" the user to a larger extent than previous, similar efforts. Perhaps each sector of could be presented in an icon-based GUI, allowing users to choose what (and when..) they want information about.
On a side note, this could also mean new employment opportunities for webdesigners and such...
I keep reading stuff about how KDE is "too bloated", slow and so on...
This really isn't my experience at all. I've used kde (3.x) on an old, old PII 400 (kernel 2.6), with most of the visual crap turned on and found it quite fluent and totally usable. With some of the most taxing features turned off it flies... so what's all this about bloat?
Wouldn't it be better in the long run to ignore threads you know are bound to annoy you, rather than clutter them up with posts about how stupid it is to discuss them?
I'd imagine the patterns in our eyes are more difficult to duplicate for nefarious purposes than our fingerprints, which (besides the cool factor) would mean increased security... On the other hand, I'd rather have the arch-villain chop off my finger than carve out my eyeball.
Of course they must respond to it, that is hardly the issue. But *how*, that is another...
And as to the effectiveness of invading and occupying the countries perceived to fund and aid terrorists...
Sure, an attack on the scale of 9/11 took some serious planning and funding, but blowing up a bus and/or a subway train takes an elementary knowledge of chemistry, off-the-shelf products and a couple of bags to carry it all in. These people are already *everywhere*. They're not plotting the next attack in a cave in saudi-arabia, they're chatting over a cup of coffee in Venice, Copenhagen or Boston. Occupation of countries will, destruction of stuff and people aside, accomplish little else than to turn them into new little terrorist factories.
Find and punish those responsible, don't play their game by "promoting" them to "defenders of the faith" in the eyes of their countrymen.
I really shouldn't dignify this with a reply, but despite the atrocities in London, I am in a charitable mood.
Our societies are suprerior in their openness, the freedom we have the luxury to take for granted, the relative tolarance with which we treat those unlike us(though this could indeed stand some further improvement...). And our soldiers are "superior" in that they *are* soldiers (largely) and (mostly) avoid directly targeting civilians.
I am not, however, altogether happy with how our leadership has responded on these issues, but *their* attacks on democracy are another matter. For now, they're what we're stuck with.
No, we should not. In fact, the terrorists can be strung up with piano wire for all I care. We should, however, be nice to the civilian population of the middle east since they are about as much to blame in this as you (for all I know) or me.
Nobody said it would be easy being the good guys.
As horrendous as these acts are, this is not the time for broad, unrestrained retaliation. By responding to these attacks with invasion and occupation we reinforce the beliefs that this is a war, thereby justifying (in some minds) further "retalitory" strikes against what will undoubtedly be civilian targets. These people are criminals, not warriors or soldiers, and should be brought to justice as such. This path may well prove the most ardorous and trying, yet it is the *only* path if we wish to prove the superiority of our way and our societies.
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Excellent. I was waiting for a fuckwad to come around and prove my point. ;)
I'm not sure about nostalgia actually. I can clearly remember the thrill, as a physical feeling, of finding a new number and browsing file areas or disussions. Same with games, it's not often I get the same buzz today as when I played through Zelda, Monkey Island or Superfrog for the first time. Either I'm getting old or games and computers more boring, guess what I'm hoping for. ;)
For sure, some of it has surely to do with the loss of "intimacy" that the pseudonymity of the Internet brings. The BBS scene was waaaaay smaller, and you kinda got to know a lot of the people that hung out at your favourite BBS:s, you felt a connection of shared interest that I miss today.
And yeah, that's probably mostly cos no matter where you go on the Internet and what you discuss, a host of fuckwads are sure to swarm around.
I used to own an Amiga500 back in the day, and got me a A1200 when they were released. Everyone I knew who were into computers had an Amiga, PC:s were more or less unheard of and generally ridiculed as clunky, ugly and unsexy (to a bunch of greasy-haired computer nerds anyhow :) ).
...and you know, everything was a hell of a lot more fun back then. ;)
It always bugs me how the Amiga is forgotten when media - mainstream as well as trade press - do pieces on the "history" pf home computing. Back when no one outside universities and the military had heard of the "internet", and computers were considered wierd and anti-social, we were cruising BBS:s on our 1200 baud modems.
...this sounds interesting, as long as they "involve" the user to a larger extent than previous, similar efforts.
Perhaps each sector of could be presented in an icon-based GUI, allowing users to choose what (and when..) they want information about.
On a side note, this could also mean new employment opportunities for webdesigners and such...
I keep reading stuff about how KDE is "too bloated", slow and so on...
This really isn't my experience at all. I've used kde (3.x) on an old, old PII 400 (kernel 2.6), with most of the visual crap turned on and found it quite fluent and totally usable. With some of the most taxing features turned off it flies... so what's all this about bloat?
How about posting in txt instead of html, or learn how to use tags...
Wouldn't it be better in the long run to ignore threads you know are bound to annoy you, rather than clutter them up with posts about how stupid it is to discuss them?
I didn't forget about it as much as don't believe in or care about it. :)
Just as well. For every 10 people who can handle freedom, there are 90 who are bound to use it to destroy themeselves or others.
"the increasing number of Linux enthusiasts coming into the market would help the open source alternative in the long run."
I'd say this is precisely the other way around. More users equals bigger target and more potential fuck-ups.
This is way cool.
Really nice for us geographically challanged non-americans to get it without the usual half-a-year waiting period too.
...how does that contraptioin make his desk any less cluttered? Especially since he doesn't actually seem to PUT anything in the space he "liberated".
...public floggings of idiots that don't sufficiently protect/firewall their computers!
I'd imagine your best bet would be contacting someone in the current editorial team.
Well this certainly sounds creepy.
"NO, we will NEVER relinquish control! The Internet is ours, only ours! moahahaha"
Although this would certainly sound more sinister spoken with a german or french accent.
...what I want is retinal scanning!
I'd imagine the patterns in our eyes are more difficult to duplicate for nefarious purposes than our fingerprints, which (besides the cool factor) would mean increased security... On the other hand, I'd rather have the arch-villain chop off my finger than carve out my eyeball.
Of course they must respond to it, that is hardly the issue. But *how*, that is another...
And as to the effectiveness of invading and occupying the countries perceived to fund and aid terrorists...
Sure, an attack on the scale of 9/11 took some serious planning and funding, but blowing up a bus and/or a subway train takes an elementary knowledge of chemistry, off-the-shelf products and a couple of bags to carry it all in. These people are already *everywhere*. They're not plotting the next attack in a cave in saudi-arabia, they're chatting over a cup of coffee in Venice, Copenhagen or Boston. Occupation of countries will, destruction of stuff and people aside, accomplish little else than to turn them into new little terrorist factories.
Find and punish those responsible, don't play their game by "promoting" them to "defenders of the faith" in the eyes of their countrymen.
I really shouldn't dignify this with a reply, but despite the atrocities in London, I am in a charitable mood. Our societies are suprerior in their openness, the freedom we have the luxury to take for granted, the relative tolarance with which we treat those unlike us(though this could indeed stand some further improvement...). And our soldiers are "superior" in that they *are* soldiers (largely) and (mostly) avoid directly targeting civilians. I am not, however, altogether happy with how our leadership has responded on these issues, but *their* attacks on democracy are another matter. For now, they're what we're stuck with.
No, we should not. In fact, the terrorists can be strung up with piano wire for all I care. We should, however, be nice to the civilian population of the middle east since they are about as much to blame in this as you (for all I know) or me. Nobody said it would be easy being the good guys.
As horrendous as these acts are, this is not the time for broad, unrestrained retaliation. By responding to these attacks with invasion and occupation we reinforce the beliefs that this is a war, thereby justifying (in some minds) further "retalitory" strikes against what will undoubtedly be civilian targets. These people are criminals, not warriors or soldiers, and should be brought to justice as such. This path may well prove the most ardorous and trying, yet it is the *only* path if we wish to prove the superiority of our way and our societies.
...leading scientist say that while drinking four to five glasses of water a day is quite healthy, walking around with the garden hose duct-taped to your mouth may cause serious harm.
"SQL like a pig"?
Scary stuff...
...when huge monkeys come flying out of ones ass...