omg how can you be so insensitive. not everyone is omfg l33t h4x0rs. they don't have millions of hours to twiddle with some crappy software! they have lives! girl friends! kids. You shouldn't act like a stuck up pig. If they get a gift that they can't understand how to use in milliseconds then they have every right to show up at your door dynamite your house, and crucify you! Learning how to use a computer was hard the first time it made them feel stupid, weak, insecure and most importantly indebted to nerd boys. How DARE you make them think them feel that again by having to learn some different semantics for what is proven to be a better more stable product! They're already lords of aim, myspace, ipods and blogging.
I almost want to firebomb your house just thinking about your extreme arrogance.
And he should take career advice from a nobody like you because?
Or is this post some kind of confessional for you to air your unpopular views safely and without the consequence of people treating you like a social pariah?
Fools got the country into the mess it's in the people looking to get it out of the mess don't need more of the same kind of advice. You can stay the stupid course on your own.
if only the morons and sociopaths didn't end up managing the gifted kids you'd actually have ROI. Employing smart people to create newer more convoluted legalese, complicated warranties, insurance policies, tax shelter schemes, using the stock market to funnel money out of retirement plans and other sociopathic activities that only serve to funnel money from the working class is what's causing gifted kids to underperform. Sure the average tax payer has no ROI because the kids they paid for are now used to rip them off.
In companies where good innovation is prized, where generally non-sociopathic gifted kids are managed by other non-sociopathic gifted kids you have great ROI.
Google anyone?
I hate how all the fools have signed on solely to criticize the language in a conversation between linus and some freebsd devs. If all the uninvolved and clueless fanboys would just stay out of it, we'd have a more useful discussion on this topic.
A community is not under any obligation to provide anyone with free support. Those that contribute either money or assistance to other members of any community are always quickly helped whenever they run into a problem. GPL relies on this principle, it's ostensibly free for those who don't contribute either patches or funds, but these people aren't going to get new features they want any time soon, frequent contributors on the other hand are immediately acknowledged when they have a need the software does not have yet. The moral is that you have to earn the community's respect and friendship. You wouldn't run into a garage and demand they tell you how to fix your car because they have tire irons for just your kind of moron.
The vast majority of OSS software for neophytes are carefully documented in the man pages or via supplemental books available at the local bookstore or library. Contribute to the community, do the preliminary leg work and then ask for help if all else fails. This will increase your chances of being helped, but won't guarantee it. If a pay for use software company like MS charges you for help, why do you expect the devs who give you the software for free to spend even more time helping you out?
This is an action news bulletin:
Insurgents have discovered how to cause multiple friendly fire fatalities by flashing the reactive armor sensors with a green laser pointer. More at 10pm
you know if we go back to killing or enslaving brown ppl in record numbers and stealing the resources from the lands they occupy we can go back to life time employment and bull shitting each other about loyalty, hard work, and tales of red blooded americans toiling a maximum of 8 hrs a day to bring forth the great american dream of 2 cars, a white picket fence, a small plot of land to call home and miles and miles of open road.
No reason to get defensive from profiting a little bit from pork barrel politics. Everyone else is doing it, might as well get a piece of it while the getting is good. When I was working at parsons you should've seen the number of billable hours that were being pushed on the MTA for a terrorism vulnerability audit for what amounted to reading, highlighting and summarizing their existing procedures.
we can't have little kids on the streets being thugs, think of the PR battle cops would face if they had to shoot kids or start picking up american kids up for prostitution, drug running, murder etc. Which would give thugs on the street currency with uninvolved bleeding heart rich folk, foreign govts propaganda departments, and would interfere with our ability to sell ourselves as liberators if our own situation at home was bad. i.e. this idea of yours would result in all kinds of madness we had in the 1920's. This is not to say most of these things don't happen already in the worst neighborhoods in america, but we don't want it everywhere. Wild kids running the streets during business hours getting under cars and creating bad pr for companies that may trigger the release of other issues that are at a boiling pt (corporate fiscal malfeasance etc).
Therefore logically it's best to artifically keep these kids in some nuthouse school until they're of age to be engaged in the street without bad press. As long as this situation is maintained there will be bullying in school. Of course this does nothing to prevent bullying outside of school. Either way at the end of the day one must understand their place in society. If kids do automatically stratify in a society with no visible monetary economy then this is obviously inevitable when they become adults. Better to learn these lessons now eh nerd?
britain was too devastated after ww2 to bother, with fighting an insurgency in india, what with all the indian troops they trained for battle in their other colonies now coming home for some r&r and drinking of the new freedom kool-aid. Peaceful protests effecting change in the behavior of the aristocracy is a joke. They'll only change when they're afraid of losing their heads and then usually to say, "ok we will stop raping your women and hanging your menfolk now. no compensations... we'll just stop doing the thing that's pissing you off"
think of the children! the bleeding children that eat into your property taxes and fail in school, the children that must be subsidized at all the stupid catalog sales opportunities, the children that run around and become disruptive at movies, throwing wild tantrums, popcorn or just screaming, the children who play in the streets and annoy you on halloween. Really you're not doing enough for someone else's kid unless you let him/her ride you into the grave.
I love the freespace2 SCP although i wish they could've supported linux too. freespace2 had one of the most brilliant story lines and game engines i've ever seen. The babylon project, is admittedly pretty awesome but since you're a fan I figured you'd also be interested in the new battle star galactica mod that's due out soon =) http://www.game-warden.com/bsg/
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omg how can you be so insensitive. not everyone is omfg l33t h4x0rs. they don't have millions of hours to twiddle with some crappy software! they have lives! girl friends! kids. You shouldn't act like a stuck up pig. If they get a gift that they can't understand how to use in milliseconds then they have every right to show up at your door dynamite your house, and crucify you! Learning how to use a computer was hard the first time it made them feel stupid, weak, insecure and most importantly indebted to nerd boys. How DARE you make them think them feel that again by having to learn some different semantics for what is proven to be a better more stable product! They're already lords of aim, myspace, ipods and blogging.
I almost want to firebomb your house just thinking about your extreme arrogance.
And he should take career advice from a nobody like you because?
Or is this post some kind of confessional for you to air your unpopular views safely and without the consequence of people treating you like a social pariah?
Fools got the country into the mess it's in the people looking to get it out of the mess don't need more of the same kind of advice. You can stay the stupid course on your own.
if only the morons and sociopaths didn't end up managing the gifted kids you'd actually have ROI. Employing smart people to create newer more convoluted legalese, complicated warranties, insurance policies, tax shelter schemes, using the stock market to funnel money out of retirement plans and other sociopathic activities that only serve to funnel money from the working class is what's causing gifted kids to underperform. Sure the average tax payer has no ROI because the kids they paid for are now used to rip them off. In companies where good innovation is prized, where generally non-sociopathic gifted kids are managed by other non-sociopathic gifted kids you have great ROI. Google anyone?
Oooh look the boys are making a public announcement of their secret clubhouse. Are YOU cool enough to be invited?
Cue the openBBR invitation spoolers and the "oooh if anyone has an invitation hook me up" posts.
transparency is the enemy of tyranny
I hate how all the fools have signed on solely to criticize the language in a conversation between linus and some freebsd devs. If all the uninvolved and clueless fanboys would just stay out of it, we'd have a more useful discussion on this topic.
A community is not under any obligation to provide anyone with free support. Those that contribute either money or assistance to other members of any community are always quickly helped whenever they run into a problem. GPL relies on this principle, it's ostensibly free for those who don't contribute either patches or funds, but these people aren't going to get new features they want any time soon, frequent contributors on the other hand are immediately acknowledged when they have a need the software does not have yet. The moral is that you have to earn the community's respect and friendship. You wouldn't run into a garage and demand they tell you how to fix your car because they have tire irons for just your kind of moron.
The vast majority of OSS software for neophytes are carefully documented in the man pages or via supplemental books available at the local bookstore or library. Contribute to the community, do the preliminary leg work and then ask for help if all else fails. This will increase your chances of being helped, but won't guarantee it. If a pay for use software company like MS charges you for help, why do you expect the devs who give you the software for free to spend even more time helping you out?
This is an action news bulletin: Insurgents have discovered how to cause multiple friendly fire fatalities by flashing the reactive armor sensors with a green laser pointer. More at 10pm
only white anglo saxon americans are people everyone else is expendable.
if you argue correctly you can never be wrong.
mod this guy up please
you know if we go back to killing or enslaving brown ppl in record numbers and stealing the resources from the lands they occupy we can go back to life time employment and bull shitting each other about loyalty, hard work, and tales of red blooded americans toiling a maximum of 8 hrs a day to bring forth the great american dream of 2 cars, a white picket fence, a small plot of land to call home and miles and miles of open road.
Ah good times.
mmmm fud and profit in the same package. i want to make a movie of tower 7
no it's between their left and right ears. and possibly a larger one in the treasury
No reason to get defensive from profiting a little bit from pork barrel politics. Everyone else is doing it, might as well get a piece of it while the getting is good. When I was working at parsons you should've seen the number of billable hours that were being pushed on the MTA for a terrorism vulnerability audit for what amounted to reading, highlighting and summarizing their existing procedures.
banks going open source use postgres. mysql is fine for people who gobble the hype and don't want good documentation, standards or features.
we can't have little kids on the streets being thugs, think of the PR battle cops would face if they had to shoot kids or start picking up american kids up for prostitution, drug running, murder etc. Which would give thugs on the street currency with uninvolved bleeding heart rich folk, foreign govts propaganda departments, and would interfere with our ability to sell ourselves as liberators if our own situation at home was bad. i.e. this idea of yours would result in all kinds of madness we had in the 1920's. This is not to say most of these things don't happen already in the worst neighborhoods in america, but we don't want it everywhere. Wild kids running the streets during business hours getting under cars and creating bad pr for companies that may trigger the release of other issues that are at a boiling pt (corporate fiscal malfeasance etc).
Therefore logically it's best to artifically keep these kids in some nuthouse school until they're of age to be engaged in the street without bad press. As long as this situation is maintained there will be bullying in school. Of course this does nothing to prevent bullying outside of school. Either way at the end of the day one must understand their place in society. If kids do automatically stratify in a society with no visible monetary economy then this is obviously inevitable when they become adults. Better to learn these lessons now eh nerd?
oho! a gps map! time for a rendition flight
Away Message:
Off being a corporate goon
britain was too devastated after ww2 to bother, with fighting an insurgency in india, what with all the indian troops they trained for battle in their other colonies now coming home for some r&r and drinking of the new freedom kool-aid. Peaceful protests effecting change in the behavior of the aristocracy is a joke. They'll only change when they're afraid of losing their heads and then usually to say, "ok we will stop raping your women and hanging your menfolk now. no compensations... we'll just stop doing the thing that's pissing you off"
You know what?
Fuck Godwin.
Does Godwin have a cutesy little law for this post too?
I want a futuristic home that pays its own property taxes. that way i can live in it forever.
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think of the children! the bleeding children that eat into your property taxes and fail in school, the children that must be subsidized at all the stupid catalog sales opportunities, the children that run around and become disruptive at movies, throwing wild tantrums, popcorn or just screaming, the children who play in the streets and annoy you on halloween. Really you're not doing enough for someone else's kid unless you let him/her ride you into the grave.
To Hell With Your GODDAMN KIDS!
I love the freespace2 SCP although i wish they could've supported linux too. freespace2 had one of the most brilliant story lines and game engines i've ever seen. The babylon project, is admittedly pretty awesome but since you're a fan I figured you'd also be interested in the new battle star galactica mod that's due out soon =) http://www.game-warden.com/bsg/
Can't wait! check out their video.