German != Nazi
Nazi's = {Funny,Tragic,Emotional subject}
German = Person from Germany
Wilkommen to der Homeland = {Lazy headline, not good enough, borderline racial slur} Fawlty Towers = Comedy very familiar to me
You've honestly humbled me a bit. I have been an arse, there is no refuting what you point out. The conceit about Europeans somehow being superior was unnecessary, and I was blind to it till now. Just stings all the more to be put down by someone whose sig is 'yeah..whatever'. Sigh.
Moy Ladoga, and I will point out straight away I am not a Finn (not that I wouldn't want to be one). That said, Hauska Tutustua. Reading that thread did restore my faith a little in the Linux user-base, which I think is your real intention. Sure, the 'surreal' adjective was somewhat tongue-in-cheek, maybe a little gratuitous of me. I do get carried away sometimes. Nice to meet you anyway. Moy Moy
Who's slandering Germans here?
The great grandparent A/C poster, in lazily believing that a German accent is synonymous with 'regimes' and 'oppression', in the year 2006, some 60 years after WWII. And that A/C is probably you.
Do you really believe they 'all wear boots' as the grandparent alluded?
Of course I don't, you complete and utter buttock.
The post was obviously targeting the Nazi, albeit clumsily
I refer you to my first point.
Your disingenuous spin was no better.
No, there was no spin. I responded sincerely to typical Slashdot ethnic and racial ignorance. The poster would done better to say what he actually meant, rather than think it is enough to say 'Wilkommen to der homeland'. The rest of his comment was actually good stuff, it's purely the milking of this Teutonic connection by evoking the language of a German in the headline which I object to. Something more accurate, more.....Nazi, would have been much better. This was lazy. There is a stark contrast between the accuracy allowed when making cheap ethnic gags on Slashdot compared to the accuracy allowed when making cheap Linux gags on Slashdot. With the former, you can get away with pretty much anything. With the latter, you just can't anyway.
Something with a clearer Nazi connotation could have been actually quite funny;
Homeland Dept: Arbeit Macht Frei
Bald Komme: Stalag Washington
They are attempts to use the language of the Nazi's, you see, rather than merely using some German. That is my point, I await with interest your next A/C comment.
Maybe he should upgrade (if he hasn't already) to the latest gtk+. The file selector has been replaced with a better one.
I was talking about the Windows client, I'm sure I mentioned that repeatedly. If there are GTK+ libraries I should have installed, I don't. I know what the old file selector was like (vastly worse), but the new one still isn't great in a Windows environment. In any case, I'm sure it is unnecessary to have any separate libraries installed as at the end of the day the official B/T client for windows is just a statically-linked binary, containing it's own GTK+ libraries. Thanks for the Linux-centric advice though, it was most informative.
Bram's client does what it says on the tin, so to speak, and no more. Can't ask for any more than that. Well, maybe a standard Windows file selector in the Windows client, that would be the only thing I would want to change, as at the moment (pedants please correct me) it is using the Gimp Toolkit for its UI, complete with GTK file selector. Yuck.
Still not enough to make me want to use anything else though. There may be better Windows clients, but I know that I trust the official B/T client in a way that I don't think I could trust the others.
Wow, you're totally right. I mean, I had to make the effort to extract the relevant URL from your garbage link, but yeah, it made for truly surreal reading. Linux users. Being. Helpful.
It would be cheap of me to suggest this page is a fake, but three questions occur:
Are you actually a new user of Linux? Because if you aren't a new user then does it really disprove my point if you have to declare yourself as a new user when asking for help? I note that at Tim Almond dot com you provide your own hand-rolled Python module for accessing the latest M4 traffic news, alongside the one testimonial saying you helped someone with a database once, and your declaration of cross-platform expertise on your home page. Are you sure it is fair to call yourself a new user?
I take your point about asking in decent forums, but I note that you are asking a contemporary question (podcasting, howto?) about a contemporary Linux (Ubuntu) in a forum called LUGRadio; you couldn't do much else to further your chances of receiving helpful answers, but I ask, would you feel confident asking that question in other, generalised Linux forums?
For I also note that the American quotient of said forum is quite low, instead being comprised mainly of Europeans and people from the Asia-Pacific region. Truly you were fortunate, an assertion I am sure you are willing to debunk. Can you tell me of your other successful experiences of asking questions on Linux forums? Because at the moment your one good experience doesn't disprove my contention that Linux evangelists respond best to Trolls rather than reasoned requests for assistance, anymore than I have proved my opposing point to you.
I'm not sure I understand Vy you are speaking like ze stereotypical German meine herran, perhaps you making ze racial slur disguised as ze humour?
Seriously, WWII ended over 60 years ago now, only someone really insular would still find Nazi jokes funny. I presume that's what you were implying in your own muddled way, no? That America is turning into a Nazi regime? Go to Germany and you will be hard pushed to find people proud of the events of WWII. Sure, there is a far-right minority, which worryingly is gaining some mindshare, however in general I think mocking privacy curtailments in a faux German accent is just a shite, lazy thing to do, and it sounds even more hollow when you suspect it was posted by an American. As we all know there is no room left for Americans to be mocking the (lack of) freedoms and democracy in other countries.
Goldst^h^h^h^h^h^h Bin Laden was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party's purity. All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching. Somewhere or other he was still alive and hatching his conspiracies: perhaps somewhere beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign paymasters; perhaps even -- so it was occasionally rumored-in some hiding place in Oceania itself.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
"Gnome and KDE are a different story. It's not just familiarity. It's the fact that they have serious bugs and problems that affect everyday users and make using them really hard."
"Just installing the thing and getting a good set of apps on it took about 8 hours. I followed a guide posted online. It worked well, but that's 8 hours I'll never get back."
And prior to that, he was imploring the zea^h^h^h community to be fair:
"How about instead of moderating my post as "flamebait", giving me some insight into how I'm wrong.
To be clear, I *WANT* to use Linux as my desktop. I've used Linux for development purposes since 1995, and I'm a big fan of open source. I'm not trying to start a flamewar; I'm trying to understand how we could have a meaningful alternative to Linux."
And, though I'm not sure why I am arguing with someone called Jordan, here's what he started out by saying, many many posts ago:
"Using Linux was an unmitigated disaster. Things that seem like absolutely basic functionality don't work right. I spent literally 40+ hours poring over online forums trying to figure out how to get pieces of software to work right together. OpenOffice pops up random dialog boxes when you try to save to a file share, Flash doesn't really work right on Linux under Firefox, Evolution doesn't like having its email repository stored on a share, etc, etc."
"Things that seem like absolutely basic functionality don't work right. I spent literally 40+ hours poring over online forums trying to figure out how to get pieces of software to work right together. OpenOffice pops up random dialog boxes when you try to save to a file share, Flash doesn't really work right on Linux under Firefox, Evolution doesn't like having its email repository stored on a share, etc, etc."
In other words he is getting help because he has dared to be critical of The One True OS. They weren't 'just answering his question.' They had to have it squeezed and punched and trampled out of them.
"but then again, Linux itself is slowly becomeing "the man", so keep on fighting I guess."
Of course I don't think Linux is 'the man', the problem with Linux is not Linux, it is, wait for it Jordan... the fan-base.
I think you are one of the few balanced Linux users in this place, and it is very telling that in not being 100% behind the platform you are being derided for it. I too use Linux in the server space, and I too have maintained a Linux partition on my desktop PC for a while, since 2001. I too have yet to find a distribution that fits my desktop needs, despite having put many hours in over the years, in search of desktop liberation. I think I have tried about five different distributions, often going back to newer versions of ones I had previously dismissed in the hope of useful bug-fixes. I think I have sat through about twenty desktop Linux installations in that period, and that is not a good thing in my case. I have a pile of useless, outdated Mandrake CD's (spanning v.6 to v.10), several Ubuntu & Kubuntu CD's, a couple of Knoppix CD's (I know, it's more of a recovery OS), a set of Slackware CD's (was getting desperate then), two sets of Debian CD's and a copy of the (useless IMO) Suse Personal edition.
Reading the responses to your post reminded me of what someone said in the recent topic of 'Linux Snobs' : he was a 'noobie' (god I fucking hate that term) and he explained how he couldn't get the smug pedantic twats to help him with anything, no matter how far he went in trying to help them help him.
He pointed out that it all changed when he changed tactics. He started trolling. He noted that when he criticised Linux, people were tripping over themselves to disprove his assertions, in the process actually yielding the advice he needed.
Don't bother being too forgiving or courteous in trying to get the help you need here, I say 'Troll, Troll and Troll some more'. If it's the only thing that yields help from them, however indirect, then go for it.
It's the Car-Crash TV factor, nowadays, which keeps me watching. I admit, I didn't always hate it, but lately, yeah..you do have a point Mr Chips.
"Microsoft Dalek: Embrace, extend, and EXTERMINATE!"
I would add that your sig is completely what is fucking wrong with this place - I mean, it's both lazy and derivative, but a crowd-pleaser - like so many posts and article submissions. Thank God for that pragmatic minority of Windows evangelists (& I have no real affection for MS) who, once in a while, stick their heads above the parapet to try and provide a different opinion. Thank God for the Republicans and Tories (& I am a liberal politically, and not an economic laissez-faire kind of liberal either) - closet & otherwise - who occasionally challenge the mindless liberal consensus around here.
You shouldn't really have even dignified my post with a response, because I have nothing to lose in speaking my mind. Except my account, and if 'they' take that away from me it would confirm every single aspect of the crapulence I have come to frequently observe here.
You carry on writing easy, crowd-pleasing sigs - for your next one I would suggest writing something about Bush or Cheney, or Dvorak or Cringely, or if you wanted to try even less, perhaps a witticism about MS's... no no no, sorry, forgot where I was for a moment..I mean, M$'s ongoing anti-trust case. You can have this (unrelated) one if you want William - 'My House is Castle; No Windows, No Gates' - I chose not to use it 'cos bashing Microsoft on/. is like shooting fish in a barrel.
So, I've been thinking of going on hiatus for a while, because you do have a valid point alongside your facile sig. STFU and I will stay away for a while, and stop criticising your friend. Respond - please, respond - and I will happily continue this conversation with you.
If someone could bolt on a/.-style moderation system for audience discussions, well that would have to be a winner wouldn't it? Then a small clique of self-important social retards could take ownership of the site, moderating anything they disagree with as 'offtopic'. That would keep the riff-raff and the hoi-polloi out. We could make it so that anyone not registered with the site is called - arbitrarily - 'Anonymous Coward'. I fail to see how that couldn't make the site more popular. We could also look forward to the tempting prospect of a superior, common language being formed amongst the participants, which would be helpful in divining who is worthy vs. who is new. A rich language, replete with prepositions such 'I for one' and special acronyms such as 'STFU' and 'RTFM'. Truly we live in exciting times.
Visually, I believe the look has to be set in stone once the site is live, and while new mark-up standards may appear, the site will update only its mark-up and not it's appearance, because that is clever-rer.
And there could be some news as well, sometimes, once in a while. Exceptionally it could be current news even.
The premisse is that you can reduce all the richness of human beings to an unidimensional measure
Yeah I'd say '+5 Insightful' as far as your post is concerned and '-1 Overrated' for the mod categories available on/. . I put down some idiot on a bus today who thought he knew something about something, telling him he was '-1 Troll' and he beat me repeatedly into a thin paste, shitting all over my fetid stinking condescending remains. And rightly so.
Gary Hamel, visiting professor at Slashdot Business School, argues in a Wall Street Journal commentary that Slashdot's 'novel management system seems to have been designed to guard against the risk factors that so often erode an organization's evolutionary potential.' Among Slashdot's advantages: The 20% non-dupes rule, an 'inflated sense of purpose' and the credo, 'keep the noobies out and reward people who agree with you.' Hamel also traces the company's evolution from Slashdot 1.0, 'a small clique that pontificated about the Web but generated way too much body hair,' to Slashdot 5.0, 'a group-think factory that produces a torrent of super-heated techno-fetishistic mutual masturbation' . More than likely, 6.0 is around the corner.
..and neither was I in this godforsaken thread. Mentioning Richard Hatch in a BSG thread seems eminently on-topic to me. Maybe it really _was_ Richard Hatch lurking around the discussion as A/C...
I'm so mad I'm gonna shout 'ad-hominem' any moment now..even though I don't know what it means.
Opinion stated as fact, and yet the spelling and grammar are fine - it suggests trolling to me rather than a sincere controversial opinion. I like the casting choice, the great acting, the very good sets, the atmospheric lighting..my g/f likes it and we both agree that BSG goes where plenty of sci-fi shows won't go, and it goes there with style: abortion, genetic engineering, torture, rape - all themes BSG has handled extraordinarily well and yet at no point did I ever feel it was a slave to those same issues.
If you really think the only thing that makes sci-fi good is battles in space, and there is no room for character development & continuity - features of the soap opera genre - then your opinion is worthless to me really. And yet I bit, twas an effective troll and discussions on/. often benefit from an opposite perspective, even those of trolls.
I tried that for a while as well, but everytime I thought I knew where the keys were, they would swap around. Sometimes whole new keys would appear with new, previously unknown letters, while at other times the keyboard would just mostly have the same letters on most of the keys. All I know is my friends ridiculed me whenever I tried to tell them of the wisdom of Dvorak.
Sir I regret to inform you that you are a ruffian. I for one sit not in a place so vile and common as a 'café', examining the flawed writings of others, but in a temple constructed purely out of my supercilious transcendent superiority. I consume nothing so plebeian as 'The Internet' but rather a rasterized, marked-up and projected form of my own rigourous, peerless stream of consciousness (with blue aqueous scroll-bars). I have no need for facial hair or indeed any of your corporeal trappings and hence know not the joy of stroking a 'goatee'.
And now I must mod you as Troll, for surely you must know that the PowerBook, created on the Seventh day, is immaculate in it's design and conception and therefore the only possibility is that you seek to trifle with the emotions of our brethren, in crudely ascribing to Our Power Adapters the property of ugliness. If you were truly one of Us you would know that Steve created all in his own beautiful image.
btw you haven't got a couple of rubber feet for an ibook going spare have you mate?
Help me out here, but what is it that supports the browser which supports the WebOS in question? Could someone tell me what software means exist to take the WebOS concept to its logical conclusion and have only a thin client viewer application? It's just that otherwise, and I'm sure I'm not the only one to have said this, but what advantage is there in a whole WebOS when I still have to have a conventional OS to run the browser to connect to the WebOS?
In the current situation, where we have full-blown fat-client OS's, I could see the utility in some of the remote applications, but I think it's the need to recreate the whole OS and then require IE/Firefox to access it which is confusing me.
..this fella. The Paedo Finder General, a cartoon character moulded out of the ignorance and spite surrounding such a sensitive issue. I cannot speak highly enough of the creators of Monkey Dust, the only truly entertaining spectacle that I have seen in quite a while. And series 2 has been released on Bittorrent, legit, as the BBC chickened out of releasing it on DVD in this current hysterical climate.
"..and by the power vested in by {prurient wishful thinking/mawkish documentries made by martin bashir/a bloke in the pub who knew for sure/The Daily Mail} I pronounce you Guilty of Paedophilia."
Slashdot Mirror
German != Nazi
Nazi's = {Funny,Tragic,Emotional subject}
German = Person from Germany
Wilkommen to der Homeland = {Lazy headline, not good enough, borderline racial slur}
Fawlty Towers = Comedy very familiar to me
You've honestly humbled me a bit. I have been an arse, there is no refuting what you point out. The conceit about Europeans somehow being superior was unnecessary, and I was blind to it till now. Just stings all the more to be put down by someone whose sig is 'yeah..whatever'. Sigh.
Moy Ladoga, and I will point out straight away I am not a Finn (not that I wouldn't want to be one). That said, Hauska Tutustua. Reading that thread did restore my faith a little in the Linux user-base, which I think is your real intention. Sure, the 'surreal' adjective was somewhat tongue-in-cheek, maybe a little gratuitous of me. I do get carried away sometimes. Nice to meet you anyway. Moy Moy
Who's slandering Germans here?
The great grandparent A/C poster, in lazily believing that a German accent is synonymous with 'regimes' and 'oppression', in the year 2006, some 60 years after WWII. And that A/C is probably you.
Do you really believe they 'all wear boots' as the grandparent alluded?
Of course I don't, you complete and utter buttock.
The post was obviously targeting the Nazi, albeit clumsily
I refer you to my first point.
Your disingenuous spin was no better.
No, there was no spin. I responded sincerely to typical Slashdot ethnic and racial ignorance. The poster would done better to say what he actually meant, rather than think it is enough to say 'Wilkommen to der homeland'. The rest of his comment was actually good stuff, it's purely the milking of this Teutonic connection by evoking the language of a German in the headline which I object to. Something more accurate, more.....Nazi, would have been much better. This was lazy. There is a stark contrast between the accuracy allowed when making cheap ethnic gags on Slashdot compared to the accuracy allowed when making cheap Linux gags on Slashdot. With the former, you can get away with pretty much anything. With the latter, you just can't anyway.
Something with a clearer Nazi connotation could have been actually quite funny;
Homeland Dept: Arbeit Macht Frei
Bald Komme: Stalag Washington
They are attempts to use the language of the Nazi's, you see, rather than merely using some German. That is my point, I await with interest your next A/C comment.
Maybe he should upgrade (if he hasn't already) to the latest gtk+. The file selector has been replaced with a better one.
I was talking about the Windows client, I'm sure I mentioned that repeatedly. If there are GTK+ libraries I should have installed, I don't. I know what the old file selector was like (vastly worse), but the new one still isn't great in a Windows environment. In any case, I'm sure it is unnecessary to have any separate libraries installed as at the end of the day the official B/T client for windows is just a statically-linked binary, containing it's own GTK+ libraries. Thanks for the Linux-centric advice though, it was most informative.
Bram's client does what it says on the tin, so to speak, and no more. Can't ask for any more than that. Well, maybe a standard Windows file selector in the Windows client, that would be the only thing I would want to change, as at the moment (pedants please correct me) it is using the Gimp Toolkit for its UI, complete with GTK file selector. Yuck.
Still not enough to make me want to use anything else though. There may be better Windows clients, but I know that I trust the official B/T client in a way that I don't think I could trust the others.
From my my grandparent post:
I presume that's what you were implying in your own muddled way, no? That America is turning into a Nazi regime?
Yeah, you saw through the ignorance in my post, you are one sharp mo-fo. Peace out.
Wow, you're totally right. I mean, I had to make the effort to extract the relevant URL from your garbage link, but yeah, it made for truly surreal reading. Linux users. Being. Helpful.
It would be cheap of me to suggest this page is a fake, but three questions occur:
Are you actually a new user of Linux? Because if you aren't a new user then does it really disprove my point if you have to declare yourself as a new user when asking for help? I note that at Tim Almond dot com you provide your own hand-rolled Python module for accessing the latest M4 traffic news, alongside the one testimonial saying you helped someone with a database once, and your declaration of cross-platform expertise on your home page. Are you sure it is fair to call yourself a new user?
I take your point about asking in decent forums, but I note that you are asking a contemporary question (podcasting, howto?) about a contemporary Linux (Ubuntu) in a forum called LUGRadio; you couldn't do much else to further your chances of receiving helpful answers, but I ask, would you feel confident asking that question in other, generalised Linux forums?
For I also note that the American quotient of said forum is quite low, instead being comprised mainly of Europeans and people from the Asia-Pacific region. Truly you were fortunate, an assertion I am sure you are willing to debunk. Can you tell me of your other successful experiences of asking questions on Linux forums? Because at the moment your one good experience doesn't disprove my contention that Linux evangelists respond best to Trolls rather than reasoned requests for assistance, anymore than I have proved my opposing point to you.
I'm not sure I understand Vy you are speaking like ze stereotypical German meine herran, perhaps you making ze racial slur disguised as ze humour?
Seriously, WWII ended over 60 years ago now, only someone really insular would still find Nazi jokes funny. I presume that's what you were implying in your own muddled way, no? That America is turning into a Nazi regime? Go to Germany and you will be hard pushed to find people proud of the events of WWII. Sure, there is a far-right minority, which worryingly is gaining some mindshare, however in general I think mocking privacy curtailments in a faux German accent is just a shite, lazy thing to do, and it sounds even more hollow when you suspect it was posted by an American. As we all know there is no room left for Americans to be mocking the (lack of) freedoms and democracy in other countries.
Goldst^h^h^h^h^h^h Bin Laden was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party's purity. All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching. Somewhere or other he was still alive and hatching his conspiracies: perhaps somewhere beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign paymasters; perhaps even -- so it was occasionally rumored-in some hiding place in Oceania itself.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
29 04 06 bb speech malreported slashdot rectify.
"Gnome and KDE are a different story. It's not just familiarity. It's the fact that they have serious bugs and problems that affect everyday users and make using them really hard."
"Just installing the thing and getting a good set of apps on it took about 8 hours. I followed a guide posted online. It worked well, but that's 8 hours I'll never get back."
And prior to that, he was imploring the zea^h^h^h community to be fair:
"How about instead of moderating my post as "flamebait", giving me some insight into how I'm wrong. To be clear, I *WANT* to use Linux as my desktop. I've used Linux for development purposes since 1995, and I'm a big fan of open source. I'm not trying to start a flamewar; I'm trying to understand how we could have a meaningful alternative to Linux."
And, though I'm not sure why I am arguing with someone called Jordan, here's what he started out by saying, many many posts ago:
"Using Linux was an unmitigated disaster. Things that seem like absolutely basic functionality don't work right. I spent literally 40+ hours poring over online forums trying to figure out how to get pieces of software to work right together. OpenOffice pops up random dialog boxes when you try to save to a file share, Flash doesn't really work right on Linux under Firefox, Evolution doesn't like having its email repository stored on a share, etc, etc."
"Things that seem like absolutely basic functionality don't work right. I spent literally 40+ hours poring over online forums trying to figure out how to get pieces of software to work right together. OpenOffice pops up random dialog boxes when you try to save to a file share, Flash doesn't really work right on Linux under Firefox, Evolution doesn't like having its email repository stored on a share, etc, etc."
In other words he is getting help because he has dared to be critical of The One True OS. They weren't 'just answering his question.' They had to have it squeezed and punched and trampled out of them.
"but then again, Linux itself is slowly becomeing "the man", so keep on fighting I guess."
Of course I don't think Linux is 'the man', the problem with Linux is not Linux, it is, wait for it Jordan... the fan-base.
I think you are one of the few balanced Linux users in this place, and it is very telling that in not being 100% behind the platform you are being derided for it. I too use Linux in the server space, and I too have maintained a Linux partition on my desktop PC for a while, since 2001. I too have yet to find a distribution that fits my desktop needs, despite having put many hours in over the years, in search of desktop liberation. I think I have tried about five different distributions, often going back to newer versions of ones I had previously dismissed in the hope of useful bug-fixes. I think I have sat through about twenty desktop Linux installations in that period, and that is not a good thing in my case. I have a pile of useless, outdated Mandrake CD's (spanning v.6 to v.10), several Ubuntu & Kubuntu CD's, a couple of Knoppix CD's (I know, it's more of a recovery OS), a set of Slackware CD's (was getting desperate then), two sets of Debian CD's and a copy of the (useless IMO) Suse Personal edition.
Reading the responses to your post reminded me of what someone said in the recent topic of 'Linux Snobs' : he was a 'noobie' (god I fucking hate that term) and he explained how he couldn't get the smug pedantic twats to help him with anything, no matter how far he went in trying to help them help him.
He pointed out that it all changed when he changed tactics. He started trolling. He noted that when he criticised Linux, people were tripping over themselves to disprove his assertions, in the process actually yielding the advice he needed.
Don't bother being too forgiving or courteous in trying to get the help you need here, I say 'Troll, Troll and Troll some more'. If it's the only thing that yields help from them, however indirect, then go for it.
It's the Car-Crash TV factor, nowadays, which keeps me watching. I admit, I didn't always hate it, but lately, yeah..you do have a point Mr Chips.
... no no no, sorry, forgot where I was for a moment..I mean, M$'s ongoing anti-trust case. You can have this (unrelated) one if you want William - 'My House is Castle; No Windows, No Gates' - I chose not to use it 'cos bashing Microsoft on /. is like shooting fish in a barrel.
"Microsoft Dalek: Embrace, extend, and EXTERMINATE!"
I would add that your sig is completely what is fucking wrong with this place - I mean, it's both lazy and derivative, but a crowd-pleaser - like so many posts and article submissions. Thank God for that pragmatic minority of Windows evangelists (& I have no real affection for MS) who, once in a while, stick their heads above the parapet to try and provide a different opinion. Thank God for the Republicans and Tories (& I am a liberal politically, and not an economic laissez-faire kind of liberal either) - closet & otherwise - who occasionally challenge the mindless liberal consensus around here.
You shouldn't really have even dignified my post with a response, because I have nothing to lose in speaking my mind. Except my account, and if 'they' take that away from me it would confirm every single aspect of the crapulence I have come to frequently observe here.
You carry on writing easy, crowd-pleasing sigs - for your next one I would suggest writing something about Bush or Cheney, or Dvorak or Cringely, or if you wanted to try even less, perhaps a witticism about MS's
So, I've been thinking of going on hiatus for a while, because you do have a valid point alongside your facile sig. STFU and I will stay away for a while, and stop criticising your friend. Respond - please, respond - and I will happily continue this conversation with you.
If someone could bolt on a /.-style moderation system for audience discussions, well that would have to be a winner wouldn't it? Then a small clique of self-important social retards could take ownership of the site, moderating anything they disagree with as 'offtopic'. That would keep the riff-raff and the hoi-polloi out. We could make it so that anyone not registered with the site is called - arbitrarily - 'Anonymous Coward'. I fail to see how that couldn't make the site more popular. We could also look forward to the tempting prospect of a superior, common language being formed amongst the participants, which would be helpful in divining who is worthy vs. who is new. A rich language, replete with prepositions such 'I for one' and special acronyms such as 'STFU' and 'RTFM'. Truly we live in exciting times.
Visually, I believe the look has to be set in stone once the site is live, and while new mark-up standards may appear, the site will update only its mark-up and not it's appearance, because that is clever-rer.
And there could be some news as well, sometimes, once in a while. Exceptionally it could be current news even.
The premisse is that you can reduce all the richness of human beings to an unidimensional measure
/. . I put down some idiot on a bus today who thought he knew something about something, telling him he was '-1 Troll' and he beat me repeatedly into a thin paste, shitting all over my fetid stinking condescending remains. And rightly so.
Yeah I'd say '+5 Insightful' as far as your post is concerned and '-1 Overrated' for the mod categories available on
Gary Hamel, visiting professor at Slashdot Business School, argues in a Wall Street Journal commentary that Slashdot's 'novel management system seems to have been designed to guard against the risk factors that so often erode an organization's evolutionary potential.' Among Slashdot's advantages: The 20% non-dupes rule, an 'inflated sense of purpose' and the credo, 'keep the noobies out and reward people who agree with you.' Hamel also traces the company's evolution from Slashdot 1.0, 'a small clique that pontificated about the Web but generated way too much body hair,' to Slashdot 5.0, 'a group-think factory that produces a torrent of super-heated techno-fetishistic mutual masturbation' . More than likely, 6.0 is around the corner.
They all think the same things anyway..back to drawing board for this methinks.
...etc
And I for One welcome our mind-reading auto-authenticating overlords. * emits smug snigger from flabby face *
Anyone build a beowolf cluster of these in Soviet Russia, whilst drinking Kool-aid? In an ad-hominem fashion?
..and neither was I in this godforsaken thread. Mentioning Richard Hatch in a BSG thread seems eminently on-topic to me. Maybe it really _was_ Richard Hatch lurking around the discussion as A/C...
I'm so mad I'm gonna shout 'ad-hominem' any moment now..even though I don't know what it means.
/. often benefit from an opposite perspective, even those of trolls.
Opinion stated as fact, and yet the spelling and grammar are fine - it suggests trolling to me rather than a sincere controversial opinion. I like the casting choice, the great acting, the very good sets, the atmospheric lighting..my g/f likes it and we both agree that BSG goes where plenty of sci-fi shows won't go, and it goes there with style: abortion, genetic engineering, torture, rape - all themes BSG has handled extraordinarily well and yet at no point did I ever feel it was a slave to those same issues.
If you really think the only thing that makes sci-fi good is battles in space, and there is no room for character development & continuity - features of the soap opera genre - then your opinion is worthless to me really. And yet I bit, twas an effective troll and discussions on
This scared me enough to try the Dvorak layout.
I tried that for a while as well, but everytime I thought I knew where the keys were, they would swap around. Sometimes whole new keys would appear with new, previously unknown letters, while at other times the keyboard would just mostly have the same letters on most of the keys. All I know is my friends ridiculed me whenever I tried to tell them of the wisdom of Dvorak.
Sir I regret to inform you that you are a ruffian. I for one sit not in a place so vile and common as a 'café', examining the flawed writings of others, but in a temple constructed purely out of my supercilious transcendent superiority. I consume nothing so plebeian as 'The Internet' but rather a rasterized, marked-up and projected form of my own rigourous, peerless stream of consciousness (with blue aqueous scroll-bars). I have no need for facial hair or indeed any of your corporeal trappings and hence know not the joy of stroking a 'goatee'.
And now I must mod you as Troll, for surely you must know that the PowerBook, created on the Seventh day, is immaculate in it's design and conception and therefore the only possibility is that you seek to trifle with the emotions of our brethren, in crudely ascribing to Our Power Adapters the property of ugliness. If you were truly one of Us you would know that Steve created all in his own beautiful image.
btw you haven't got a couple of rubber feet for an ibook going spare have you mate?
Could you not just fiddle with the tracking?
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
l on.27s_Razor
Has a slightly different meaning in its original form. Oh, did I say slightly? I meant a great fucking huge deal of difference, sorry.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_J._Hanlon#Han
Help me out here, but what is it that supports the browser which supports the WebOS in question? Could someone tell me what software means exist to take the WebOS concept to its logical conclusion and have only a thin client viewer application? It's just that otherwise, and I'm sure I'm not the only one to have said this, but what advantage is there in a whole WebOS when I still have to have a conventional OS to run the browser to connect to the WebOS?
In the current situation, where we have full-blown fat-client OS's, I could see the utility in some of the remote applications, but I think it's the need to recreate the whole OS and then require IE/Firefox to access it which is confusing me.
..this fella. The Paedo Finder General, a cartoon character moulded out of the ignorance and spite surrounding such a sensitive issue. I cannot speak highly enough of the creators of Monkey Dust, the only truly entertaining spectacle that I have seen in quite a while. And series 2 has been released on Bittorrent, legit, as the BBC chickened out of releasing it on DVD in this current hysterical climate.
"..and by the power vested in by {prurient wishful thinking/mawkish documentries made by martin bashir/a bloke in the pub who knew for sure/The Daily Mail} I pronounce you Guilty of Paedophilia."