"This is a process that started in 1948, when several changes happened: the development of the transistor, and re-establishment of Isreal being just two of'em."
Huh? What has the establishment of Isreal got do with this? Slashdot brings all kinds of freaks out of the woodwork, and you sir, are a freak.
"So nay-say all ya want, but we're on a schedule here...and there's no more changing this reality than killing Hitler when he was a corporal in WW1, to avoid WW2."
No, we're not on a schedule. You are, or at least you think you are, owing to your dodgy religious beliefs. The rest of us are simply on-topic and not dribbling from the sides of our mouths.
..Finland is a nation which likes a drink (& I hold in high esteem)..just surprised that he didn't use a bottle of Finlandia...mmm, Finlandia...clean distilled taste..
Hesburger PC! That's what I'll do...if only they had Hesburger in the UK!!
Not to worry, I shall just have to go there again on a _cough_ research trip..
industry planners are mulling new subscription plans that would further limit the online experience, establishing "platinum," "gold" and "silver" levels of Internet access
What happened to good old Bronze? Has this metal had its day? It used to be "Bronze, Silver, Gold" - you know, like the Olympics. Apparently there is no room for poor old bronze in this new scheme of things, of course implying that there are no poor people in this rich media experience which these benevolent, altruistic ISP's are planning for Joe Consumer.
It's inevitable, just what we were wanting to hear. Now we don't have to bother changing our ways, we can just sit back and wait for it, with a newly-invigorated sense of nihilism. If you were hesitating to buy that SUV you wanted, well, now, you may as well get it.
For a while I thought there would be the danger that we would have to do something....phew!
Well now I just feel silly Eric. Thank you for pointing this out, amongst your myriad other posts for today and indeed all of January. And a very big thank-you for using that choice pissing Slashdot phrase - 'RTFA'. Also, yes, I have no doubt that Captain Picard would miss Data, only real question is, would anyone miss you on Slashdot, or indeed out there in the corporeal world?
MY NAME IS MR.GREG MAMMAH, PERSONAL ASSISTANT TO MR CONRAD BLACK.THE MEDIA TYCOON,CHAIRMAN/CEO OF HOLLINGER INTERNATIONAL.WHO WAS WRONGLY ACCUSSED ON 17/11/2005 OF FRAUDULENTLY DIVERTED OVER US$2.1bn FROM HIS MEDIA EMPIRE.
I HAVE THE DOCUMENTS OF A LARGE AMOUNT OF INSTALLATION TIPS WHICH HE HANDED OVER TO ME BEFORE HE WAS INDICTED AND CHARGED IN USA FOR FRAUDLENT ACT OF INSTALLING WINDOWS XP ON APPLE HARDWARE,LED BY USA ATTORNEY FOR NORTHERN ILLINOIS PATRICK FIZTZGERALD,WHO IS THE SPECIAL COUNSEL IN THE CIA LEAK INVESTGATION IN WASHINGTON.
HIS BEEN BLACKLISTED COMPANY PERKS ABUSER FOR BEEN A GOOD GEEK, PROVIDING A DESERVED HOME AND VACATIONS FOR HIS FAMILY.HENCE THE NEED TO CONTACT YOU TO ASSIST IN REPATRIATING THE OPERATING SYSTEM AND POSSIBLE INVESTMENT ON HIS BEHALF.
THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF FUNDS TO BE RE-PROFILLED IS FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS(USD$50 MILLION). AND YOU WILL BE GENEROUSLY BE ENTITLED TO 15% OF THE TOTAL AMOUNT FOR YOUR MANAGEMENT SERVICES.UPON MY RECEIPT OF YOUR REPLY CONFIRMING YOUR WILLINGNESS TO INSTALL WINDOWS XP ON APPLE HARDWARE, I WILL IMMEDIATELY ARRANGE AND TRANSFER ALL THE RIGHT OF OWNERSHIP OF THIS FUNDS TO YOUR NAME,TO FACILLLITATE YOUR EASY TRANSFER OF THE COMPLETE FUND TO YOUR COUNTRY FOR ONWARD INVESTMENT.
NOTE: THE KEY WORD TO THIS TRANSACTION IS ABSOLUTE CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECRECY. THIS OPERATING SYSTEM INSTALLATION IS 100% RISK FREE.
YOUR URGENT RESPONSE WILL BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED.
YOUR'S FAITHFULLY,
This is old old old hat. A synopsis of what will inevitably be posted follows;
'Google is your friend'
'Linux doesn't have to have bad or no drivers it's just the megapigopolists who don't spend time/money on writing drivers/opening their specs for a niche-category operating system [cue open/closed drivers debate again]'
'Just make sure you get one with [chipset name instead of an easily-obtainable brand & model name/number] '
'Mine are working ok, are you sure you enabled the --obscure-option flag when you compiled those drivers.'
'Real men rig up a pair of VHF radio's and implement their own physical networking layer.'
'[immature experimental distro] supports your brand of wireless interface, but isn't Ready For The Desktop yet.'
'Buy new hardware.'
I am a spelling and grammar nazi. There/their/they're and to/too are the basic errors which rile me the most. You/your/you're is another set of words which I think are fundamental to the meaning of a sentence and the correct usage thereof should have been taught at primary school level.
Reading Taco's article however, I think he makes a fair point about the standards required in a Slashdot submission. It may be owned by OSDL, but the feel and character of Slashdot is its own. I think Taco is perfectly reasonable in looking to the value of the content first and foremost, a damned-sight more reasonable than you are in insisting he make no more than one typo a week.
Also unreasonable is the implication you make that 'no typo's per week' are made by the BBC News website, when, pedant that I am, I see missing words and the kinds of contextual spelling errors your average spell-checker would miss, at least once a week on their site. And I still like them as well.
Anyway, I wonder if they really will change/augment the current equipment now that this information is public knowlegde.
Could it be that one modification they might be quick to make could be to flag up all calls initiated with a low, deep tone.... ?
Oh, I forgot, I'm from the UK and I've watched Spooks, so I know better; calls are tapped using a non-descript operating system which uses 72 pt fonts from The Matrix and can traverse our crappy, sub-divided and patchy POTS phone system as well as pin-point locating any mobile call, apparantly even from pre-pay mobiles..all to the sound of urgent violins.
Computer-based interruptions fall into a sort of Heisenbergian uncertainty trap: it is difficult to know whether an e-mail message is worth interrupting your work for unless you open and read it - at which point you have, of course, interrupted yourself.
Hmm, maybe 'Mark as Unread' is not the efficient solution I had thought it was..worse still, maybe it could cause a temporal paradox..
They just need to try and relate more. If the passion has gone, a new shared activity or interest can help bring them closer, and allow each to see the other in a new light. Microsoft/Yahoo should try and pay more attention to Open Networks and, say, compliment her when she wears a new dress. Similarly, Open Networks should consider allowing Microsoft/Yahoo more nights out with the companies down the road. Reciprocity can help build new bridges between them, to bring that all-important passion back into relationship.
--
type 'failure' into google.com and hit 'I'm feeling lucky'
Could you spell that out to me? Oh. You can't spell. Where is privacy mentioned in the article or in my post? You must have taken offence also at my usage of the term 'Linux zealot', because by token of your obsession with privacy, you must be one.
Are you one of the people who 'which' to retain their privacy? Why not just shut the curtains before masturbating over ASCII porn?
I am really very sorry for upsetting you, but at least the Anonymous Coward mode does allow you to preserve that all important privacy. Having read your comprehensive argument, I am convinced you must have _so_ much going on in your life, that you do indeed need that privacy.
The author of the article is railing against the argument that there is no room for Form when trying to implement Function;
He is essentially saying 'I am the same as any other Linux zealot, however I am magnanimous enough to recognise that I am not the youth of today, and that my needs, justifiable as they are, are not the same as Da Yoof.' Thus, the eye-candy in MSN, he suggests, is not to his tastes but 'they' like it and 'they' are the next generation of potential Linux users.
So comments defending GAIM are either missing the point of the author, or are seriously in denial. Some prat pitches in to say 'well GAIM is patched quicker than Trillian' and another prick says 'I'll take the simplicity of GAIM'. While I'm sure he and his other online contact are happy with spartan interfaces which, truly, have not evolved since 2000, I'm more than happy with MSN. Even though I can't see the source code. Even though everything goes through MSN's servers, centrally.
Here in the UK, it is MSN which is the dominant IM app in my world. I use it, and I quite get off on the fact that plenty of other, much more normal people use it, and that plenty in the/. community would rather cutoff their noses, to spite their face, than use something that doesn't fit with their spiteful little crypto-socialist ethos, even though it is quite good.
[i]This Intel-written whitepaper introduces an determine their locations with the aid of freely accessible, nearby radio sources, such as fixed Bluetooth devices, 802.11 access points, and GSM cell towers. [/i]
Whose locations? Who is 'their'? I cannot comprehend sentence as missing words.
I'm sorry, I can't take you seriously when you say 'M$'. The debate has to move away from this crap.
Wider atrocities have been committed respectively by GBW and also by MS, and I don't doubt that kidding aside, the appointment of Harriet Miers is another erosion of all hopes of an independent legal system in the US, but as has been pointed out elsewhere, the class action failed because of a badly-defined class of people to be represented by the plaintiff. This fact is in TFA, but certainly not reflected in Taco's post.
Honestly, this fact has been dredged up from what, 8 years ago? I see a posting which says '8 years ago a paid professional helped the bad guys of computing get off the hook, and now they're working for the bad guys of governance, and therefore - cmon guys, help me out...yes that's right..it's whatever your worst fear is.'
But I always thought lawyers would represent anyone for money, as it's just what they do, no?
Oh my word! Eats babies _and_ said something not nice about Apple?
waah!
* falls out of pram *
In other news it was reported that Dick Cheney 'looked the wrong way' at a Mac Mini while out at his local Walmart and 'definately scratched his arse' near a StarOffice box.
..as well as Zonk's. I'm no fan of GBW and his ilk, but this...it doesn't give me any additional reason to hate the administration, it's so poor and irrelevant as to be laughable. If successfully defending a paid-for patch for DOS which should have been free is the worst IT-related crime of this Supreme Court nominee, maybe the administration is not as evil as I thought.
..and I have the right to vote elsewhere with my wallet, but what about the ability to manage the rights of *my* data, quite aside from any music that may or may not be my property..?
To be able to restrict the usage of some of my files, yet distribute them to people, well admittedly I don't personally have this need, but surely someone could?
TFA goes on about liberating music and such, couldn't find any mention of user-side rights management..
It's of obvious importance to any geek but I put this in the top percentile of geek-necessity. What would have enticed a pseudo-geek or similarly self-dangerous person such as myself would have been the prospect of running KDE apps themselves within Aqua minus the KDE window manager. Hence 'a woman without gills' would be something along the lines 'KDE apps that run within Aqua minus the KDE window manager'. 'Aqua Man' would be Aqua. It's all straightforward really.
Or I could have Googled it. Dammit, the futility of posting to Slashdot knowing someone will already know that and therefore I should have said nothing, and driven right-by.
Slashdot Mirror
"This is a process that started in 1948, when several changes happened: the development of the transistor, and re-establishment of Isreal being just two of'em."
Huh? What has the establishment of Isreal got do with this? Slashdot brings all kinds of freaks out of the woodwork, and you sir, are a freak.
"So nay-say all ya want, but we're on a schedule here...and there's no more changing this reality than killing Hitler when he was a corporal in WW1, to avoid WW2."
No, we're not on a schedule. You are, or at least you think you are, owing to your dodgy religious beliefs. The rest of us are simply on-topic and not dribbling from the sides of our mouths.
Thanks for the update neighbourini
...sigh...
Just remember, if the bottle is square, the mod is fair,
If the bottle is round, the mod is unsound.
I suppose I should know better than to make inaccurate jokes and quips on Slashdot.
One last thing though Helios1882 (if that _is_ your real name..) - have you ever considered the fact that you are a humourless arse?
..Finland is a nation which likes a drink (& I hold in high esteem)..just surprised that he didn't use a bottle of Finlandia...mmm, Finlandia...clean distilled taste..
Hesburger PC! That's what I'll do...if only they had Hesburger in the UK!!
Not to worry, I shall just have to go there again on a _cough_ research trip..
..welcome our metallurgical revisionist overlords.
industry planners are mulling new subscription plans that would further limit the online experience, establishing "platinum," "gold" and "silver" levels of Internet access
What happened to good old Bronze? Has this metal had its day? It used to be "Bronze, Silver, Gold" - you know, like the Olympics. Apparently there is no room for poor old bronze in this new scheme of things, of course implying that there are no poor people in this rich media experience which these benevolent, altruistic ISP's are planning for Joe Consumer.
It's inevitable, just what we were wanting to hear. Now we don't have to bother changing our ways, we can just sit back and wait for it, with a newly-invigorated sense of nihilism. If you were hesitating to buy that SUV you wanted, well, now, you may as well get it.
For a while I thought there would be the danger that we would have to do something....phew!
Well now I just feel silly Eric. Thank you for pointing this out, amongst your myriad other posts for today and indeed all of January. And a very big thank-you for using that choice pissing Slashdot phrase - 'RTFA'. Also, yes, I have no doubt that Captain Picard would miss Data, only real question is, would anyone miss you on Slashdot, or indeed out there in the corporeal world?
Pleasure to make your acquaintance.
Regards,
Unski.
DEAR FRIEND
MY NAME IS MR.GREG MAMMAH, PERSONAL ASSISTANT TO MR CONRAD BLACK.THE MEDIA TYCOON,CHAIRMAN/CEO OF HOLLINGER INTERNATIONAL.WHO WAS WRONGLY ACCUSSED ON 17/11/2005 OF FRAUDULENTLY DIVERTED OVER US$2.1bn FROM HIS MEDIA EMPIRE.
I HAVE THE DOCUMENTS OF A LARGE AMOUNT OF INSTALLATION TIPS WHICH HE HANDED OVER TO ME BEFORE HE WAS INDICTED AND CHARGED IN USA FOR FRAUDLENT ACT OF INSTALLING WINDOWS XP ON APPLE HARDWARE,LED BY USA ATTORNEY FOR NORTHERN ILLINOIS PATRICK FIZTZGERALD,WHO IS THE SPECIAL COUNSEL IN THE CIA LEAK INVESTGATION IN WASHINGTON.
HIS BEEN BLACKLISTED COMPANY PERKS ABUSER FOR BEEN A GOOD GEEK, PROVIDING A DESERVED HOME AND VACATIONS FOR HIS FAMILY.HENCE THE NEED TO CONTACT YOU TO ASSIST IN REPATRIATING THE OPERATING SYSTEM AND POSSIBLE INVESTMENT ON HIS BEHALF.
THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF FUNDS TO BE RE-PROFILLED IS FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS(USD$50 MILLION). AND YOU WILL BE GENEROUSLY BE ENTITLED TO 15% OF THE TOTAL AMOUNT FOR YOUR MANAGEMENT SERVICES.UPON MY RECEIPT OF YOUR REPLY CONFIRMING YOUR WILLINGNESS TO INSTALL WINDOWS XP ON APPLE HARDWARE, I WILL IMMEDIATELY ARRANGE AND TRANSFER ALL THE RIGHT OF OWNERSHIP OF THIS FUNDS TO YOUR NAME,TO FACILLLITATE YOUR EASY TRANSFER OF THE COMPLETE FUND TO YOUR COUNTRY FOR ONWARD INVESTMENT.
NOTE: THE KEY WORD TO THIS TRANSACTION IS ABSOLUTE CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECRECY. THIS OPERATING SYSTEM INSTALLATION IS 100% RISK FREE.
YOUR URGENT RESPONSE WILL BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED.
YOUR'S FAITHFULLY,
MR. GREG MAMMAH.
00226 70 30 75 08.
This is old old old hat. A synopsis of what will inevitably be posted follows;
'Google is your friend'
'Linux doesn't have to have bad or no drivers it's just the megapigopolists who don't spend time/money on writing drivers/opening their specs for a niche-category operating system [cue open/closed drivers debate again]'
'Just make sure you get one with [chipset name instead of an easily-obtainable brand & model name/number] '
'Mine are working ok, are you sure you enabled the --obscure-option flag when you compiled those drivers.'
'Real men rig up a pair of VHF radio's and implement their own physical networking layer.'
'[immature experimental distro] supports your brand of wireless interface, but isn't Ready For The Desktop yet.'
'Buy new hardware.'
I am a spelling and grammar nazi. There/their/they're and to/too are the basic errors which rile me the most. You/your/you're is another set of words which I think are fundamental to the meaning of a sentence and the correct usage thereof should have been taught at primary school level.
Reading Taco's article however, I think he makes a fair point about the standards required in a Slashdot submission. It may be owned by OSDL, but the feel and character of Slashdot is its own. I think Taco is perfectly reasonable in looking to the value of the content first and foremost, a damned-sight more reasonable than you are in insisting he make no more than one typo a week.
Also unreasonable is the implication you make that 'no typo's per week' are made by the BBC News website, when, pedant that I am, I see missing words and the kinds of contextual spelling errors your average spell-checker would miss, at least once a week on their site. And I still like them as well.
baa-ht visual b-b-baa-sic is b-b-aaa-ad
* Nonchalantly turns back around and continues eating Slashdot grass *
* Craps a Slashdot posting *
Or even 'corroborated', perhaps?
Anyway, I wonder if they really will change/augment the current equipment now that this information is public knowlegde.
Could it be that one modification they might be quick to make could be to flag up all calls initiated with a low, deep tone.... ?
Oh, I forgot, I'm from the UK and I've watched Spooks, so I know better; calls are tapped using a non-descript operating system which uses 72 pt fonts from The Matrix and can traverse our crappy, sub-divided and patchy POTS phone system as well as pin-point locating any mobile call, apparantly even from pre-pay mobiles..all to the sound of urgent violins.
..the equations of love?
"It is only through the mysterious equations of love that any logic can be found."
Computer-based interruptions fall into a sort of Heisenbergian uncertainty trap: it is difficult to know whether an e-mail message is worth interrupting your work for unless you open and read it - at which point you have, of course, interrupted yourself.
Hmm, maybe 'Mark as Unread' is not the efficient solution I had thought it was..worse still, maybe it could cause a temporal paradox..
..they have lost their passion for open networks.
They just need to try and relate more. If the passion has gone, a new shared activity or interest can help bring them closer, and allow each to see the other in a new light. Microsoft/Yahoo should try and pay more attention to Open Networks and, say, compliment her when she wears a new dress. Similarly, Open Networks should consider allowing Microsoft/Yahoo more nights out with the companies down the road. Reciprocity can help build new bridges between them, to bring that all-important passion back into relationship.
-- type 'failure' into google.com and hit 'I'm feeling lucky'
Could you spell that out to me? Oh. You can't spell. Where is privacy mentioned in the article or in my post? You must have taken offence also at my usage of the term 'Linux zealot', because by token of your obsession with privacy, you must be one.
Are you one of the people who 'which' to retain their privacy? Why not just shut the curtains before masturbating over ASCII porn?
I am really very sorry for upsetting you, but at least the Anonymous Coward mode does allow you to preserve that all important privacy. Having read your comprehensive argument, I am convinced you must have _so_ much going on in your life, that you do indeed need that privacy.
The author of the article is railing against the argument that there is no room for Form when trying to implement Function;
/. community would rather cutoff their noses, to spite their face, than use something that doesn't fit with their spiteful little crypto-socialist ethos, even though it is quite good.
He is essentially saying 'I am the same as any other Linux zealot, however I am magnanimous enough to recognise that I am not the youth of today, and that my needs, justifiable as they are, are not the same as Da Yoof.' Thus, the eye-candy in MSN, he suggests, is not to his tastes but 'they' like it and 'they' are the next generation of potential Linux users.
So comments defending GAIM are either missing the point of the author, or are seriously in denial. Some prat pitches in to say 'well GAIM is patched quicker than Trillian' and another prick says 'I'll take the simplicity of GAIM'. While I'm sure he and his other online contact are happy with spartan interfaces which, truly, have not evolved since 2000, I'm more than happy with MSN. Even though I can't see the source code. Even though everything goes through MSN's servers, centrally.
Here in the UK, it is MSN which is the dominant IM app in my world. I use it, and I quite get off on the fact that plenty of other, much more normal people use it, and that plenty in the
echo "echo \"oh I see..interesting technology, those self-replicating white-papers..err brain hurts\";"
[i]This Intel-written whitepaper introduces an determine their locations with the aid of freely accessible, nearby radio sources, such as fixed Bluetooth devices, 802.11 access points, and GSM cell towers. [/i] Whose locations? Who is 'their'? I cannot comprehend sentence as missing words.
I'm sorry, I can't take you seriously when you say 'M$'. The debate has to move away from this crap. Wider atrocities have been committed respectively by GBW and also by MS, and I don't doubt that kidding aside, the appointment of Harriet Miers is another erosion of all hopes of an independent legal system in the US, but as has been pointed out elsewhere, the class action failed because of a badly-defined class of people to be represented by the plaintiff. This fact is in TFA, but certainly not reflected in Taco's post. Honestly, this fact has been dredged up from what, 8 years ago? I see a posting which says '8 years ago a paid professional helped the bad guys of computing get off the hook, and now they're working for the bad guys of governance, and therefore - cmon guys, help me out...yes that's right..it's whatever your worst fear is.' But I always thought lawyers would represent anyone for money, as it's just what they do, no?
Oh my word! Eats babies _and_ said something not nice about Apple?
waah!
* falls out of pram *
In other news it was reported that Dick Cheney 'looked the wrong way' at a Mac Mini while out at his local Walmart and 'definately scratched his arse' near a StarOffice box.
..as well as Zonk's. I'm no fan of GBW and his ilk, but this...it doesn't give me any additional reason to hate the administration, it's so poor and irrelevant as to be laughable. If successfully defending a paid-for patch for DOS which should have been free is the worst IT-related crime of this Supreme Court nominee, maybe the administration is not as evil as I thought.
..and I have the right to vote elsewhere with my wallet, but what about the ability to manage the rights of *my* data, quite aside from any music that may or may not be my property..?
To be able to restrict the usage of some of my files, yet distribute them to people, well admittedly I don't personally have this need, but surely someone could?
TFA goes on about liberating music and such, couldn't find any mention of user-side rights management..
marijuana reporting, er, not bad email, is better than..
er..
toast! I want toast!
..you cannot marry a woman without gills.
It's of obvious importance to any geek but I put this in the top percentile of geek-necessity. What would have enticed a pseudo-geek or similarly self-dangerous person such as myself would have been the prospect of running KDE apps themselves within Aqua minus the KDE window manager. Hence 'a woman without gills' would be something along the lines 'KDE apps that run within Aqua minus the KDE window manager'. 'Aqua Man' would be Aqua. It's all straightforward really.
Or I could have Googled it. Dammit, the futility of posting to Slashdot knowing someone will already know that and therefore I should have said nothing, and driven right-by.