I'm pretty happy about that fact, because it means that now that we are beyond the gadgetry (still have to get used to 3D baloney, though!), we can focus on telling stories with these tools. It's not sufficient anymore to have something visually cool, it must have a reason to be exactly like it is. Which Terminator II did very well already, though.
They created mice that lacked an enzyme and later on they added the enzyme. All this proves is that the enzyme is relevant to support healthy growth, and it's absence mimics the symptoms of aging.
That would be like stripping someone of his clothes, put him in the cold, give him a blanket and say: "We solved the problem of freezing to death!".
Uhm... "Magazines for children featuring pictures of topless women" - I'm living in Germany. If what you describe does exist, my childhood would have been a lot happier;)
What is true: public magazine stands with magazines for people of all ages, including erotic magazines showing breasts and such.
Foremost, I have to say that I enjoy chinese philosophy a big deal. In that spirit, let me formulate it that way: I see Linux as the air or water of operating systems. Sure you can bottle it, make it popular and sell it for a price, but you will always have to compete with what is available for free.
Linux can, in this regard, never win. Have you ever seen water winning? As a businessman, I can always prey on the naivety of the uneducated, and make them believe that my bottled water is better than what comes out of their tap - and in some cases that may surely be the case.
Still, Linux will survive every operating system that exists and will exist in the marketplace. On the one hand you have labels and trademars. On the other hand you have a free platform that is always there if none of the other options seem to be feasible.
As long as there is a need for operating systems, its development may stagnate, but it will never end. Linux may change shape, name and direction, but it is impossible to defeat, just as it is impossible to destroy water.
So, please, do not worry too much about what these silly businessmen are doing. Persistence, attention, openness and honesty are key to success here. Microsoft may have a few more years, we have centuries.
My break is called Ctrl+Alt+Del (and a few additional clicks to finally reboot the damn thing), I issued it 3 years ago, and am since then proud user of a real operating system with a black, i mean colored, ok - brown default theme.
if something made me anti-microsoft, it's microsoft.
Actually, my current wallpaper at work shows the Python logo rotated and colored in such a way that it reminds of a Swastika banner. For advertising Python at the workplace.
in XP, i always took the frog.
as a background image, i usually prefer a purple CGI image of supposedly magic mushrooms, or a profile of albert hofmann, with a burger king crown.
actually i made up the last one, but i keep skimming through gnome-looks.org. maybe i'm lucky one day.
This guy seems to believe that US of A are the internet. The rest of the world isn't enjoying a recession of that magnitude and, therefore, will not take such a blow. Even if his theories were true, they apply only to the american market.
The people who don't have jobs have much better things to do than differentiate themselves from their competition by contributing to a public project
But we didn't get into this open source business in the first place because we are opportunists. Surely that situation might shake off a few of the hypocrites. Whether I contribute to a public project has, however, never been a subject of job related issues.
companies have so much spare money that they don't need to reduce costs with open source joint ventures.
usually they don't, for fiscal reasons. which is why we got an article disproving that claim a few days ago.
"Ah yes, and the companies that I predict to survive happen to be the same ones I got stock on. Whoops, did I say that aloud?"
And here is my prediction for the next 300 years of economy: McDonald's, Microsoft and Slashdot Enterprises will eventually perish, "paniq Industries" will survive them all.
First we were afraid
we were petrified
Kept thinking we could never live
with Windows on our drives
But then we spent so many nights
hacking Linux all night long
And it grew strong
And we learned to carry on
but now you're back
your battle lost
I just logged on to read about you
urged by your bosses to save costs
we should have told Novell to wait
We should have raised our service fees
If we had known for just one second
you'd be begging on your knees
lobbying works.
talk to this guy, invite him for dinner, tell him that you want to lobby for open source and ask him if he would be interested in a discussion about it.
at the discussion, listen to his concerns and don't dismiss them. give him the feeling that these concerns are valid, then tell him that you are going to try to convince him, ask him if he's fine with that, then give some counterarguments.
if you don't get through with the whole thing, invite him again, make him like you. when he likes you, he's not having a hard time considering your arguments.
if everything fails, talk to his boss about the same stuff. don't be scared. we're all reasonable people, it's just that decisionmakers are usually misinformed and thus, scared.
scientology is not a religion, it's a business. if you want to drive them out of business, compete with them. make up a story that is even crazier to woo film stars and rake in the big rewards.
Join the just founded Roflology. we believe that God, who actually DID create the earth, was in turn created by a being named GLaDOS, an artificial intelligence from the future which traveled back in time, to the moment before time was about to be created. since then, many men are being born with a device attached to the inside of their noses called the Super-Human-Inhibition-Transponder, which, as the name suggests, inhibits superhuman abilities that men actually possess, like reading minds, seeing into the future and doing the dishes. This device powers itself from the resonant properties of metal threads in paper sheets, which come disguised as dollar or euro bills.
Roflology promises to help you regain your superhuman abilities. The first step is to store your money in a safe place, where it can't hurt you. The second step is a 120 years training process, which helps you to achieve immortality. Once you can no longer die, there follows another 50 years of training (piece of cake for an immortal), until superhuman qualities emerge. As a finale, you will receive a certificate and a little present.
Do one of our tests today to find out whether you are full of S.H.I.T.!
Why not all put our pants down and bend over for the Linux boys...since they write good code
i recently visited finland, the home country of linus torvalds; a country full of trees, lakes and mosquitoes, close to nature, with lots of fresh air and little commercialization. i got the impression that finland was like a virgin, waiting to be raped by US interests, to be mcdonaldized and burgerkingified.
who would have thought that it turns out to be the opposite case;)
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I'm pretty happy about that fact, because it means that now that we are beyond the gadgetry (still have to get used to 3D baloney, though!), we can focus on telling stories with these tools. It's not sufficient anymore to have something visually cool, it must have a reason to be exactly like it is. Which Terminator II did very well already, though.
They created mice that lacked an enzyme and later on they added the enzyme. All this proves is that the enzyme is relevant to support healthy growth, and it's absence mimics the symptoms of aging. That would be like stripping someone of his clothes, put him in the cold, give him a blanket and say: "We solved the problem of freezing to death!".
Uhm... "Magazines for children featuring pictures of topless women" - I'm living in Germany. If what you describe does exist, my childhood would have been a lot happier ;)
What is true: public magazine stands with magazines for people of all ages, including erotic magazines showing breasts and such.
Who said lawsuit claims have to make any sense to be valid? Another lesson learned!
What I have said times and times again:
Linux will outperform Windows more and more, without actually improving itself, just by its competitors performance getting worse.
you can't ignore me forever!
Me too. But if they put these games into showcases, that would be sad.
Okay, perhaps they can put some of these behind showcases, like all game adaptations of movies - ever.
Argh I said trademars. I meant trademarks :/
Foremost, I have to say that I enjoy chinese philosophy a big deal. In that spirit, let me formulate it that way: I see Linux as the air or water of operating systems. Sure you can bottle it, make it popular and sell it for a price, but you will always have to compete with what is available for free.
Linux can, in this regard, never win. Have you ever seen water winning? As a businessman, I can always prey on the naivety of the uneducated, and make them believe that my bottled water is better than what comes out of their tap - and in some cases that may surely be the case.
Still, Linux will survive every operating system that exists and will exist in the marketplace. On the one hand you have labels and trademars. On the other hand you have a free platform that is always there if none of the other options seem to be feasible.
As long as there is a need for operating systems, its development may stagnate, but it will never end. Linux may change shape, name and direction, but it is impossible to defeat, just as it is impossible to destroy water.
So, please, do not worry too much about what these silly businessmen are doing. Persistence, attention, openness and honesty are key to success here. Microsoft may have a few more years, we have centuries.
Is that a threat or a promise?
more like purple haze computing.
get sober, folks.
My break is called Ctrl+Alt+Del (and a few additional clicks to finally reboot the damn thing), I issued it 3 years ago, and am since then proud user of a real operating system with a black, i mean colored, ok - brown default theme.
if something made me anti-microsoft, it's microsoft.
How am I not surprised? ;)
Actually, my current wallpaper at work shows the Python logo rotated and colored in such a way that it reminds of a Swastika banner. For advertising Python at the workplace.
I guess I suck at propaganda.
in XP, i always took the frog. as a background image, i usually prefer a purple CGI image of supposedly magic mushrooms, or a profile of albert hofmann, with a burger king crown. actually i made up the last one, but i keep skimming through gnome-looks.org. maybe i'm lucky one day.
This guy seems to believe that US of A are the internet. The rest of the world isn't enjoying a recession of that magnitude and, therefore, will not take such a blow. Even if his theories were true, they apply only to the american market.
The people who don't have jobs have much better things to do than differentiate themselves from their competition by contributing to a public project
But we didn't get into this open source business in the first place because we are opportunists. Surely that situation might shake off a few of the hypocrites. Whether I contribute to a public project has, however, never been a subject of job related issues.
companies have so much spare money that they don't need to reduce costs with open source joint ventures.
usually they don't, for fiscal reasons. which is why we got an article disproving that claim a few days ago.
That's wishful thinking!
"Ah yes, and the companies that I predict to survive happen to be the same ones I got stock on. Whoops, did I say that aloud?"
And here is my prediction for the next 300 years of economy: McDonald's, Microsoft and Slashdot Enterprises will eventually perish, "paniq Industries" will survive them all.
First we were afraid
we were petrified
Kept thinking we could never live
with Windows on our drives
But then we spent so many nights
hacking Linux all night long
And it grew strong
And we learned to carry on
but now you're back
your battle lost
I just logged on to read about you
urged by your bosses to save costs
we should have told Novell to wait
We should have raised our service fees
If we had known for just one second
you'd be begging on your knees
It's not going to take long until the hoster takes its own sites down for using their own copyrighted logo.
:D
More recursive infringement claims please! It's like kicking yourself out of a channel on IRC (that works!)
lobbying works. talk to this guy, invite him for dinner, tell him that you want to lobby for open source and ask him if he would be interested in a discussion about it. at the discussion, listen to his concerns and don't dismiss them. give him the feeling that these concerns are valid, then tell him that you are going to try to convince him, ask him if he's fine with that, then give some counterarguments. if you don't get through with the whole thing, invite him again, make him like you. when he likes you, he's not having a hard time considering your arguments. if everything fails, talk to his boss about the same stuff. don't be scared. we're all reasonable people, it's just that decisionmakers are usually misinformed and thus, scared.
they simply can't beat hesburger, where the food photos are shitty and the actual food is delicious, not the other way around.
scientology is not a religion, it's a business. if you want to drive them out of business, compete with them. make up a story that is even crazier to woo film stars and rake in the big rewards.
Join the just founded Roflology. we believe that God, who actually DID create the earth, was in turn created by a being named GLaDOS, an artificial intelligence from the future which traveled back in time, to the moment before time was about to be created. since then, many men are being born with a device attached to the inside of their noses called the Super-Human-Inhibition-Transponder, which, as the name suggests, inhibits superhuman abilities that men actually possess, like reading minds, seeing into the future and doing the dishes. This device powers itself from the resonant properties of metal threads in paper sheets, which come disguised as dollar or euro bills.
Roflology promises to help you regain your superhuman abilities. The first step is to store your money in a safe place, where it can't hurt you. The second step is a 120 years training process, which helps you to achieve immortality. Once you can no longer die, there follows another 50 years of training (piece of cake for an immortal), until superhuman qualities emerge. As a finale, you will receive a certificate and a little present.
Do one of our tests today to find out whether you are full of S.H.I.T.!
Why not all put our pants down and bend over for the Linux boys...since they write good code
i recently visited finland, the home country of linus torvalds; a country full of trees, lakes and mosquitoes, close to nature, with lots of fresh air and little commercialization. i got the impression that finland was like a virgin, waiting to be raped by US interests, to be mcdonaldized and burgerkingified.
;)
who would have thought that it turns out to be the opposite case
You can't compare government with software development. Contrary to government, Linux is needed. ;)
bump!
ok i get it. i make a political joke, it's "troll". no more political jokes then, i promise.