Exactly.
Here's a MULTI-billionaire hiring another "popular" billionaire to sell his product-
Meanwhile a bunch of poor slashdot users, living in momma's basement are "yuk-yuking" over these stupid rich folls and their crappy Vista.
"Golly! Why don't they just switch to Linux like we use? Don't THEY KNOW? I almost have Mom converted to it now!"
Ummm.. does anyone see something odd about this picture?
Migod, sometimes these weenies are so pathetic...
-Written on Vista-SP1 on a *slow* Celeron laptop, while I'm concurrently doing all kinds of FTPs, Flash-compiles and chatting on MSN - +some JPG editing.
Oh yeah- I'm also watching a DVD-movie on the 2nd screen. LOL! Don't ask me to try THIS on Ubuntu!
Until I see enough Helium to float a child's balloon, please do not call me.
Or are these phoolish Philo Farnsworth fakers converting the hydrogen into something else, such as, perhaps, CUCUMBERS?
... mind you the helium produced in the above balloon would prob be sufficient to light up Chicago for a year or so...
If he were alive, Stanley Pons would be spinning in his grave. (with a suitable armature to gen electricity)
As well, Einstein also said that bees would develop artificial intelligence surpassing that of all Mankind's computer power by 2012, whereupon the price of a barrel of honey would surpass the price of a barrel of oil!
Honey? You think I jest? Do the math! It already IS more expensive than oil! Scary!
He also said that Windows would utterly annihilate Linux and other silly systems such as Apple by 2015.
Damn! That Einstein was one smart guy!
No Pinoqachole imbibing for Einstein!
I AM READY, ARNOLD!
I learned this pissant language 40+ years ago, before there were even hard disks.
I...umm HATE COBOL, but somebody has to do the dirty job. - Sorry, Admiral Grace - (may she RIP)
I am willing to rescue California from this conundrum.
Just send me a return ticket.
But alas I demand more than $5.50/hr. How about $9.95?
Per.. MINUTE? Mmwahhhaaa haa haa..
Seriously guys- I am thinking of coming out of retirement!
uggg...
I've always appreciated reading a real paper newspaper, or a book or magazine late at night in bed.
Not sure why; it's probably the tactile sensation as you describe. Or perhaps the softness of the appearance, which a laptop monitor still cannot seen to deliver.
Somehow the finger-tips hitting on the keyboard or the stroke of the mouse late at night doesn't have the same appeal. (no double-entendres please)
I've downloaded a few books from the Gutenberg project, including Joyce's Ulysses, which I had never read.
Well it's been whirring around on my hard disk(s) for three or four years now and I STILL haven't read it!
But it's very handy for looking up a phrase or passage in SECONDS, when I wish to appear intellectual online. Ahh.. the power of pretentiousness!
I've been working in computers for more than forty years and have now been retired from the office without ever seeing it go paperless, Though goodness knows I tried my best the last 20 years.
But for the life of me, I do NOT understand the value of printed tech reference manuals about computer topics. They invariably become obsolescent within a year anyhow. Mine were all thrown out years ago.
But for tenured twits, I suppose books lend some authority when neatly lined up, gathering dust on the professors' shelves.
Studying computer operation is kinda like turning off your lightbulbs and reading a manual about lightbulb operation by candlelight. Helloo! Get with the program, Luddites!
When it comes to ANY computer work, I do ALL my research and cutnpaste / composing stuff ONLINE.
|rant> Grrr... this is starting to turn into a rant.. I better stop! |/rant>
Google's usefulness aside, I like having a dead-tree reference sitting on my shelf for ease of use.
Yeah, I know what you mean-
When my computer is down, I like to grab an Abacus, or least my sliderule. It's a pretty handy substitute.
All this hypertext nonsense pales in comparison to looking up on that shelf, browsing for the right book, thumbing through the index and looking at page after page to find the right topic! So much quicker!
If only they would do away with hypertext! I could probably code HTML much more quickly then with my handy 63 lb. of manuals on my desk!
Lessee now... where did I leave my pencil and coding pad?...
And oh, yes! Mustn't forget my handy flowchart template!
I'm always feeling lucky with Google-
When a search is done using the keyword "aqk", my website is ALWAYS shown at the top.
And Yahoo as well.
But CUIL? Harrumph!
All they could find was a nasty ol' computer virus and some silly Pakistani Nuclear physicist who apparently sells blueprints for atomic weapons to Iran and Al-Queerduh or whatever!
Well! Borrrring...!
I might start using cuil.com once they recognize my importance!
without undue hassle and was initially very impressed. He ended up having problems with wireless network card drivers, but before then he discovered the compiz window/eye-candy manager and the whole cube desktop thing, as well as dual monitor and window tiling features. He......who to my knowledge has never even written a Hello World program (though he ha......seen Macs, and though he's impressed, the price is off putting. Anyway he is now using Vista, and has found its visual effects fairly pleasing. But, he still wants to go back to Ubuntu, due in no small part to the compiz cube, which he considers superior. In fact, even his girlfriend actually prefers Ubuntu....... wide appeal of Hardy.
In short, I remain shocked, bewildered and pleasantly bemused..... It is not an exaggeration to state that Aunt Tillie can use and actually enjoy Ubuntu Hardy, as though as it might be for us to accept it.
================
Bullshit.
Tell Aunt Tillie THAT. I have been running dual and TRIPLE screens on XP and Vista.
So far all I can get with Ubuntub 8.04 is a "cloned" screen on my Celeron Laptop. I'm currently booted from Vista now, as it offers me an expanded desktop over two screens, which Ubuntu cannot seem to do.
And don't ask me (OR your revered Aunt Tillie) to do a "sudo apt gibberish -fyou" to possibly solve this problem.
Oh yeah- my Atheros wifi still doesn't work with Hardyharhar Heron, not to mention 7.10 Warty wotever...
Don't reply to me here. Take it up with your Aunt Tillie. .
Why couldn't we just "seed" the 50Km-high atmosphere with some Earth organisms- maybe some Algae or some of those Sulphuric-Acid-eating worms in the deep ocean?
After a couple of years (or maybe a coupla months) Venus will come around to OUR way of living.
And a few high-atmosphere balloon colonies of ours, designed by Virgin Galactic, and... its a GO!
I will bring my own Pinoqachole and even brew it on Venus!
Sorry for the extant Venusian life.. but I doubt there is any.
Lissening, Richard Branson?
I get a lot of "Grow 3 inches, aqk!" (geez- I'm happy with my height now) - and
"you have a really stupid face, aqk!" (this one was evidently meant for someone else) but -
I have yet to receive this WW3 warning.
>> My grandmother refuses to upgrade to broadband even though it's an extra $5/mo because she's used it at my house and it loads too fast. ..Do my sisters need it? no. You can certainly browse the web and send/recieve email on dialup, so I really don't get this obsession over it.
i really do not get this whole idea that the US sucks because of lack of broad band adaptation.
>>I mean, I have broadband, and it's nice for what i do. But do my parents need it?
----------
Arrggg! SHOOT THE LOT OF YOU MACINTOSH/LINUX HUGGING WEENIES!
I live in the deep woods of Canada, yet only 12 Km from a bunch of DSLAMS.
And on the US border too!
Of course, in the even more primitive rural USA, conditions are far worse...
But I'd just like to add that EVERYONE should have access to hi-speed. Like the folks in so-called "3rd-world" countries.
Hellooo.. USA? Are you listening?
Guess what: You are joinimg the "4th world".
-
Like Canada has already done.
Wake up!
If I were younger I'd be packing my bag and moving to India, like my kids are planning to do.
if the Enterprise is fired upon, the corbomite in the starship's hull will self-destruct and destroy both ships.
And- A flat arsenic atom will not help!
Apparently, diplomatic relationship is formed over drinks of Tranya, or perhaps Pinoqachole, and molecular structure is maintained.
...because the slashdot kiddies find any reason to laugh at MS?
Yeah.. I am actually starting to get bored with/.
It's just a steady stream of anti-MS trolling.
I have the weirdest feeling that I am in the midst of a bunch of frustrated "geniui (geniuses?)" who simply hate anyone who has actually succeeded.
Is it possible that/. has been constructed simply to allow failure folks to let off steam harmlessly?
Migod you must be some loser. Perhaps "crippled" yourself.
Oops! Bad non-politically-correct statement. Sorry!
I burn CDs (audio & MP3/ogg etc) all the time, as well as DVDs (both Mpeg4 and the standard VOB, using basic Windows (W2000 and Vista) software.
I am STILL trying to get Ubuntu 8.04 (horny heffalump or wotever) to recognize my DVD burner and give me some sort of disc output. Grrr.. This is typed using Firefox & Win2000. (Sorry - I'm too lazy to boot my Vista laptop)
Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:17 AM
My latest submission to slashdot.
No doubt it will be rejected.... LOL!
Slashdot Story Submissions
Preview Submission
SPENGLER'S SLACKERS. Are you one?
Enlightenment
aqk writes -Young American slashdotter! Are you possibly one of Spengler's Slackers ?
This modern-day journalist descendant of Oswald Spengler has almost as much a dark vision of Western Society (i.e. the USA) as the philosopher.
To wit: "America might be the first country in recorded history whose culture celebrates not only indolence but also the sheer absence of ability. Byronic loafing is the birthright of genius, but slacking has become the entitlement of every young American.
Huh. You're comfortably ensconced in your parents' basement, penning arguments on your Ubuntu system to slashdot, on why "XP is sooo much better than Vista".
Maybe you're the beer-swilling undergrad in his fully-paid-for dorm using your Macintosh to rant about how you'll replace all those Windows systems, when (and if) you join the business world?
Nevertheless, Spengler ( a scribe for The Asia Times â" yes, another offshore corporation) may have given you some kind of wake-up call. Perhaps you should take note. Do you agree with the above SLACKER article? Indeed: where is the USA going?
Slashdot Mirror
Exactly.
Here's a MULTI-billionaire hiring another "popular" billionaire to sell his product-
Meanwhile a bunch of poor slashdot users, living in momma's basement are "yuk-yuking" over these stupid rich folls and their crappy Vista.
"Golly! Why don't they just switch to Linux like we use? Don't THEY KNOW? I almost have Mom converted to it now!"
Ummm.. does anyone see something odd about this picture?
Migod, sometimes these weenies are so pathetic...
-Written on Vista-SP1 on a *slow* Celeron laptop, while I'm concurrently doing all kinds of FTPs, Flash-compiles and chatting on MSN - +some JPG editing.
Oh yeah- I'm also watching a DVD-movie on the 2nd screen. LOL! Don't ask me to try THIS on Ubuntu!
.
What does the study say about ZERO wives?
Until I see enough Helium to float a child's balloon, please do not call me.
... mind you the helium produced in the above balloon would prob be sufficient to light up Chicago for a year or so...
Or are these phoolish Philo Farnsworth fakers converting the hydrogen into something else, such as, perhaps, CUCUMBERS?
If he were alive, Stanley Pons would be spinning in his grave. (with a suitable armature to gen electricity)
"If bees were to disappear from the face of the Earth, serial killers would run rampant and destroy all of mankind within five years!"
You can read about this scary prediction HERE!
As well, Einstein also said that bees would develop artificial intelligence surpassing that of all Mankind's computer power by 2012, whereupon the price of a barrel of honey would surpass the price of a barrel of oil! Honey? You think I jest?
Do the math! It already IS more expensive than oil! Scary!
He also said that Windows would utterly annihilate Linux and other silly systems such as Apple by 2015.
Damn! That Einstein was one smart guy!
No Pinoqachole imbibing for Einstein!
And I'll say it again:
Statistics have shown over and over again, that fully 50% of Americans have IQs of less than 100!
HA! Name me another people that has such an abysmal level of intelligence!
.
Anyone interested in Orwell should read the definitive critique:
"Why Orwell Matters" by Christopher Hitchens.
Lessee now... is it a right-wing diatribe? Or a left-wing one?
YOU decide!
.
I AM READY, ARNOLD! ...umm HATE COBOL, but somebody has to do the dirty job. - Sorry, Admiral Grace - (may she RIP)
I learned this pissant language 40+ years ago, before there were even hard disks.
I
I am willing to rescue California from this conundrum.
Just send me a return ticket.
But alas I demand more than $5.50/hr. How about $9.95?
Per.. MINUTE? Mmwahhhaaa haa haa..
Seriously guys- I am thinking of coming out of retirement!
uggg...
.
Yeah I know what you mean (Seriously, this time!)
I've always appreciated reading a real paper newspaper, or a book or magazine late at night in bed.
Not sure why; it's probably the tactile sensation as you describe. Or perhaps the softness of the appearance, which a laptop monitor still cannot seen to deliver.
Somehow the finger-tips hitting on the keyboard or the stroke of the mouse late at night doesn't have the same appeal. (no double-entendres please)
I've downloaded a few books from the Gutenberg project, including Joyce's Ulysses, which I had never read.
Well it's been whirring around on my hard disk(s) for three or four years now and I STILL haven't read it!
But it's very handy for looking up a phrase or passage in SECONDS, when I wish to appear intellectual online. Ahh.. the power of pretentiousness!
I've been working in computers for more than forty years and have now been retired from the office without ever seeing it go paperless, Though goodness knows I tried my best the last 20 years.
But for the life of me, I do NOT understand the value of printed tech reference manuals about computer topics. They invariably become obsolescent within a year anyhow. Mine were all thrown out years ago.
But for tenured twits, I suppose books lend some authority when neatly lined up, gathering dust on the professors' shelves.
Studying computer operation is kinda like turning off your lightbulbs and reading a manual about lightbulb operation by candlelight.
Helloo! Get with the program, Luddites!
When it comes to ANY computer work, I do ALL my research and cutnpaste / composing stuff ONLINE.
|rant> Grrr... this is starting to turn into a rant.. I better stop! |/rant>
.
Google's usefulness aside, I like having a dead-tree reference sitting on my shelf for ease of use.
Yeah, I know what you mean-
When my computer is down, I like to grab an Abacus, or least my sliderule. It's a pretty handy substitute.
All this hypertext nonsense pales in comparison to looking up on that shelf, browsing for the right book, thumbing through the index and looking at page after page to find the right topic! So much quicker!
If only they would do away with hypertext! I could probably code HTML much more quickly then with my handy 63 lb. of manuals on my desk!
Lessee now... where did I leave my pencil and coding pad?...
And oh, yes! Mustn't forget my handy flowchart template!
.
I'm always feeling lucky with Google-
When a search is done using the keyword "aqk", my website is ALWAYS shown at the top.
And Yahoo as well.
But CUIL? Harrumph!
All they could find was a nasty ol' computer virus and some silly Pakistani Nuclear physicist who apparently sells blueprints for atomic weapons to Iran and Al-Queerduh or whatever!
Well! Borrrring...!
I might start using cuil.com once they recognize my importance!
.
Where are you from?
.
Turkey? Iran? Pakistan?
You are very funny! Ho-Ho-ho, little fellow! Join us in prison here!
-
without undue hassle and was initially very impressed. He ended up having problems with wireless network card drivers, but before then he discovered the compiz window/eye-candy manager and the whole cube desktop thing, as well as dual monitor and window tiling features. He......who to my knowledge has never even written a Hello World program (though he ha......seen Macs, and though he's impressed, the price is off putting. Anyway he is now using Vista, and has found its visual effects fairly pleasing. But, he still wants to go back to Ubuntu, due in no small part to the compiz cube, which he considers superior. In fact, even his girlfriend actually prefers Ubuntu. ...... wide appeal of Hardy.
In short, I remain shocked, bewildered and pleasantly bemused ..... It is not an exaggeration to state that Aunt Tillie can use and actually enjoy Ubuntu Hardy, as though as it might be for us to accept it.
================
Bullshit.
Tell Aunt Tillie THAT.
I have been running dual and TRIPLE screens on XP and Vista.
So far all I can get with Ubuntub 8.04 is a "cloned" screen on my Celeron Laptop.
I'm currently booted from Vista now, as it offers me an expanded desktop over two screens, which Ubuntu cannot seem to do.
And don't ask me (OR your revered Aunt Tillie) to do a "sudo apt gibberish -fyou" to possibly solve this problem.
Oh yeah- my Atheros wifi still doesn't work with Hardyharhar Heron, not to mention 7.10 Warty wotever...
Don't reply to me here. Take it up with your Aunt Tillie.
.
Why couldn't we just "seed" the 50Km-high atmosphere with some Earth organisms- maybe some Algae or some of those Sulphuric-Acid-eating worms in the deep ocean? ... its a GO!
After a couple of years (or maybe a coupla months) Venus will come around to OUR way of living.
And a few high-atmosphere balloon colonies of ours, designed by Virgin Galactic, and
I will bring my own Pinoqachole and even brew it on Venus!
Sorry for the extant Venusian life.. but I doubt there is any.
Lissening, Richard Branson?
I get a lot of "Grow 3 inches, aqk!" (geez- I'm happy with my height now)
,
- and
"you have a really stupid face, aqk!" (this one was evidently meant for someone else)
but -
I have yet to receive this WW3 warning.
OMG! Am I out of the loop?
.
>> My grandmother refuses to upgrade to broadband even though it's an extra $5/mo because she's used it at my house and it loads too fast.
..Do my sisters need it? no. You can certainly browse the web and send/recieve email on dialup, so I really don't get this obsession over it.
i really do not get this whole idea that the US sucks because of lack of broad band adaptation.
>>I mean, I have broadband, and it's nice for what i do. But do my parents need it?
----------
Arrggg! SHOOT THE LOT OF YOU MACINTOSH/LINUX HUGGING WEENIES!
I live in the deep woods of Canada, yet only 12 Km from a bunch of DSLAMS.
And on the US border too!
Of course, in the even more primitive rural USA, conditions are far worse...
But I'd just like to add that EVERYONE should have access to hi-speed. Like the folks in so-called "3rd-world" countries.
Hellooo.. USA? Are you listening?
Guess what: You are joinimg the "4th world". - Like Canada has already done.
Wake up!
If I were younger I'd be packing my bag and moving to India, like my kids are planning to do.
-
.
Ahh! A fellow Antidisestablishmentdeterminaterizer!
There are so few of us left...
Helloo.. if you smell "almonds" and there are no almonds (or peach pits) around, leave immediately.
That ain't Arsenic, it's CYANIDE!
-
if the Enterprise is fired upon, the corbomite in the starship's hull will self-destruct and destroy both ships.
And- A flat arsenic atom will not help!
Apparently, diplomatic relationship is formed over drinks of Tranya, or perhaps Pinoqachole, and molecular structure is maintained.
So. What's the big deal here?
.
We must stop this theft at once!
Is some evil power transmuting these elements and turning them into Lead?
Or is is it an alien entity sucking them away from our planet?
Whatever- IT MUST STOP!
Next, they will be stealing our Copper and Iron!
And perhaps even our Carbon and Oxygen atoms!
.
OK, Salty- no more name calling.
The NaCl crystal is cubic. A "square", if you will.
And you ARE full of it.
Luckily for you (perhaps unlucky for the rest of us) yours is in solution.
Four letters:
NaCl
Earth is full of it. And so are you.
Yeah.. I am actually starting to get bored with
It's just a steady stream of anti-MS trolling.
I have the weirdest feeling that I am in the midst of a bunch of frustrated "geniui (geniuses?)" who simply hate anyone who has actually succeeded.
Is it possible that
Migod you must be some loser. Perhaps "crippled" yourself.
Oops! Bad non-politically-correct statement. Sorry!
I burn CDs (audio & MP3/ogg etc) all the time, as well as DVDs (both Mpeg4 and the standard VOB, using basic Windows (W2000 and Vista) software.
I am STILL trying to get Ubuntu 8.04 (horny heffalump or wotever) to recognize my DVD burner and give me some sort of disc output. Grrr..
This is typed using Firefox & Win2000. (Sorry - I'm too lazy to boot my Vista laptop)
Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:17 AM
My latest submission to slashdot.
No doubt it will be rejected.... LOL!
Slashdot Story Submissions
Preview Submission
SPENGLER'S SLACKERS. Are you one? Enlightenment
aqk writes -Young American slashdotter! Are you possibly one of Spengler's Slackers ?
This modern-day journalist descendant of Oswald Spengler has almost as much a dark vision of Western Society (i.e. the USA) as the philosopher.
To wit: "America might be the first country in recorded history whose culture celebrates not only indolence but also the sheer absence of ability. Byronic loafing is the birthright of genius, but slacking has become the entitlement of every young American.
Huh. You're comfortably ensconced in your parents' basement, penning arguments on your Ubuntu system to slashdot, on why "XP is sooo much better than Vista".
Maybe you're the beer-swilling undergrad in his fully-paid-for dorm using your Macintosh to rant about how you'll replace all those Windows systems, when (and if) you join the business world?
Nevertheless, Spengler ( a scribe for The Asia Times â" yes, another offshore corporation) may have given you some kind of wake-up call. Perhaps you should take note. Do you agree with the above SLACKER article? Indeed: where is the USA going?
Hey- you have to asleep if you believe in that!