Well, yes... but I there is a slight possibility that it just will not get broken, and I never assume that anything is bought (or manufactured) to get broken. Yeah, I know, I'm old and naive...
That is because the FUBAR point of a relationship is before "We Are Not Talking To Eachother" point... but we usually first discover that we have reached the FUBAR point after we reach the WANTTE point.
Yes, something like that.:-)...except I don't remember the part about geek's breaking women. Anyway, I am from the country where we've got more divorces than weddings so I am a little skeptical about the concept of the ideal family. There are no good men out there... the few there are, are gay.
Yes you are missing something... most "normal" men don't like if "it" (whatever it is) is too complicated.
first it is a challenge,
then (if we understan it) it is boring,
or (if we don't understand it) it is broken.
It may be a little oversimplified... but since I am a man I have the right to criticize my own sex, even if I don't understand it.;-) The interesting part is that it dosen't matter if it is 2. or 3., it will be put away in the drawer.
for geeks it is different:
if we don't understand it
then it is a challenge until it is broken and then it is a challenge to fix it
else it is no challenge and completly uninteresting. ( > NUL )
This too is a little oversimplified...
the important diff. is that geeks can identify challenging objects from boring objects... (or am I just and old nerd who dont understand anything ?)
...that Longhorn (now Vista) is completly new design... from scratsh... none of the earlier flaws would be ported to it ? Do I remember wrong ?...or are they full of shit as usual ?
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Ha! This is Slashdot! Who am I kidding? I don't have a girlfriend, a wine cellar OR a job! Much less RFID cookware, bwahaha. Dem Übergeek himself has got both a wine cellar, a wife (aka. girlfriend v. 2.0) and a job... why shouldn't you have it too ?
Your journal entry about women is excellent... and it is also an excellent answer for why geeks are fascinated by women. I can see clearly now that I am not a normal geek, I am always looking for the one tool that can solve all my problems... (this "hunt for the ultimate tool" has just resulted in an Apple PowerBook).
Comments here on/. may be quite long btw. and then, if they are slightly more intelligent or funny than my comments, they can (and usually will) be modded up (or down, if somone don't like them)...
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hmmm... I always prefere the thruth but I can see now that it may be the reason for my incompatibility with the rest of the human race. How often do you look in your closet at think "Oh God, I have nothing to wear!" ?...and I am quite sure that allmost any woman do know when a dress make her look less-than-perfect. The reason why I still am alive is probably because I am single... how many women would live together with a nerd who has filled his house with interesting old hardware ?
Well... Microsofts success is caused by questionable methods... You may in fact use Microsofts own arguments against IBM (from the late '80 and early '90) against Microsoft of today.
Some other arguments...
are Microsofts products superior to other products ? No they are not...
are Microsofts products cheaper than other products ? No they are not...
are Microsofts products more secure than other products ? No they are not...
are Microsofts products platform independent ? No they are not...
are the requirements for using Microsofts products lower than other products ? No they are not...
are Microsofts products of a higher quality than other products ? No they are not...
are Microsofts products more stable than other products ? No they are not...
...why do we then use them ? ...and dude... Windows are working more & more like UNIX... but you probably haven't noticed. ...and I probably will be modded Troll for this !
Why not just buy a KISS DP-558 ? Kiss homepage
It is not 100% Open Source but it runs on Linux... it looks just like a large DVD player and the design of the box could be B&O's.
Sorry but I never check anything... before ir is too late. That doesn't make me a "geek" We can fix that... just stay with us here on/. and you will enjoy reading Tänenbaum's books in your bathtub. I have personally converted 4 or 5 people from "I don't need a computer"-state to almost-geek-state in the past few years. ...and btw. chocolate is not incompatible with beeing a geek... I consume daily 250g chocolate (preferably Toblerone) a day... ...and my oldest computer is from the pre-PC era.
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...and what are you doing on/. if you really are a poor woman with a remote-fixated man ? if you are here, you are a geek... and if you are a geek you can do something about it, that's what beeing geek is about. Some suggestions (good & bad)
man ==> EXIT
remote ==> EXIT
man + remote ==> EXIT
buy an universal remote
build an universal voice activated remote (activated only by your voice)
ignore the whole remote thing & let him watch football... as long as he watches TV he will not disturb your/. surfing
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...been right in anything else than his financial predictions for MS ? Why should we trust him in his spam prediction ? ...oh and btw. mr. Gates my hotmail mailbox is beeing spammed with worthless info from MS...
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7) They are allowing other sw-companys to mark their software as "Windows NT, W2K, XP Compatible" even when that software does not obey the security model of Windows. This should apply to any kind of software... including games. That is the reason why running Windows as non-admin user is a pain in the ass...
Wine developers may even have noticed that flaw but since M is known for using "features" (aka. bugs) on purpose they didn't remove it... who knows which M app. needs that bug.
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I've got Linux on my PowerBook... Windoze XP just couldn't recognize any hardware in it...
Such law shouldn't be nessessary... it seems however that it is. The bundling of PC's with Windows is making M$ statistics look nice... and keeping people from moving to something else... ...and IBM has btw. survived a law like this...
If we look at your proposal more seriously : Greenpeace (and other environmental organizations) would protest against it until a investigation of the consequences was successfully completed. The conclusion of the investigation would state that the consequnces can't be predicted with 100% accuracy but there is a 30 % chance of earth colliding into the sun, 30 % chance of erth going out in deep space and 30 % chance of success... the last 10 % were eaten by the lab rats.
Oh, and, no more protection laws, please, I don't want any government baby-sitting me any more... I can buy my PC without Windows, which is all I need. Do you think I like it ?...the protection is not for you nor for me... it is for all those (and that may be something like 50% of the annual Windows sales) that can't do it... all those buying a "standard" PC in the nearest shop... they often don't even know that they've got a choice...
I don't imply anything... I am just saying that the reason for Windows beeing "best selling" has nothing to do with consumer satisfaction.
Selling a car without seatbelts is allmost the same as selling a PC with Windows... unsafe
Let's just look at your comparision:
For a car to be able to get reg. plates in EU it must be equipped with:
seating belts on all seats
two independently working brakes
a device for steering
two headlamps in front (white or light yellow), two rear lamps (red) symmetrically positioned
at least two breaking lamps (red) in the rear symmetrically positioned
direction indictators (orange) in front and rear and on the sides.
etc... it is a quite long list...
anyway, these are the required parts, without them I can't use the car on public roads, and how the car manufacturer gets them is really not my problem,,, and several car manufacturers let me select wich steering wheel i want and what kind of tires i want to have... Windows is NOT required for operation of a PC... and I don't have a choice when I am buying a PC ...and pls. drop the BS about "Yes you do have a choice, you just need to..." 'cause that's not a choice, a choice is when someone ask you "Do you want blue or red leather on the seats ?, sir"
You are not in the slightest "powerless" against hardware+software bundles. You can - and have always been able to - buy an x86 PC without Windows, or any other bundled software. aha... where ?? you just go an try to buy a pc without Windows... just try to make them peel that Windows License sticker off... and a $100 off the price..
Hardly surprising. Which package deal can you think that doesn't involve the package price being less than the sum of the component costs ? No it wouldn't suprise me... but it is not cheaper than the sum of the components... it is cheaper than one of the components...
Simple search on Google returns two GPL/BSD DTP: Scribus and Passepartout, and one commercial : PageStream (v.5 std: $99, v.5 pro: $149) ...and then there is always LaTex...
I do however not use DTP myself and do not have ane expertise in that area so I can't tell how good or bad any of them are.
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Well, yes... but I there is a slight possibility that it just will not get broken, and I never assume that anything is bought (or manufactured) to get broken. Yeah, I know, I'm old and naive...
That is because the FUBAR point of a relationship is before "We Are Not Talking To Eachother" point... but we usually first discover that we have reached the FUBAR point after we reach the WANTTE point.
DISCLAIMER: I do not have anything against gays, and I am not gay.
Yes, something like that. :-) ...except I don't remember the part about geek's breaking women.
Anyway, I am from the country where we've got more divorces than weddings so I am a little skeptical about the concept of the ideal family.
There are no good men out there... the few there are, are gay.
- first it is a challenge,
- then (if we understan it) it is boring,
- or (if we don't understand it) it is broken.
It may be a little oversimplified... but since I am a man I have the right to criticize my own sex, even if I don't understand it.The interesting part is that it dosen't matter if it is 2. or 3., it will be put away in the drawer.
for geeks it is different:
- if we don't understand it
- then it is a challenge until it is broken and then it is a challenge to fix it
- else it is no challenge and completly uninteresting. ( > NUL )
This too is a little oversimplified...the important diff. is that geeks can identify challenging objects from boring objects... (or am I just and old nerd who dont understand anything ?)
...that Longhorn (now Vista) is completly new design... from scratsh... none of the earlier flaws would be ported to it ? ...or are they full of shit as usual ?
Do I remember wrong ?
Ha! This is Slashdot! Who am I kidding? I don't have a girlfriend, a wine cellar OR a job! Much less RFID cookware, bwahaha.
Dem Übergeek himself has got both a wine cellar, a wife (aka. girlfriend v. 2.0) and a job... why shouldn't you have it too ?
You are right but I do not know anybody who would buy anything else that simply is "good enough".
Your journal entry about women is excellent... and it is also an excellent answer for why geeks are fascinated by women. /. may be quite long btw. and then, if they are slightly more intelligent or funny than my comments, they can (and usually will) be modded up (or down, if somone don't like them)...
I can see clearly now that I am not a normal geek, I am always looking for the one tool that can solve all my problems... (this "hunt for the ultimate tool" has just resulted in an Apple PowerBook).
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hmmm... I always prefere the thruth but I can see now that it may be the reason for my incompatibility with the rest of the human race. ...and I am quite sure that allmost any woman do know when a dress make her look less-than-perfect.
How often do you look in your closet at think "Oh God, I have nothing to wear!" ?
The reason why I still am alive is probably because I am single... how many women would live together with a nerd who has filled his house with interesting old hardware ?
mmmm... excuse moi... but isn't a fake orgasm totally worthless... for both parts ?
Some other arguments...
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Why not just buy a KISS DP-558 ? Kiss homepage
It is not 100% Open Source but it runs on Linux... it looks just like a large DVD player and the design of the box could be B&O's.
Sorry but I never check anything... before ir is too late. /. and you will enjoy reading Tänenbaum's books in your bathtub.
That doesn't make me a "geek"
We can fix that... just stay with us here on
I have personally converted 4 or 5 people from "I don't need a computer"-state to almost-geek-state in the past few years.
...and btw. chocolate is not incompatible with beeing a geek... I consume daily 250g chocolate (preferably Toblerone) a day...
...and my oldest computer is from the pre-PC era.
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if you are here, you are a geek... and if you are a geek you can do something about it, that's what beeing geek is about.
Some suggestions (good & bad)
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I'm starting a WOW-widow club... if someone is interested...
...been right in anything else than his financial predictions for MS ?
Why should we trust him in his spam prediction ?
...oh and btw. mr. Gates my hotmail mailbox is beeing spammed with worthless info from MS...
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You forgot one...
7) They are allowing other sw-companys to mark their software as "Windows NT, W2K, XP Compatible" even when that software does not obey the security model of Windows.
This should apply to any kind of software... including games. That is the reason why running Windows as non-admin user is a pain in the ass...
Wine developers may even have noticed that flaw but since M is known for using "features" (aka. bugs) on purpose they didn't remove it... who knows which M app. needs that bug.
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I've got Linux on my PowerBook... Windoze XP just couldn't recognize any hardware in it...
No, no, no... you've got it all wrong... it is not vaporware, it is WARP-o-Ware...
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...only 10 days too late...
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...my sense of humor is obviously not compatible with /.
Such law shouldn't be nessessary... it seems however that it is.
The bundling of PC's with Windows is making M$ statistics look nice... and keeping people from moving to something else...
...and IBM has btw. survived a law like this...
If we look at your proposal more seriously : Greenpeace (and other environmental organizations) would protest against it until a investigation of the consequences was successfully completed. The conclusion of the investigation would state that the consequnces can't be predicted with 100% accuracy but there is a 30 % chance of earth colliding into the sun, 30 % chance of erth going out in deep space and 30 % chance of success... the last 10 % were eaten by the lab rats.
Oh, and, no more protection laws, please, I don't want any government baby-sitting me any more... I can buy my PC without Windows, which is all I need. ...the protection is not for you nor for me... it is for all those (and that may be something like 50% of the annual Windows sales) that can't do it... all those buying a "standard" PC in the nearest shop... they often don't even know that they've got a choice...
Do you think I like it ?
Let's just look at your comparision: For a car to be able to get reg. plates in EU it must be equipped with:
- seating belts on all seats
- two independently working brakes
- a device for steering
- two headlamps in front (white or light yellow), two rear lamps (red) symmetrically positioned
- at least two breaking lamps (red) in the rear symmetrically positioned
- direction indictators (orange) in front and rear and on the sides.
etc... it is a quite long list...anyway, these are the required parts, without them I can't use the car on public roads, and how the car manufacturer gets them is really not my problem,,, and several car manufacturers let me select wich steering wheel i want and what kind of tires i want to have...
Windows is NOT required for operation of a PC... and I don't have a choice when I am buying a PC
...and pls. drop the BS about "Yes you do have a choice, you just need to..." 'cause that's not a choice, a choice is when someone ask you "Do you want blue or red leather on the seats ?, sir"
You are not in the slightest "powerless" against hardware+software bundles. You can - and have always been able to - buy an x86 PC without Windows, or any other bundled software.
aha... where ?? you just go an try to buy a pc without Windows... just try to make them peel that Windows License sticker off... and a $100 off the price..
Hardly surprising. Which package deal can you think that doesn't involve the package price being less than the sum of the component costs ?
No it wouldn't suprise me... but it is not cheaper than the sum of the components... it is cheaper than one of the components...
Simple search on Google returns two GPL/BSD DTP: Scribus and Passepartout, and one commercial : PageStream (v.5 std: $99, v.5 pro: $149)
...and then there is always LaTex...
I do however not use DTP myself and do not have ane expertise in that area so I can't tell how good or bad any of them are.