When I was in school, a geek was a socially marginalized weirdo, and a nerd was an intelligent geek. Note that geek didn't require being smart, just being a loner-type weirdo. Nerds were the overlords of geekdom.
I'm assuming the geeks banded together to break the hegemony of the nerds by inverting the definitions, thus making mere social freakishness more acceptable.
BTW, neither is "cool" or acceptable--check those job postings for traditional nerd/geek jobs (like programmer), and you'll see that most specifically mention and require social and communication skills.
I prefer to make my sandwiches with extra butter and a thick slice of lard, and dip my salami in the warm blood of baby seals. While cutting down a virgin redwood.
Fire everyone, disband, and create a totally new company with the same employees and equipment. Call it "i2nexus". And host it in a country that doesn't care about the stupid laws and legal system of the US of A.
It's not free publicity--it's bought and paid for. Thanks for pointing that out. The entire project is purely a publicity mill for the involved parties.
The question is, who controls the network? Big corporations don't want to kill P2P, they want to pwn it, and they do that in part by stomping on anyone who isn't paying them money. AOL is a big corporation, and no doubt paying money to the IP holders in question.
Computers are what these people need, not food, tools, and a government that doesn't kill them randomly (when the rebels/warlords/crime bosses aren't killing them). Yessir, teh Intarweb and a PC can fix every problem, like not being able to play NetHack, or needing to type up a memo to your cousin about how the far rice paddy needs a little more water, and btw plz feed the ox tonite kthx.
And since money has a total order, we can therefore assign a total order to everything. Thus, we can suspend moral judgement and simply compare the two relevant dollar figures for any two items. Is Christianity better than Islam? Simply apply the dollar function to each (Xtians win). Is it better to live fast and die young, or to die a bitter old man? Once again, money shows us the way (die bitter)!
Simple solution: an engine that consumes atmospheric oxygen and produces petroleum as a waste product. This engine will reduce global warming and bankrupt the oil oligarchs simultaneously! It will rain cupcakes, and unicorns will spread flowers to the far corners of the land!
Just put a hand crank on the windmill. Energy can be stored in a spring. When the critical capacity is reached, a jack-in-the-box can pop out. We're through the looking glass, people!
Re the Romans: a common sweetener back then was lead acetate. Its popularity has tailed off for some reason.
Most of the rest makes it sound like a Communist plot to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids. I've dispatched our bombers already. And remember, no fighting in the War Room!
No, no, the solution is a dictatorship of the proletariat, except you make a small group of people the stewards of the proletariat's will. And, BTW, it turns out the proletariat's will is to live like slaves while the Inner Circle of the Party live like kings. And you have capitalism, too, since capitalism is proven the most effective way of producing Rolls Royces.
Dell doesn't want Linux or AMD to succeed, they are cleaved to the bosom of the big boys Microsoft and Intel. These "N" series computers are an attempt to "prove" that there is no demand for Linux. Kinda like how there is no demand for Opteron-based servers or other AMD processors. They will also shake down Microsoft just a little, sort of like they do to Intel with their periodic AMD threats, but they are bluffing.
And BTW, Dell makes the big bucks from selling shoddy equipment at an enormous markup, not merely from having an uber-streamlined process.
In many markets, getting there early with a fat wad of cash is all that matters. That's why so much of everything is crap, because the profits dictate being there early, not taking the time to build a good product. Unfortunately, things move so fast nowadays the subsequent "maturation" phase never materializes.
Don't be stupid about where you choose to go to college. BYU is not a good choice, for instance. Or Oral Roberts. Or any other college named after an uptight religious lunatic.
Let's just move to megabit encryption and call it a done deal. Sure, 128KB encryption blocks might be inconvenient, but you can sleep soundly at night.
Just cuz Linus doesn't like it doesn't mean you can't just up and fork Linux and make it work like YOU want it. The rest is mindshare. Money can buy that.
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When I was in school, a geek was a socially marginalized weirdo, and a nerd was an intelligent geek. Note that geek didn't require being smart, just being a loner-type weirdo. Nerds were the overlords of geekdom.
I'm assuming the geeks banded together to break the hegemony of the nerds by inverting the definitions, thus making mere social freakishness more acceptable.
BTW, neither is "cool" or acceptable--check those job postings for traditional nerd/geek jobs (like programmer), and you'll see that most specifically mention and require social and communication skills.
No, the heydey of the malajusted freak is over.
...when HDTV and digital broadcast become a reality. Right after the metric system is adopted.
...because he will be putting the screws to Jobs. Jobs isn't gonna sell at 99 cents when EMI is charging him 99 cents. Get it?
Walmart didn't hire those illegals, they just hired a company that employed illegals and made them live in the back of Walmart.
Bush didn't lie to the world, the CIA just enhanced a couple of reports with speculatively extrapolated contingency scenarios.
Satan isn't responsible for the fall of Man, Eve was the one who gave Adam the fruit.
Sony...naw, Sony is as pure as a freshly powdered baby's bottom.
I prefer to make my sandwiches with extra butter and a thick slice of lard, and dip my salami in the warm blood of baby seals. While cutting down a virgin redwood.
"Switch away from MD5/SHA1" to what?? SHA-256? Some AES-based hash? CRC-32?
Fire everyone, disband, and create a totally new company with the same employees and equipment. Call it "i2nexus". And host it in a country that doesn't care about the stupid laws and legal system of the US of A.
It's not free publicity--it's bought and paid for. Thanks for pointing that out. The entire project is purely a publicity mill for the involved parties.
The question is, who controls the network? Big corporations don't want to kill P2P, they want to pwn it, and they do that in part by stomping on anyone who isn't paying them money. AOL is a big corporation, and no doubt paying money to the IP holders in question.
Computers are what these people need, not food, tools, and a government that doesn't kill them randomly (when the rebels/warlords/crime bosses aren't killing them). Yessir, teh Intarweb and a PC can fix every problem, like not being able to play NetHack, or needing to type up a memo to your cousin about how the far rice paddy needs a little more water, and btw plz feed the ox tonite kthx.
And since money has a total order, we can therefore assign a total order to everything. Thus, we can suspend moral judgement and simply compare the two relevant dollar figures for any two items. Is Christianity better than Islam? Simply apply the dollar function to each (Xtians win). Is it better to live fast and die young, or to die a bitter old man? Once again, money shows us the way (die bitter)!
God Money, just tell me what you want me to.
Simple solution: an engine that consumes atmospheric oxygen and produces petroleum as a waste product. This engine will reduce global warming and bankrupt the oil oligarchs simultaneously! It will rain cupcakes, and unicorns will spread flowers to the far corners of the land!
Just put a hand crank on the windmill. Energy can be stored in a spring. When the critical capacity is reached, a jack-in-the-box can pop out. We're through the looking glass, people!
Re the Romans: a common sweetener back then was lead acetate. Its popularity has tailed off for some reason.
Most of the rest makes it sound like a Communist plot to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids. I've dispatched our bombers already. And remember, no fighting in the War Room!
No, no, the solution is a dictatorship of the proletariat, except you make a small group of people the stewards of the proletariat's will. And, BTW, it turns out the proletariat's will is to live like slaves while the Inner Circle of the Party live like kings. And you have capitalism, too, since capitalism is proven the most effective way of producing Rolls Royces.
You can view KDE being the same as last week, if that's the way you swing.
Dell doesn't want Linux or AMD to succeed, they are cleaved to the bosom of the big boys Microsoft and Intel. These "N" series computers are an attempt to "prove" that there is no demand for Linux. Kinda like how there is no demand for Opteron-based servers or other AMD processors. They will also shake down Microsoft just a little, sort of like they do to Intel with their periodic AMD threats, but they are bluffing.
And BTW, Dell makes the big bucks from selling shoddy equipment at an enormous markup, not merely from having an uber-streamlined process.
If it doesn't run on OS/9 on a CoCo III, it ain't portable.
In many markets, getting there early with a fat wad of cash is all that matters. That's why so much of everything is crap, because the profits dictate being there early, not taking the time to build a good product. Unfortunately, things move so fast nowadays the subsequent "maturation" phase never materializes.
Don't be stupid about where you choose to go to college. BYU is not a good choice, for instance. Or Oral Roberts. Or any other college named after an uptight religious lunatic.
Let's just move to megabit encryption and call it a done deal. Sure, 128KB encryption blocks might be inconvenient, but you can sleep soundly at night.
Just cuz Linus doesn't like it doesn't mean you can't just up and fork Linux and make it work like YOU want it. The rest is mindshare. Money can buy that.
Sounds like a Dilbert cartoon. Are you sure you have a clue?
Get on the Firebird train, toot toot!
http://firebird.sourceforge.net/
No, when the number gets too high, they add more numbers, like so:
2.6.14.3
Or maybe they'll use Sun's convention--is it Java 1.5 or Java 5? That would make the above version Linux 6 release 14 update 3 or something.