the only way to ensure the creation of better software is to destroy capitalism, thus taking away the profit motive for the speedy creation of software. once there is no money in it, only smart, skilled, and creative people like Dennis Richie or RMS will actually bother to make software. Only the creation of a Socialist Republic a la Seamus Costello and Malachy McAllister, James Connolly, or Karl Marx will create better software, true freedom, and a peaceful world.
As the Chairman of the American Republican Socialist Party and Chief of Staff of the American Socialist Republican People's Army, I'll end CAPITALISM!!!!! Where are my votes?
that would be it. well, she has the website -- and the fat bitch pretends to be her because she's gone insane, and gets the guy to believe the real singer is an imposter so he'll kill her and stuff.
There is some anime movie called 'Deep Blue' (i think; i try to block it out) that is extremely similar to this. honestly, this is the only time a movie has genuinely disturbed me (saw it freshman year in college)
and if Saruman hadn't held up Gandalf, things would have turned out differently. Frodo could have gotten away. The Nine wouldn't have been so close on his trail. He wouldn't have gotten stabbed (atleast not so early on). Saruman's army was more bad-ass than the standard Goblins of Sauron's army. Sauron just had more diverse forces. Besides, colaborators are culpable. just like ww2.
that'd be like cutting Eomer or whatever that Rohan chick's name is! a "minor" character that is totally important. Saruman only is half way responsible for the war, and invades the shire! let me guess? they'll leave out how Frodo &c have to liberate the shire from "sharkey" and his goons like Bill Farney? God damned Hollywood sucks.
I just bought a brand new iBook G4, which is like the coolest thing ever. But as far as sequenced groups of electrons go, iTMS kicks so much ass it isn't even funny. seriously. I totally dislike buying CDs because well, I hate malls, and the record stores here in Tralee don't have any of the Boston bands I like, such as Dropkick Murphys. P2P is unreliable. If I had a job I'd trash all my mp3s and just buy a whole new collection off of iTMS (a lot of my files got screwed up from transfering them from CD-Rs which i highly abused).
no, we just need to kill off significant portions of the insignificant members of the population (possiblye candidates include welfare crack whores, slashdot posters, the mentaly/physically handicaped, and the p.r.c.), thus reducing the over-all demand for resources. it's for the good of humanity, like tossing fucked up babies and twins off of cliffs in the days before "christian" values.
we already have plenty of water. arabs have none. that ends the wars because they cannot reach the USA or Europe very easily and terrorism doesn't occupy land.
Like you all, I've put in my dues in the programming and unix thing. when i was out of highschool in america i was working for the department of energy programming industrial process controls. unlike most of you, i gave it all up and whent back to my frist love, which is literature and the art of language. Now i'm back in Ireland reading English. I must say that I do love books. Having something printed and tangeble just sort of lends a validity to the words. It gives a sence of a piece of mind taht it is on the paper, as opposed to say, what is written on websites and the like. aesthetically, the book or parchment has a much warmer, lively, and human feeling to it. The parts of the book were alive once not too long ago. It's innate organic feel is part of the pleasure of reading, especially real literature (ie, what is not sold in super markets or most airport 'book shoppes' as well as that which has never instigated a USA Network made-for-tv movie). Can one immagine reading Beowulf (no cluster jokes, please) or An Tain bo Coolighe off of a computer monitor? Sure it is possible, but the whole experience is cheepened. I have here a copy of Beowulf, in Anglo-Saxon, leather-bouned on parchment. The experience of touching the cover and the pages, smelling the book, the actual turning of the pages, et cetera, are part of the experience, every bit as much as the art of the language or the story being told. Immagine if The Hobbit or the Lord of the Rings had been put out on some cold, digital pad. When your parents read it to you as children, would it have had the same impact? sitting around the fire, drinking tea or hot whiskey, with your da looking at a little flat black box as opposed to some nice old-looking book? What about going to Barnes and Nobel or some nicer, local shoppe, trying to figure out what book to buy? You can browse the section, find one taht looks interesting, pop it open and check out a few pages. How is this going to work with some digital pad book? or if you have just the one pad. then you have to pay to download the book file. what if you don't like it? reviewers often lie. the NY Tmes best seller list is usually chaulked-full of artless crap, or even worse, pseudo-artful, neo-dadist, purposfully obscure shite (keep in mind, I am a Joyce fan). So now you've paid whatever it is for this piece of crap on the advice of someone you don't know. "oh, but it won't be so much to cost!" i hear you saying now. "what about micro payments? maybe just a few quid a pop?" True, art isn't about money (atleast it shouldn't be), however if I pay 0,25 for a book by some sort of modernist feminazi like Virginia Woolfe, I am going to feel more ripped off than if I paid 13,50 and got an actual book. Why? because the experience of reading the "dead tree" version is going to be enhanced by that mere fact. Not to mention that i'll feel as if i can spend more time on a section and whatnot, and get more out of the book from a critical standpoint , even if the story is complete bullshite or i find the style to be wretched (just like a certain 'Mrs. Dalloway', although 'A Room of One's Own' was a decent, and fairly important work). Look at Charles Dickens who's work shows us the dangers inherrant in an overly capitalistic, industrial-revolution. Look at Tolkien, who clearly showes us a battle between good and evil, the likes of which are also drawn on a line of art v. technology. Elves lovingly hand craft things. Orcs bang them out in mass produced, ugly, artless hoards. Can we then honestly do a diservice to these authors and the messages they delivered to us by sticking them on a cold, lifeless, lump of silicon? I for one would think it to be the greatest travisty of the 21st century (even more so than arnold's gubinatorial election). Then there are the matters of practicality. Surely it would allow more people to get published as the cost to the publisher would be reduced (especially if they are not responsible for manufacturing the hardware). Then again, the market would
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the only way to ensure the creation of better software is to destroy capitalism, thus taking away the profit motive for the speedy creation of software. once there is no money in it, only smart, skilled, and creative people like Dennis Richie or RMS will actually bother to make software. Only the creation of a Socialist Republic a la Seamus Costello and Malachy McAllister, James Connolly, or Karl Marx will create better software, true freedom, and a peaceful world.
As the Chairman of the American Republican Socialist Party and Chief of Staff of the American Socialist Republican People's Army, I'll end CAPITALISM!!!!! Where are my votes?
no iBook!? how can this be?? Steve said it was insanely great!! he wouldn't lie!, would he?
that would be it. well, she has the website -- and the fat bitch pretends to be her because she's gone insane, and gets the guy to believe the real singer is an imposter so he'll kill her and stuff.
There is some anime movie called 'Deep Blue' (i think; i try to block it out) that is extremely similar to this. honestly, this is the only time a movie has genuinely disturbed me (saw it freshman year in college)
there is also [Open Apple]-[Tab]. equally as effective
real project name PDVD -- People's Democratic Video Disk
*duck*
IPv6 will be out in time enough to boost the number of players in the Duke Nuk'em Forever online free for alls!!
same shit they were smoking when they bet a 120GB hard disk on a hot sauce eating contest.
Coppermine == Coppertop? methinks so.
Eomer is a chick's name in Irish folklore.
and if Saruman hadn't held up Gandalf, things would have turned out differently. Frodo could have gotten away. The Nine wouldn't have been so close on his trail. He wouldn't have gotten stabbed (atleast not so early on). Saruman's army was more bad-ass than the standard Goblins of Sauron's army. Sauron just had more diverse forces. Besides, colaborators are culpable. just like ww2.
that'd be like cutting Eomer or whatever that Rohan chick's name is! a "minor" character that is totally important. Saruman only is half way responsible for the war, and invades the shire! let me guess? they'll leave out how Frodo &c have to liberate the shire from "sharkey" and his goons like Bill Farney? God damned Hollywood sucks.
I am a university student. My mommy bought it for me.
you're a liar or a lunatic. i'm going to find you, shoot you in both of your kneecaps, and leave you for dead in a whole in a bog in west Co. Derry.
I just bought a brand new iBook G4, which is like the coolest thing ever. But as far as sequenced groups of electrons go, iTMS kicks so much ass it isn't even funny. seriously. I totally dislike buying CDs because well, I hate malls, and the record stores here in Tralee don't have any of the Boston bands I like, such as Dropkick Murphys. P2P is unreliable. If I had a job I'd trash all my mp3s and just buy a whole new collection off of iTMS (a lot of my files got screwed up from transfering them from CD-Rs which i highly abused).
rather i ment to say AppleWorks, but i am not sure if that is one word.
two words: Apple Works.
so, does mean that no one can download the Men at Work 'land down under' song anymore? their one song is hardly something to get uppity about.
no, we just need to kill off significant portions of the insignificant members of the population (possiblye candidates include welfare crack whores, slashdot posters, the mentaly/physically handicaped, and the p.r.c.), thus reducing the over-all demand for resources. it's for the good of humanity, like tossing fucked up babies and twins off of cliffs in the days before "christian" values.
we already have plenty of water. arabs have none. that ends the wars because they cannot reach the USA or Europe very easily and terrorism doesn't occupy land.
this is slashdot. you expect us to believe you have a girlfriend?
isn't it ironic that way?
this article reads like it was written by a junior highschool 'journalism' student. it has no content. why bother to post this? really?
does anyone remember the star trek cartoon based on the original series? they should brign that back. do they show that anymore?
Like you all, I've put in my dues in the programming and unix thing. when i was out of highschool in america i was working for the department of energy programming industrial process controls. unlike most of you, i gave it all up and whent back to my frist love, which is literature and the art of language. Now i'm back in Ireland reading English.
I must say that I do love books. Having something printed and tangeble just sort of lends a validity to the words. It gives a sence of a piece of mind taht it is on the paper, as opposed to say, what is written on websites and the like. aesthetically, the book or parchment has a much warmer, lively, and human feeling to it. The parts of the book were alive once not too long ago. It's innate organic feel is part of the pleasure of reading, especially real literature (ie, what is not sold in super markets or most airport 'book shoppes' as well as that which has never instigated a USA Network made-for-tv movie).
Can one immagine reading Beowulf (no cluster jokes, please) or An Tain bo Coolighe off of a computer monitor? Sure it is possible, but the whole experience is cheepened. I have here a copy of Beowulf, in Anglo-Saxon, leather-bouned on parchment. The experience of touching the cover and the pages, smelling the book, the actual turning of the pages, et cetera, are part of the experience, every bit as much as the art of the language or the story being told.
Immagine if The Hobbit or the Lord of the Rings had been put out on some cold, digital pad. When your parents read it to you as children, would it have had the same impact? sitting around the fire, drinking tea or hot whiskey, with your da looking at a little flat black box as opposed to some nice old-looking book?
What about going to Barnes and Nobel or some nicer, local shoppe, trying to figure out what book to buy? You can browse the section, find one taht looks interesting, pop it open and check out a few pages. How is this going to work with some digital pad book? or if you have just the one pad. then you have to pay to download the book file. what if you don't like it? reviewers often lie. the NY Tmes best seller list is usually chaulked-full of artless crap, or even worse, pseudo-artful, neo-dadist, purposfully obscure shite (keep in mind, I am a Joyce fan). So now you've paid whatever it is for this piece of crap on the advice of someone you don't know.
"oh, but it won't be so much to cost!" i hear you saying now. "what about micro payments? maybe just a few quid a pop?" True, art isn't about money (atleast it shouldn't be), however if I pay 0,25 for a book by some sort of modernist feminazi like Virginia Woolfe, I am going to feel more ripped off than if I paid 13,50 and got an actual book. Why? because the experience of reading the "dead tree" version is going to be enhanced by that mere fact. Not to mention that i'll feel as if i can spend more time on a section and whatnot, and get more out of the book from a critical standpoint , even if the story is complete bullshite or i find the style to be wretched (just like a certain 'Mrs. Dalloway', although 'A Room of One's Own' was a decent, and fairly important work).
Look at Charles Dickens who's work shows us the dangers inherrant in an overly capitalistic, industrial-revolution. Look at Tolkien, who clearly showes us a battle between good and evil, the likes of which are also drawn on a line of art v. technology. Elves lovingly hand craft things. Orcs bang them out in mass produced, ugly, artless hoards. Can we then honestly do a diservice to these authors and the messages they delivered to us by sticking them on a cold, lifeless, lump of silicon? I for one would think it to be the greatest travisty of the 21st century (even more so than arnold's gubinatorial election).
Then there are the matters of practicality. Surely it would allow more people to get published as the cost to the publisher would be reduced (especially if they are not responsible for manufacturing the hardware). Then again, the market would