Sure, there are 300 different distos out right now. But most of those won't be for the mainstream Joe that is trying out Linux for the first time. There are a few different distros made for that person (Mandriva, Fedora, etc). If/when they are ready for a more powerful distro, then they can switch to their flavor of choice.
But why should we market with the dumbest American in mind? That's what MS does, and look how they've turned out. They are quite popular (to say the least), but at what cost?
Not to mention that he create the Game & Watch titles (without which Nintendo would be a very different company today). He was also the inventor of the D-Pad. So I suppose he is allowed to make a mistake here and there.
"When you watch the subtitled version you are probably missing just as many things. There is a layer and a nuance you're not going to get. Film crosses so many borders these days. Of course it is going to be distorted." -Hayao Miyazaki
Ah, but all of his movies are dubbed quite well and are a good experience either way. Most other anime aren't treated so well.
Opera seems very nice, but it seems to be missing one key feature. Is there a way to view RSS feeds (similar to Firefox's Live Bookmarks) in Opera? I know there is RSS support in Opera Mail, but I was hoping for some in the browser itself.
I have children in my household. Which G-rated UMD Video titles are available, other than Disney/Pixar's Toy Story?
Well CD Universe has 22 UMD movies in it's "Family" catagory. Not to mention Short Circuit and Labyrinth (which are rated PG, but are still family appropriate).
I've seen plenty of books based in game world, but I've always avoided them like the plague. It always seemed like another money making scheme from game publishers.
The following is, verbatim, a letter I received a few minutes ago from a Microsoft recruiter.
From: "Mike Walters (Search Wizards)"
To:
Eric,
I am a member of the Microsoft Central Sourcing Team. Microsoft is seeking world class engineers to help create products that help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.
Your name and contact info was brought to my attention as someone who could potentially be a contributor at Microsoft. I would love an opportunity to speak with you in detail about your interest in a career at Microsoft, along with your experience, background and qualifications. I would be happy to answer any questions that you may have and can also provide you with any information I have available in regard to the position s and work life at Microsoft.
Please take a moment to visit My Calendar http://www.appointmentquest.com/provider/201022492 7> online to schedule a convenient time for me to contact you. You can learn more about our vision for the New World of Work at http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/execmail> http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/execmail.
Additionally, if you are aware of any current or previous colleagues who might also be interested in opportunities at Microsoft, I would be happy to speak with them as well. Referrals are always welcome, and are greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance and I look forward to an opportunity to speak to you in the near future
Microsoft
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&addr=One +Microsoft+Way&csz=Re dmond%2C+WA+98052&country=us>
I called Mike Walters, who told me my name had been passed to him by his research team. I indicated to him that I thought somebody was probably having a little joke at his expense, and promised him an email reply. Here is my reply in its entirety:
To: "Mike Walters (Search Wizards)"
From:
I'd thank you for your offer of employment at Microsoft, except that it indicates that either you or your research team (or both) couldn't get a clue if it were pounded into you with baseball bats. What were you going to do with the rest of your afternoon, offer jobs to Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds? Or were you going to stick to something easier, like talking Pope Benedict into presiding at a Satanist orgy?
If you had bothered to do five seconds of background checking, you might have discovered that I am the guy who responded to Craig Mundie's "Who are you?" with "I'm your worst nightmare", and that I've in fact been something pretty close to your company's worst nightmare since about 1997. You've maybe heard about this "open source" thing? You get one guess who wrote most of the theory and propaganda for it and talked IBM and Wall Street and the Fortune 500 into buying in. But don't think I'm trying to destroy your company. Oh, no; I'd be just as determined to do in any other proprietary-software monopoly, and the community I helped found is well on its way to accomplishing that goal.
On the day *I* go to work for Microsoft, faint oinking sounds will be heard from far overhead, the moon will not merely turn blue but develop polkadots, and hell will freeze over so solid the brimstone will go superconductive.
But I must thank you for dropping a good joke on my afternoon. On that hopefully not too far distant day that I piss on Microsoft's grave, I sincerely hope none of it will splash on you.
Cordially yours, Eric S. Raymond
My wife, upon hearing of this, suggested that if something like this could happen maybe I haven't made enough trouble for Microsoft lately, and I'm slipping off their radar. She might have a point...
UPDATE: For those of you who midssed the subtlety (which was a surprising lot of you) I was quite polite to this guy on the phone.
I agree but I think you should be on top of Firefox updates for your non-tech friends because if it goes all wonky on them they could simply say, "Why use Firefox? It's just as bad as IE."
Slashdot Mirror
grassroots journalism....
Is that what people are calling MySpace now? Sheesh...
I'm a smurf, you insensitive clod!
Podcast novels? Do you mean something like this? Or this? Not to mention this and this.
I wish we had something like this in New Mexico.
I agree. Try reading this article, it might help. It uses a motorcycle/car metaphor to explain why Linux will never need to replace Windows.
Sure, there are 300 different distos out right now. But most of those won't be for the mainstream Joe that is trying out Linux for the first time. There are a few different distros made for that person (Mandriva, Fedora, etc). If/when they are ready for a more powerful distro, then they can switch to their flavor of choice.
But why should we market with the dumbest American in mind? That's what MS does, and look how they've turned out. They are quite popular (to say the least), but at what cost?
Meh it really doesn't matter. Everyone knows that in Korea only old people use flash memory.
Not to mention that he create the Game & Watch titles (without which Nintendo would be a very different company today). He was also the inventor of the D-Pad. So I suppose he is allowed to make a mistake here and there.
Step one: Create mesh.
Step two: insert spawn points, paths, and shootables.
Step three: Throw in a boss or two.
Step four: Charge $2.50 to download.
Step five: Profit!
And here it is
"When you watch the subtitled version you are probably missing just as many things. There is a layer and a nuance you're not going to get. Film crosses so many borders these days. Of course it is going to be distorted." -Hayao Miyazaki
Ah, but all of his movies are dubbed quite well and are a good experience either way. Most other anime aren't treated so well.
You can in the Windows version, but ti's a read-only copy.
Opera seems very nice, but it seems to be missing one key feature. Is there a way to view RSS feeds (similar to Firefox's Live Bookmarks) in Opera? I know there is RSS support in Opera Mail, but I was hoping for some in the browser itself.
I have children in my household. Which G-rated UMD Video titles are available, other than Disney/Pixar's Toy Story? Well CD Universe has 22 UMD movies in it's "Family" catagory. Not to mention Short Circuit and Labyrinth (which are rated PG, but are still family appropriate).
You can rent UMD movies from GameFly. It's a bit of a better deal, because you can keep them for as long as you like.
Windows Update also requires IE
Ahh.. my favourite proof that dogs are smarter than cats.
A dog will use his paws to remove the sock. A cat will walk around backwards.
Yet I have never known a cat to eat it's own poop. Can't exactly say the same for dogs.
"If it's not broken, don't try and fix it."
Then again, this IS Microsoft...
Which means that yes, it was indeed broken in the first place...
So they won't even try and fix it, just slap a new coat of paint over it.
I've seen plenty of books based in game world, but I've always avoided them like the plague. It always seemed like another money making scheme from game publishers.
It really doesn't mean a thing to anyone who knows what's going on (ie, the /. crowd) but it is meant to make Joe Schmoe and his soccer mom wife happy.
Now they believe that 8 year old Little Johnny is safe from pornography in the M rated games they buy him.
WHo do you think we are here? Come on, this is /.
But will the sequel star Leonard Nimoy?
Might want to pick up House of The Dead, Double Dragon, and Alone In The Dark as well.
Why not pick up Doom and Halo as well?
The following is, verbatim, a letter I received a few minutes ago from a Microsoft recruiter.
2 7> online to schedule a convenient time for me to contact you. You can learn more about our vision for the New World of Work at http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/execmail> http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/execmail.
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e +Microsoft+Way&csz=Re dmond%2C+WA+98052&country=us>
From: "Mike Walters (Search Wizards)"
To:
Eric,
I am a member of the Microsoft Central Sourcing Team. Microsoft is seeking world class engineers to help create products that help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.
Your name and contact info was brought to my attention as someone who could potentially be a contributor at Microsoft. I would love an opportunity to speak with you in detail about your interest in a career at Microsoft, along with your experience, background and qualifications. I would be happy to answer any questions that you may have and can also provide you with any information I have available in regard to the position s and work life at Microsoft.
Please take a moment to visit My Calendar http://www.appointmentquest.com/provider/20102249
Additionally, if you are aware of any current or previous colleagues who might also be interested in opportunities at Microsoft, I would be happy to speak with them as well. Referrals are always welcome, and are greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance and I look forward to an opportunity to speak to you in the near future
Best regards,
Mike
http://members.microsoft.com/careers/default.mspx
How far will you go?
Mike Walters CST Senior Recruiter
Microsoft
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&addr=On
I called Mike Walters, who told me my name had been passed to him by his research team. I indicated to him that I thought somebody was probably having a little joke at his expense, and promised him an email reply. Here is my reply in its entirety:
To: "Mike Walters (Search Wizards)"
From:
I'd thank you for your offer of employment at Microsoft, except that it indicates that either you or your research team (or both) couldn't get a clue if it were pounded into you with baseball bats. What were you going to do with the rest of your afternoon, offer jobs to Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds? Or were you going to stick to something easier, like talking Pope Benedict into presiding at a Satanist orgy?
If you had bothered to do five seconds of background checking, you might have discovered that I am the guy who responded to Craig Mundie's "Who are you?" with "I'm your worst nightmare", and that I've in fact been something pretty close to your company's worst nightmare since about 1997. You've maybe heard about this "open source" thing? You get one guess who wrote most of the theory and propaganda for it and talked IBM and Wall Street and the Fortune 500 into buying in. But don't think I'm trying to destroy your company. Oh, no; I'd be just as determined to do in any other proprietary-software monopoly, and the community I helped found is well on its way to accomplishing that goal.
On the day *I* go to work for Microsoft, faint oinking sounds will be heard from far overhead, the moon will not merely turn blue but develop polkadots, and hell will freeze over so solid the brimstone will go superconductive.
But I must thank you for dropping a good joke on my afternoon. On that hopefully not too far distant day that I piss on Microsoft's grave, I sincerely hope none of it will splash on you.
Cordially yours, Eric S. Raymond
My wife, upon hearing of this, suggested that if something like this could happen maybe I haven't made enough trouble for Microsoft lately, and I'm slipping off their radar. She might have a point...
UPDATE: For those of you who midssed the subtlety (which was a surprising lot of you) I was quite polite to this guy on the phone.
I've always thought that the only sure about MS was that they always screw up.
I agree but I think you should be on top of Firefox updates for your non-tech friends because if it goes all wonky on them they could simply say, "Why use Firefox? It's just as bad as IE."