And then the OpenMoko project entered open-source hell (wherein nobody actually does any of the boring-stupid shit necessary to do boring-stupid things like, you know, release a consumer-ready product on time), so we now have no open-source phone at all.
I guess I'd better get used to the phone company tracking my location just because I want to receive incoming phone calls.
I mean, really. We had a table of morons set up who were boldly collecting money that they admitted they'd be sending to Hezbollah. They should all have been deported for violating their visas - half of them had already dropped this semester's classes anyways, like they do every semester. Holy shit, where the hell are you? I thought my campus was full of communists, fascists (Campus Republicans don't seem to become more reasonable when a minority.), and damn dirty hippies, but HIZBALLAH? Seriously?
And open support of hamas and hezbollah? Another thing I have never seen, and can't seem to understand. If your campus is so in your face crazy, wouldn't Hillel have kicked some ass by now? I see open support for Hamas, Fatah, and just generally unquestioning support for every Arab Palestinian effort to liberate themselves and/or destroy Israel at the campus Palestine Action Coalition. They really are just an Arab AIPAC.
I'm sorry, but the term "Islamofascist" legitimately refers to practitioners of a form of highly political Islam that causes a lot of trouble in the modern world. How can the word ever be compared to "nigger"?
Give them Python. I offers solid features for object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming, while giving teachers a place to show the usefulness of C by building extension libraries in the much-faster C.
The kibutz movement (a communist pioneering movement from the early Zionist times) in Israel did implement actual Communism. Everyone shared in common any property that couldn't be kept in a personal bedroom -- sometimes even that. Jobs were assigned by rotation or simply based on what the kibutz needed at the moment. If you were an electrical engineer and they told you to raise chickens in 120-degree Fahrenheit heat, you raised chickens. Children were even raised in common, seeing their parents for Sabbath dinners on Friday nights.
It worked because of kibutznikim's ideological devotion to building a Jewish state and helping it prosper. As Israel became a prosperous country, kibutzim learned to either become more capitalist (as everyone else was doing), or shut down. Most kibutzim now operate like businesses, excepting the fact that members still live in kibutz housing and volunteers (ie: temporary members) still don't choose their jobs.
To paraphrase Nanny Ogg, it's easy to hold everything in common when nobody has anything.
Bitching on the ionternet is futile. Nobody pays attention until there's massive property damage. Unfortunately, most of my generation seems to think that petition signatures and symbolic protests ("That's one boot for every 100 soldiers dead in Iraq!" Goddamn hippies...) actually do anything.
What, me? I just don't fucking care any more. As far I as I'm concerned, this isn't my country any longer. It's not the country or the culture that I grew up in or remember. I'm moving once I get out of college, to somewhere I can call "home" (a word which, ironically, doesn't exist in their language).
I don't really believe it either. CDs aren't actually as shitty as everyone seems to believe, you just have to make sure you buy good albums.
I bought a 20 track album just last week (made in 2003) that had about 4-5 5-star tracks, a hell of a lot of 4-star tracks, a few 3-stars and one or two 2-stars and 1-stars. In oversimplified terms: it was worth what I paid for it to buy those tracks with no bit loss, even though I could have had them all off of iTunes at pretty good bitrates. For this I waited a year or so until I could travel to the country (no, I didn't make an international flight *just* for a CD) where the CD is sold (Amazon doesn't have it, for some reason.), and it was worth it.
Of course, shit professors that can't remember which homework they gave out which week and grade tests for factors that the questions didn't specify also get empty courses and horrible ratings.
Imagine teaching closures, coroutines, true generics, conditions, pure functional coding, arrows, lambdas, etc. in Java. Admittedly, you can't really teach any of those things in C/C++ either. They require Scheme at least, and possibly some kind of pure-functional language to teach why certain things (like arrows, which I never bothered to learn) are actually useful.
You do realize that "wave a dead chicken over it" is such a common expression for "do something that shouldn't work but might" that it got entry to the Jargon File at one point? People use the expression to denote seemingly "magical", "occult" or (dare I say it?) "religious" practices that actually occasionally work due to just how fucked up some systems (COUGHWINDOZECOUGH) are.
I actually know about the San Teria practice of offering chicken blood. The waving a dead chicken's whole body around is from kaparot, while the offering of blood is San Teria. I wasn't trying to make it exclusive or anything. I don't even know anyone who's done a kaparot sacrifice in their life; it's considered that extreme. I also don't know anyone who's ever sacrificed chicken blood to a god in a San Teria ritual, but then again I live in the wrong geographical region for that.
Point is, you know what it means to sacrifice a chicken in hacker slang as well as I do. Now you just no the origins of different verbal formulations of the expression, including one for chicken blood and one for waving a dead chicken.
the current petition to get Goldeneye on XBox live arcade is at 18,000 signatures and growing. I still don't see why they shouldn't just put Goldeneye on the Wii Virtual Console. Since it was an N64 game in the first place it'd be much cheaper that way.
Of course to them when I type "chmod blah blah" it is about the equivalent of my chopping the head off a chicken and shouting incantations at the screen. Just for once, I'd like to clear this up. Chopping the head off of a chicken and waving it around actually has nothing to do with pagan or magical practices. It's a penitence ritual called "kaparot" performed by ultra-Orthodox Jews.
Name something technologically possible to do that nobody would really want to do for any good reason, and chances are the Japanese have done it just to see what would happen. Oh, and to see if it could be used to sneak tentacle pr0n to middle school kids on their train home. The internet is for porn, after all.
Is this a problem that can't be fixed by apt use of the Shift key? You don't need to duplicate everything on a European keyboard (for example, number pads), just the parts that actually contain localized letters.
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And then the OpenMoko project entered open-source hell (wherein nobody actually does any of the boring-stupid shit necessary to do boring-stupid things like, you know, release a consumer-ready product on time), so we now have no open-source phone at all.
I guess I'd better get used to the phone company tracking my location just because I want to receive incoming phone calls.
Did the local SAFI kids try to fight them?
Or better yet: really crack down on the supply of illegal alcohol.
I'm sorry, but the term "Islamofascist" legitimately refers to practitioners of a form of highly political Islam that causes a lot of trouble in the modern world. How can the word ever be compared to "nigger"?
Holy shit, and I thought UMass where I attend was a bunch of goddamned dirty hippies*. Where do you go?
* -- I'm fairly liberal on most things, but I'm an ardent Zionist and proud of it. You read the cards.
Give them Python. I offers solid features for object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming, while giving teachers a place to show the usefulness of C by building extension libraries in the much-faster C.
The kibutz movement (a communist pioneering movement from the early Zionist times) in Israel did implement actual Communism. Everyone shared in common any property that couldn't be kept in a personal bedroom -- sometimes even that. Jobs were assigned by rotation or simply based on what the kibutz needed at the moment. If you were an electrical engineer and they told you to raise chickens in 120-degree Fahrenheit heat, you raised chickens. Children were even raised in common, seeing their parents for Sabbath dinners on Friday nights.
It worked because of kibutznikim's ideological devotion to building a Jewish state and helping it prosper. As Israel became a prosperous country, kibutzim learned to either become more capitalist (as everyone else was doing), or shut down. Most kibutzim now operate like businesses, excepting the fact that members still live in kibutz housing and volunteers (ie: temporary members) still don't choose their jobs.
To paraphrase Nanny Ogg, it's easy to hold everything in common when nobody has anything.
What, me? I just don't fucking care any more. As far I as I'm concerned, this isn't my country any longer. It's not the country or the culture that I grew up in or remember. I'm moving once I get out of college, to somewhere I can call "home" (a word which, ironically, doesn't exist in their language).
I don't really believe it either. CDs aren't actually as shitty as everyone seems to believe, you just have to make sure you buy good albums.
I bought a 20 track album just last week (made in 2003) that had about 4-5 5-star tracks, a hell of a lot of 4-star tracks, a few 3-stars and one or two 2-stars and 1-stars. In oversimplified terms: it was worth what I paid for it to buy those tracks with no bit loss, even though I could have had them all off of iTunes at pretty good bitrates. For this I waited a year or so until I could travel to the country (no, I didn't make an international flight *just* for a CD) where the CD is sold (Amazon doesn't have it, for some reason.), and it was worth it.
People will buy CDs when CDs don't suck.
People of Slashdot:
Please cease and desist from talking about Fight Club. Thank you, gracias, merci beaucous, todah rabah, domo arigato, etc.
Isn't the older generation the one responsible for this fiasco in the first place?
Of course, shit professors that can't remember which homework they gave out which week and grade tests for factors that the questions didn't specify also get empty courses and horrible ratings.
You do realize that "wave a dead chicken over it" is such a common expression for "do something that shouldn't work but might" that it got entry to the Jargon File at one point? People use the expression to denote seemingly "magical", "occult" or (dare I say it?) "religious" practices that actually occasionally work due to just how fucked up some systems (COUGHWINDOZECOUGH) are.
I actually know about the San Teria practice of offering chicken blood. The waving a dead chicken's whole body around is from kaparot, while the offering of blood is San Teria. I wasn't trying to make it exclusive or anything. I don't even know anyone who's done a kaparot sacrifice in their life; it's considered that extreme. I also don't know anyone who's ever sacrificed chicken blood to a god in a San Teria ritual, but then again I live in the wrong geographical region for that.
Point is, you know what it means to sacrifice a chicken in hacker slang as well as I do. Now you just no the origins of different verbal formulations of the expression, including one for chicken blood and one for waving a dead chicken.
Now go calm down before your anger boils over.
Don't mind Mii.
THE MORE YOU KNOW!
eli-gottliebs-computer:~ eli$ say WOOSH
WOOOOSH!
Actually, those of us with a decent package management system can do it much more simply. For example, on Gentoo Linux I just say: "emerge children".
Fine, fine. Have a bananana!
Name something technologically possible to do that nobody would really want to do for any good reason, and chances are the Japanese have done it just to see what would happen. Oh, and to see if it could be used to sneak tentacle pr0n to middle school kids on their train home. The internet is for porn, after all.
Well, that and Slashdot.
So it's like the ansible from "Ender's Game", but totally useless for any real communication?
Is this a problem that can't be fixed by apt use of the Shift key? You don't need to duplicate everything on a European keyboard (for example, number pads), just the parts that actually contain localized letters.
Right, except that the Optimus Tactus doesn't exist yet. Anyone can invent it once you see how multitouch works.