I smoke pot, play cards with my friends, and hire hookers. I seed P2P networks with music that sometimes has the same name as the dreck the RIAA shovels out. I'm already a criminal.
And you can bet your ass I'm not voting Republicrat.
This bullhit pisses me off. It would be nice if someone ever got elected who represented MY interests. I have no representation in "my" government. As long as they keep writing these laws that my Constitution clearly says are illegal (like pot, gambling, & hooker laws) I'll keep ignoring them.
You want me to respect the law? Write respectable laws.
Because it's a home computer and the user bought and paid for and owns the damned thing. At work, boot.ini should not ba accessible to the user; he's just the user. At home he should have access to every goddamned bit.
What you're asking is like saying "why is the wiring in your house accessable to the homeowner? He could get killed!"
I bet you vote Democrat (or its equivalent if you're non-USian)
I like puns, at least good ones like this. But only the first time I hear them.
Now a word like "blog" that someone who coined it thought was really, really clever annoy the hell out of me. As I've been blogging since before the word "blog" was coined, I feel justified in spelling it "blagh". As in "Ralph Blagh."
"My name's Blagh. Ralph Blagh. Give me a beer. Not stirred, not shaken."
Don't these dumbasses actually test this shit before they shovel it out to you? It seems that a patch that would brick XP would be a bug that the first goddamned time it was tried would be discovered. I'm going to have to google to see what company makes Final Fantasy so I can be sure never to buy a game from them!
The love of money is the root of all bad software.
It almost seems like an impossible dream (unless your website design is dead simple).
There's this thing called the "KISS" principle: KISS stands for "Keep It Simple, Stupid". From my vantage point as a former art student and former intranet developer for my employer, it seems that the absolute shittiest sites are the ones produced by the "professional" web developers. Wherever you guys went to school, you should demand your tuition back!
As someone who has to live with your garbage, let me just say that almost all of you suck at your jobs. When I go to your overly busy sites I'me reminded of one of my instructors' favorite sayings that he would utter whenever he would see an overly ambitious piece: "There's less here than meets the eye".
Your flashy sites are NOT impressing anyone. They're annoying us folks who have to put up with them. You can pretend that your site is well designed all you want - it isn't. Lets take Computerworld, for instance.
It's no worse than any of the other computer-oriented sites. Newspapers like the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, or St. Louis Post Dispatch are no better. Now, one might think that a computer-oriented site would have an engineer's perspective and go for elegance. Nope. Lets take a closer look at computerworld, where this story leads. Bad bad bad! (swats computerworld on nose with rolled up magazine).
First you have a splash screen with an ad. Does this garner you any repeat readers? No, it just annoys anyone foolish enough to visit the first time, and makes them want to never go back. As I'm sitting here correcting my typos I don't even know what the fucking ad was for. That's a good thing for the advertiser, because if I remembered who he was I would make a concerted effort to NOT buy his product. I try not to patronize people who annoy me. Fools.
At the top of the page is not the site's masthead, but an ad. Is this Computerworld? No, I take it it's a site called "Sharpen your English". Ah, here's the reason the site's so bad - the Sharpen Your English site's motto is "White Smoke is your tool!" Obviously the kids are calling crack "whitesmoke" these days, and this site's designers are just as obviously smoking the hell out of the stuff. And they can't even hit the biggest key on the keyboard, as there's no space between "white" and "smoke". Or "compurer" and "world". I hate to break it to you, but leaving out spaces wasn't any more original ten fucking years ago than it is now. And these days everybody knows you can't put spaces in URLs, ok dumbasses?
Wait, it does say "Computerworld" right between "100 best places to work" and "IDG". Obvioulsy it's an ad for Computerworld Magazine. Right underneath is an incredibly annoying IBM ad that keeps scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. Yahoo news does that as a so-called "feature". If you design for Yahoo, YOU SUCK. Readers just LOVE to try to hit a link, only to have the goddamned thing move out of the cursor's way just as you click.
That "computerworld" ad is a sickening yellow color, at least on my monitor. I'm reminded of the movie "The Rookie", where Clint Eastwood tells his new partner "You know what a REAL criminal is? I real criminal is someone who would paint a car like that a color like that."
So what do we have down the left side?
Home, News, email newsletters. So far so good, except ya know, I just got to this site and they're asking me if I want them to spam me with their newsletter. WTF???
But what's this - Tech dispenser, shark bait? What in god's holy fuck is this shit? Look, son, once you reach puberty only girls are allowed to be "cute". You're not impressing anyone. Is it too much to ask that a link has some sort of clue as to where it leads? Because even Forrest Gump is smart enough to not follow a link that he doesn't know where it goatses.
And that's the whole problem, number six - you're trying to impress number one, who is your boss. But in order to impre
Lets hope nobody did. It doesn't "just show breasts" it shows graphic fucking. I'm sure some PHB somewhere will take offense. When in doubt, add a "NSFW"!
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
I'll let you folks beat these dry horse bones. Just let me say that you have no right whatsoever to bear arms in the city of Chicago. In fact, try walking down the street of any American city carrying a shotgun. And again, at least in the state of Illinois, you have to have a Firearms Owner ID card (FOID) to own a gun. Again, if it's my right, why do I have to ask permission?
a good way to generate buzz about your writings is to be on the opposing side of a losing argument, and doing your best to confound things and give reasonings as to why everybody else (against SCO) is wrong. I believe this behavior is known in certain circles as "trolling".
Justice will be served when the bankruptcy is complete
No, justice will NOT be served at all. McBride and his lawyers and the board of SCO will still be stinking filthy rich, and worse, richer than when this debacle started. Were justice to be served, Darl et al would have to spend time in prison.
There is no justice for the rich in the USSA. A rich, powerful man only goes to prison if a richer, more powerful man wants him there.
The title, however, is inflammatory, probably just to make us read it.
I clicked just because it was CNN. I was incredibly disappointed to find that it was a really old story about SCO from the Cable news network instead of something from the Cunt News Network. Cable news network? WTF is that? You guys should have told me...=(
I actually RTFA - or started to. Five wordy paragraphs later, without one shred of information beyond what was in the slashdot summary, I decided to stop wasting my time. I can hear Roger Parloff when he returned from the vacation he mentions in the piece: "OMFG My SCO stock has tanked! And I thought that with all that revenue from selling Linux licenses I'd get a dividend!"
Slashdot Mirror
I smoke pot, play cards with my friends, and hire hookers. I seed P2P networks with music that sometimes has the same name as the dreck the RIAA shovels out. I'm already a criminal.
And you can bet your ass I'm not voting Republicrat.
This bullhit pisses me off. It would be nice if someone ever got elected who represented MY interests. I have no representation in "my" government. As long as they keep writing these laws that my Constitution clearly says are illegal (like pot, gambling, & hooker laws) I'll keep ignoring them.
You want me to respect the law? Write respectable laws.
-mcgrew
All browsers' default homepage should read: Don't Panic...
Wow, someone suggested that all browsers' default home pages should lead to an old blog posting of mine from two years ago! Cool!
Because it's a home computer and the user bought and paid for and owns the damned thing. At work, boot.ini should not ba accessible to the user; he's just the user. At home he should have access to every goddamned bit.
What you're asking is like saying "why is the wiring in your house accessable to the homeowner? He could get killed!"
I bet you vote Democrat (or its equivalent if you're non-USian)
I like puns, at least good ones like this. But only the first time I hear them.
Now a word like "blog" that someone who coined it thought was really, really clever annoy the hell out of me. As I've been blogging since before the word "blog" was coined, I feel justified in spelling it "blagh". As in "Ralph Blagh."
"My name's Blagh. Ralph Blagh. Give me a beer. Not stirred, not shaken."
-mcgrew
In soviet Russia, game bricks YOU
Imagine a beowolf cluster of bricks
Natalie Portman and hot bricks
goatse... or even worse, my slashdot journal
-mcgrew
It's a pun; break=brick.
Beta? I would think it would be found in alpha testing.
Don't these dumbasses actually test this shit before they shovel it out to you? It seems that a patch that would brick XP would be a bug that the first goddamned time it was tried would be discovered. I'm going to have to google to see what company makes Final Fantasy so I can be sure never to buy a game from them!
The love of money is the root of all bad software.
-mcgrew
It almost seems like an impossible dream (unless your website design is dead simple).
There's this thing called the "KISS" principle: KISS stands for "Keep It Simple, Stupid". From my vantage point as a former art student and former intranet developer for my employer, it seems that the absolute shittiest sites are the ones produced by the "professional" web developers. Wherever you guys went to school, you should demand your tuition back!
As someone who has to live with your garbage, let me just say that almost all of you suck at your jobs. When I go to your overly busy sites I'me reminded of one of my instructors' favorite sayings that he would utter whenever he would see an overly ambitious piece: "There's less here than meets the eye".
Your flashy sites are NOT impressing anyone. They're annoying us folks who have to put up with them. You can pretend that your site is well designed all you want - it isn't. Lets take Computerworld, for instance.
It's no worse than any of the other computer-oriented sites. Newspapers like the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, or St. Louis Post Dispatch are no better. Now, one might think that a computer-oriented site would have an engineer's perspective and go for elegance. Nope. Lets take a closer look at computerworld, where this story leads. Bad bad bad! (swats computerworld on nose with rolled up magazine).
First you have a splash screen with an ad. Does this garner you any repeat readers? No, it just annoys anyone foolish enough to visit the first time, and makes them want to never go back. As I'm sitting here correcting my typos I don't even know what the fucking ad was for. That's a good thing for the advertiser, because if I remembered who he was I would make a concerted effort to NOT buy his product. I try not to patronize people who annoy me. Fools.
At the top of the page is not the site's masthead, but an ad. Is this Computerworld? No, I take it it's a site called "Sharpen your English". Ah, here's the reason the site's so bad - the Sharpen Your English site's motto is "White Smoke is your tool!" Obviously the kids are calling crack "whitesmoke" these days, and this site's designers are just as obviously smoking the hell out of the stuff. And they can't even hit the biggest key on the keyboard, as there's no space between "white" and "smoke". Or "compurer" and "world". I hate to break it to you, but leaving out spaces wasn't any more original ten fucking years ago than it is now. And these days everybody knows you can't put spaces in URLs, ok dumbasses?
Wait, it does say "Computerworld" right between "100 best places to work" and "IDG". Obvioulsy it's an ad for Computerworld Magazine. Right underneath is an incredibly annoying IBM ad that keeps scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. Yahoo news does that as a so-called "feature". If you design for Yahoo, YOU SUCK. Readers just LOVE to try to hit a link, only to have the goddamned thing move out of the cursor's way just as you click.
That "computerworld" ad is a sickening yellow color, at least on my monitor. I'm reminded of the movie "The Rookie", where Clint Eastwood tells his new partner "You know what a REAL criminal is? I real criminal is someone who would paint a car like that a color like that."
So what do we have down the left side?
Home, News, email newsletters. So far so good, except ya know, I just got to this site and they're asking me if I want them to spam me with their newsletter. WTF???
But what's this - Tech dispenser, shark bait? What in god's holy fuck is this shit? Look, son, once you reach puberty only girls are allowed to be "cute". You're not impressing anyone. Is it too much to ask that a link has some sort of clue as to where it leads? Because even Forrest Gump is smart enough to not follow a link that he doesn't know where it goatses.
And that's the whole problem, number six - you're trying to impress number one, who is your boss. But in order to impre
Microsoft?
No shit!
Lets hope nobody did. It doesn't "just show breasts" it shows graphic fucking. I'm sure some PHB somewhere will take offense. When in doubt, add a "NSFW"!
You should have warned us that the cartoon linked, although funny and on-topic, is NSFW.
Holy shit, you're right! They all look like women (or their private parts) to me!
-mcgrew
1a!A
Don't tell anybody, ok?
Isn't the DRM the 'extra feature?
You must work for Microsoft! "It's not a bug, it's a feature!" No, it's a design defect.
From Liberty? What liberty? (2005)-mcgrew
I think if we ever come up with Star Trek matter replicators, the "IP" crowd wil somehow make them illegal.
Stay tuned for the next episode of Offtopic redundancy
Or I could be in a straitjacket in a rubber room imaginbing all this.
I think, therefore I am (I think). Am I?
I'm reminded Eurasia, Eastasia, and Oceania. "We were always at war..."
a good way to generate buzz about your writings is to be on the opposing side of a losing argument, and doing your best to confound things and give reasonings as to why everybody else (against SCO) is wrong. I believe this behavior is known in certain circles as "trolling".
As God is my witness!
-mcgrew
Justice will be served when the bankruptcy is complete
No, justice will NOT be served at all. McBride and his lawyers and the board of SCO will still be stinking filthy rich, and worse, richer than when this debacle started. Were justice to be served, Darl et al would have to spend time in prison.
There is no justice for the rich in the USSA. A rich, powerful man only goes to prison if a richer, more powerful man wants him there.
House arrest: In the USSA, prison goes to YOU!
-mcgrew
The title, however, is inflammatory, probably just to make us read it.
I clicked just because it was CNN. I was incredibly disappointed to find that it was a really old story about SCO from the Cable news network instead of something from the Cunt News Network. Cable news network? WTF is that? You guys should have told me...=(
I need to get laid I think...
I actually RTFA - or started to. Five wordy paragraphs later, without one shred of information beyond what was in the slashdot summary, I decided to stop wasting my time. I can hear Roger Parloff when he returned from the vacation he mentions in the piece: "OMFG My SCO stock has tanked! And I thought that with all that revenue from selling Linux licenses I'd get a dividend!"
-mcgrew