Man, every time I think Slashdot has moved on from this, it pops back up.
If there are 600 distros, surely you have to accept that people are finding plenty of reasons to create new ones? Surely you don't think you can just declare that they are only faking this need or that they shouldn't do it?
It's easy (if a little arrogant) to look at the total and dismiss the effort as needless, but it's much harder to go through each distro and show that it doesn't fulfill some niche or need.
I picked a load of unpopular ones at random:
FeeSBie An Italian FreeBSD group who wanted a personalizable FreeBSD LiveCD.
Aurox An internationalised Red-Hat derivative with better multimedia support.
Helix An improved Knoppix LiveCD for network security testing and forensics.
AGNULA A completely free Linux system, coordinated by the EC and devoted to multimedia work
Nonux A Dutch LiveCD/install cd designed to integrate easily into Windows-based offices.
I'm willing to bet that most shitty MBAs can't tell if their employees are getting their work done, or at best can't prove it. So instead they use random anecdotes of people not working, to fire people from time to time in order to seem like they know what they're doing. Or even worse, they're so insecure that the sight of an employee not working is enough to convince them to fire.
Or maybe I'm just a dickhead student who doesn't know a damn thing about the world of business or how hard it is to be a manager. Whoa, that's the first time I've ever flamed myself...
Bisexual. It's generally even more disliked than being gay (if you're male)
Bullshit. Back when gayage was illegal, being married was a sufficient defense against accusations of homosexuality. If someone tells me they're gay, I file them as "not like me"; someone tells me they're bisexual, I think "whatever, still likes girls".
It's only broody gays that dislike bisexuals, because they're jealous of their ability to pursue homosexuality without foregoing satisfaction of their primal desire to create more people. Everyone else, including homophobes and conservatives, is happy to delude themselves by focusing on their shared desire for read/write/execute access to vaginas.
It's all part of a grandiose scheme by CompUSA to infiltrate popular speech and then hit hard with a devastating advertising campaign revolving around a remake of a successful Beach Boys song. It'll go "Everybody's gone surfin'! To CompUSA!". Their resulting unprecedented economic success will enable them to literally take over the world, and they will rule with an iron fist, raining reasonably priced justice upon dissenters.
This, my friends, is the level of evil we are dealing with here. Only an evil this profound and calculating could concoct such an insidious phrase.
Not true at all: terrorism can also be found in Colombia and Africa. I suppose that in America, though, the image they're invoking is "those scary towelly-heads and their suicide bombs".
But Bush certainly does include Colombia in his War on Terror®, in conjunction with the War on Drugs®. Because the Drugs® fund the Terror®, by being sold to Innocent Americans®, Mr. Bush sends Freedom Planes® to spray the drugs with Justice Juice®. It just never makes US news, because apparently the only Latin American matter of any importance is Mexican immigrants.
It's interesting that you think that the Iran stuff will descend into a War on Terror® issue. Are things really that bad?
I don't know, maybe a wikipedia reference, or a more general point.
My point is that replying that you're not all that interested in rhyming to a post praising the rhymes in a song is like replying to a post about Linux security in order to state that you don't actually use Linux.
I hope I didn't come across as a prick, because that wasn't the intention. It's just that potentially contentious one-sentence statements are often randomly modded into oblivion.
How nice of you to share this information about your personal tastes. But if this is the only output of SELECT * FROM music WHERE subject = 'rhyming', you might consider tacking some other information onto it before adding it to the discussion.
If not from buying new books, the bankrupting is from photocopies. For two years now, I've wished my portuguese teachers would just have us buy the damn textbook that they use, because I have a pile nearly 20cm high of portuguese worksheets, filled-out and now completely useless, waiting to be burned/recycled.
I envy future students with their elegant, thin, wireless electronic readers, and their passworded online repositories of text in case of data loss, and their "submit homework now" buttons.
In Capitalist West, practically the only way we serfs can influence things is by rewarding good companies and shunning bad ones. If this means giving up something we enjoy, the moral thing to do is to get on with it. A big part of the problem is that most people aren't like that, and so people can pull crap like this with no backlash.
Also,
Joan Miro had decades to make lots of money off of his success, and his family are very well off. The works belong to the world now, every bit as much as the Mona Lisa, and the great pyramids. Attitudes like the Parent poster's just reinforce the idiotic paradigm of enforcing copyright for the sake of maintaining ownership.
I don't see how the italicised part follows from the preceding sentences, or is true in any way.
Your use of the "letter" layout for your post is in violation of my company's copyright, and by extension, the DMCA. Also, the appearance of the . HTML value, which corresponds to the "period" symbol, in your post is in violation of our patent describing a "method of delimiting linguistic information transported across a network".
Our legal team will be in contact with your ISP, mother, dog and 3rd grade English teacher in order to deal with this issue.
A good point. Given the stupendous amounts of money being pumped into Google by people who want a chance to have a short link to their site appear at the side of a page, how could it be possibly bad to have the very Google logo itself depict your product?
No, Google were obviously trying to masquerade their logo as official work of Joan Miró in order to trick his devoted fans into using their search service. It's the only possible explanation, and it's only right that they be stopped!
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Freedows existed
I did like the joke that you ended on though. Very clever.
If there are 600 distros, surely you have to accept that people are finding plenty of reasons to create new ones? Surely you don't think you can just declare that they are only faking this need or that they shouldn't do it?
It's easy (if a little arrogant) to look at the total and dismiss the effort as needless, but it's much harder to go through each distro and show that it doesn't fulfill some niche or need.
I picked a load of unpopular ones at random:
An Italian FreeBSD group who wanted a personalizable FreeBSD LiveCD.
An internationalised Red-Hat derivative with better multimedia support.
An improved Knoppix LiveCD for network security testing and forensics.
A completely free Linux system, coordinated by the EC and devoted to multimedia work
A Dutch LiveCD/install cd designed to integrate easily into Windows-based offices.
To build apps from source in Linspire is to miss its point completely.
Linspire doesn't want to be all smelly and corporate. A little bit of embracing the 'community' is welcome, as it makes them a lot more Open Source.
Or maybe I'm just a dickhead student who doesn't know a damn thing about the world of business or how hard it is to be a manager. Whoa, that's the first time I've ever flamed myself...
It's only broody gays that dislike bisexuals, because they're jealous of their ability to pursue homosexuality without foregoing satisfaction of their primal desire to create more people. Everyone else, including homophobes and conservatives, is happy to delude themselves by focusing on their shared desire for read/write/execute access to vaginas.
/tmp and /var/tmp are out of bounds, if you step in them you're It.
This, my friends, is the level of evil we are dealing with here. Only an evil this profound and calculating could concoct such an insidious phrase.
I suppose you're counting the Xbox as a PC then? Fair enough...
I'm staying away from this stuff until AJAX stops meaning "let their damn computers do all the work".
But Bush certainly does include Colombia in his War on Terror®, in conjunction with the War on Drugs®. Because the Drugs® fund the Terror®, by being sold to Innocent Americans®, Mr. Bush sends Freedom Planes® to spray the drugs with Justice Juice®. It just never makes US news, because apparently the only Latin American matter of any importance is Mexican immigrants.
It's interesting that you think that the Iran stuff will descend into a War on Terror® issue. Are things really that bad?
My point is that replying that you're not all that interested in rhyming to a post praising the rhymes in a song is like replying to a post about Linux security in order to state that you don't actually use Linux.
I hope I didn't come across as a prick, because that wasn't the intention. It's just that potentially contentious one-sentence statements are often randomly modded into oblivion.
Good execution of a bad idea in my opinion. I don't think the author quite gets nerds. Hitting on someone? Don't think so mate.
Actually it happened a few weeks ago, with this fantastic list of Firefox Extensions.
How nice of you to share this information about your personal tastes. But if this is the only output of SELECT * FROM music WHERE subject = 'rhyming', you might consider tacking some other information onto it before adding it to the discussion.
Fucking grammar nazi. Who cares what you thought?
I envy future students with their elegant, thin, wireless electronic readers, and their passworded online repositories of text in case of data loss, and their "submit homework now" buttons.
Also,
I don't see how the italicised part follows from the preceding sentences, or is true in any way.
Your use of the "letter" layout for your post is in violation of my company's copyright, and by extension, the DMCA. Also, the appearance of the . HTML value, which corresponds to the "period" symbol, in your post is in violation of our patent describing a "method of delimiting linguistic information transported across a network".
Our legal team will be in contact with your ISP, mother, dog and 3rd grade English teacher in order to deal with this issue.
Regards,
SCO
A good point. Given the stupendous amounts of money being pumped into Google by people who want a chance to have a short link to their site appear at the side of a page, how could it be possibly bad to have the very Google logo itself depict your product?
No, Google were obviously trying to masquerade their logo as official work of Joan Miró in order to trick his devoted fans into using their search service. It's the only possible explanation, and it's only right that they be stopped!