Dick's books aren't really science fiction. At least, they're not really about science. They're about being fucked up on drugs, or by mental illness. They're about paranoia, altered consciousness and the nature of reality. That they're often set in the future, or have robots, is almost incidental.
I'll be going to see it, however bad it mnight end up being, just because it gives me a chance to sit in the dark and look at Winona for an hour or two. I really should have grown out of that by now...
+5 Interesting? All that post says is "Linux is great!" with nothing to back it up.
Come on moderators, put some effort in. Dig down in those 0s and 1s and find something genuinely interesting for those who only have time to skim through the high mod comments.
Because the moderator didn't understand it. He saw the words "linux" and "means nothing", and thought perhaps the OP criticized linux. The natural reaction in such circumstances is to mod as flamebait. Everything in any way critical of linux, whether intentionally or not, is flamebait. It happens to me a lot.
Offtopic? Off freaking topic? What dickless linus worshipper modded this down?
Front page news - man moves house. If I had mod points, my friend, you would have one.
The pathetic sycophancy rampant through this thread - and any other in which his name is mentioned - must make Mr Torvalds' toes curl whenever he sees it. The recent "man says perhaps man didn't write all of computer program" saga almost turned me off Slashdot for good. Bleeurgh.
Blair, Blunkett and friends seem hell bent on a) making everyone a criminal and b) making all the new criminals easy to fine.
They'd have RFID tags in our fucking *heads* if they could.
What's the excuse for this anyway? Does it catch paedophiles, or stop terrorists? Presumably it's one of the two because they're the reason for every little step along the road to complete govt/big business knowledge and control.
I know I sound paranoid, but really I'm not. I know we already have no privacy, and that things like this really make no difference. I just hate the idiots that run this country, and will take whatever opportunity I get to explain why.
Haven't sys-admins always spent half their time automating things? When vendors didn't supply automated patch tools, we made our own. When our companies wouldn't buy backup or monitoring tools, we made little makeshift ones ourselves.
Increasing complexity means these kinds of tools allow us get our jobs done. Without them we'd be buried in work, with them we can deal with the 1001 jobs that can't be automated.
Now, admins writing scripts to replace other people... that's a different matter.
What keeps me off Linux? The userbase. Seriously. I used to be big on Linux, but the more involved I got in the community, the more of a turn-off it became.
The clueless leet brigade spouting incorrect information as fact and deriding others for not knowing it; the blinkered set unaware that any other Unix exists; the disgusting sycophancy towards linus et al; the rabid anti-ms sentiment; the bitching over license x vs license y; blind hatred of anyone who tries to charge money for software or keep source in-house; a refusal to believe any other computer system is any good at all; people who use words like "boxen" and "mebibytes"; banging on tirelessly about oggs; people who think they know everything and actually know nothing.
I know how stupid it is to be put off linux by a section of the community that uses it, but if I'm honest with myself I know that I have been. I just don't want to align myself with people like that.
I like Solaris most out of all the Unixes I've used, so I've been happy to make that my main OS. My ancient laptop, which always used to run Slackware, now runs OpenBSD. It does everything I need, and when some weenie sees it and says "oh cool, teh linux", I can take a certain perverse pleasure from pointing out that there are many alternatives to linux, some of which may even - shock, horror - be better in certain respects.
Oh, and I *really*, *REALLY* hate that stupid penguin logo thing.
My PHP site is on a shared host. I do my level best to write secure code, but it's very possible the people who share my server don't. The server gets exploited through one of those, my site gets rmed or defaced, and suddenly I don't look so clever.
It's so easy to write bad code in PHP that half the world is doing it. Anything that helps ISPs protect users from the shortcomings of their peers has to be good news.
The thing is, I've seen all this before, as a member of the Amiga community. We knew we had the better technology - more stable, easier to use, more flexible - better in every respect. How could the world fail to see it? (Mac users have always been the same of course.) We'd jump on every piece of pro Amiga/anti MS propaganda, no matter how biased the source, and loudly trumpet it as the final proof we were winning. Didn't happen then, won't happen now.
I know Linux is different in that it isn't owned by one (clueless) company, and it's impossible to see it going west in the way the Amiga did. But it's equally impossible to see it usurping Windows.
I've been through all this once, and I'm not doing it again. I've got better things to do with my time than being just another fanboy.
MS has too much inertia. You know how clueless your boss is? Well, he's the one who decides what the company has on it's desktop. You won't change his mind, because if he switches to linux and it isn't a smooth switch, he gets fired. He's not stupid enough to chance that. Don't waste your time being angry about it. Like I said, deal with it.
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Amen. I fucking hate these things. They seem to appeal primarily to teenage boys who aim them up skirts and down tops as often as possible. Every good looking girl in the world is probably on a voyeur website or e-mail inbox somewhere by now. I'm not surprised, and very pleased, to hear places are starting to ban them. Though I'm not sure how effectively you can ban something that's so easy to conceal.
I don't know what's happened to make me so curmudgeonly. I used to love new technology.
It's something weird and made up that nobody understands, wants, or cares about, other than people who will use it to make others aware they are above things like Mb, which are for "lusers" and "retards". Much in the same way people say "my gentoo boxen" or "my oggs" rather than "my computer" or "my music".
It would probably cost more for the videotape. Plus, it would take up about 100 times as much space, be hard to find the episode you want, be sucky quality compared to TV, have ad breaks, the beginning and/or then end chopped off, have the channel id in the corner of the screen, and single you out as being a tightwad of epic proportion. Apart from that though, it's a great idea.
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and is it laden or unladen?
You mean there's another OS than linux? Well, then it must suck, and if any of it doesn't suck then that's because it rips off linux.
See, people. Someone other than St Linus once wrote an operating system kernel. Can you handle that?
Good point, but I'll need a 500 mile long serial cable.
Dick's books aren't really science fiction. At least, they're not really about science. They're about being fucked up on drugs, or by mental illness. They're about paranoia, altered consciousness and the nature of reality. That they're often set in the future, or have robots, is almost incidental.
I'll be going to see it, however bad it mnight end up being, just because it gives me a chance to sit in the dark and look at Winona for an hour or two. I really should have grown out of that by now...
+5 Interesting? All that post says is "Linux is great!" with nothing to back it up.
Come on moderators, put some effort in. Dig down in those 0s and 1s and find something genuinely interesting for those who only have time to skim through the high mod comments.
> How was that modded flamebait
Because the moderator didn't understand it. He saw the words "linux" and "means nothing", and thought perhaps the OP criticized linux. The natural reaction in such circumstances is to mod as flamebait. Everything in any way critical of linux, whether intentionally or not, is flamebait. It happens to me a lot.
all it takes is one little prick...
an intellectually snobbish computer runs linux? Certainly most of the intellectually snobbish computer users do.
I'll just wait and see what Linus thinks, and agree with that.
his throws my whole spoon-fed, black and white Open Source = good, global coroporations = bad into complete confusion.
Please, WILL SOMEBODY TELL ME WHAT TO THINK?
Offtopic? Off freaking topic? What dickless linus worshipper modded this down?
Front page news - man moves house. If I had mod points, my friend, you would have one.
The pathetic sycophancy rampant through this thread - and any other in which his name is mentioned - must make Mr Torvalds' toes curl whenever he sees it. The recent "man says perhaps man didn't write all of computer program" saga almost turned me off Slashdot for good. Bleeurgh.
Mod me down bitches.
Blair, Blunkett and friends seem hell bent on a) making everyone a criminal and b) making all the new criminals easy to fine.
They'd have RFID tags in our fucking *heads* if they could.
What's the excuse for this anyway? Does it catch paedophiles, or stop terrorists? Presumably it's one of the two because they're the reason for every little step along the road to complete govt/big business knowledge and control.
I know I sound paranoid, but really I'm not. I know we already have no privacy, and that things like this really make no difference. I just hate the idiots that run this country, and will take whatever opportunity I get to explain why.
Haven't sys-admins always spent half their time automating things? When vendors didn't supply automated patch tools, we made our own. When our companies wouldn't buy backup or monitoring tools, we made little makeshift ones ourselves.
Increasing complexity means these kinds of tools allow us get our jobs done. Without them we'd be buried in work, with them we can deal with the 1001 jobs that can't be automated.
Now, admins writing scripts to replace other people... that's a different matter.
What keeps me off Linux? The userbase. Seriously. I used to be big on Linux, but the more involved I got in the community, the more of a turn-off it became.
The clueless leet brigade spouting incorrect information as fact and deriding others for not knowing it; the blinkered set unaware that any other Unix exists; the disgusting sycophancy towards linus et al; the rabid anti-ms sentiment; the bitching over license x vs license y; blind hatred of anyone who tries to charge money for software or keep source in-house; a refusal to believe any other computer system is any good at all; people who use words like "boxen" and "mebibytes"; banging on tirelessly about oggs; people who think they know everything and actually know nothing.
I know how stupid it is to be put off linux by a section of the community that uses it, but if I'm honest with myself I know that I have been. I just don't want to align myself with people like that.
I like Solaris most out of all the Unixes I've used, so I've been happy to make that my main OS. My ancient laptop, which always used to run Slackware, now runs OpenBSD. It does everything I need, and when some weenie sees it and says "oh cool, teh linux", I can take a certain perverse pleasure from pointing out that there are many alternatives to linux, some of which may even - shock, horror - be better in certain respects.
Oh, and I *really*, *REALLY* hate that stupid penguin logo thing.
Don't choose "password".
Repeat until funny.
there's nothing new under the sun.
Can't you let this ogg thing go and either:
a) buy a Rio and STFU, or
b) use mp3 and STFU.
My PHP site is on a shared host. I do my level best to write secure code, but it's very possible the people who share my server don't. The server gets exploited through one of those, my site gets rmed or defaced, and suddenly I don't look so clever.
It's so easy to write bad code in PHP that half the world is doing it. Anything that helps ISPs protect users from the shortcomings of their peers has to be good news.
The thing is, I've seen all this before, as a member of the Amiga community. We knew we had the better technology - more stable, easier to use, more flexible - better in every respect. How could the world fail to see it? (Mac users have always been the same of course.) We'd jump on every piece of pro Amiga/anti MS propaganda, no matter how biased the source, and loudly trumpet it as the final proof we were winning. Didn't happen then, won't happen now.
I know Linux is different in that it isn't owned by one (clueless) company, and it's impossible to see it going west in the way the Amiga did. But it's equally impossible to see it usurping Windows.
I've been through all this once, and I'm not doing it again. I've got better things to do with my time than being just another fanboy.
MS has too much inertia. You know how clueless your boss is? Well, he's the one who decides what the company has on it's desktop. You won't change his mind, because if he switches to linux and it isn't a smooth switch, he gets fired. He's not stupid enough to chance that. Don't waste your time being angry about it. Like I said, deal with it.
Get over it.
Amen. I fucking hate these things. They seem to appeal primarily to teenage boys who aim them up skirts and down tops as often as possible. Every good looking girl in the world is probably on a voyeur website or e-mail inbox somewhere by now. I'm not surprised, and very pleased, to hear places are starting to ban them. Though I'm not sure how effectively you can ban something that's so easy to conceal.
I don't know what's happened to make me so curmudgeonly. I used to love new technology.
It's something weird and made up that nobody understands, wants, or cares about, other than people who will use it to make others aware they are above things like Mb, which are for "lusers" and "retards". Much in the same way people say "my gentoo boxen" or "my oggs" rather than "my computer" or "my music".
It would probably cost more for the videotape. Plus, it would take up about 100 times as much space, be hard to find the episode you want, be sucky quality compared to TV, have ad breaks, the beginning and/or then end chopped off, have the channel id in the corner of the screen, and single you out as being a tightwad of epic proportion. Apart from that though, it's a great idea.