Wow, slashdot commenting sucks. I came back here after a year, and really, firehose was too little too late, I notice better stories, but really, back to reddit.
> is that why you're always misplacing your keys and finding the phone in the fridge?
Don't joke about it.
When I was 25 I did this.
Not that I've lost my phone since, but I have one or twice, with great trepidation and foreboding, opened the fridge on the off-chance that my keys are in there.
I don't think you are arguing against the point he made. I think you are answering an entirely different question.
He is asking, am I allowed to charge support for companies using the OSS version of a product.
Can I install some shit, and when it breaks, charge to fix it, or indeed, if they can't find the send button, charge than $50 to tell them where it is.
He isn't asking to buy support from a company, or offer their support, but use the non-commercial license version.
If he was asking for their support, he would use the commercial license, since, that inevitably is linked to support anyway.
And don't say 'run the open version yourself'.
They are both open (source) versions (AFAIK, and if they are not this argument is still valid, and by open source, I mean, the source is open) we are just talking about additional rights given by a license.
Can you restrict people from charging services (and thus, competing against you) on your 'own' open source app?
That wasn't me asking that question, that was the idiots who submitted / posted asking, but clearly stated.
Firstly, Microsoft are realizing that each Windows needs to lock out some users to ensure it gets adopted. Just like with Office that used deliberately coded breaks in compatibility, and especially using 'going open format' as an excuse for ensuring that even the same person who wrote a document now has trouble opening it again.
This isn't a delay. IE will be launched WITH Windows 7, trying to build their marketing efforts together.
And who bets that IE 8 for XP and Vista will have some 'wow, if you have windows 7, you wouldn't have just accidentally your whole machine!'.
Now, the real juicy part: Are you really going to use a browser that is deliberately holding back the internet, proof that IE8 STILL won't fix PNG's properly, just try animating PNG transparency and sizing in IE 7.0, still causes problems.
Microsoft are big and have enough money NOT TO RELEASE A GOOD BROWSER.
Can't you see that? Sure they could make a standards compliant renderer and add a bookmark toolbar to it, but why the hell do they want to?
They see this as weakening their grasp on developers / software deployments, which makes sense because really, it is drivers and those shitty software apps you get with cheapo peripherals that are keeping people from using linux.
That is why IP interfaces are killing windows.
If you talk over the network, the device handles itself over http, whilst on USB you need to support whatever junk they have written.
Give me http on gps devices, heart monitors, cameras, phones.
When an site just links to another article (and is submitted to a high traffic social site) When an site links to and steals all of the thunder from another article, usually linking it in the bottom left, as a 'read' link - this is almost, if not, copyright infringement
#1 filthy link fucker: engagdet
However, since they were right-place-right-time in their treacherous link fucking activities, the web was glib to use their rss feed on new 'news portals' of the 2003 era.
wail wail, vista sucks, omg, how can I tow the line like a moronic lacky when the self-evident failure of what I write highlights my trite and shill thoughts? I know, I can turn 360 [sic] on my argument and suddeenly discover macs, and tell everyone else how good they are they will hail me as a seer, with wonderful powers, and maybe some cool dark force powers fom star wars I will have to make a fleeting reconciliation that I have been ignorantly bashing other systems in the same breath and irately knocking vista, all the while having absolutely no knowledge or experience in either, beyond being able to surf the web and writor mah sitez. leet. ok so I will be very vague aboue the timespan, so people won't think it was just 20 minutes ago, and I will write with a rhetorical suspicion that I am indeed a cock jockey, to distract from my painfully vaccant break down of how this 'imac' computer is almost like a computer, and i am so suprised, and didyouknowtheycanalsodotheinternets? and oh my aren't they pretty.
Dvorak writing about technology is like your slightly queer uncle dancing at a wedding. Yes, in a few years you can laugh about it, but right now what would really give you a belly laugh would be some permanant facial scaring caused by a wek stemmed champagne bottle being crashed perpendicular into his face.
So, he realised he was shouting 'get off my lawn' to the those shaking his grip on the MS windows technology, so decided to embrace mac, rather than sounding like a complete asshat.
Using about:config, filter for 'ping' and doubel click to make it not automatically send ping-backs. Ping backs allow you to track outgoing clicks from your website.
Am I against the feature? Like is like saying I am against http referrers. I am not against them. I disable them. Always. And give up using sites that decide it would be fun to rely on the referrer id rather than learn more than 11 distinct lines of PHP code to develop an entire site.
I am against the way it was introduced, deceitfully, quietly with calls that 'omg, what, like the w3c is suddenly the only standards body we should listen to? face bro!'. It was very weird.
You could say google would like this, but honestly, I will do my damndest to ensure everyone upgrading to FF3.0 gets to know about ping-backs, and how to easily disable it, so Firefox 4 sees ping-backs go the way of clippit.
Drop ping-backs, it's dishonest to hijack and send this information about Firefox users habits (even though the same can be done with unobtrusive javascript calls, and analytics, i.e. onclick="urchin('lol user clicked pr0n link');return true;")
"I'm certainly not going to be a happy camper if I have to switch to a Mac or Linux system full-time, yet that is exactly where this scatterbrained company seems to be sending me."
I propose a blanket ban on allowing Dvorak to use Mac or Linux. I propose we alienate him from the Herd (chuckle) and let him be the sole Windows user. Running Windows ME. Oh wait. One better. Running Windows Vista. Ouch, aaaw, now that is nasty.
I am serious. Dvorak, you are publicly BANNED from using Linux or Mac, you stick with you Microsoft and your senile ramblings, you do not use another OS. Live in your own hell you freak.
> I wanted a "family" computer for letting the wife and kids play on without worrying about what would get screwed up when I was in the middle of playing with something.
It is hard to pinpoint the exact moment, is it today, or 4 months ago, when this sentence now means you decided to get a ubuntu machine.
It is clear that ubuntu is for those who aren't technology up enough to want the latest unstable windows OS. Windows users should understand that not everyone wants last minute code changes on their computer, and they should look at improving usability, and not sneer at non-expert users.
Unless windows can appeal to those who want a family computer, it will never be able to compete with linux, whoch can offer a care free, credible and usable solution.
Sounds scary. But, actually, more true this way around. Its happened.
Critical mass. It is now officially more peace of mind to install ubuntu for your granny than it is to install any windows operating system.
Installing windows operating system immediately jeapardises your ability to manage and maintain the computer and ups the TCO, and gives you headaches trying to support this.
Thank you firefox, and thunderbird, and klotski.
A lot of people ask my advice when buying a computer, I admit I was always pushing linux, but always thinking 'gee they will need help'.
I see it as a huge, HUGE comprimise to not recommend linux now, and I am actually fearful if I ever have someone show up with a vista setup. Its alien. Unworkable.
I'd recommend a mac or a ubuntu laptop to anyone now, because, for everything, it is the most painfree, path of least resistance, solutions to computing needs.
Did anyone else see this yet in their own feelings towards 'the unclean masses'?
XP is perhaps the last M$ system that we can tolerate as the geek mob, helping and tweaking the computers for friends and family. enough. I have installed FF and TB on countless machines, never touched a M$ product in 2 years, converted hundreds to open office and FF *for the sheer selfish reason that I do not want problems*. No agenda.
Now Ubunu has filled that gap, its fire and forget, put it on their machine, here is firefox, here is calculator, there you go.
Want a "family" computer for letting the wife and kids play on without worrying about what would get screwed up??
Steve Jobs: [points to Microsoft Programmer behind Baller] You there, 'Softy! What is your profession? Microsoft Programmer: I am a trainee QA, sir. Steve Jobs: [points to another 'Softy] And you, what is your profession? Microsoft Guy: 3rd level branch tester, sir. Steve Jobs: Branch tester. [turns to a third 'Softy] Steve Jobs: And you? Microsoft Guy: Graphics guy, I repainted XP to make it Vista... Steve Jobs: [turns around to OSX Team] Apple Employees! WHAT IS YOUR PROFESSION? Apple: HA-OOH! HA-OOH! HA-OOH! Steve Jobs: [turning to Ballmer] You see, old friend? I brought more mac than you did.
Microsoft: A thousand downloads of the 0day Vista sploits will descend upon you. Our BSOD's will blot out the sun! Apple: Then we will iLife 08 in the shade.
I hope perhaps that they use circuit modeling and simulations (as if that sim code could ever be wrong...) but at least ADAify, or mathematically consecrate some code for dealing with electrophysiological phenomena, such as condensation.
Hi Jeff, yes, I have am inside Area 51! zomg, I can see Bush now... he is peeling off his skin... oh no, the big black helicopters are coming to kill me, what? my camera... but how? HOW? Oh, yes, the wifi card... wait... scanning... damn, area51 uses starbucks.... wait, I have a $6 wifi access card... tum tee tum (typing password on camera).... ok, sending... 70%.... 80% they are SHOOTING AT ME FFS LOL BBQ rail guns FTW! 99% *pause* bullet time.... bush transforms into godzilla and lazers fire startrek style slow towards the geek with the camera.... the starwars'noooooo' is resampled and played at varying octaves.... the 'made for tv' special effects hurl at the screen... (movie voice over) tom cruise... finding his true identify..... only one man has the power to overcome his thetans... this summer.... science has a new religion.... THE SCIENTOLOGIST....'
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wha? uyeah. I'd buy that for a dollar!@ this has much more value than stopping you from walking 10ft.... this is WIFI not bluetooth. Next time you are in area 51 finding out that bush is really xenu, and trying to get this photo to Jeff... yes Jeff... *if* that is really his name.... you will be glad you spent $200 on this card.
And a starbucks card.
Bush is Xenu? Well, there is no proof that he *isn't* xenu, and according to most of science, he is and isn't and might be xenu all at the same time, unless you look, and then the space time folds in on himself and his last ditch efforts are to try and erase his name as an idiot in the pages of history.
Forget GIMP. Really. Development 'team' is terribly political and dense.
Forgetting the whole 'I hate you for making gimpshop and getting credit, instead of joining my minions and procrastinating about how we know better than our users, and giving usability excuses for technical limitations of the software' aspect of GIMP:
Krita is a clean, usable, excellent, full-featured app that is a must for linux. I love it. I want to develop for it (ok, I'll look for a C-- / Java bridge or framework for extending Krita!)
Take a look at the quick mask, brushes and general usefulness of Krita. Being the kind of programmer design who balks when ctrl+alt+0 no longer worked in CS2, I found Krita enormously great to use, sadly, I am hogtied to a winblows system right now (we can use linux, our customers don't, ergo, we don't). I use CS2 at work, Krita at my real real work, at home.
I wholeheartedly recommend Krita to one and all, and say, don't use GIMP, besides being a nightmare of usability and will add GIMP wrist to your emacs finger (and nobody wants the dubiously sounding GIMP wrist...)
Google around for the whole nasty business of why the GIMP sucks, and will always sucks. It occupies a most important place in today's linux distribution - the de facto graphics package, yet it rings of yesterdays linux apps, badly developed, and headstrong tendencies that go against a meritocratic open source development team.
Because GIMP is seen as the de facto app for graphics, it makes the 'linux' system (I disagree calling it GNU/Linux, because there is a whole lot of things that aren't GNU in there, and since we are chucking GIMP out, one less) look bad.
Krita. yes.
Don't get me started on Gaim, where the minor technical obstacle of making the font used fit in with the system, **AND** letting users easily edit the font is rewritten as 'allowing the user to easily change the font, in an application design for reading and writing, would confused them, because they are stupid'.
The last 5 years I have been hoping Sun would make a foray into consumer devices. Having powered 1 billion consumer devices with their Java technology, I am keen to see what this will come out as.
It must be... 6-7 years ago I did a 3d mock-up of large display device, much like the iPhone, but with a java logo and a sun logo where the typical ubuntu/osx app buttons are. Back then I just thought, this is a technology company, developer friendly, if they gave something we could REALLY take over on the consumer market, it will fly.
I am more excited than the news of the iPhone, and that is saying something.
In second life, virtual rape could be rewarded. I am sure a 'rape tag' game would go down a storm on the Internets.
Inside the mechanism of the game, a switch is flicked, and a script is run, and the character_animation_state is set to 5
What does that mean? you have been raped?
Perhaps I record a taunting pose, you mistake it for a rape pose, and suddenly you ***determine*** that you have been raped.
Does virtual rape only exist when a message 'you have been raped' shows up?
Can you rape someone on irc using:/me rapes CowboyNeal
Did I just break some law? Wait, perhaps CowboyNeal needs to be here, and hear me say it. What is different about the way in which this would happen in SecondLife?
While you all recover from that, I will just say that what ***determines*** something is important. In games, the game engine itself decides if the hit actually hit. Broken box models in some quake mods meant that on certain frames in a jump a railgun shot to the head actually missed the collision box. In SecondLife there isn't a ***rape box*** that can determine in the game if you have been raped.
we don't need to have two arms and legs. secondlife people don't have genetalia. They can't reproduce. They can have polygons bulging in the right place, and scripts can create more polygons, that can start small, and require regular feeding, but it is all merely narrativium.
Nothing real exists, there are no consequences. I played on SecondLife and found it quite easy to grief newbies by building toroid prisons around them, and boxing them in. This grows old and I was just curious as to how much freedom you can have in a world where everyone can be all powerful with the right knowledge.
SecondLife to a programmer is being neo in the matrix. even though newbs can fly, run scripts, you are free to work within a framework of mutual experience, and chance what others perceive inside the game.
At the end of the day, its socializing, circa '90s IRC chatting, combined with weak graphics, and the ability to change what is happening on the screen. a decent enough code must go into enforcing an economy where you can have > 1 mona lisa, and still have the balls to link this to 'real money' although they don't actually.
SecondLife is overblown, and it is stories like this that help that. I like the ganking story where a guy got beat up for ganking another guys wife on WOW. I only wish he had published both their names so everyone else could beat the virtual shit out of the ones who would inflict others for enjoying antagonizing others in a game.
There is nothing wrong with playing bad in games. Nothing wrong with TK and PK. If the game wants to enforce rules, then that itself changes the game theory.
playing the game and assuming social order and rules that are not in effect of the game machine adds a new dimension, trust and insecurity perhaps. Knowing that nobody on your team in AA will shoot you might make it more closer to the truth, and eradicate some really annoying moments, but you do loose a real sense of paranoia and uncertainty.
Even in AA you can kill opponents who give accidental friendly fire on previous rounds, and not be too harshly penalized in the game, so for enjoyment factor, the game theory permits some petty team killing.
That is all I have got to say, i am not going onto AA and going to virtually rape a couple of people.
Good day.
PS: Take it as read that I rape everyone who replies to this thread, and all parents to this thread. yey.
yeah april fools but I bet slashdot are aching to use digg style systems. It is embarrassingly microsoft the way the broken website of slashdot has been trying to claw back. (unless of course, as april fools as it seems the dig style ratings aren't april fools! lol, it has been over a year since I came here, just wanted to see what pityful excuse they put up for april fools)
How embarrassing is 'tags' *beta* on a tech website? I think if they didn't spend years implementing a broken captcha system there might be some actual point visiting here.
I can't really remember by password, and this has been my first post in a long long time.
slashdot.org -1 redundant!
Anyone else only visits slashdot on april fools day now?
Despite the be'tashed wifebeating alcoholic security official giving me the 'let's make him worried by standing really still and looking anxious' for 5 minutes as he tried not to sweat while operating the fingerprint machine (with webcam) I still decided to live up to my fearless Brit nature:
I complained about the oily, fetid, bacterial infected surface.
He ignored me. Probably was about to shit himself, scream, the red coats are coming!!! and run for the hills.
Yeah.
Slashdot are now overstepping themselves to PROVOKE people to submit stories, they are putting a banner requesting stories. As someone who accidentally hit on/. for the first time in a long while (from a google search into something unrelated) I can say,/. is dead to me.
Note this: They haven't yet opened up 'open' news submissions, but, they will. They will. One day. Right now the whole 'you run us' smacks of small minded desperation.
It is too inbred in here. w00t. -1. probably. I didn't mean for that. But. really.
To be honest, I do not think it is censorship at all. The rules are set, they are not being imposed by a third party, they are self governing rules for everyone to abide by.
And you know what, the majority would agree. You don't like it? Go live in fundamentalist/survivalist camp and then decide who is the kooky one.
There is nothing wrong with keeping society prim, proper, polite and personable on the surface. If you want a domain that allows 'fuck-a-donkey.tld' then go and get one, but don't force those who adminsiter and check these to suffer your personal tastes, and don't cry foul by their decisions. That is what pisses me off.
Meet Bob, he had the same rights as everyone. One day he fucked a watermelon, and loved it. Now he felt that he didn't have the same rights as everyone else and started a campaign for 'equal rights' and 'tolerance'.
Slashdot Mirror
I am glad we can count on your to predict the future.
> I don't see many sales in the future of iPod.
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=22940&cid=2467504
lol, inb4 20/20 hindsight. Just look at the comments above yours.
Wow, slashdot commenting sucks. I came back here after a year, and really, firehose was too little too late, I notice better stories, but really, back to reddit.
Slashdotfaillolcat.
> net: network handling (this module is covered by a different license and is only available as a binary release)
First rule of business, fork, and add a new network layer, then use google's bug database.
> is that why you're always misplacing your keys and finding the phone in the fridge?
Don't joke about it.
When I was 25 I did this.
Not that I've lost my phone since, but I have one or twice, with great trepidation and foreboding, opened the fridge on the off-chance that my keys are in there.
I don't think you are arguing against the point he made. I think you are answering an entirely different question.
He is asking, am I allowed to charge support for companies using the OSS version of a product.
Can I install some shit, and when it breaks, charge to fix it, or indeed, if they can't find the send button, charge than $50 to tell them where it is.
He isn't asking to buy support from a company, or offer their support, but use the non-commercial license version.
If he was asking for their support, he would use the commercial license, since, that inevitably is linked to support anyway.
And don't say 'run the open version yourself'.
They are both open (source) versions (AFAIK, and if they are not this argument is still valid, and by open source, I mean, the source is open) we are just talking about additional rights given by a license.
Can you restrict people from charging services (and thus, competing against you) on your 'own' open source app?
That wasn't me asking that question, that was the idiots who submitted / posted asking, but clearly stated.
It is ok to hate firefox now. They pissed away all that google money and gave us firefox 3, which is fail.
Firstly, Microsoft are realizing that each Windows needs to lock out some users to ensure it gets adopted. Just like with Office that used deliberately coded breaks in compatibility, and especially using 'going open format' as an excuse for ensuring that even the same person who wrote a document now has trouble opening it again.
This isn't a delay. IE will be launched WITH Windows 7, trying to build their marketing efforts together.
And who bets that IE 8 for XP and Vista will have some 'wow, if you have windows 7, you wouldn't have just accidentally your whole machine!'.
Now, the real juicy part: Are you really going to use a browser that is deliberately holding back the internet, proof that IE8 STILL won't fix PNG's properly, just try animating PNG transparency and sizing in IE 7.0, still causes problems.
Microsoft are big and have enough money NOT TO RELEASE A GOOD BROWSER.
Can't you see that? Sure they could make a standards compliant renderer and add a bookmark toolbar to it, but why the hell do they want to?
They see this as weakening their grasp on developers / software deployments, which makes sense because really, it is drivers and those shitty software apps you get with cheapo peripherals that are keeping people from using linux.
That is why IP interfaces are killing windows.
If you talk over the network, the device handles itself over http, whilst on USB you need to support whatever junk they have written.
Give me http on gps devices, heart monitors, cameras, phones.
Fuck Microsoft.
When an site just links to another article (and is submitted to a high traffic social site)
When an site links to and steals all of the thunder from another article, usually linking it in the bottom left, as a 'read' link - this is almost, if not, copyright infringement
#1 filthy link fucker: engagdet
However, since they were right-place-right-time in their treacherous link fucking activities, the web was glib to use their rss feed on new 'news portals' of the 2003 era.
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Aaah. what a damn twat he is.
His train of thought:
wail wail, vista sucks, omg, how can I tow the line like a moronic lacky when the self-evident failure of what I write highlights my trite and shill thoughts?
I know, I can turn 360 [sic] on my argument and suddeenly discover macs, and tell everyone else how good they are
they will hail me as a seer, with wonderful powers, and maybe some cool dark force powers fom star wars
I will have to make a fleeting reconciliation that I have been ignorantly bashing other systems in the same breath and irately knocking vista, all the while having absolutely no knowledge or experience in either, beyond being able to surf the web and writor mah sitez. leet.
ok so I will be very vague aboue the timespan, so people won't think it was just 20 minutes ago, and I will write with a rhetorical suspicion that I am indeed a cock jockey, to distract from my painfully vaccant break down of how this 'imac' computer is almost like a computer, and i am so suprised, and didyouknowtheycanalsodotheinternets? and oh my aren't they pretty.
Dvorak writing about technology is like your slightly queer uncle dancing at a wedding. Yes, in a few years you can laugh about it, but right now what would really give you a belly laugh would be some permanant facial scaring caused by a wek stemmed champagne bottle being crashed perpendicular into his face.
lol.
So, he realised he was shouting 'get off my lawn' to the those shaking his grip on the MS windows technology, so decided to embrace mac, rather than sounding like a complete asshat.
Dvorak, you flip flopping cock jockey.
Using about:config, filter for 'ping' and doubel click to make it not automatically send ping-backs.
Ping backs allow you to track outgoing clicks from your website.
Am I against the feature? Like is like saying I am against http referrers. I am not against them. I disable them. Always. And give up using sites that decide it would be fun to rely on the referrer id rather than learn more than 11 distinct lines of PHP code to develop an entire site.
I am against the way it was introduced, deceitfully, quietly with calls that 'omg, what, like the w3c is suddenly the only standards body we should listen to? face bro!'. It was very weird.
You could say google would like this, but honestly, I will do my damndest to ensure everyone upgrading to FF3.0 gets to know about ping-backs, and how to easily disable it, so Firefox 4 sees ping-backs go the way of clippit.
Drop ping-backs, it's dishonest to hijack and send this information about Firefox users habits (even though the same can be done with unobtrusive javascript calls, and analytics, i.e. onclick="urchin('lol user clicked pr0n link');return true;")
yup. ping backs. bad.
"I'm certainly not going to be a happy camper if I have to switch to a Mac or Linux system full-time, yet that is exactly where this scatterbrained company seems to be sending me."
I propose a blanket ban on allowing Dvorak to use Mac or Linux. I propose we alienate him from the Herd (chuckle) and let him be the sole Windows user. Running Windows ME. Oh wait. One better. Running Windows Vista. Ouch, aaaw, now that is nasty.
I am serious. Dvorak, you are publicly BANNED from using Linux or Mac, you stick with you Microsoft and your senile ramblings, you do not use another OS. Live in your own hell you freak.
> I wanted a "family" computer for letting the wife and kids play on without worrying about what would get screwed up when I was in the middle of playing with something.
It is hard to pinpoint the exact moment, is it today, or 4 months ago, when this sentence now means you decided to get a ubuntu machine.
It is clear that ubuntu is for those who aren't technology up enough to want the latest unstable windows OS. Windows users should understand that not everyone wants last minute code changes on their computer, and they should look at improving usability, and not sneer at non-expert users.
Unless windows can appeal to those who want a family computer, it will never be able to compete with linux, whoch can offer a care free, credible and usable solution.
Sounds scary. But, actually, more true this way around. Its happened.
Critical mass. It is now officially more peace of mind to install ubuntu for your granny than it is to install any windows operating system.
Installing windows operating system immediately jeapardises your ability to manage and maintain the computer and ups the TCO, and gives you headaches trying to support this.
Thank you firefox, and thunderbird, and klotski.
A lot of people ask my advice when buying a computer, I admit I was always pushing linux, but always thinking 'gee they will need help'.
I see it as a huge, HUGE comprimise to not recommend linux now, and I am actually fearful if I ever have someone show up with a vista setup. Its alien. Unworkable.
I'd recommend a mac or a ubuntu laptop to anyone now, because, for everything, it is the most painfree, path of least resistance, solutions to computing needs.
Did anyone else see this yet in their own feelings towards 'the unclean masses'?
XP is perhaps the last M$ system that we can tolerate as the geek mob, helping and tweaking the computers for friends and family. enough. I have installed FF and TB on countless machines, never touched a M$ product in 2 years, converted hundreds to open office and FF *for the sheer selfish reason that I do not want problems*. No agenda.
Now Ubunu has filled that gap, its fire and forget, put it on their machine, here is firefox, here is calculator, there you go.
Want a "family" computer for letting the wife and kids play on without worrying about what would get screwed up??
There is only one choice now.
> That is hands down the dumbest thing I have ever read on the web.
You must be new here.
300 reasons to upgrade: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html
Another 300:
Steve Jobs: [points to Microsoft Programmer behind Baller] You there, 'Softy! What is your profession?
Microsoft Programmer: I am a trainee QA, sir.
Steve Jobs: [points to another 'Softy] And you, what is your profession?
Microsoft Guy: 3rd level branch tester, sir.
Steve Jobs: Branch tester.
[turns to a third 'Softy]
Steve Jobs: And you?
Microsoft Guy: Graphics guy, I repainted XP to make it Vista...
Steve Jobs: [turns around to OSX Team] Apple Employees! WHAT IS YOUR PROFESSION?
Apple: HA-OOH! HA-OOH! HA-OOH!
Steve Jobs: [turning to Ballmer] You see, old friend? I brought more mac than you did.
Microsoft: A thousand downloads of the 0day Vista sploits will descend upon you. Our BSOD's will blot out the sun!
Apple: Then we will iLife 08 in the shade.
ok. any excuse for 300 quotes.
I found this product release that you may find interesting. Curiously it seems to be the anti-thesis of your recent 'Vista' release.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/
"And everyone gets the 'Ultimate' version, packed with all the new innovative features, for just $129."
Today, more people are using OSX than Vista, and at Vista's current growth rates, this may inevitably remain a fact.
Sucks to be you,
Tman.
In Soviet Russia, Jumper Cables Erode YOU!
Article sounds like 'ner ner ner they did it'
I hope perhaps that they use circuit modeling and simulations (as if that sim code could ever be wrong...) but at least ADAify, or mathematically consecrate some code for dealing with electrophysiological phenomena, such as condensation.
Yes, it is make up a word day. Bard FTW!
Hi Jeff, yes, I have am inside Area 51! zomg, I can see Bush now... he is peeling off his skin... oh no, the big black helicopters are coming to kill me, what? my camera... but how? HOW? Oh, yes, the wifi card... wait... scanning... damn, area51 uses starbucks.... wait, I have a $6 wifi access card... tum tee tum (typing password on camera).... ok, sending... 70%.... 80% they are SHOOTING AT ME FFS LOL BBQ rail guns FTW! 99% *pause* bullet time.... bush transforms into godzilla and lazers fire startrek style slow towards the geek with the camera.... the starwars'noooooo' is resampled and played at varying octaves.... the 'made for tv' special effects hurl at the screen... (movie voice over) tom cruise... finding his true identify..... only one man has the power to overcome his thetans... this summer.... science has a new religion.... THE SCIENTOLOGIST....'
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wha? uyeah. I'd buy that for a dollar!@ this has much more value than stopping you from walking 10ft.... this is WIFI not bluetooth. Next time you are in area 51 finding out that bush is really xenu, and trying to get this photo to Jeff... yes Jeff... *if* that is really his name.... you will be glad you spent $200 on this card.
And a starbucks card.
Bush is Xenu? Well, there is no proof that he *isn't* xenu, and according to most of science, he is and isn't and might be xenu all at the same time, unless you look, and then the space time folds in on himself and his last ditch efforts are to try and erase his name as an idiot in the pages of history.
Bush's third cousin Fred announces a new computer recycling plant.
Seriously, now the green issues are just another way to tax more green.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I would love a true open green initiative, but let's see who is making the real green from green.
Forget GIMP. Really. Development 'team' is terribly political and dense.
Forgetting the whole 'I hate you for making gimpshop and getting credit, instead of joining my minions and procrastinating about how we know better than our users, and giving usability excuses for technical limitations of the software' aspect of GIMP:
Krita is a clean, usable, excellent, full-featured app that is a must for linux. I love it. I want to develop for it (ok, I'll look for a C-- / Java bridge or framework for extending Krita!)
Take a look at the quick mask, brushes and general usefulness of Krita. Being the kind of programmer design who balks when ctrl+alt+0 no longer worked in CS2, I found Krita enormously great to use, sadly, I am hogtied to a winblows system right now (we can use linux, our customers don't, ergo, we don't). I use CS2 at work, Krita at my real real work, at home.
I wholeheartedly recommend Krita to one and all, and say, don't use GIMP, besides being a nightmare of usability and will add GIMP wrist to your emacs finger (and nobody wants the dubiously sounding GIMP wrist...)
Google around for the whole nasty business of why the GIMP sucks, and will always sucks. It occupies a most important place in today's linux distribution - the de facto graphics package, yet it rings of yesterdays linux apps, badly developed, and headstrong tendencies that go against a meritocratic open source development team.
Because GIMP is seen as the de facto app for graphics, it makes the 'linux' system (I disagree calling it GNU/Linux, because there is a whole lot of things that aren't GNU in there, and since we are chucking GIMP out, one less) look bad.
Krita. yes.
Don't get me started on Gaim, where the minor technical obstacle of making the font used fit in with the system, **AND** letting users easily edit the font is rewritten as 'allowing the user to easily change the font, in an application design for reading and writing, would confused them, because they are stupid'.
Krita FTW!
The last 5 years I have been hoping Sun would make a foray into consumer devices. Having powered 1 billion consumer devices with their Java technology, I am keen to see what this will come out as.
It must be... 6-7 years ago I did a 3d mock-up of large display device, much like the iPhone, but with a java logo and a sun logo where the typical ubuntu/osx app buttons are. Back then I just thought, this is a technology company, developer friendly, if they gave something we could REALLY take over on the consumer market, it will fly.
I am more excited than the news of the iPhone, and that is saying something.
jPhone FTW! \o/
What is a game?
/me rapes CowboyNeal
In second life, virtual rape could be rewarded. I am sure a 'rape tag' game would go down a storm on the Internets.
Inside the mechanism of the game, a switch is flicked, and a script is run, and the character_animation_state is set to 5
What does that mean? you have been raped?
Perhaps I record a taunting pose, you mistake it for a rape pose, and suddenly you ***determine*** that you have been raped.
Does virtual rape only exist when a message 'you have been raped' shows up?
Can you rape someone on irc using:
Did I just break some law? Wait, perhaps CowboyNeal needs to be here, and hear me say it. What is different about the way in which this would happen in SecondLife?
While you all recover from that, I will just say that what ***determines*** something is important. In games, the game engine itself decides if the hit actually hit. Broken box models in some quake mods meant that on certain frames in a jump a railgun shot to the head actually missed the collision box. In SecondLife there isn't a ***rape box*** that can determine in the game if you have been raped.
we don't need to have two arms and legs. secondlife people don't have genetalia. They can't reproduce. They can have polygons bulging in the right place, and scripts can create more polygons, that can start small, and require regular feeding, but it is all merely narrativium.
Nothing real exists, there are no consequences. I played on SecondLife and found it quite easy to grief newbies by building toroid prisons around them, and boxing them in. This grows old and I was just curious as to how much freedom you can have in a world where everyone can be all powerful with the right knowledge.
SecondLife to a programmer is being neo in the matrix. even though newbs can fly, run scripts, you are free to work within a framework of mutual experience, and chance what others perceive inside the game.
At the end of the day, its socializing, circa '90s IRC chatting, combined with weak graphics, and the ability to change what is happening on the screen. a decent enough code must go into enforcing an economy where you can have > 1 mona lisa, and still have the balls to link this to 'real money' although they don't actually.
SecondLife is overblown, and it is stories like this that help that. I like the ganking story where a guy got beat up for ganking another guys wife on WOW. I only wish he had published both their names so everyone else could beat the virtual shit out of the ones who would inflict others for enjoying antagonizing others in a game.
There is nothing wrong with playing bad in games. Nothing wrong with TK and PK. If the game wants to enforce rules, then that itself changes the game theory.
playing the game and assuming social order and rules that are not in effect of the game machine adds a new dimension, trust and insecurity perhaps. Knowing that nobody on your team in AA will shoot you might make it more closer to the truth, and eradicate some really annoying moments, but you do loose a real sense of paranoia and uncertainty.
Even in AA you can kill opponents who give accidental friendly fire on previous rounds, and not be too harshly penalized in the game, so for enjoyment factor, the game theory permits some petty team killing.
That is all I have got to say, i am not going onto AA and going to virtually rape a couple of people.
Good day.
PS: Take it as read that I rape everyone who replies to this thread, and all parents to this thread. yey.
yeah april fools but I bet slashdot are aching to use digg style systems. It is embarrassingly microsoft the way the broken website of slashdot has been trying to claw back. (unless of course, as april fools as it seems the dig style ratings aren't april fools! lol, it has been over a year since I came here, just wanted to see what pityful excuse they put up for april fools)
How embarrassing is 'tags' *beta* on a tech website?
I think if they didn't spend years implementing a broken captcha system there might be some actual point visiting here.
I can't really remember by password, and this has been my first post in a long long time.
slashdot.org -1 redundant!
Anyone else only visits slashdot on april fools day now?
Despite the be'tashed wifebeating alcoholic security official giving me the 'let's make him worried by standing really still and looking anxious' for 5 minutes as he tried not to sweat while operating the fingerprint machine (with webcam) I still decided to live up to my fearless Brit nature:
/. for the first time in a long while (from a google search into something unrelated) I can say, /. is dead to me.
I complained about the oily, fetid, bacterial infected surface.
He ignored me. Probably was about to shit himself, scream, the red coats are coming!!! and run for the hills.
Yeah.
Slashdot are now overstepping themselves to PROVOKE people to submit stories, they are putting a banner requesting stories. As someone who accidentally hit on
Note this: They haven't yet opened up 'open' news submissions, but, they will. They will. One day. Right now the whole 'you run us' smacks of small minded desperation.
It is too inbred in here. w00t. -1. probably. I didn't mean for that. But. really.
To be honest, I do not think it is censorship at all. The rules are set, they are not being imposed by a third party, they are self governing rules for everyone to abide by.
And you know what, the majority would agree. You don't like it? Go live in fundamentalist/survivalist camp and then decide who is the kooky one.
There is nothing wrong with keeping society prim, proper, polite and personable on the surface. If you want a domain that allows 'fuck-a-donkey.tld' then go and get one, but don't force those who adminsiter and check these to suffer your personal tastes, and don't cry foul by their decisions. That is what pisses me off.
Meet Bob, he had the same rights as everyone. One day he fucked a watermelon, and loved it. Now he felt that he didn't have the same rights as everyone else and started a campaign for 'equal rights' and 'tolerance'.