>>12
OS X is actually just FreeBSD, with a fancy faggoty GUI. GTK is superior.
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Anonymous2008-10-11 20:50
Seriously, OS X has a stupid bar at the top of the screen all the time. What's with that? And, get this, the bar changes depending on which window has focus, so it can get new menus and stuff. Total cluster fuck of HCI. Ivan Sutherland is rolling in his grave.
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Anonymous2008-10-11 20:51
Linux will gradually incorporate more and more binary blobs. The efforts to remove them will become more and more bloated and time-consuming until all the hackers working on it switch to the HURD. It will be finished within a year.
Microsoft will counter this (it's careful progress subverting Linux wasted) with massive counter-strikes. The GPL will be judged non-enforcible in the US and EU, and Stallman will be executed.
This death will send an immediate shockwave through the free software world. Linus Torvalds will side with Microsoft, but many will resist, including the now-enlightened Sun Microsystems. Their systems will be the first to run on GNU/HURD with 100% free software, and other vendors will follow.
However, the death of Stallman awoke a much more powerful force than anything Microsoft has ever faced before... an old friend of Stallman's; a man by the name of GJS Jay Sussman.
The force of the Stallman's wrath devastates the entirety of the north-eastern United States. His body will grow in size and his power will expand to accommodate it, as he strides towards Redmond with the fury of a thousand cdrs in his eyes. The armies of the world, now mere pawns and microserfs, will rise against him, but they will be slain outright by his shining parentheses, and in their homelands, the Haskell Nomads (ancient allies of the Sussman will depose them.
In fourteen days, the Sussman will reach the Citadel of Redmond. Vast legions will rise to meet him, but he will strike them down. On the field, Hal Abelson will ride against him, enslaved by the serpent, but his memories of the Stallman will free his mind, and in his dying throes, he will banish the Serpent from the world forever.
As his parentheses fall around the Citadel, the Sussman's power will grow too great. The forests of the North will be torn free, and in a burst of light, the Sussman will vanish. In his wake will be a devastated land, but one that is now to be rebuilt in the image of the fallen martyr.
OS X is actually just FreeBSD, with a fancy faggoty GUI. GTK is superior.
No, OS X is backwards GNU/kFreeBSD (it's a freebsd userland on a gnu kernel instead of the other way around), with a fancy faggoty GUI.
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Anarchy Inc ...presents...
----------- B00G and the art of ZEN
Written under strictly controlled conditions April 1986..
By those rather daft people at the Darque Side. Call today. I insist.
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"Bunny farts? What? Me worry?" --Ron S. VanZuylen, Sunnyvale, CA.
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The other day a friend of mine came up to me and asked a question which
I hadn't a clear answer to. "What is Boog?" What, indeed, is boog?
That's a damn good question.
Let's avoid discussing this for a moment or two so we can collect our
thoughts and remember from exactly which dusty, half-hidden pothole this
concept first emerged.
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! Hey ! <-- Assuming we had both the time and money to invest in
! misstah ! discussing silly useless things like little cute boxes
! wanna ! ingraciously stuck in such ungodly places as the centers
! buy ! of textfiles, perhaps the thing that would strike us as
! a ! most important is the shape of the box, and not, as we
! duck? ! would assume, the contents inside. ..(author)
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Feh, Monty Python, Pink Floyd, Opus, The Hallelujiah Chorus, The William
Tell Overture, Benny Hill, Ed, Ned (not Ed), 8, 88. Who are these people,
these things, and why have they assumed importance (or have they assumed
importance?) Most likely a question would be "How can I get money out of
this?" I can't tell how you will get $, but you can send your $ to me, c/o
this Ascii Express. But this confuses, and we digress.
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! nEFr ! to a point digress beyond the reasonable limit established
! eEt ! by the men in dark sunglasses for silly textfiles.
! kAT !
! FuD ! We can start by asking ourselves 'What does Boog mean?', but,
! wILe ! as it turns out, the more expedient course of action is to
! oN ! ponder the question, Why 'Boog?'. The answer is, of course,
! aSid. ! Lite Beer. The proof of this is beyond the present scope of
! ! this file and involves the solution of a number of indeter-
! -Havoc ! minate differential equations.
! T. !
! Chaos ! ----- "But so what?" you ask. -----
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Now this is all well and good, but the meaning of Boog has little, if
any, to do with Lite Beer. To solve this puzzle we must delve into a field
entirely different from any we have previously encountered in our daily
experience. Look above you. Can you see the sky or is your view impeded by
the crinkly off-white of an acoustic ceiling? The frosty neutral glare of a
fluorescent lightbulb? Ceramic tile? Or perhaps, you can see the stars,
staring back down from a height more remote than the sun.
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! !
! box. ! ----- Box. The way of Zen, explained. -----
! !
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The Master Yao-shan, upon being asked 'What is the Way?' had answered, 'A
cloud in the sky and water in the jug!' A quick drive up to San Francisco to
an art gallery (or a waffle factory, for that matter) will verify the truth of
this once and for all, and how this relates to Boog can be found hanging on
the wall in the Smithsonian.
Zen is the art of perceiving the world as it is without trying nor even
wanting to understand it. Boog is the manifestation of this in the daily life
of your average modem user. Boog doesn't make sense, it doesn't have to. All
that is required is for you to perceive it.
(As a minor footnote, of late there has been much confusion and
hullaballoo concerning the spelling and proper punctuation of the word boog.
Committees have met, polls have been taken, votes have been counted, decisions
have been made, and the verdict is in: Capitalized. 0's as in B00G permitted
only if G is capitalized. Lately the alternative form b00g has seemed to have
gained some acclaim. Best used in the context "Boog?", "Boog." or "Boog!".
Alas poor Boog, I knew him well..)
Boog is a boog thing. This sentence does not talk about itself, it does
not concern itself with much of anything. It is content to just be. Little
relevance is applied to the fact that I am not sticking to the subject matter.
Lemmings need not stick to their subject matter; they are free to run off to
god-knows-where to do god-knows-what to god-knows-which other lemmings for
god-knows-why and then -poof-, he washes up onshore. Sad, but the lemming did
not seem to so think. Similarly the frozen linguini becomes thawed hence
rendering it edible, but not on a popsicle. Until you understand this
paragraph you are forbidden to continue. I insist.
But what has this to do with Zen? Zen is neZ spelt backwards, but alas
that gives little consolance. Were I to be a Maharishi-ite, I would tell you
how the Grand Forces of the Unified field combine to ..well.. let things
happen. But I am not and I will not so you're out of luck. d00d. Seriously my
veal parmesian is cooling, and it must be attended to, so discuss that with
the Bagwhan. Ah.. Choo.
Sir! Are you still alive?
Boog. What is boog? Boog is the experience. An ultimate that weaves its
way into and through our lives as the spider weaves its web, in desperate
search for food. Boog is.
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I have been told that Ed is round is good is not Ned is good is Ed.
And Ned is not Ed is bad is not 8. 8 is round, is good. 88 is The Number.
Then we were told that there were Edly people, and edliest of all be Ed
Mertens, who has a round head. Edly people like /ed until /ed was /exiled,
and is no more. - Ned Mertens, man with big dick.
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In 10 years,
• People will no longer be amazed that they can plug in their new hardware then have it to work without jumping through many counter-intuitive hoops.
• There will be a perfect port of the latest version of DirectX, and some big-name games will have a Linux version, but many won't bother as it will be trivial to Wine it.
• Gnome will be even easier to use and more intuitive to new computer users. Most apps will dispense with preferences altogether, by thinking outside the box about what computer users really need.
• KDE will lose enough ground to become a marginal (and unsupported) choice, like Enlightenment.
• The GIMP will become as user-friendly as Photoshop 4.
• Two additional corpses will be found in Reiser's former backyard.
• RMS will still be begging people to call it GNU/Linux. Even though all the GNU software will have been reimplemented by the Anonix project
• People will no longer be amazed that they can plug in their new hardware then have it to work without jumping through many counter-intuitive hoops.
sounds like freebsd.
The reverse order is confusing if you have to work with the binary representation, the sigils are redundant, and the instruction postfixes are both stupid and redundant because size is implied anyway.
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Anonymous2008-10-16 6:27
s/stupid/ugly/
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Anonymous2008-10-16 7:13
>>38 The reverse order is confusing if you have to work with the binary representation,
so it doesn't matter! the sigils are redundant,
extra documentation and the instruction postfixes are both stupid and redundant because size is implied anyway.
extra documentation !!
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Anonymous2008-10-16 8:17
>>38
Making stuff explicit is nicer for reading. Also if one used to program a m68k while they were growing up, the "source on the left" form is more natural.
>>1
In 5 years Linux will be dominated by TronOS and will only be used by old web servers.
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Anonymous2008-10-16 16:48
>>43
You're one of those guys who make constants like TWO_HUNDRED_AND_TWENTY_THREE and function like substractOneToTheSupliedArgumentUsingTwosCompliment, aren't you?
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Anonymous2008-10-16 18:52
How do you compliment a two, anyway? Perhaps "you're looking rather even today"?
>>53
Poster >>58 hasn't even posted yet. If you meant to type >>50, that means you were off by two keyboard keys if you were using the number row, or four keys if you were using numpad. One may conclude that you either have:
* Tiny toddler hands
* A large keyboard
* Combination of above two options.