Comment Oh bugger... (Score 5, Funny) 190
Of course I read this after my sandwich was late.
Sorry, sweetie...
Of course I read this after my sandwich was late.
Sorry, sweetie...
Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds 1198
PvtVoid writes: "Jeopardy champion Arthur Chu pens a heartfelt takedown of misogyny in nerd culture: 'I’ve heard and seen the stories that those of you who followed the #YesAllWomen hashtag on Twitter have seen—women getting groped at cons, women getting vicious insults flung at them online, women getting stalked by creeps in college and told they should be "flattered." I’ve heard Elliot Rodger’s voice before. I was expecting his manifesto to be incomprehensible madness—hoping for it to be—but it wasn’t. It’s a standard frustrated angry geeky guy manifesto, except for the part about mass murder. I've heard it from acquaintances, I've heard it from friends. I've heard it come out of my own mouth, in moments of anger and weakness.
What the f*$# is wrong with us? How much longer are we going to be in denial that there's a thing called "rape culture" and we ought to do something about it? ... To paraphrase the great John Oliver, listen up, fellow self-pitying nerd boys — we are not the victims here. We are not the underdogs. We are not the ones who have our ownership over our bodies and our emotions stepped on constantly by other people's entitlement. We're not the ones where one out of six of us will have someone violently attempt to take control of our bodies in our lifetimes.'"
What the f*$# is wrong with us? How much longer are we going to be in denial that there's a thing called "rape culture" and we ought to do something about it? ... To paraphrase the great John Oliver, listen up, fellow self-pitying nerd boys — we are not the victims here. We are not the underdogs. We are not the ones who have our ownership over our bodies and our emotions stepped on constantly by other people's entitlement. We're not the ones where one out of six of us will have someone violently attempt to take control of our bodies in our lifetimes.'"
Comment Ctrl-S? Ain't nobody got time for that! (Score 3, Informative) 521
I'm busy F4'ing.
Comment Not to sound cold... (Score 0, Offtopic) 552
Not to sound cold, but this type of situation a good example for why you should make a living will.
Does this poor lady want to go on tied to machines or does she want to be unplugged? The choice should be hers, but without knowing her wishes, that makes it a no-win situation.
Comment Re:A fifth horseman (Score 1) 449
And not at all surprising that it is posted as AC. Few would post something that stupid and mis-informed under their own name.
McVeigh a hero? Sure, the same way Stalin was.
Comment Re:NIHFS? (Score 0) 121
When anything has a claim to fame of "trying to be better than $GOLD_STANDARD", I am skeptical. There must be very compelling reasons to not just stick with what is tried and true. ZFS is the cat's meow, "trying to be better than" when we're talking about something as critical as a filesystem... I'll wait and see, thanks.
Comment ZFS or fail (Score 1) 121
Come to the 21st century, use ZFS.
Comment Re:Will his fame last? (Score 1) 92
I do wonder how long his popularity will last after his death.
Who are we talking about again?
Comment AMD is actively working on Catalyst Linux (Score 1) 158
My 7870 performance on Linux has been getting steadily better. The release schedule is WAY faster than it was and I haven't seen any regressions for a long time.
The last 2 releases tripled performance on Portal - it's over 300 FPS now.
Steam on Linux appears to have lit a fire under AMD and real progress is being made. Shit Just Works now.
Comment Every title is doomed. (Score 3, Insightful) 329
"As games get replaced with newer titles, the number of players still enjoying the older games dwindles to a level - typically fewer than 1 per cent of all peak online players across all EA titles
So every EA online game will die when the figure on a spreadsheet drops below a certain threshold. Why not open source the server software rather than abandon it?
Comment Look for a good Fan Edit (Score 5, Informative) 210
There are some very well done Fan Edits which take footage from various versions of the film and create a fan-friendly version. Han shoots first, no CGI Jabba the Hutt, etc.
You can often spot the differences when they went from HD to a DVD or Laserdisc source to keep the story true to the original, but that's part of the fun.
Comment Re:Still a big hit in Vietnam (Score 1) 634
That had me laughing.
Comment Why not? (Score 3, Insightful) 634
At work in the recent past (2000's) we were still supporting FORTRAN on the SGI machines we had running. The SGI compilers would optimize the hell out of the code and get it all parallized up, ready to eat up all the CPUs.
Newer isn't always better.
Comment Re:Apache is dying... (Score 2, Funny) 102
Every six days?
Seven digit UID slacker!
