Comment Re:Distributions rise and fall in popularity (Score 1) 631
You're trolling, but sometimes you just gotta feed the troll.
Windows is like herpes, Linux is more like mitochondria.
You're trolling, but sometimes you just gotta feed the troll.
Windows is like herpes, Linux is more like mitochondria.
Ubuntu got popular because the ordinary people who cannot figure out how a command line works could use it.
Hardly. It got popular because it was debian based and didn't require knowledge of every part of the system to get it up running acceptably - you installed it and most stuff worked without hours of research and hair-pulling.
It's both, it was a nice compromise for neophyte, expert users, experienced linux users and old hacks like me. In 2007 it was a system that people from any of those groups could agree apon.
Both Unity and Gnome Shell are interesting UI experiments, but not ready for the main stream. This has annoyed the neophyte and expert users alike.
is meat. There are four varieties of it: tender lamb, grilled steak, sausage, and ox tail's soup. And no, IANAA ( I Am Not An American ).
What? No roast beef?
It could be worse, Jena and RDF make me froth at the mouth.
Fortunately my youngest is 21 so we're having a blast.
However he's also into his second year of police service training so he's basically a running monologue on which bits will get you how much time.
The point is that SOME performance art is amazing.
That seems to be a matter of opinion.
Personally, I'd much rather stare at inanimate etchings in a gallery than see some douchebag with a stupid haircut, covered in pig's blood and reciting his latest awful, Poe-esque poetry in the city park.
To each his artistic own, I guess.
I would probably agree on the example given.
Again... SOME is good, but good luck finding any.
He's not really trolling - it's brilliant meta performance art!
*dances across Slashdot wearing a tutu and a Firefly t-shirt smeared in peanut butter while humming a 20's era swing tune*
The problem is that 99% of art, (be it literature, poetry, music or sculpture, etc.) is crap.
The vast majority of that crap almost nobody ever sees, in the world of books and music you have to get published to get attention that filters out something like 90% of the complete drek.
Not everybody is a creative genius, this is also true in technical fields, something like 90% of innovation is driven by 10% of the population. This is why our society has people we pay to critique art and tell us what is worth paying attention to. (And sometimes they are horribly, horribly wrong...)
The point is that SOME performance art is amazing.
Not sure if this is insightful or trolling, but what the hell.
This is 2013, torture and violence is as now as American as apple pie, but biology is still taboo.
That'll show him!
Are you serious?
One place produced about half of Europe's steel, but that's not what comes to mindl. Instead a rather large company (the joys of bailouts and too big to fail was all the rage back then too) that is really famous for making weapons for the Nazis using slave labor sourced from concentration camps is your go to name?
Kids these days eh?
For shits and giggle google "Sheffield made in China"
The Sheffield brand-name is/was so strong that there's rumors of a small town in China called Sheffield with a steel mill.
huh? anywhere outside of 100km radius around sheffield it's just taught that england made lots of products industrially and among them steel.
For fine steel products just prior to WWII.. no, sheffield is not the place that comes to mind, not for the century prior to it either. Krupp comes to mind. Of course I suppose that inside UK they wouldn't want to mention that industrial revolution didn't happen just inside UK.
But.. more importantly, why would I read a newspaper that would publish stupid stuff like this? they're trying to say that since they supposedly found pieces of algae in 25km they must have come from space...
Go find your grandparents kitchen knives. Even in north america there's a better than 50% chance that any good quality knife that's over 50 years gold was made in Sheffield.
"By now you have likely read about the 'alien life forms' discovered in the upper atmosphere over Yorkshire, via the mass media reprinting a press release from the University of Sheffield.
The what from the who now? Shitty writing. "Oh, by now I'm sure you've heard about the $TRIVIAL_EVENT that occurred 4,000 miles from where I reside 99.999% of my life.
Kind of sad given the key role that Sheffield played in the industrial revolution. For the century prior to WWII Sheffield was producing the finest steel in the world.
Have they stopped teaching history?
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