[PLUG-TALK] Bitching.

[Paul Johnson]

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On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 01:47:52PM -0800, gepr at tempusdictum.com wrote:
> It's because of the pretty pictures, blinking lights, cute sounds, and
> little spinning documents, of course!  We're no wiser than small
> children who can be distracted with shiny objects.

And that's why the Germans came up with KDE.  Plenty of goodies for
experienced users, with plenty of chrome for the ADHD set.

> Here I am farting around with the soundblaster module and recompiling
> my kernel when my friend (who is a die-hard windows lover) is already
> watching cute little anti-Bush movies in IE... Oh sure, when I get his
> attention and provide my intellectual arguments about liberated
> software, he nods emphatic agreement... until he gets another email
> from his friend Joe with a cute anti-Macintosh movie.... so I go back
> to setting the irq and dma values for my sb.o and he stares at the
> anti-Mac movie giggling and drinking his beer.

What funky hardware do you have that sb.o is unable to autodetect the
card?

> Why in hell did I buy that stupid Palm Pilot way back in 1999?  'Cause
> I like blinking lights and shiny pennies, too.

Stream gave me a Visor Deluxe as a signing bonus back in the day.  One
of the few good things about that job.  I still use it, and I was
hurting badly for a PDA when I got it.  Optimally, I would have been
born with a compact-flash slot in my head, but I wasn't, so a PDA is
the next best thing to removable media.

>  > gepr> I wonder if Bertanlaffy, Foerster, or Wiener ever had to deal
>  > gepr> with this issue?
>  > 
>  > What other movies have they been in?  ;-)
> 
> I think I saw a cameo in Fear and Loathing... or was that Brazil?

None of the names sound familiar, and I've seen both movies several
times.  Terry Gilliam is a genius.  Best assignment I ever had back in
high school: I had to write a 5 page report for film class about
Gilliam's movies.  Probably the only time I willfully pulled an
all-nighter for research.

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