Trying to be cool

I was thinking that it would be nice to be a cool geek (as opposed to just a geek).

So I figured the road to coolness lay in programming. No problem, I went to school and learned to program. And then I headed out to the web and rub elbows w/all the other cool geeks.

Then I found out I wasn't cool- I had learned VB and I was a loser geek, not a cool geek.

So I learned some C++- and headed back out.

Problem was I was using windows and cool geeks don't use windows. The truly cool scoff MS and use Linux.

No problem. I went out and got linux.

Operation coolness a success, right?

Well I got Corel Linux and apparently this is the only distro that is not cool. It is the loser linux.

Sometimes you just can't win.

You didn't know Corel was the loser-Linux!?!? Aww, geez! How could anyone make that mistake!?

Wouldn't a really cool geek write his own OS?

Combine stuff from Linux with the marginally idiot-proof Windows, maybe? Use Batmobile-esque characteristics of BeOS?

Linux is a pain in the ass, go back to MS Windows. The next generation operating systems are comming out and they will be much more stable than Win9X.

Okay, this is the way Microsoft sees it. They went to extra work in designing WinXP to make it easier for developers to do their job and to make languages like C# easier to use develop in than C++. If you go the Linux route get ready to build everything yourself including building cable wires out of a block of coal.

Nope- I didn't know about Corel.

I was standing there in Fry's electronics trying to decide between Red Hat and Corel. Well Corel came with an inflatable Penguin in the box. What can I say?

W.K.- Well beyond wanting to be cool. I want to get into the defense industry. Specifically working for Lockheed Martin. They use Unix for the OS on a lot of the custom hardware they build.

I can't afford Unix but Linux I can use and learn the way of the *nix.

Dean...

what makes you think winXP is gonna be any better than all the other heaps of crap that come from microsoft.

OK I admit I use microsoft operating systems exclusively but that is only because that tends to be where the most work is.

I would love to work on an operating system but as yet do not have the relevent experience to be able to put all my thoughts into mission-critical code.

From what I have read winXP could well be better than both 2000 and 95/98/etc. but then as I have said before ....

Have Microsoft ever got anything right first time?
Will winXP be released before it is truly useable..... probably all their other OS's were.

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Originally posted by Stoned_Coder
Will winXP be released before it is truly useable.....

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I was told that WinXP is a great new OS from MS. All the people I know that have been beta testing love the OS and can't for it to be released. Me, I'll just have to wait and see:D

-Fool

I picked up a couple books on .NET and am gathering information. All I will say for now is that a lot of functionality has been added to WinXP. It is an operating system that will pave the way to a large number of changes that will be introduced in programs escpecially in the area of internet security and control. It is the developer who will benefit the most. I have a lot to say about it but right now I'm taking the time to do the research. BTW I have taken a course in LINUX. I do know a little bit about that OS.

>Use Batmobile-esque characteristics of BeOS?

Amen to that!


>The next generation operating systems are comming out and they will be much more stable than Win9X.

Hmm, that's funny cuz BeOS has always been more stable than Windows and ALWAYS will be (if Be, Inc. stays in business :()

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Originally posted by Hillbillie
>Use Batmobile-esque characteristics of BeOS?

Amen to that!


>The next generation operating systems are comming out and they will be much more stable than Win9X.

Hmm, that's funny cuz BeOS has always been more stable than Windows and ALWAYS will be (if Be, Inc. stays in business :()

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2 things- Palm is buying Be.

and second (forgive me but I must say this)

A kid here just got sent to jail for manslaughter. He was high on pot and got behind the wheel- where he killed someone.

I've seen your posts before. Your drug induced inability to reason will make this impossible for you to understand-- but that is a death caused by marijuana.

As far as marijuana goes, you should never have started smoking it in the first place. Now you are addicted to it, that's why you want it legalized. Just thought I'd let you know.

>Okay, this is the way Microsoft sees it. They went to extra work in designing WinXP to make it easier for developers to do their job and to make languages like C# easier to use develop in than C++. If you go the Linux route get ready to build everything yourself including building cable wires out of a block of coal.<

THEN WHY THE #### DOESNT ANY VERSION OF WINDOWS SUPPORT OPENGL AS IT SHOULD AND AS MICROSOFT SINGED A LEGAL AGREEMENT TO DO!!

ANSWER ME THAT IF ITS BETTER FOR THE DEVELOPER!!!

this is not a flame against you Witch_King just so ya know... it a flame against microsoft and their evil monopolistic practices so don't feel obligated to answer this crap...

BTW: is this "monopolistic" even a word? i doubt it...
i think it expresseds my intentions though.

Let me just say that the development platform you use means nothing - its what you do with it.

>As far as marijuana goes, you should never have started smoking it in the first place. Now you are addicted to it, that's why you want it legalized. Just thought I'd let you know.<

I and many people I know personally, smoked pot
on a regular basis for years and never became addicted
to it. I never tried to stop smoking pot, it just occurred
as a natural outgrowth of married life.

I know and have seen people turn on their kids, their
dogs, their cats, hampsters, parakeets...whatever,
none was worse off for getting stoned.

Contrast this with those who try to stop smoking nicotine or drinking alcohol. And as for you Mr. Witch_King: don't knock it if you've never tried it.

The most hazardous thing you can do under the influence of marijuana is (1) drive and (2) work at a job
which requires lucidity and concentration.

rick barclay

I must be missing something here. How did this become a thread on the "evils" of smoking pot?

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and second (forgive me but I must say this)

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No, you don't have to say anything about someone's personal decision. Why do you feel the need to interfere? Are you really that bored?

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A kid here just got sent to jail for manslaughter. He was high on pot and got behind the wheel- where he killed someone.

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He got what he deserved. This has nothing to do with smoking pot. He could have been under the influence of freaking cold medicine, and he would have deserved the same.

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I've seen your posts before. Your drug induced inability to reason will make this impossible for you to understand-- but that is a death caused by marijuana.

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ummm...i don't quite see it that way. I'm not high, and i don't really see it as a death cause by marijuana. It was most certainly caused by a lack of responsibility. What's behind your inability to reason? religion?

Look, I don't mean to attack you personally here, but I feel you did the same to Hillbillie. You guys might have a history of purely irrational hate. I really don't know, but if you're trying to influence another's behavior, your post doesn't seem like a very effective way to do it.

>2 things- Palm is buying Be.

Really? Is that for sure, cuz there's a lot of rumors going on in the Be community. Most beleive Sony is buying Be. I'd rather Sony buy Be than Palm. Oh, well...


And about the weed comment, where do I start. I'm just glad not everyone in the world is as ignorant as you. And Witch_King or whatever, Dean, whoever you are, marijuana CANNOT cause physical dependence/addiction. Caffiene is more addicting that marijuana....

Now, I apologize for getting off subject, but I felt I needed to make those statements :)

roll up a blunt hillbillie. I'll share it wit ya!

>roll up a blunt hillbillie. I'll share it wit ya!

Hehehe.....schweet!

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Originally posted by mix0matt
I must be missing something here. How did this become a thread on the "evils" of smoking pot?



No, you don't have to say anything about someone's personal decision. Why do you feel the need to interfere? Are you really that bored?



He got what he deserved. This has nothing to do with smoking pot. He could have been under the influence of freaking cold medicine, and he would have deserved the same.



ummm...i don't quite see it that way. I'm not high, and i don't really see it as a death cause by marijuana. It was most certainly caused by a lack of responsibility. What's behind your inability to reason? religion?

Look, I don't mean to attack you personally here, but I feel you did the same to Hillbillie. You guys might have a history of purely irrational hate. I really don't know, but if you're trying to influence another's behavior, your post doesn't seem like a very effective way to do it.

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This sums up pretty well the other objections to what I said. A couple more thoughts and I'll drop it.

It's not just my butting in on other's personal lives. Butting in would be that stoned kid killing somebody while they were driving around.
I pay the cost drug use puts upon society every day. It kills people. It puts people in the hospital. It causes crime.

I know, "pot doesn't do any of that. It is just about love and a good time and if it was just legal everything would only be better"

It kills your mind- it wrecks your body. It leads to the use of other harder drugs.

I work with the homeless. I see the reality of this stuff every day. A couple rich suburban kids getting high is not worth the damage that this stuff does to so many other lives.

I don't expect to change behavior or influence anyone (on this topic) through posting. I just see crap like "marijuana never hurt anyone" and I just can't stand it.

Get out- see the world. Not the nice happy, world but the real one that the majority of the population lives in. See where all this "do your own thing- don't come down on me" gets people.

Well now I'm starting to drift even further.

I don't hate anybody. This is a topic I wont address again on this board-- unless someone directly asks me for my opinion.

But if anyone out there is using drugs and apparently quite a few are-- wake up before you've flushed yourself down the toilet.

(I know -- there's the "I did drugs it never hurt me" replies already posted. What percentage of drug users fall into that category? It is so small as to be of little relevance.)

Knock at people's crutches and they do get excited.

Get high on life, not on drugs. It's not easy but since you know about drug abuse you will be able to appreciate the positive difference.

>>Get high on life, not on drugs.

AAA!!! It's an after-school special of "Saved By The Bell"! Seriously, where do you come up with this stuff? Those infomercials on NBC where the people say "Don't Do Drugs" n stuff, and the little rainbow flies by? Then it says "The More You Know" lol.

I am very pro-legalisation of weed...... or at least decriminalisation.

Have any of you been to holland...... Flat but paradise!!!!

The real evil is alcohol i'm afraid. Weed never hurt anyone but if you do it you have to be sensible just as if you had been drinking and not get behind the wheel of a car.

You cannot overdose on weed.... you cant say that about vodka.... drink a bottle of vodka in 1 evening and you will be in hospital having your stomach pumped,feeling like crap in general and with a good possibility of not even remembering the night before.

Alcohol brings the worst out of people. Normally peaceful people get ........ed up and then they become beligerant and start fights and cause damage to public and private property.

As long as you are causing no harm to anyone else I don't believe that any government has the right to stop you doing what you like.

In the uk suicide is illegal..... paradoxically....if you succeed then how can they prosecute......

If you are really not enjoying life should you not have the choice to end it if you want?

which brings me nicely onto another topic...... euthanasia.

how do people here feel about that?
I saw a programme on tv about a reasonably young person with motor neurone disease who had absolutely no quality of life and he was just waiting to die as his condition is debilitating,uncureable and painful yet he doesn't have the right to end his life peacefully at a moment of his own choosing......
personally I would rather have the choice if i needed it. wouldn't you?