Linus Goes Hollywood At Pre-Oscars Party 131
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from the getting-his-mad-props dept.
alphadogg writes "For those who feel like Linux and open source have been slighted by Tinseltown in the face of its embrace of Facebook and The Social Network, you'll be heartened to know that the Father of Linux, Linux Torvalds, and his wife Tove were among the beautiful people at Saturday's pre-Oscars Night Before Party in Beverly Hills. Torvalds blogged about the Oscars party experience Monday, recounting a series of awkward encounters with movie stars."
Linux (Score:5, Funny)
the Father of Linux, Linux Torvalds
Ahh, good old Linux Torvalds. I wonder if he brought his son Android, Andy for short.
Re:Linux (Score:2)
Seriously.
alphadogg - you suck.*
Re:Linux (Score:0)
Though someone got it right in the title, just not bothering to edit the body text.
Re:Linux (Score:2)
Who sucks more, the person who wrote it, or that fucking retard cmdrtaco for not taking the time to read and/or edit the post before submission?
Give him a break. I'm sure he's just a n00b editor.
Re:Linux (Score:2)
That's a son after a fork.
Re:Linux (Score:1)
shh!! that fork is Tove's little secret.
Re:Linux (Score:1)
Re:Linux (Score:2, Flamebait)
it is a little unnerving when your sister-in-law asks you, "Would you like a fok?"!
Why? Is she fat? She sounds fat, with her obsession with tableware.
Re:Linux (Score:3)
Re:Linux (Score:2)
Bottom line, flirting should never be unnerving, even if it's with someone you want to, er, fork and who is forbidden fruit for one reason or another. Just relax and go with it (but don't follow through with your sister-in-law, that has zero potential to end well no matter what happens).
Re:Linux (Score:2)
Victor Skakapopulis: Yeah, I got something at the striptease. I help the girls dress and undress.
Michael James: Nice job.
Victor Skakapopulis: Twenty francs a week.
Michael James: Not very much.
Victor Skakapopulis: It's all I can afford.
Re:Linux (Score:2)
Re:Linux (Score:2)
Re:Linux (Score:1)
Well, you must consider that she's the uglier sister.
Re:Linux (Score:2)
Or maybe... it's just her accent. There's a joke:
One day, a gal from Tennessee was serving a guy New York, and she sat him down. The ordeal was normal, he ordered the food and got it, but the girl forgot to bring silverware. So the New Yorker exclaims "Excuse me, can I get a fouk 'n spoon?"
The gal shouts in response that it is very impolite to swear, and the New Yorker responds, "Miss, I just want a fouk and a spoon!"
Re:Linux (Score:1)
Cheap, but : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x467h2_the-italian-man-who-went-to-malta_fun [dailymotion.com]
Re:Linux (Score:1)
Get the fok outa here! :-)
And "Linux Torvalds" is a beautiful name.
Re:Linux (Score:2)
Are they Italian? [youtube.com]
Re:Linux (Score:0)
Robin Williams would tell you that the shortened form of "Android" is "Andrew".
"Linux" Torvalds? (Score:1)
Re:"Linux" Torvalds? (Score:5, Funny)
You misspelled his name:
GNU/Linux Trovalds
Re:"Linux" Torvalds? (Score:3)
Re:"Linux" Torvalds? (Score:1)
Re:"Linux" Torvalds? (Score:2)
Writing it as anything but dysxelia is -1 too.
Re:"Linux" Torvalds? (Score:1)
C|K>k, thanks. Ick.
Re:"Linux" Torvalds? (Score:1)
Aww, you're just trying to escape typo nazis (like me). Dyslexia is just a cry in the dark. :-)
Compilers don't let bad code through. Why should our text editors?
Re:"Linux" Torvalds? (Score:2)
Re:"Linux" Torvalds? (Score:1)
Fsck, this is as funny as hell! Sorry Linus. You're now memed.
misleading summary (Score:1)
He mentions asking people "Who are you?" and 'recounts' (mentions) only two specific encounters.
Not at all the titillating and medium-long read that the summary promises.
Not Hollywood's Fault (Score:5, Funny)
Well stop sending scripts in EMACS and insisting that Hollywood attach them to the end credits. Pilots in theora don't help either.
Re:Not Hollywood's Fault (Score:3)
Re:Not Hollywood's Fault (Score:3, Funny)
I see. Is it because of your mother that you say, "Hollywood is just an Emacs mode"?
Re:Not Hollywood's Fault (Score:2)
Re:Not Hollywood's Fault (Score:2)
Re:Not Hollywood's Fault (Score:2)
I think if they really did use Eliza to generate scripts, the scripts generated might be a little more original.
How long has originality concerned you?
Re:Not Hollywood's Fault (Score:5, Funny)
I implemented my script as a lazy-evaluated list. You can seed it with starting values like "Once upon a time" or "It was a dark and stormy night" or even "I'm sorry Mr. Pizza Man, I ran out of money. Is there any other way me and my 20 lesbian sorority sisters can pay for that Italian Sausage?"
It'll keep giving you new lines based on the ones before it. The only boundary condition I put on the list length was the eventual heat death of the universe (likelihood of being eating by a grue = 1)
It got its trial run on the TV show Lost. The producers would just keep requesting lines until they filled their time slot. Then they'd just cut to black and play an ominous screeching violin sound at the end of each episode and call it "suspense." It had a couple bugs though where it would get stuck in these self-consistent story loops that made it seem like there was some deeper meaning. We'd have to go in and tweak something every now and then just to get it to move on. The most embarrassing error was where it would dump out 4 8 15 16 23 42 repeatedly which was just some garbage in memory after reading an unterminated string.
Re:Not Hollywood's Fault (Score:2)
Now that, I would pay extra on every visit to see in 3D.
I Can Identify (Score:4, Insightful)
I've met a few famous people and, unless they spend a lot of time being famous for just being themselves, they really don't look or act a lot like the characters they play and are famous for. Take them out of context and you'll hesitate before calling them by name.
Re:I Can Identify (Score:3)
Re:I Can Identify (Score:2)
Re:I Can Identify (Score:2)
Seriously, isn't "Hollywood" one of the most ridiculous phenomena on the planet? What other trade has half a dozen different (inter-)nationally broadcast "awards" ceremonies where everyone gives everyone else trophies just for doing their job?
I'm including the music industry in that set, since they are nothing more than entertainment, too.
Just imagine how much benefit there would be if the money and time spent on the Oscars and the Tonys and the whatever-it-is was spent on something important and meaningful to the world as a whole.
Re:I Can Identify (Score:2)
Apparently his career resurfaced on one of those many generic network TV crime drama shows, but I recognized him from the dreadful Batman & Robin movie that came out about a decade ago that I wish I could forget.
It is exceedingly ridiculous. Fortunately Hollywood the neighborhood of Los Angeles isn't very much like "Hollywood" the film industry. I wish someone would explain that to all of the tourists though.
Re:I Can Identify (Score:2)
The Awards shows are part of marketing the movies. If a movie wins an Oscar then it can be re-released and more people will go see it because it won an oscar. The movie studios spend a good deal of money lobbying members of the academy to vote for their movie to get an oscar so they can make this extra money. This is why they hated it when Return of the King won so many oscars because everyone had already seen it, whereas if a lesser known movie won those oscars it would mean a lot more money for that studio. But they sort of had to give a bunch of oscars to Lord of the Rings since New Line Cinema bet their studio to make it, ie. if LOTR flopped New Line would have gone bankrupt.
The awards ceremonies are just a part of marketing movies. And it works because a lot of people like to see the celebrities all dressed up (who are you wearing?) and so it gives some attention to some movies that the people who idolize the celebrities would otherwise not watch.
Re:I Can Identify (Score:2)
I live in Santa Monica and the place is crawling with celebs. I haven't recognised a single one in five years, though I have been told on a number of occasions I was rubbing shoulders with so and so or nearly bumped into such and such, or all those security people are in the store because grand high poobah is shopping at the moment. Usually I don't know who so and so or such and such is or which movies they appeared in, nor am I particularly interested in improving my knowledge in that regard. I would recognize Linus or Andrew on the other hand, provided I'm not too deep in working out some algorithm. These are the people who matter to me and as far as I am concerned, are much far important than someone famous for having been put on display.
Re:I Can Identify (Score:2)
Oh, a little anecdote, I have a friend who is a pop star in an Asian country and when we used to hang out I would usually pay more than my share of the bill. I was sworn never to reveal the dark secret: broke pop star. It seems stars do not necessarily make as much money as the industry machine would have us believe.
Re:I Can Identify (Score:2)
I can confirm this. The illusion surrounding celebrities is wafer thin. Up close and personal, they are quite empty vessels. But after the fact, it rather makes sense. The celebrities of the world are not superhuman. They are not smarter or more talented or better in any way than the average person. They just have coaching and representation.
That said, Jennifer Connelly is a stone. cold. fox.
News that matters? Really? (Score:1)
Re:News that matters? Really? (Score:2)
Why do you think that the My Little Pony franchise was resurrected a few short years later? Slashdot brought forth ponies into the modern era.
Re:News that matters? Really? (Score:2)
Free food, man; probably very well prepared. Free booze, too; probably including grand scotch whiskys that I can't afford.
"So we could go whole retard quite openly.." (Score:0)
Wow.. good to see that Linus is also NOT politically correct!
old folks heating stipend cancelled. nobody cares? (Score:0)
that's cold. not much to celebrate there? definitely up there with 'stuff that matters' a lot right now? phreaking old/frail people & their grandchildren. you gotta love 'em. trying to stay alive etc..., no matter what happens to them. that's US.
don't old people have a union or something? aspca? (Score:0)
Of course kids don't need anything, being young and all. plus they've never worked anyway, & like to be cold. But it would seem that the old folks union should help take care of them? They knew their retirement savings & taxes they had paid faithfully may have had to be spent on wars &/or stolen, so whose fault is it? Can't the kids get jobs when they're bigger, & then take care of the old people if they still insist on being alive? It has to be fair. It's not our fault.
What a fucking non-story. (Score:1)
Re:What a fucking non-story. (Score:2)
I'm pretty sure that technically it is in-fact news. Obviously not the kind that everyone is interested in.
In any case CmdrTaco posted this particular FA, I would suspect he would know what does and doesn't belong on /.
Re:What a fucking non-story. (Score:2, Insightful)
And since the terrible, terrible visual update to Slashdot they've lost the `news for nerds - stuff that matters` tag. And not before time; this story, like so many others here recently, is neither.
Re:What a fucking non-story. (Score:2)
Seriously, this is not news.
So we wait until Linux goes all Charlie Sheen?
(Or Hans Reiser of you prefer a geek meme.)
linus torvalds and charlie sheen's coke. (Score:2)
I heard Charlie Sheen was doing coke in the back room whereas Linus, the party boy, had brought his own stash of Jolt.
Re:What a fucking non-story. (Score:1)
This is like some sort of tabloid shit.
What's a 'Tabloid'? Oh, is that the new marketing name for a tablet running Android?
A geek in hollywood... (Score:0)
...Who cares.
Re:A geek in hollywood... (Score:1)
I got to meet Linus when I worked at Transmeta... (Score:2)
So it's not close to being in Hollywood with the movie stars, but I can tell you if there's one guy out there who's so totally humble, Linus is it. He's a nice guy; it's great to see him get to do things like this from time to time.
Re:I got to meet Linus when I worked at Transmeta. (Score:3)
I can tell you if there's one guy out there who's so totally humble
It's Hollywood, so yes, there's only one guy out there who's humble.
Re:I got to meet Linus when I worked at Transmeta. (Score:3)
I can tell you if there's one guy out there who's so totally humble
It's Hollywood, so yes, there's only one guy out there who's humble.
Actually most of them are. I'm sorry to suck the fun out of this well-established generalization, but this reputation is something that scared me when I first started working on movies. Instead of working with egotistical prima donnas like I expected, instead I met a lot of kind people who were eager to help me out. Maybe it's just because they're nice people or maybe it's just because movie making only really works when people work as a team. Couldn't tell you. What I can tell you is that I've dealt with a good deal less ego in this career than I did working at web startups back in the dot-com days.
Re:I got to meet Linus when I worked at Transmeta. (Score:2)
I have found that ego is usually inverse proportional to talent. It's those who are mostly inept who seem to have the biggest chip on their shoulders. While there is a lot of BSing in hollywood there is also a lot of talented professionals who only got to where they are through a lot of hard work and experience. Such a brutal thinning process of reputation/skill tends to weed out the egotistical assholes more than something like accounting where you just have to impress the HR person.
It's such a small industry that if you're an asshole and you are replaceable you probably won't have someone vouch for you on the next project.
Re:I got to meet Linus when I worked at Transmeta. (Score:2)
Yeah, the people who are nice get more work. Its pretty obvious when Directors are always casting the same actors in all their movies. How many Tim Burton Movies don't have Johnny Depp or Helena Bonham-Carter? How many Ridley Scott movies have Russel Crowe in them? On the other side, how many Steven Speilberg movies have Julia Roberts? Only one, because Speilberg Didn't get along well with Roberts.
Yeah if you're a big name Actor you'll still get work even if you're an asshole, but there will be some big name directors that will refuse to work with you. And thats not helping your career much.
Re:I got to meet Linus when I worked at Transmeta. (Score:2)
I've dealt with a good deal less ego in this career than I did working at web startups back in the dot-com days.
That's because successful actors don't have to wear the bridle of not actually having made any money yet...
Re:I got to meet Linus when I worked at Transmeta. (Score:2)
I've dealt with a good deal less ego in this career than I did working at web startups back in the dot-com days.
That's because successful actors don't have to wear the bridle of not actually having made any money yet...
That's an odd response to what I said. I'm not Hollywood's biggest talent agent.
Re:I got to meet Linus when I worked at Transmeta. (Score:2)
Re:I got to meet Linus when I worked at Transmeta. (Score:2)
Be Informed (Score:2)
"We interrupted David Spade chatting up Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis..."
Too bad Linus was not familiar enough with B list movie stars to recognize Spade and slap him. I'll never get those hours back from Joe Dirt.
Re:Be Informed (Score:2)
If a butt-kicking is necessary, I assume Tove would be happy to provide it with her mad karate skillz.
Re:Be Informed (Score:0)
He was probably too busy staring at Mila Kunis. I know I would be.
Re:Be Informed (Score:2)
"We interrupted David Spade chatting up Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis..."
Too bad Linus was not familiar enough with B list movie stars to recognize Spade and slap him. I'll never get those hours back from Joe Dirt.
What's the point of a man chatting up two lesbians?
carebear (Score:1)
One care bear is available for each person that actually cares
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Care_Bears [wikipedia.org]
It starts with an Oscar pre-party.. (Score:2)
Re:It starts with an Oscar pre-party.. (Score:2)
Next thing you know he'll be in the tabloids rumored to have snorted blow off Lindsay Lohan's ass.
Anyone who wants to buy her an 8ball can do that...
Re:It starts with an Oscar pre-party.. (Score:5, Funny)
Blow? Lindsay Lohan? Please.
I heard poured hot grits down Natalie Portman's pants!
Not the father. (Score:1)
Re:Not the father. (Score:5, Informative)
"Linux," by itself is the kernel. That's why Stallman makes the distinction between Linux and GNU/Linux. So he is in fact the father of Linux.
Re:Not the father. (Score:3)
No, GNU-slash-Linux is not a distinction...it is a moniker he asks people to use because he rightfully wants the GNU Project to get the recognition it deserves. When people colloquially refer to "Linux", they are referring to a complete operating system (i.e. GNU-slash-Linux). The entire concept of a free-as-in-speech operating system was pioneered by Stallman. The GPL was created by Stallman. Linux (the kernel) would not have been free if the GPL hadn't come first. People (except the Debian folks) drop the GNU/ because it doesn't roll off the tounge quite so well as just saying "Linux". And others, such as our friends at Canonical, drop the word "Linux" altogether. None of this changes the reality of what Stallman created.
Re:Not the father. (Score:2)
"It doesn't roll off the tongue quite so well" is quite an understatement. I do realize the FSF stance on the issue (although, where do you draw the line - should my disrtibution be GNU/Linux/x.org/KDE?), but seeing "Revolution OS" was quite enlightening - people actually pronounce it as "GNU-slash-Linux", which is really, really retarded. Marketing has always been an issue with free software, and while "Linux" might not be the sexiest term out there, it's certainly easier to sell than "GNU-slash-Linux".
Re:Not the father. (Score:2)
Most of the twisted definition of an OS used in the GNU/Linux idea came from the definition of an OS the Judge threw out in the Microsoft vs Netscape case.
If you are going to use the stupid "father" idea you are going to have to make RMS the father of every project that uses the GPL because that's really been the main contribution.
Re:Not the father. (Score:2)
Yup yup. For some time now, we've grown accustomed to sloppily calling the whole OS "Linux", and maybe we should let language evolve how it evolves and accept that the common usage is what defines it.
It has led to the funny situation that we hear that Android is not *really* Linux (as in GNU/X11/Linux), while it technically does have the kernel underneath.
Re:Not the father. (Score:2)
And they would have had a kernel first if Stallman didn't spend all of his time working on Emacs.
In his defense, Emacs is at least twice as powerful as most operating system kernels. :-)
Re:Not the father. (Score:2)
Yeah, he's going to implement GNU Hurd in Lisp as a module of Emacs
oh wait...
Re:Not the father. (Score:2)
Re:Not the father. (Score:2)
Which "average person"s are you referring to?
I strongly suspect that Taco is aware of the Linux vs. GNU naming controversy. In fact, I strongly suspect that almost everyone on Slashdot is aware.
Whether or not "average people" understand the role of a kernel in an OS is entirely irrelevant to whether or not Linus Torvalds is the originator of the Linux kernel.
So here's a radical idea: rather than try to browbeat other geeks to whom few people listen into using your preferred nomenclature, why don't you try putting that nomenclature out into general use? The people who already know what you have to say are not only unlikely to care and likely to find you annoying, but almost completely irrelevant. The bar on promotion to the general populace is extremely low, so it really shouldn't be tough for the GNUbies to clear if they really want to make a meaningful contribution.
Linux and "The Social Network" (Score:1)
Re:Linux and "The Social Network" (Score:1)
No. Others are equally geeky.
Re:Linux and "The Social Network" (Score:2)
Real geeks don't use it, and hate those that do
No, only pathetic outcasts with nothing better to do than talk about how stupid people are and how much they hate everyone else subscribe to this "Real Geek" ideology of yours.
So, no, as a geek, you shouldn't use facebut, and certainly shouldn't see a movie about a filthy jew that ripped people of to create a mind-numbing tool.
Yes, because "Real Geeks" would take orders or advice from a twat like you. Perhaps it's time for you to step out of your mother's basement and get a job; providing you haven't already become a giant mass of human Jell-O.
Earthquake (Score:3)
I sit in my office (which used to be in the basement, now it's a room above the garage)
I think he should get out of there now, before it moves even further
Re:Earthquake (Score:1)
Isn't a Linus encounter with *anyone* awkward? (Score:1)
Windows fans (Score:5, Funny)
Don't despair. I'm sure I saw Ballmer there.
No, wait. That was Shrek. Never mind.
Re:Windows fans (Score:3)
Father of Linux (Score:2)
the Father of Linux, Linux Torvalds, and his wife Tove were among the beautiful people
From the blog:
Everybody seemed to take [us walking up to familiar looking people and asking them who they were] in good cheer. We interrupted David Spade chatting up Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis (that's what Tove says, I was oblivious - it's those famous geek social graces again. I told her I'm sure I'd have noticed Natalie Portman and that she can't possibly have been there, but whatever), and Tove pissed off Warren Beatty by asking his name not just once, but twice.
So. Who is this, Linux Torvalds anyway?
No, I mean, who is this Linux Torvalds anyway?
Re:Father of Linux (Score:2)
FACT: Torvalds started Linux
FACT: Linux is named after its creator
ERGO: Torvalds's first name is Linux
The logic is unassailable.
Re:I was at the party too! (Score:3)
Re:I was at the party too! (Score:0)
Re:I was at the party too! (Score:2)
I even have a picture [slashdot.org] of myself and Linus
You do realize you just said you're the goatse guy, right?