Linux To Be First OS To Support USB 3.0 296
An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from Neowin.net "Sarah Sharp, a self-styled 'geekess' and Linux developer at Intel's Open Source Technology Center who has recently been working on the Linux USB subsystem, announced on her blog that support of USB 3.0 will soon be integrated into the Linux kernel. This makes Linux the first operating system to support the standard. If you can't wait and have the expertise necessary, she includes instructions on how to get USB 3.0 support in Linux now." Here's Sharp's post.
Even better on my Linux box... (Score:5, Funny)
My Linux box goes to USB 11
Re:Could someone post a link? (Score:5, Funny)
I don't care what she looks like. If she refers to herself as a "geekess", she's off my list based on annoyability quotient.
Anyway, you want fun, you gotta go for the Liberal Arts majors. They read "erotica" and learn all that kama sutra stuff.
Or, do what I did and go for a mathematician. For some reason, female mathematicians are sex machines. The trick is to find one that doesn't look like Leonid Brezhnev with lipstick.
Here's the secret: hang around the math department and look for the girls with names that sound like they're from the former Soviet Bloc. I don't know why, but over there they breed a certain type of hot chick with strong math aptitude. Probably a result of some sort of early genetic experiment before the fall of the USSR. Anyway, they get over here and go to our best math schools and since back home all the guys are brooding boors who drink too much and don't bathe, it can be as simple as being nice to them (and, of course, bathing regularly). Also, if they're from the former Yugoslavia, it's best not to mention that you thought Clinton was a great president. They still hold a grudge about all the bombing of Belgrade and stuff.
If you play your cards right, you'll end up with a female that looks like Milla Jovovic and has a brain like Pierre de Fermat. They end up with a nice job in a math department somewhere (or even better, the financial sector) and BAM! you're home relaxed, playing Far Cry 2 and commenting on Slashdot, writing a novel the same way that Brian from Family Guy is "writing a novel" and in twenty minutes she comes home bringing bacon. Of course, be prepared to cook dinner occasionally and perform like a tantric guru. It can be a sweet, if tiring existence.
Now excuse me, I have something on the stove.
Re:Could someone post a link? (Score:5, Funny)
Also, if they're from the former Yugoslavia, it's best not to mention that you thought Clinton was a great president. They still hold a grudge about all the bombing of Belgrade and stuff.
That's only if she's a Serb. If she's Croatian, it could be a point in your favour.
The takeaway here is that paying attention to geopolitics can pay great dividends.
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I don't know why, but over there they breed a certain type of hot chick with strong math aptitude. Probably a result of some sort of early genetic experiment before the fall of the USSR.
Clearly the Bene Gesserit of the USSR
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Leonid Brezhnev with lipstick.
Well, still no lipstick, but a start anyway... http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SPpWp0E7Th8/SGJjHYjA_oI/AAAAAAAAAVI/e0wWURoKzHY/s400/brezhnev.jpg [blogspot.com]
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http://www.woolfsimmonds.co.uk/sarah-sharp.html [woolfsimmonds.co.uk]
Re:Could someone post a link? (Score:5, Informative)
Bah, pictures mean nothing. Check out her youtube video [youtube.com]
Re:Could someone post a link? (Score:4, Funny)
I could engage in some huge diatribe about how you're objectifying women
Yes, but talk like that will just make you popular with the lesbians.
Which is perfectly alright. But if you're straight it's a lonely existence.
Hey kiddies! (Score:5, Funny)
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You guys are fucking creepy.
Re:Could someone post a link? (Score:5, Funny)
You must be new here.
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You guys are fucking creepy.
No, but they wish they were.
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Re:Another win for OSS community (Score:5, Informative)
That's simply not true. The USB 3.0 spec. is mostly concerned with the phy. & bus. The xHCI spec covers the HCD. The software-level device interfaces have not changed, or have changed very little.
CPU usage? (Score:2, Insightful)
That's simply not true. The USB 3.0 spec. is mostly concerned with the phy. & bus. The xHCI spec covers the HCD. The software-level device interfaces have not changed, or have changed very little.
So does that mean CPU usage will be 100% when I copy files to a hard drive?
Historically this is the main reason why I always went with FireWire for external enclosures--USB killed CPU on heavy duty workloads. (Of course I haven't used external USB in a while, so my information may now be out of date.)
And I know we generally have CPU cycles to spare, but it just grates on my engineering "sensitivities" and comes off as an inelegant design. Things may have improved over the years, but early problems have made
Re:CPU usage? (Score:5, Informative)
So does that mean CPU usage will be 100% when I copy files to a hard drive?
USB 3.0 does away with polling (which is what causes the high CPU usage) with an asynchronous event model whereby the device controller sends service requests to the host (unfortunately, I can't find a great reference for this, although they mention it here [inno-logic.com]).
Or, to put it another way, it allows USB to enter the 20th century. :)
Re:Another win for OSS community (Score:4, Informative)
According to this [hothardware.com]:
There's some good info in that article.
Re:Another win for OSS community (Score:5, Informative)
I'm only making an educated guess, but it seems to me that the drivers for the actual device don't change much.
For example: the same USB HID drivers work on 1 or 2. The very same network driver works on my internal ethernet port and my ExpressCard.
Kind of like how WoW doesn't care if you're on wired or wireless, any decent driver should be high-level enough not to care if you're on USB 2 or 3.
Re:Another win for OSS community (Score:5, Funny)
You lost me.
Re:Another win for OSS community (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Another win for OSS community (Score:5, Informative)
Err, Mrs LizardKing once said that she'd attempted sex when she had the painters in, and that it was uncomfortable because the menstrual blood caused chafing. Apparently a ladies "red wee" is a bit like unstrained orange juice - it's got bits in it.
And no, I can hardly believe we're discussing menstruation on Slashdot. In response to an article about a serial interface.
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Mrs LizardKing once said that she'd attempted sex when she had the painters in,
As in, not with you? Try using the personal pronoun "I" before you experiment with sex. Disclaimer: my girlfriends and I were younger than menopause when we experimented with period sex. If you can't properly lubricate then just spit on it.
As if you were just saying, "Half-digested period blood-chunks are brown". Yes, nerds, they are. If you can't handle it then go to Digg and beat your dicks for eternity while the real men turn their women into jelly using their mud tires.
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What was your hand doing with the painters?
It's a British expression for menstruation. Alternatives include:
I suggest you check out The Profanisaurus [wikipedia.org] for the full list
Any USB 3.0 hardware? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Any USB 3.0 hardware? (Score:4, Insightful)
Devices, I would be more concerned about finding a hardware adaptor to install into your computer first. The devices come after you have something you can plug them into.
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Asus and Gigabyte both have USB 3.0 mobos.
Re:Any USB 3.0 hardware? (Score:5, Insightful)
Nice to hear that, but are there any USB 3.0 devices to plug ?
Mod me troll if you want, but the majority of the devices won't come until Windows has USB 3.0 support.
Poor naming (Score:4, Insightful)
The official USB 3 logo has the phrase "superspeed" on it, and the icon has a matching "SS"
Who keeps on doing this!! Being a relative term, you'll be up to ludicrous speed by USB 5.
Ditto for fast ethernet.
Re:Poor naming (Score:5, Funny)
I believe that would make the USB5 logo Plaid?
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Guess they decided to go for a Godwin award this time.
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I see the "Superspeed", but I don't see an "SS". Do you mean the red and blue arrows?
USB 2.0 was called "Hi-Speed", so if you don't like that designation, just use the version number.
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Even worse than you can imagine (Score:2)
83 thousand workers all over the globe including Israel and they can't figure out why companies never use anything matching "SS"? Perhaps they should also add original swastika and can explain they used it in terms of original meaning.
We used a stylish logo with "SS" letters once at TV and we had our lesson. If Intel calls their Israel office, they can be surprised.
Remember they jumped to 667 Mhz instead of natural 666 in Pentium since people were already putting "Satan Inside" logos on web? Yes, SS still s
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Seriously? I was thinking of Super Sport. Should all those classic car collectors crap themselves a pile of guilt because you go straight to Weisswurst or Die every time SS follow one another?
Only a mental moron thinks 666 means Satan. Even a Rabbi will laugh their ass off on that butchered Qabalistic interpretation.
Hell they might even mock you and say, ``Stay back you devil's advocate!''
Grow up. This Satan fallacy for the past 2,000 plus years has got to be the greatest one-trick lie ever spread.
Ask anyone on street what 666 stands for (Score:2)
Oh I bet the moron at Intel thought exactly like you. Guess what? You don't design the names/logos based on 1-2% of population. You base them on 98% which includes every kind of uneducated, fanatic freak out there.
USB3 "super speed" lame name will transform to "SS" and people will really be bugged about it. Look past browser window displaying slashdot, there is a World out there and they have no clue about the real root of number 666.
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I'm with you on this. I still have dreams of finally getting my hands on a '67 Nova SS fuel prices be damned.
I'll even smuggle in Tetra-ethyl lead if I have to.
-nB
Obligatory... (Score:2)
The Usual Suspects quote:
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
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I installed the Super Server flavor of the Firebird database some weeks ago at work. Came in a FirebirdSS.tar.gz package and was referred to in the docs as the 'SS' (as opposed to the 'CS', or classic server). I swear, the initial reaction in Holland, where I'm located, is immediately on the Schutsstaffel. When some crazy loon committed suicide some months ago by driving his Suzuki Swift into the crowds at the Queen's Day parade, media were quick to point out that the guy might have been a right radical, gi
Re:Even worse than you can imagine (Score:4, Insightful)
It was definitely Satan that was behind 667 MHz. Without a doubt. Or rounding 666.67 MHz up to 667 looked nicer. One or the other. But probably Satan. Also, I think you are probably the kid in class who ate too much paste.
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Remember they jumped to 667 Mhz instead of natural 666 in Pentium since people were already putting "Satan Inside" logos on web? Yes, SS still sounds like the SS from WW2. It will be trouble. That is why companies like Apple, Microsoft have huge databases for naming products and even filenames in their operating systems.
Speaking of Apple, they priced the Apple 1 at $666. So these companies aren't above finding humor in these things - of course, Apple was not a large corporation in those days. But it's particularly amusing when combined with the "bitten apple" representing knowledge (and the fall of mankind). Then there are other fun and provocative namings like "sosumi" and "BHA".
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That SS really confused me.. In Holland we have a not so positive meaning associated with those two letters (same for SA) they are the only two letter combination that is not allowed in license plates for example.
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The official USB 3 logo has the phrase "superspeed" on it
At first glance, I read that as "superceded". Sounds about right.
Re:Poor naming (Score:5, Funny)
Nope. USB 4.0 will have "OMG Ponies" as it's moniker
It means almost nothing (Score:3, Insightful)
I may have to preface this with the fact that I am a hard core Linux user. I run Mac OS on the wife's machines. I have a WindowsXP VM. That's about it for me personally. I use Linux exclusively and favorably. But what I have to say is the objective truth the way I see it... objectively.
It means nothing to Windows pushers and nothing to Mac pushers. It only means something when they have something that Linux doesn't support. Then they can point their fingers and say "Linux doesn't support my hardware [again]!"
Linux isn't entitled to bragging rights of any kind. Sure we have snazzy 3D OpenGL desktops with cubes and spheres. Sure we have the ability to many things "unencumbered" by DRM or other schemes while at the same time can play all media (so far). There are lots of games natively written for Linux though not the ones someone wants to play usually... (No WoW and no chance in hell of an OpenGL version of XWing vs. Tie Fighter....)
The point is what Linux has is completely unimportant to others... even when they DON'T have it. What is important is what Linux doesn't have.
Still, I'll chalk this little bullet point up in Linux's favor... but at the same time, none of it matters until really useful USB 3.0 devices are available and at that time there WILL be Windows drivers and support and there WILL be Mac OS X support. "Sure, you had it first... but what could you do with it?"
(I'll still get modded troll)
For that matter (Score:4, Insightful)
There may already be Windows drivers, Microsoft may have simply not released them since, lacking final hardware, that isn't a real useful thing to do. However internally there could well be a driver prepped and ready to go.
Is this really a nice thing for USB3? (Score:3, Insightful)
As you mention MS, something comes to my mind... There is nothing stopping MS from _never_ releasing drivers and such "Linux gets support first" gestures could either be a kick to them or could guarantee USB3 becoming a failure just because MS didn't include drivers.
While Apple is certainly more nice company than MS, Apple is the one who always loves "We had it here first" type of things and all (excluding hopeless fanatics) must thank Apple for helping USB to really take off, with first iMac.
So, they are t
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There is nothing stopping MS from _never_ releasing drivers and such "Linux gets support first" gestures could either be a kick to them or could guarantee USB3 becoming a failure just because MS didn't include drivers.
Not really. You're wrong because:
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We had a USB Bluetooth dongle and it took 3 days until I give up trying and plugged a infra receiver on a XP PC. That is the Widcomm you speak about.
As I never throw away devices, I plugged the same thing to OS X 10.2.7 running on G5, I was amazed to see there is a bluetooth icon appearing instantly. As XP SP2/SP3 has built in bluetooth support, same icon appeared on very same OS when I tried later.
Bundling things doesn't really work. I still have gigantic driver CD in hand and I dare you to make it work in
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We had a USB Bluetooth dongle and it took 3 days until I give up trying and plugged a infra receiver on a XP PC. That is the Widcomm you speak about.
widcomm mostly sucks and I wrote a howto on switching to the windows xp usb stack once. It involves whacking some inf file, and that's about it. OTOH I have had widcomm work and windows XP actually has a working stack now. And of course, is end of life :P
As I never throw away devices, I plugged the same thing to OS X 10.2.7 running on G5, I was amazed to see there is a bluetooth icon appearing instantly.
As I loosely remember the process for de-WIDCOMMing Windows XP, you would have to go remove all references to it in c:\windows\inf\*.*, then hack usb.inf or something like that (I'm using Vista right now actually, with SP2 it seems almost OK but I don't do
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As you mention MS, something comes to my mind... There is nothing stopping MS from _never_ releasing drivers
There is also nothing stopping intel writing them themselves.
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and we all know, users really install third party drivers that didn't come with their computer.
If you speak with a browser vendor like Firefox, Opera, you may get surprised about how a huge part of population doesn't install their better application just because it didn't come with computer.
Basically, how many people installed "Intel chipset drivers" (a very small download) to their XP which will make their PC perform way better and compatible?
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and we all know, users really install third party drivers that didn't come with their computer.
Surely if the motherboard has USB 3 support the drivers would come with the computer (at least if it's from a decent manufacturer).
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Except the market.
SSD will want USB3.
It's moot anyways, Win7 will support it.
Actually happens with USB2 now (Score:2)
I was planning a iMac 24" and looking for a secondary display solution since I used 2 monitors even back in Windows 98. So, I checked the "real life solution" USB2 scene (e.g. not toasters) a bit.
First stuff to use USB3 will certainly be SSD drives and later, "secondary display" or even "main display" (e.g. opengl 2/3 capable) GPU stuff will start shipping.
So, if USB3 is supported under Linux but the GPU solution, likely from a Taiwan/China company doesn't have driver/GUI app... It will be a really ironic s
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I was planning a iMac 24" and looking for a secondary display solution since I used 2 monitors even back in Windows 98. So, I checked the "real life solution" USB2 scene (e.g. not toasters) a bit.
Umm, why not just use the Mini DisplayPort output with a DVI adapter for your second monitor? Why screw around with inferior USB solutions that won't perform anywhere near as well?
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It means nothing to Windows pushers and nothing to Mac pushers. It only means something when they have something that Linux doesn't support. Then they can point their fingers and say "Linux doesn't support my hardware [again]!"
You must keep some pretty bad company. Most of the world has moved on from that mentality.
(I'll still get modded troll)
Uh... why?
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Tabbed browsing
Cue the Opera fanboys.
Re:It means almost nothing (Score:5, Informative)
You should be running Linux in 1990s (Score:2, Interesting)
To figure how huge thing this is, you should be running Linux in 1990s and tried to use USB early, practical devices such as mouse.
Windows 95 with "hacked in" USB support was working better with USB devices. We ended up struggling for hours and ending up with PS/2 adapter coming with USB mouse under Linux. Need to say more?
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bash.org [bash.org]
Grover: On my linux box, I once swapped out the motherboard, put in a new video card, doubled the RAM, installed a CD burner, installed a RAID array of (6) 200GB SATA Drives, and overclocked the CPU without ever rebooting it
Rusty: Didn't you reboot it a few weeks ago?
Grover: Yeah, I had to reboot to install my Thumb Drive
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The worst part about this naming scheme (Score:2, Insightful)
This naming scheme invites shady marketing. You know we're going to see USB3.0 mice. They'll be USB3.0 alright, just implementing the low-speed part of the spec. It doesn't matter in case of mice, but users will not expect USB3.0 external hard disks to just implement "hi-speed", yet we will see this kind of up-labeling again: "USB3.0 Hi-Speed."
(The Superspeed logo does not have SS in it - that would have been a major marketing faux-pas.)
no wait, it is 5000 mbit! (Score:2)
I wonder if Firewire guys (including Apple) stop telling the true bandwidth of Firewire 1600/3200 and adopt AMD naming scheme?
If USB3 claims 5 gigabit and yet performs same as firewire 3200, Firewire (IEEE1394) should use Firewire 5000 and wait for Intel to say a WORD about it.
Enough with this fake bandwidth scheme by CPU monopoly company really.
My God! (Score:2, Funny)
completely irrelevant unless people write drivers (Score:2, Flamebait)
Given that Linux can't even support the vast majority of USB 1 devices that are out there, since none of the hardware manufacturers think it's worth spending the time and money to write drivers, provide a support channel and publicise the fact, just slapping a USB 3 stack into the kernel means nothing.
Let's see how ma
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It does matter whose firt. At least to some of uis. Does that mean that person will reap the monitory rewards? no.
"vast majority of USB 1 devices that are out there, "
such as...?
Of course had you read it, you would know she implemented for a hardware reason.
Isn't this useless without USB 3.0 hardware? (Score:2, Informative)
I haven't seen any USB 3.0 devices for sale yet. I suspect that they won't appear until sometime after Windows and Mac support USB 3. So, as cool as this is, there is no need to rush off and implement it on your own now. You can wait until your next kernel update.
I wonder when... (Score:3, Funny)
I wonder when Microsoft will catch up, so that Windows will be, you know, "ready for the desktop"?
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No, "actor" is a (not "the") correct word for either male and female; it is also not incorrect to use it specifically to refer to males.
"Actress" is also a correct word, specifically for female.
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No, it's a nonsense word.
Like Doctoress or Plumberess.
It is forced into the vocabulary by women who, for some reason, feel equal means making up new words. I blame Hollywood for being to afraid to correct it.
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"Actress" is also a correct word, specifically for female.
No, it's a nonsense word. Like Doctoress or Plumberess. It is forced into the vocabulary by women who, for some reason, feel equal means making up new words. I blame Hollywood for being to afraid to correct it.
Dictionary.com (based on Random House Dictionary) disagrees [reference.com]. Given the late 16th century origin of actress, any nefarious feminist plot seems awfully unlikely. And it seems to me that the entertainment industry is moving toward using the gender-neutral actor, which Dictionary.com confirms [reference.com] in its discussion of -ess. We're generally moving away from -ess, but many such usages are still considered correct. A few might never go away.
- T
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Please explain to me why this is sexist?
Because prudes had trouble distinguishing in the past between an Actress and a Prostitute? Because casting directors used to be sexist? Should we use the male term for all female professions, or is this one special?
I think it's time everyone got with the times and dropped all this 'Actor' bullshit for female actresses. It's absurd and carries baggage from the past that we simply shouldn't care about.
The real sexism is assuming that we can't use a word because if the l
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Acknowledgement of gender is not sexist.
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Maybe where you come from but for me it so isn't.
In a sense, yes, when the referring to a mixture of male and female, or person of unknown gender we defer to the male term.
Going back a generation, an actress was a woman and an actor a man. Somewhere along the line, political correctness and feminism got mixed up and decided that the male term would henceforth be used for both. So instead of the awards 'Best Actor' and 'Best Actress' we have abominably bloated misuse of the language with 'Best Male Actor' an
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Somewhere along the line, political correctness and feminism got mixed up and decided that the male term would henceforth be used for both. So instead of the awards 'Best Actor' and 'Best Actress' we have abominably bloated misuse of the language with 'Best Male Actor' and 'Best Female Actor'. If the sanitization of the language were truly to treat women equal with men there would be no need for positive discrimination in having a separate award for an actress - i.e. Women would compete with men for the same trophy.
Blowing hot and cold!
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Re:The word 'Geek' is gender neutral (Score:5, Funny)
How about geek with pendulous tits?
That is still gender neutral.
Re:The word 'Geek' is gender neutral (Score:5, Funny)
How about geek with pendulous tits?
That is still gender neutral.
and on Slashdot it isn't even gender indicative
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A miniature geek?
Geek is gender neutral. It's doesn't really need anything else. I mean, I might refer to my 8 years old child as a 'geekette'.
My she wants to be a scientistsess~
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Re:The word 'Geek' is gender neutral (Score:4, Insightful)
Why exactly? Although not productive anymore, the -ess morpheme is used in English words like actress to indicate a female noun.
Why does her choice of neologism mean she's a "sub geek?"
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Although never productive, the -ess morpheme is used incorrectly in English words like actress to indicate a female noun.
Fixed that for you.
Consider the cigar and the cigarette.
Pirouette and pirouet.
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What's your point?
Cigar & cigarette uses the "-ette" suffix to mean "small".
Actor and actress uses the "-ess" suffix to mean "woman".
They're different suffixes entirely. "-ess" always means woman, "-ette" always means small. The former may be archaic and unpopular these days, but the meaning is still clear.
http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=-ess&gwp=13 [answers.com]
http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=-ette&gwp=13 [answers.com]
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Re:The word 'Geek' is gender neutral (Score:4, Informative)
I love it when people who don't know what they're talking about correct me. The -ess morpheme was a productive morpheme for feminine nouns in English, round about the 16th century. There are a number of borrowings into English from French that use -ess(e) which are feminine forms, but was also used to form novel feminine words, such as authoress, giantess, Jewess, patroness, poetess, priestess, quakeress, tailoress, seamstress, and songstress - none of which are borrowings.
Except that, of course, there's nothing incorrect about it - outmoded perhaps, but an obvious fact in the lexicon.
Not sure what your point is; why not also consider:
leather and leatherette (a kind of fake leather), or
usher and usherette (a female usher).
Re:The word 'Geek' is gender neutral (Score:4, Insightful)
WHy do you need to indicate a female noun?
For me it boils down to this:
It is an un-need divide in a culture. Instead of being a group of geeks, we end up creating geeks and geekess's. Which seems to lead to an US v THEM aspect in everything it touches.
True gender equality doesn't need this artificial line.
Also, I look at history:
Princess were inferior to prince, Goddess inferior to God.
I don't think we need that any more.
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When did "master of the house" ever mean a woman? The master/mistress word divide has been there since before electricity.
Re:The word 'Geek' is gender neutral (Score:4, Interesting)
Nope.
The correct word is actor.
Same for waiter, steward etc.
If you're talking about titles, such as Count, or Duke, or Prince, you can go to Countess, or Duchess, or Princess if the position itself gives powers/responsibilities specifically to the wife of the holder (and thus there is actually a separate title to take on).
A (male) Steward of an estate or position being married would not (usually) confer any responsibilities or powers upon his wife, and thus, a Steward's wife was NOT a Stewardess.
A (female) Steward's husband would not have a separate title either.
Today (in the US) the only one I can think of is First Lady. Were we to have a female President, I expect a full month of Wolf Blitzer and crew debating what to call her husband. Hollywood already nailed down "Madame President" (analogous to "Mr. President") through various TV shows and movies.
Congressman and Congresswoman are incorrect.
Senator and Representative are correct. The two are designed to be separate, dammit. Having two Houses of Congress means literally having two damned buildings and bodies (houses) of meeting (congress) that are separate.
If you really need a term for a member of either one, Congressionor is a pretty bad-ass-sounding title.
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Congressionor is a pretty bad-ass-sounding title
Maybe, but it's only one step away from Congressionator.
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A person who wanted a unique sounding login without numbers that isn't likely to be taken by someone else.
If I referred to myself as a geekoid, you would have a point.
You think it's that easy to stay in the closet? (Score:2)
Look you can't hide your sexuality just by avoiding Linux. It's way too obvious for that. It's like thinking nobody will realize you're gay if you just don't go into gay bars, while continuing to wear silk shirts with ruffles and frills with the front open, and having sex with other men in public.
I don't know why you want to stay in the closest, but believe me it's not working your closet is made of glass. Why not just be proud of who you are, and then you can use any OS you want and visit that nice leat
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He must be using Debian stable, not Fedora, Ubuntu or Debian Sid
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whay:
http://www.isorm.com/product_info.php?products_id=3336 [isorm.com]
Windows 7 will support USB 3.0
http://www.vista123.net/content/microsoft-talkes-about-windows-7-and-usb-30 [vista123.net]
Of course its MS, so USB 3.0 probably won't be fully implement until SP3
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Slashdot suffers just as badly from the same moronic posts an ill informed individuals that think there poorly thought out opinions are facts,
Yes, apparently it does.
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Or maybe you should put the troll-smacking stick down and realize that Apple did indeed have USB in their home computers before anyone else did.
At least they got that right... USB is an extremely useful thing to have around.