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The U70 does not use an active digitizer for the stylus. Some would argue that's a weakness, however, it allows one to use a stylus or any other point object (fingernail, etc). If you want a full review including a discussion on its handwriting recognition, check out:

Sony U-70 review

The guy, JK, who wrote that review went so far as to install the tablet pc os on the device. Said, the handwriting is very good.

The shipping version of the U750P will not have the tablet pc os, however, it includes ritePen which provides much of the same functionality.

And yet, Kerry doesn't support gay marriage. Take a lookie at this though: http://laweekly.blogs.com/joshuah_bearman/2004/10/ how_they_do_par_1.html

Mississippi is 40% black, 60% white. Only Washington DC has a higher concentration of black folks (61%, no wonder they can't get representation in Congress). Nationally, Blacks voted for Kerry 10 to 1, whereas Whites voted for Bush 2 to 1. Black populations tend to be social conservatives who vote based on economic and civil rights issues. While most black churches tend to focus on economic and social justice issues, white churches focus on social issues like abortion and gay rights.

If you'd like to see how well this works out for the Republicans, check out these jokers.

It's a lot easier to be worried about white church issues when you don't have to worry about putting food on the table. Mississippi has a poverty rate approaching 20% whereas the national average is nearly half that for all races but 23% nationally for blacks. Quite frankly, it's also the reason I think hypocrite whenever I hear white folks getting all uppity about "values" when black communities are still stuck with the same statistical difference on lifespan, education, home ownership and business ownership, infant mortality that they've always had with white people.

This country has never properly compensated it's black population for 300+ years of racism and slavery and the statistical numbers show it. The GOP will never increase it's vote among the black population until it quits playing lip service to these issues and actually does something about it. Bill Clinton was America's "First Black President" for a reason.

Hell, you couldn't pay Republicans enough to walk the neighborhoods I have to get the vote out. The most poignant satirical illustration of this I've seen was the faux South Park cartoon in Bowling for Columbine. White America seems to pretty much be oblivious when it comes to how other people live and running scared because of ignorance. Racism in this country isn't dead, it's just gotten a hell of a lot more subtle.

Well, congrats on beating the kook and helping put a mainstream face on the LP. (You do shower regularly, right? :) )

But seriously, please keep up the good fight, and check in with some of us "sane" libertarians from time to time at Tim West's blog.

I agree that the Libertarians you hear about the most tend to be closet anarchist nut jobs.

However, there is a bit of revolt in the ranks against the kooks. They've had way too much exposure for too long. For example, One local LP chapter actually rejected the National LP Platform and replaced it with their own.

I know that if the Libertarian Party doesn't reinvent itself soon and become a genuine political party instead of being more like a philosophical debate club, I (and a lot of people like me) will be leaving it.

Yup, things will get scary for you poor guys soon.
bottom line is: we will go right after you left wing anti-american geeks

You can't be for real. Are you really a Republican, or are you just pretending to be one? Because this is only the second post you've ever made.

Plenty of people are dressing up pretending to be the opposition so it wouldn't be surprising.

Bloggers: 43 Folders, Kris Dresden, Diane Duane, Paul Ford, Neil Gaiman, Michael Hanscom, Jason Kottke, Anne Murphy, Jessamyn North, Alia Phibes, Quentin Tarantino, and Wil Wheaton.

Linklogs: Anil Dash, Best of Craigslist, Boing Boing, CoolGov, Daze Reader, Fazed, Kottke Remainders, LinkMachineGo, MetaJournal, Michael Hanscom's Linklog, Museum of Hoaxes, NewYorkish, Paul Ford's Linklog, Snopes: New, SubText, and UFies.org.

Chicago: Chicagoist, jamas.org, CHICAGO.Metroblogging, Chicago Snapshot, CTA Tattler, Gapers' Block, and L or El.

Miscellaneous: Ask Slashdot, Citying, Cult of the One-Eyed Cat, Good Plastic Surgery, I Work With Fools, Schmo Blog, TeeVee, This Is Broken, Today In Alternate History, and x-entertainment.

Apple Bloggers: Buzz Andersen, Bill Bumgarner, Todd Dominey, Folklore, Steven Frank, John Gruber, Dave Hyatt, Brent Simmons,

Bloggers: 43 Folders, Kris Dresden, Diane Duane, Paul Ford, Neil Gaiman, Michael Hanscom, Jason Kottke, Anne Murphy, Jessamyn North, Alia Phibes, Quentin Tarantino, and Wil Wheaton.

Linklogs: Anil Dash, Best of Craigslist, Boing Boing, CoolGov, Daze Reader, Fazed, Kottke Remainders, LinkMachineGo, MetaJournal, Michael Hanscom's Linklog, Museum of Hoaxes, NewYorkish, Paul Ford's Linklog, Snopes: New, SubText, and UFies.org.

Chicago: Chicagoist, jamas.org, CHICAGO.Metroblogging, Chicago Snapshot, CTA Tattler, Gapers' Block, and L or El.

Miscellaneous: Ask Slashdot, Citying, Cult of the One-Eyed Cat, Good Plastic Surgery, I Work With Fools, Schmo Blog, TeeVee, This Is Broken, Today In Alternate History, and x-entertainment.

Apple Bloggers: Buzz Andersen, Bill Bumgarner, Todd Dominey, Folklore, Steven Frank, John Gruber, Dave Hyatt, Brent Simmons,

The terrorists' biggest failure has been their failure to get Donald Rumsfeld's memos.

Look at Iraq: the terrorists just don't understand that the war is "really" about air power, which is why we can win with such a small number of ground troops. Yet their small, sporadic attacks go unchallenged because they can't understand this basic fact. The paradigm has shifted, and they're still fighting yesterday's wars.

Bin Laden's biggest failure occurred when he and the Al Qaeda leadership esaped at Tora Bora. It proved they don't understand that the fight was "really" about air power, which is why US ground troops were not needed. Moreover, bin Laden can't seem to understand that terrorism is "really" a state problem, which is why toppling states like Iraq is going to pull the rug from under him. And Iraq was at the "geographical center" of those who attacked us on 9/11. Doesn't he understand the basic reality principle that's operating here.

I can't emphasize enough the number of memos that these guys failed to get. The White House, on the other hand, understands these ideas perfectly. Bin Laden doesn't, and that just shows how irrelevant he is. Look, neither the words "Al Qaeda" nor "Osama bin Laden" appeared more than once in any major speech at the RNC convention, though 9/11 and "terror" were invoked dozens of times. It just shows how irrelevant he is now. Before this tape, Bush has only mentioned his name a handful of times in the past 2 years!

People like him believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality. That's not the way the world really works anymore. If he would just get Rumsfeld's memos, then he would understand this. He would know that in the new paradigm, he can't win. He would know how defeated he is!

If Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, the insurgency in Iraq, and the rest of reality would just get the memo, then all this fighting would be over a lot sooner. I'm just glad we have leaders who understand this.

2 Yeas, 402 Nays

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In short, they can have each country spy on another one in order to avoid the laws of the land.

They're even trying to legalise Extraordinary rendition so they can send suspects to countries that practice torture for interrogation. It's illegal for us to kick the shit out of suspects but it's not illegal in those countries that we wanna invade.

As long as nobody gives a damn, it'll keep getting worst.

There are some hot Judges

That said, I agree that there isn't a single author to blame or praise in most big-company games. And this is why current games largely suck. Group projects sound nice, but their real purpose is for everybody to share the praise and nobody to share the blame, and this is exactly what has been happening in the gaming industry. Not all is lost, though. There are still some developers (most notably Chris Crawford and Trevor Chan) who stand behind their games as their real authors, and who still seem to be willing to take full responsibility for them. I just hope others wouldn't hide behind a corporation like some bureaucrats, and instead face their fans as only artists can.

http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2004/10/deat h_of_the_au.html

It's kind of cool to see this idea come to fruition. I'm sure that every child has gone through one of those inflatable castles and wondered what it would be like to have an inflatable house. I myself have often wondered if houses on other planets could be constructed in a manner similar to the late Xanadu. Just inflate the basic structure with just high enough PSI to make it rigid, then spray foam all over it. Allow the structure to cure, and you've got yourself air-tight, super-strong walls that can be repaired from pretty much any damage just by spraying more foam!

Something to think about, anyway.

"Kerry will bust you for not being nice to Muslims."

Let's see, who to trust, guys who think they've been sent by God and so never have to read either the papers or intelligence estimates, or a guy like Kerry whose staff complains that he spends too much time considering all sides of issues? Well, what would you want in a robot, one that continues on blindly on a limited directive without checking with how well it's working in the real world, or one with diverse inputs and a strong drive towards creating actions actually responsive to novel threats and opportunities?

Okay, so this is about a bill that would give the robot certain inputs. But inputs into what program? The program of a bunch of Straussians along with a bunch of Bible-thumpers allied in trying to produce their idealistic heavens on Earth (or kill us all and send us to the ones they believe in in an afterlife)? Or the program of New England pragmatism that may have its Jamesian fascination with religious experience, but that has very little patience with blind faith and inflexible doctrine?

Would you really rather have Bush tapping your lines than Kerry? Consider how Bush's crew likes to manufacture lies to destroy people. Then consider how it might choose the people to destroy based on indicators extracted by computers from patterns in your VOIP and other Net use. Due process? Forget it. These are people who will resort to any crooked fraud to keep people likely opposed to them from voting. Look forward to similar methods to keep you from running a small business, maybe even buying a home, once they have the data to guess you might not be on their side, correlated with your lack of stature on their donor lists.

Kerry's was comfortable enough with killing gooks - not too comfortable, but he understands the occassional historical need to off our true enemies. But the record is much stronger regarding the Bush-Rove-Cheney-Enron gang in regards to outlaw action domestically. And it's the Republicans in Congress who right at this moment are working to legalize the export of prisoners for torture. Democrats don't do that kind of sh*t.

Now who do you trust, if they do get these unwarranted powers, to not abuse them extremely?

I got it from here. He has some screenshots of it somewhere.


-Colin

http://secondlife.blogs.com/nwn/2004/09/in_the_min ds_ey.html

If it is so similar, surely it should be trivial to write a quick XSLT script to transform from one to the other?

Without being versed in the exact particulars of the incompatibility, that seems to be exactly what the MS guy was saying: "I believe that there is a trivial transform that could be applied to transform SVG to WVG;"

It can't be that similar, otherwise people wouldn't be complaining as loudly as they are...

I don't think I need to remind a /. reader of the problems caused by IE:s non-standard HTML rendering?

1954 Retro Hugo Winners

Best Novel - Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Best Novella - "A Case of Concsience" by James Blish

Best Novelette - "Earthman, Come Home" by James Blish

Best Short Story - "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke

Best Related Book - Conquest of the Moon by Wernher von Braun, Fred L. Whipple & Willy Ley

Best Professional Editor - John W. Campbell, Jr.

Best Professional Artist - Chesley Bonestell

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form - The War of the Worlds

Best Fanzine - Slant, Walter Willis, ed.; James White, art editor

Best Fan Writer - Bob Tucker

Wrong.

Thanks for playing.

The people getting attacked in the protests are those who dare to disagree with the party line of the "Peace" and "Anti-War" crowd.

I am talking about the Protest Warrior people that were attacked by "Patriots" in NYC.

Link goes to video of the attack.

The brave reader can also google for the urine filled balloons that "Peace Loving" protesters threw at police.

Yuck.

As far as I've heard, there's not a single case in the entire WORLD where a EULA has held up in a case of virtual property disputes.

China and Korea have actually passed laws saying that virtual items can and DO have values. All lawsuits brought to court in the US have so far been thrown out in favor of the virtual property seller or...in one case...dissappeared because of the defendant harvesting cheap illegal labor in other countries (*cough* blacksnow inc. *cough*)

There are those of us that have been following VR property laws for some time and our predictions are that slow as the US might be, they will eventually adopt the same general laws as China/Korea in the matters of VR property (legal and a valid form of commerce).

Just a matter of time.

For those of you intellectually stimulated enough to want to delve more into the world of MMOGs, join the blog at http://terranova.blogs.com/ and the many links from their site.

http://urban.blogs.com/seoul/ Always found this blog interesting, seems the right time to pass it on. :0]

Japan has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to mobile devices, especially computers. Importers such as Dynamism, Kurns & Patrick, iCube, and Kemplar have stepped into the void for these innovative devices that US consumers crave. While Japan has been producing very small laptops for a few years a lot of interest has been sweeping the internet recently about ultra-portable computers. Slightly bigger than a PDA but much smaller than even the smallest laptop, UPCs have been anxiously awaited by consumers. Devices like the OQO and FlipStart have been vaporware for years and yet they stay in the news and anxiously awaited by many prospective buyers. The manufacturers of both device are claiming they will be released late this year.

It was into this climate of consumer clamor for ultra-portable devices that Sony entered and surprised everyone with their announcement of their U-50 & U-70 UPCs. Slightly larger than a PDA yet packing an entire Windows XP powered laptop smashed inside it's small case, the two Sony UPCs were not only announced without prior information leaking but Sony has actually released the devices in Japan. The first units hit the market in Japan months before the other two UPCs mentioned above are expected to be released. Unfortunately, if you don't happen to live in Japan then you'll have to obtain one of these little PCs from an importer like the ones mentioned above.

I have been using a U-70 for a few weeks now, and I have been totally impressed with the thoughtful design Sony has put into this computer in almost every way. So, can you use one of these UPCs in your everyday mobile lifestyle? Read on to see how it works for me.

Photos and screenshots of the Sony U-70

What you get in the box

The Sony comes in two flavors, the U-50 & U-70. There are three differences between the two models which are otherwise identical. The U-50 comes with a Celeron 900 MHZ processor, 256 MB of RAM, and Windows XP Home Edition. The more powerful U-70 comes with a Pentium M processor running at 1 GHZ, 512 MB of RAM, and Windows XP Pro Edition. Of the three differences noted above the amount of RAM is probably the most significant, as anyone running Windows will certainly attest to. The different processors might exhibit different battery consumption too, but I don't have two devices to compare. So what do you get in the box? The specs:

U-50 / 70
Internal:
20 GB hard disk
CPU (one of the two mentioned above)
256/ 512 MB RAM
Around the sides:
Compact Flash slot
Memory Stick Pro slot
Hold switch
Standby button
Ctrl-Alt-Del switch
1- USB 2.0
DC in
Docking connector:
Hold switch
WiFi on/off switch
Power switch
Headphones jack
Front of the device:
Three mouse buttons (L, M, R)
Three indicator lights
Zoom button
Rotate button
5" LCD screen (landscape orientation default)
Scroll pad with Enter button
Track point stick with Enter button
Tools button
LCD brightness button
NextText button
External:
1800 mAh standard battery
Docking cradle
I/O connector
4 - USB 2.0 ports
1- i.Link port (fire wire)
DC in
Plastic stylus
Mini surf board style
VGA/ Ethernet dongle
Fontopia style headphones with remote control (LCD display)
Sony AC adapter
Fold-up USB keyboard (Japanese and Engl

If you look at this picture, you'll see that it's still sized to be easy to carry in one hand. It looses something in usability this way, granted, but it's not too big for anything except your pants pocket.

More info on the new game can be found at Firebox.com (link courtesy of matteo bittanti's blog).

Microsoft grew up during the 1980s and 1990s, when the growth in personal computers was so dramatic that every year there were more new computers sold than the entire installed base. That meant that if you made a product that only worked on new computers, within a year or two it could take over the world even if nobody switched to your product. [...] So in many ways Microsoft never needed to learn how to get an installed base to switch from product N to product N+1.

Or the other way around. Vonage may have (and I think already has) such an agreement with certain ISPs that Vonage will have better bandwidth if your Internet was from that provider.

Alternatively, Vonage will be the OEM provider of the ISP branded VoIP, like in case of Earthlink VoIP. I am sure I don't need to worry about Vonage.

Since I can't reach the page, I don't know why he only used 616 auctions (or however many he used). But you can use a tool obtained HERE for about $100 or so that will analyze Ebay listings for the past 2 weeks or so. Using this data you can get a MUCH more accurate reading that a measly 616 listings, which aren't even close to being correct since something around at least 80% of the business goes through IGE/Yantis these days. And don't forget Playerauctions which I can't access here at work due to the proxy but they don't get mentioned hardly at all nowadays despite the large amount of traffic going through them. If you want to read through more reliable reports you should instead roll around HERE (terra nova blogs) where doctors, lawyers and all sorts of other people that have been analyzing this stuff before you created your first level 1 female elven monk, lurk around.

... the documentation was updated fairly recentyl, around last week or so.

Critical aspects of gameplay remain undocumented as of today despite multiple complaints in the forums.

The people who get burned are not the ones with the sweetheart alpha / beta subscriber packages, but the ones who come to the game now.

Presumably the developers are content with 5,000 subscribers and do not want the 100,000 that City of Heroes achieved in less than two weeks.

Supposedly the US believes that a person who freely joins a country is just as much a citizen as one born to the land (other than that not being a president clause). The behavior of the officials sending Arar to Syria says otherwise: this should frighten any naturalized US citizen. The US sending Arar to Syria was an expediency issue: they could outsource the extraordinary rendition(*) they wanted for Arar. His Syrian past was convenient to the US officials wanting to work on him. (*torture)

Here are links to 24 articles about Arar and his torture, and here is what his lawyers write

18"? That's a pretty common size, nothing special there.

Only thing this guy did different was dig a pit and put them in there, making a giant enclosure for the subwoofers.

A subwoofer is defined as a "A subwoofer is a loudspeaker device which reproduces sub-bass frequencies below about 80-100 Hertz" and a loudspeaker is defined as a "a fibrous semi-rigid cone and attached to the apex of the cone is a coil of fine wire (usually copper), called the voice coil or moving coil." So according to the definition of "subwoofer" all he has is 18" subs, not the "biggest subwoofer of the world" by far.

What he has is the largest enclosure, and I'm not even sure if that's right because there are many theaters and amphitheaters designed from the ground up to amplify and direct the sound of bass frequencies which is really all that his enclosure does.

They guy also claims to have the "the biggest AUDIO ROOM for private music listening of the world", but at 6.95 x 8.70 meters (22.8 x 28.5 feet, ~650 sq ft) I have my doubts about that claim too, especially since it has a lcd projector in there so it would have to compete with all those privately owned theaters. I've read that Bill Gate's house has a 1,500 sq ft theater, triple the size of this guy's "the biggest AUDIO ROOM for private music listening of the world".

That was supposed to be a joke. But someone already built one, the Bass-Station. They put a WiFi access point, web server and 128MB drive into a boom box, making it a public-access jukebox. People can connect to it, view or change the playlist, and download its music collection.

My blog includes a lot of info on military airship projects, most of which I've just put up in the past few days. Interesting to see some new info come out. My hypothesis is that these things are in operation as military black projects, and this kind of info is just part of the process of exposing this new generation of airships to the public.

Some folks speculate that these airships may integrate an ion-wind drive utilizing the Biefeld-Brown effect.

I think, if you look carefully enough, that a number of the articles posted at Slashdot Games aren't from the 'usual' sites, and there's plenty of interesting, alternate views out there.

How about Gamers With Jobs, GamerDad, Insert Credit, DIY Games, Terra Nova, Skotos, Curmudgeon Gamer, and GamesIndustry.biz? That's just off the top of my head.

And, of course the normal response applies - if there are alternate views and intelligent comment that aren't being covered here, then write it up, and send us the link - we'd love to include it.

Yeah I think plagarism on the net is rampant. It doesn't even escape the ole penis enlargement crowd!

Does this remind anyone else of the Xanadu House? As a kid I always wanted on of those, they were supposed to be inexpensive to build, easy to maintain, and well insulated.

Maybe if they hadn't pushed all of the other aging technology with it, we would be seeing things like it for new small structures instead of thes extruded houses.

Xanadu House

it's epidemic... eroticmassageblog

Second Life already has a vibrant economy driven by user-created content and some users are choosing to convert their in-world earnings back in US$ via Gaming Open Market. Terra Nova has extensive discussions of the strength of the SL economy, as well as some of the problems that can arise from using real-world currency in virtual worlds -- including resident alienation, loss of suspension of disbelief, and interesting legal implications. It is also somewhat specious to suggest that pulling real-world currency into a virtual world somehow enables user-created content. The billing system, whether in US$ or SL's L$, was certainly a complicated component of the overall product, but it was dwarfed by the complexities of 3D streaming, collaborative creation, and distributed physical simulation.

In a similar way, some Second Life users decided that they wanted to be able to play a traditional RPG within Second Life. The result of their creation was Dark Life, captured in SL's New World Notes. The Dark Lifers have been quite successful and have drawn many players into their game, including many new users. In addition to the usual creature killing, magic spells, healing and leveling, they have also introduced some very interesting twists on traditional RPG gameplay.

Yeah, uh-huh. So who is this lucky dick anyway? From the "About Me" page, he's a regular working stiff from NYC who you can reach by email at thepill3@lycos.com. No name, as far as I can tell.

So, yeah, if you want to beleive a bunch of absolutely unverifiable crap from "thepill3@lycos.com", then yeah, I suppose it might be interesting. At least he provides lots of links to suppliers.

This guy tried a penis enlargement pill and blogged about it. Take a look at his conclusion.

This guy tried a penis enlargement pill and blogged about it. Take a look at his conclusion.

- Mail.app isn't the only MUA in the world that uses baynesian filtering. Mozilla, Thunderbird do too. They both run on Windows and Linux

- Panther has Expose, Linux has virtual desktops.

- Consistent GUI like Aqua vs. Metal vs. Classic vs. 3rd party UI like KPT or Lightwave? I'm interested in your definition of "consistent". Also, Gnome has descriptive buttons too ("discard" and "save").

- Gnome has also sensible defaults. But you can change things, if you want. But you don't have to.

- self containing applications - some are, some are not. See also iTunes. Or any application that uses external frameworks.

- iPhoto is slow. Dog slow. And you can't order digital prints if you don't live in USA or Canada.

- Linux has no product activation.

- Linux just works too (For me. YMMV.)

- You can have encrypted fs too. But yes, it is not one click.

You forgot OSX downsides:

- to play media files, you need to download MPlayer or VLC. Linux applications, right?

- MS Office sucks. Not just like Windows version, Mac version sucks even more. No Unicode support on Unicode OS? Scrambled characters, if they are not in US-ASCII charset? There goes grandaparent's comment about flawless .doc opening. OpenOffice.org does better than that.

How about some real numbers?

I think you mistyped "500%" as "10%".

However, I'd much rather have seen $80B spent on space development than on Bush's Iraq fiasco.

...with its product activation gibberish as described in this tale of woe.

Anyway, I think Michael Malone is correct that this is the leading edge of a cultural sea change, rather than a transient effect of a bad set of new shows.

--Dave

The Original NarrowLog SCO Skit

From the second series of "NarrowLog"

Scene: A website. One thread is occupied by a group of slashdotters with horned helmets on. A man and his wife enter.

Man: You sit here, dear.
Wife: All right.
Man: Morning!
Waitress: Morning!
Man: Well, what've you got?
Waitress: Well, there's IBM and SCO; SCO SUN and MS; MS and SCO; IBM Linux and SCO; IBM Linux Unix and SCO; SCO GPL systemV and SCO; SCO Linus SCO SCO IBM and SCO; SCO bacon IBM SCO SCO RMS SCO Redhat and SCO;
Slashdot posters (starting to chant): SCO SCO SCO SCO...
Waitress: ...SCO SCO SCO IBM and SCO; SCO SCO SCO SCO SCO SCO BSD alloc() SCO SCO SCO...
Slashdot posters (singing): SCO! Incompetent SCO! Horrible SCO!
Waitress: ...or Free as in Freedom Softwarre with Open Sauce served in a Provencale manner with Debian GNU/Linux and gcc garnished with GNOME Desktop, brandy and with a UnixWare on top and SCO.
Wife: Have you got anything without SCO?
Waitress: Well, there's SCO IBM sausage and SCO, that's not got much SCO in it.
Wife: I don't want any SCO!
Man: Why can't she have IBM bacon SCO and RedHat?
Wife: That's got SCO in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much SCO in it as SCO IBM sausage and SCO, has it?
Slashdot posters: SCO SCO SCO SCO (crescendo through next few lines)
Wife: Could you do the IBM Redhat SCO and Linux without the SCO then?
Waitress: Eewwww!
Wife: What do you mean 'Eewwww'? I don't like SCO!
Slashdot posters: Stupid SCO! Horrible SCO!
Waitress: Shut up!
Slashdot posters: Stupid SCO! Ignorant SCO!
Waitress: Shut up! (Slashdot posters don't stop) Bloody Slashdotters! You can't
have IBM Redhat SCO and Linux without the SCO.
Wife (shrieks): I don't like SCO!
Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll pay your SCO license. I love it. I'm having SCO SCO SCO SCO SCO SCO SCO SystemV-unixware SCO SCO SCO and SCO!
Slashdot posters (singing): SCO SCO SCO SCO. Stupid SCO! Ignorant SCO!
Waitress: Shut up!! SytemV is obsolete.
Man: Well could I have her SCO instead of the SystemV then?
Waitress: You mean SCO SCO SCO SCO SCO SCO... (but it is too late and the Slashdotters drown her words)
Slashdot posters (singing elaborately): SCO SCO SCO SCO. Stpuid SCO! Incompetent SCO! SCO sc-o-o-o-o-o-o SCO sc-o-o-o-o-o-o SCO. Stupid SCO! Stuid SCO! Ignorant SCO! Stupid SCO! Horrible SCO! SCO SCO SCO SCO!

The Original NarrowLog SCO Skit

From the second series of "NarrowLog"

Scene: A website. One thread is occupied by a group of slashdotters with horned helmets on. A man and his wife enter.

Man: You sit here, dear.
Wife: All right.
Man: Morning!
Waitress: Morning!
Man: Well, what've you got?
Waitress: Well, there's IBM and SCO; SCO SUN and MS; MS and SCO; IBM Linux and SCO; IBM Linux Unix and SCO; SCO GPL systemV and SCO; SCO Linus SCO SCO IBM and SCO; SCO bacon IBM SCO SCO RMS SCO Redhat and SCO;
Slashdot posters (starting to chant): SCO SCO SCO SCO...
Waitress: ...SCO SCO SCO IBM and SCO; SCO SCO SCO SCO SCO SCO BSD alloc() SCO SCO SCO...
Slashdot posters (singing): SCO! Incompetent SCO! Horrible SCO!
Waitress: ...or Free as in Freedom Softwarre with Open Sauce served in a Provencale manner with Debian GNU/Linux and gcc garnished with GNOME Desktop, brandy and with a UnixWare on top and SCO.
Wife: Have you got anything without SCO?
Waitress: Well, there's SCO IBM sausage and SCO, that's not got much SCO in it.
Wife: I don't want any SCO!
Man: Why can't she have IBM bacon SCO and RedHat?
Wife: That's got SCO in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much SCO in it as SCO IBM sausage and SCO, has it?
Slashdot posters: SCO SCO SCO SCO (crescendo through next few lines)
Wife: Could you do the IBM Redhat SCO and Linux without the SCO then?
Waitress: Eewwww!
Wife: What do you mean 'Eewwww'? I don't like SCO!
Slashdot posters: Stupid SCO! Horrible SCO!
Waitress: Shut up!
Slashdot posters: Stupid SCO! Ignorant SCO!
Waitress: Shut up! (Slashdot posters don't stop) Bloody Slashdotters! You can't
have IBM Redhat SCO and Linux without the SCO.
Wife (shrieks): I don't like SCO!
Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll pay your SCO license. I love it. I'm having SCO SCO SCO SCO SCO SCO SCO SystemV-unixware SCO SCO SCO and SCO!
Slashdot posters (singing): SCO SCO SCO SCO. Stupid SCO! Ignorant SCO!
Waitress: Shut up!! SytemV is obsolete.
Man: Well could I have her SCO instead of the SystemV then?
Waitress: You mean SCO SCO SCO SCO SCO SCO... (but it is too late and the Slashdotters drown her words)
Slashdot posters (singing elaborately): SCO SCO SCO SCO. Stpuid SCO! Incompetent SCO! SCO sc-o-o-o-o-o-o SCO sc-o-o-o-o-o-o SCO. Stupid SCO! Stuid SCO! Ignorant SCO! Stupid SCO! Horrible SCO! SCO SCO SCO SCO!