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I quickly grabbed some screen shots of the images used in the demo and ran them through the GIMP "Smart remove selection" resynthesizer plugin (http://logarithmic.net/pfh/resynthesizer). The results were pretty good.

I uploaded the screen capture to http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=1sgw88&s=5

It was in reruns, at least when I was a kid. I can't say that I remember any of it though. :)

    some shows stick with us though, but some more my speed and still haunt my dreams. :)

Blaming lawyers for our troubles is short-sighted. The number of opportunities in law is actually going down, and the typical advice for people who want to go to law school these days is don't bother. That doesn't sound like some dystopian future world where lawyers would be in high demand suing each other into oblivion.

If your anger should be directed somewhere, it should be directed at the wealthiest 10% of america, who own 72% of it's wealth. Which would be fine (after all, there's nothing inherently wrong with being rich), except they also don't pay their fair share of taxes either, which means cutbacks in education, social services, and so on. They will use their considerable political influence to continue that things continue the way they are, and of course, they've managed to drill into people's heads that more taxes == evil, so you have people frothing at the mouth and protesting against their own best interest.

imho, if you're over 30 and dedicated to facebook, well then, nevermind.

obligatory lolcatz:

http://i50.tinypic.com/15eipo8.jpg

cheers,

The speakers were pretty unreachable under the ceiling, next to the subway sign: http://i46.tinypic.com/atlsm0.jpg - believe me, I thought about that myself once or twice. I also went on a search to find the device where that music was played from, unsuccessfuly, unfortunately. Picture was taken after a football game, btw, usually there wasn't that much police around. ;)

It appears to be an edited rip of Aakash Soneri's Sone. (A comparison: Sone is teal, the new logo face is wine, where it overlaps is cobalt blue.) The changes appear to be as insubstantial as adding a slant to ascenders and shifting the baselines of some of the glyphs.

If Canonical modified Sone, didn't license it, and they start freely distributing it ("our global community will still maintain access to the resources needed to construct logos that use the branding" - so either the modified glyphs for the logo as svg, or the modified font itself), that's a dick move.

And if they did license it, then why is an open-source project licensing commercial fonts and calling it a reflection of the project?

Maybe it's a placeholder - who knows? Canonical doesn't say anything about the font's origin or license in the linked documentation, nor does Canonical's Jono Bacon in his nearly identical announcement.

But it is disappointing to see an open source project - whose community already made LGPL-licensed typefaces for their current logo - make and publicize such a half-assed effort, even in a preliminary stage, without any explanation on the decision.

When you say, as an organization based on community contribution:

"We wanted Ubuntu to reflect the precision and engineering that sits at the heart of the product. The new logo reflects this but not at the expense of the immediately recognisable circle of friends."

And you follow that with a logo that's based on a commercial typeface, you're reneging on that intent in at least one of two ways:

• You're disrespecting the designer of the commercial font by modifying it and refusing to give credit - if it's licensed correctly at all;
• You're disrespecting the open-source community, which includes professional designers who've went to bat for you in the past.

Even if Sone was correctly licensed, and Canonical got permission to modify it for their logo and future redistribution, why not get it from the community?

And if it wasn't licensed correctly, then is Ubuntu following the lead of Arial and just ripping things off in a legal but unethical manner when they can't find what they want in a convenient license?

(And maybe it's a coincidence - a really bad coincidence that still should be fixed. Without any explanation, nobody can tell.)

Or is it more like this

Well that is an optimistic diagram as there are more customers with DRM. It might as well be less. Problem is: you never know - you know the amount of piracy and the amount of customers - but you never know how much you might have sold if you did things different.

By the way, after the reactions to Spore and Bioshock (and a other heavily DRM-ed titles) we tried shipping the recent Prince of Persia without any DRM. Guess what? It was pirated heavily.. more so than any of the previous Prince of Persia games.

How much did the number of legit customers reduce, as opposed to the number of pirates increasing? Or is it more like this?

I have a similar traffic profile, from SBC (it's a business line, don't they try to treat their business customers better? o_O). Cf. http://i50.tinypic.com/2itit86.png

I suspect this is as much due to Crappy Router than Crappy Line. Can you replace your box and see what happens, first, before jumping on your provider?

Here's what the tag cloud looks like with and without the censorship
http://i46.tinypic.com/v79v7c.png

When you click the link for "ISP Filtering" it takes you to a "power by google" search
http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/search?q=ISP Filtering

The fact that a Senator is trying to hide his filtering advocacy from his constituents should tell you all you need to know about the proposal. Most Senators (at least in the USA) go out of their way to trumpet their initiatives and achievements.

Incorrect. It SHOULD be gray, which means for the GP, it was working. With all of the gray pixels in the original image, scaling it down makes you lose almost all the detail instantly.

I just saw the image incorrectly resized and I think I get what he's saying, which is that some of the color data that should be lost (in that example) isn't, presumably because of the gamma error.

I dunno whether TinyPic is slashdot-proof, but this is a screenshot with what I assume the error is (no points for telling me to find a new image host):
http://i45.tinypic.com/imuo40.png

When I viewed the page in Chrome, those thumbs were essentially pure gray rectangles. Considering even on the browser that rendered this (Firefox), the hlaf size was also a gray block, albeit one with a faint outline, these images would have to be errors.

Makes sense to me.

http://tinypic.com/fk5ctf.gif

Scary indeed, and incredibly sad.

You are right on target; I had some serious money to invest in a startup in CA, but the sheer humiliation involved with the immigration process just made me sick. Couple that with a sad growing xenophobic hatred for immigrants, from people with no understanding of economic change, and a firm belief that anyone not born in sacred american soil must not be as smart as them, as deserving as them. It's like Google and Yahoo, founded by *those horrible people==immigrants* do not employ Americans. I don't think for a second that SV is sinking; it will float because of its sheer brainpower, money, and network-effects magnetism. But the USA is--you can't live on borrowed money and think that no troubles will happen, ever. China has, with its 2+ Trillion of greenbacks, bought the USA, and it's just waiting for the receipt. F**k everything; my money is now on gold while I wait for the dollar collapse.

Google won me with speed, but, as usual with everything except search and GMail, they are losing me with bugs and a lack of features (Print Preview, the ability to remove typos from my search history

I agree with you. I switched to Chrome as my main browser for similar reasons. I used to use Firefox, but I became weary of how slow Firefox is relative to Chrome, even without extension. With extensions it's a joke. (Side note: I like the userscript extension method in the Chrome Beta - which is very stable for a Beta). But why, as you say, can't they have a half intelligent search history, like Firefox? Why does the browser constantly chatter to 1e100.net? image If this is a Google server, why doesn't it LOOK like a Google server? Why doesn't a Google search for "Chrome plugins" have as a result the proper Extensions page? https://chrome.google.com/extensions. In fact, why is that page the SECOND result for "Chrome extensions"? Mystifying.

I tried to switch to Chrome version 3 for the javascript speed but I couldn't handle the slow html rendering of that version of Webkit. One of my peeves is grabbing the scroll bar on the right side of my browser and sliding it rapidly through a long page with lots of images and text and having the refresh framerate drop to jerky levels. Webkit did that for me (I tried Safari, too). IE was actually faster at html rendering than either of the Webkit browsers, but still a bit slow. Firefox is my standard, and even though it beat IE, Chrome, and Safari, the reason I was shopping for a new browser in the first place was to fix what I had seen as Firefox's slow html rendering. As a major surprise for me, Opera was noticeably faster than Firefox and easily the overall champion. I switched to Opera for a couple days then missed the quality of FF's adblock and noscript and went back.

Why does the browser constantly chatter to 1e100.net? image If this is a Google server, why doesn't it LOOK like a Google server?

I suspect they were going for 1x10^100, which is by definition a googol

Google won me with speed, but, as usual with everything except search and GMail, they are losing me with bugs and a lack of features (Print Preview, the ability to remove typos from my search history

I agree with you. I switched to Chrome as my main browser for similar reasons. I used to use Firefox, but I became weary of how slow Firefox is relative to Chrome, even without extension. With extensions it's a joke. (Side note: I like the userscript extension method in the Chrome Beta - which is very stable for a Beta).

But why, as you say, can't they have a half intelligent search history, like Firefox? Why does the browser constantly chatter to 1e100.net? image If this is a Google server, why doesn't it LOOK like a Google server? Why doesn't a Google search for "Chrome plugins" have as a result the proper Extensions page? https://chrome.google.com/extensions. In fact, why is that page the SECOND result for "Chrome extensions"?

Mystifying.

There are already pics like this one, that you can see in 3D if you cross your eyes right. It's actually not that hard, but I don't know about a whole movie like that.

My shitty attempt at Photoshopping:

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2wd7y8k&s=6

There are some hardcore cheats. Like for example this Domination game http://i45.tinypic.com/rausfn.jpg
Those 2 dudes were using AC130 105mm cannon like a machine gun and they obviously didn't leave after people complained, they just laughed. Sometimes when u respawned u were already dead, not that funny on my side. I hear this was actually some kind of bug in game, that was patched, but I guess not good enough? Anyway, ticket with steam support is pending for 2 days now, wonder if they have at least some kind of logs of what happens in those games... Whats best is that they claim they don't accept cheaters reports, cause their anti-cheat system is flawless or sth and they rely only on that @_@

As for the aimbots, I can never be sure. Sometimes I think its inhumane what they are doing, but when I see my co-worker play, I start to doubt that and just blame it on my lack of skill. If they are using aimbots, then usually u can't really tell, unless your some kind of terminator.

I can also confirm, that in domination nukes aren't that frequent. Perhaps 5% of games, and sometimes just for the fun at the end of game. I also saw people using nuke when they were actually loosing! I guess just for the achievement.

I think you just fail completely at using linux. Why? Well because I'm on OpenSuse 11.2 and have Chrome running. As a matter of fact I'll provide you a picture to prove I'm 11.2, using latest Chrome and w/ working Flash, just so you don't think I'm a troll. As a matter of fact I think this Slashdot news post is from a troll anyways. http://i45.tinypic.com/23m770w.jpg

It appears that the screenshot was taken from the real Windows XP, and Ylmf OS does not look much like XP, but rather exactly like Gnome.

Here's a screenshot taken from someone who installed the ISO in VMWare and changed the locale to English: http://i50.tinypic.com/2lar9s0.jpg

Er, what? When I look at the screenshots, I see exact same icons as in XP. So much so, in fact, that I'm certain that they've just ripped them out of XP resource files.

AFAICS the screenshots in the article *are* from XP. This is how it really looks, as per comment #12 from the article:
http://i50.tinypic.com/2lar9s0.jpg

If you haven't seen evidence of a scam yet, you need to open your eyes, remove your hand from in front of them and start looking. Here's a start.

This was from a book of ridiculous exam answers in UK exams:

http://i45.tinypic.com/eqp46d.jpg

What shocked me was not the answer but the question. It seems the UK government doesn't care about investigation or evidence and simply takes the stance that "the science is decided". If anyone questioned this they would no doubt just employ some "scientists" to manipulate the data and backup their per-conceived assumptions.

Heck; it's amazing how many sites forbid the '+' sign that Google takes advantage of

Here's what happened in hotmail when I tried to e-mail to [name]+bananas@hotmail.com
http://i49.tinypic.com/fbjh1j.png
I googled that odd character and it seems to be Chinese

Hotmail treats the "send a message from one of your disposable addresses" generated by Spamgourmet as a typo.

Plus, Zuckerberg is an arrogant, greedy Jew. He also made a gay sex tape while high on ecstasy and amyl nitrate while in college. Word on the street is that he's secretly negotiating a deal to buy the incriminating evidence from his former gay lover, a black man named Jermaine.

Marc Zuckerberg: He'll zuck any dick, including yours.

What's wrong with KDE?

To give you just one example:
I'm an IT person (CS, to be precise), and I have used Linux almost exclusively on the desktop for the last 10 years. And so forth.
Now, when I click on that shiny icon in the right hand upper corner, and click 'Zoom Out', it scares the hell out of me. I have no slightest clue what to do, it looks like it my machine needed a fresh install, and I barely can get my desktop back.
http://i30.tinypic.com/2sbqr05.jpg gives you an example. Aside of the hand-drawn red arrows, it is supposed to look like that and it does. It 'helps' users to define their 'activities'. One way or another, it's totally over my top. 'Usability' must be a word lacking in the German language.

The summary is complete shit in this issue. Slashdot editors should fact-check the submission for the love of god.

I hope they get a defamation suit by Hilmar Veigar Pétursson (CCP CEO) for this bulllshit.

Right now, people come that come into Slashdot or search in google will believe that Eve Online and CCP are criminals.

STOP BEING PIECE OF SHIT LAZY YOU FUCKING EDITORS /rant

I'm going with Sagan on this one: "The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge and there is no place for it in the endeavor of science."

This is a good quote, but not very suitable in this debate, as most of the "sceptics" are not sceptical as in "can be convinced if shown proper evidence" but are sceptical as in "I believe [whatever] and cannot be convinced otherwise".

The former deserves to be heard - if they can behave at the debate, i.e. not asking questions that have already been asked and answered and know that certain things are not only "not right but it is entirely possible for things to be " not wrong " as well. Unfortunately very few people fall into this category.

We all know them - these are the people who will swear up and down, on their mother's left tit, to God and all the heavens, that it is impossible to do something, and when you then show them how to do it, will tell you that this wasn't what they meant, and they knew it all along, and you're just an idiot showing off.

Like the people screaming their lungs off at the town hall meetings, calling Obama a nazi and holding signs saying " Keep your government hands out of my medicaid ". Whether or not you want the government to introduce public health care for everyone, you do have to agree that neither of those shows any kind of willingness to change your position, nor a willingness to be informed about the subject at hand.

Some people quite simply do not belong at a debate or discussion on something. Period.

Probably because you do not use the Dutch version: proof.

Here, try this one. Read the email,

http://www.anelegantchaos.org/cru/emails.php?eid=146&filename=939154709.txt

examine the effect on the reporting.

http://i49.tinypic.com/mk8113.jpg

As this archive has only been out for a couple days, it's probably safe to suspect that's not the most dubious thing to be found.

I agree that even snide and conniving scientists can be good ones as long as they merely massage charts to look good rather than fudge data. But beyond their FOIA resistance and all of the politics of how much CO2 is warming (or will be) there is one glaring problem. Temperature doesn't seem to be going up beyond what is totally normal. By that I mean actual temperature measured by THERMOMETERS not by tree rings. The temperature records in fact DO go back far enough to judge what is going on. Not many stations, but the ones that do exist MATCH the modern multi-1000s of station data quite perfectly: http://i45.tinypic.com/iwq8a1.jpg

Dear KDE devs,

Please rethink the vertical text that has infected KDE4 like so much ringworm. It's hard to read, hard to use, and completely unnecessary. Also, please stop aping Windows Vista and 7. Or at least stop copying their bad ideas.

Thanks.

I personally love vertical text and have no trouble reading it :D long live vertical text, but yeah don't copy windows or that OSX of apple their crap

Dear KDE devs,

Please rethink the vertical text that has infected KDE4 like so much ringworm. It's hard to read, hard to use, and completely unnecessary. Also, please stop aping Windows Vista and 7. Or at least stop copying their bad ideas.

Thanks.

Agreed. If I wanted to use Windows, I'd go out and buy Windows 7. The new desktop feels like something that fell off the back of the Vista lorry. Also, 3D effects have their place; generally in movies where you wear funny spectacles. You don't need 3D to read an e-mail or write a word processor document. And as for the plasmoids... perhaps they would have been better termed spasmoids, would give a new user a hint of expected performance that way...

Dear KDE devs,

Please rethink the vertical text that has infected KDE4 like so much ringworm. It's hard to read, hard to use, and completely unnecessary. Also, please stop aping Windows Vista and 7. Or at least stop copying their bad ideas.

Thanks.

If you find that your text editor has to much wasted space, and you don't like frilly visuals, perhaps you should try the next generation of editors

Dear KDE devs,

Please rethink the vertical text that has infected KDE4 like so much ringworm. It's hard to read, hard to use, and completely unnecessary. Also, please stop aping Windows Vista and 7. Or at least stop copying their bad ideas.

Thanks.

Please MORE vertical text! at least make it configurable. I have no problems reading vertical text. the files in the "wasted space" of the above pictture should be stored in vertical text.

but what I'd really like is vertical titlebars on the applications.

Dear KDE devs,

Please rethink the vertical text that has infected KDE4 like so much ringworm. It's hard to read, hard to use, and completely unnecessary.

Abso-fucking-lutely! Whoever thought that was a good idea should be shot at dawn.

Dear KDE devs,

Please rethink the vertical text that has infected KDE4 like so much ringworm. It's hard to read, hard to use, and completely unnecessary. Also, please stop aping Windows Vista and 7. Or at least stop copying their bad ideas.

Thanks.

"...(he has a comical white rim around his mouth)."

Like this guy does?

+5

Nobody claims that Jesus rode a dinosaur.

I make that claim regularly.

Oblig

So they want games to end like this?

Here's a blownup and labeled screenshot of my handy little System Memory Monitor. http://i36.tinypic.com/290y3ad.png

The problem is that Windows doesn't tell apart the light green bit (cache) from the dark green bit (memory actually being used by programs). Which one accounts for the 700MB? You can't tell, on Windows. That is what the GP was complaining about.

I am having difficulty imagining what an enjoyable advertisement in a game would be. Sure, a realistic video game Times Square would have ads. You wouldn't recognize Times Square without ads.

However, how many games really take place in a realistic environment where ads would be natural? After all, Times Square is really in a class of few in its placing of ads at the heart of the place.

The only ad I've ever seen in a video game is billboards advertising Intel Core2 processors in the Highway Tampa map for Battlefield2.

Seriously, what kind of sense does it make to have a billboard advertising computer processors in the middle of a contested desert occupied by two villages, two air bases, a refinery, a gas station, two security check points, and some oil derricks? Ads just aren't going to be able to enhance these kinds of environments...

Found the link in a BoingBoing comment
http://www.ralphlauren.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3558821&camp=affiliate_k108283
She looks more human here.

I found a link to the original image

Ralph Lauren Thin Model

The graphical artist actually put some weight on her.

let's not forget the screwed by sony part... sony pushed a "special" screw for 61+ euro when it was not special at all.

You can't tell from the photo, but that screw has a rootkit built in! If you had used a normal screw, you'd be deprived of getting screwed twice.

let's not forget the screwed by sony part...
sony pushed a "special" screw for 61+ euro when it was not special at all.

http://i35.tinypic.com/2q1z68m.jpg

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2007/may/28/sonyuserscrew

Case in point (for browser vertical space that is).

I really really wanted a smidgen more vertical space (1280x768 on a fixed 800-width school website is absolutely painful) so... this is my solution. The VertTabbar extension for Firefox, then stuffing the address bar into the top of the browser. Combined with FireGestures to provide an alternate route to commonly used functions, this is hugely more usable on skinny websites with this rather awkward "widescreen" monitor.

Therefore, until someone comes up with a way to do this again in FF4.0 (admittedly I'm on Linux*, on which the introduction of a ribbon might never happen), I'll sit on my 3.5.

*Unlike many fanbois here, yes I do use Linux - a girl, on Slashdot, walking the walk and talking the talk. Don't make me outgeek you!

Rule 35: If no porn is found at the moment, it will be made.

Source

Mod parent funny, and yourselves as dumb.
http://i37.tinypic.com/14npvtk.jpg

Maxtor (< Quantum, Seagate (< Maxtor.
(< is the buyout (Pac Man) symbol.
(<>) is for mergers.

Teachers assigning detention to a student for being corrected doesn't help

http://i29.tinypic.com/j5iiyo.jpg

If public schools are teaching it is more important by far to "obey your superiors" even if they are obviously wrong, verses being correct, who in their right mind would want to be punished for knowing the correct answers?

Posting anon as I am at work. If due to that you don't trust the URL above (Hey, I totally understand), it is an image of a teachers note sent home to a students parent(s).
I will attempt to transcribe:

April 20th, 1994

Dear Mrs. (blacked-out),

You may already know this, but in case Alex has neglected to tell you, I am assigning him to detention for one hour this Friday, April 22nd. The reason is as follows:

Alex has consistently defied me. During class he contradicted me numerous times when I insisted that the length of one kilometer was greater than that of one mile. Every other student in class accepted my lesson without argument, but your son refused to believe what I told him, offering such rebuttals as, "You're lying to the class," and commanding other students to challenge my curriculum.

Although he was correct, Alex's actions show a blatant disregard for authority, and a complete lack of respect for his school. In the future, Alex would be better off simply accepting my teachings without resistance.

Please see to it that your son understands this.

Now, while I fully admit it is quite possible the student was being disriptive and disrespectful in his corrections to the teacher. The teacher has however not mentioned any of that was happening in her letter.

The fact remains, the teacher clearly wants lemmings to come out of her class, whom can't think for themselves at all, and are trained to mindlessly follow orders.
This is about as opposed to 'learning' as one can get.

I know that I too would not at all accept a false statement as fact, no matter how many times it was stated. I too would encourage others to think for themselves and always question everything.