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The 2.5 Kernel Tree And Alan Cox
Motor writes "It seems that (as everyone suspected), the 2.5 Linux kernel tree is close to opening. However, contrary to expectations, 2.4 will not be maintained by Alan Cox, but will instead be handled by Marcelo Tosatti. Thanks to Alan for all his hard work on 2.0 and 2.2."
And we love Heather
you must be a newbie here. At slasdot, alot of stuf is spellled wrong. that inkludes comments And news storys.
wait this isn't a story about ipod?
plz
Whilst not wishing to condone the generally apalling standard of English found on Slashdot (& that's just in my posts ;-) I think you may be a little confused.
Rules of correct use of English are not prescriptive. They are guidelines, helping to ensure one is understood. Bad English is difficult to understand English. Your point, sir, is mere nitpicking.
Respectfully,
- Derwen
http://fsfeurope.org/
Interesting!
What? If Star Trek doesn't have Kirk and Spock, it doesn't have you?
Halt! I am AnCow, destroyer of worthy notes, and protector of the Holy Bulletin Board. This board is now under my protection (due to recent redistrictring in the northwest area).
None shall post beyond me! Try, and ye shall perish a death worse than.......death!
Do not Test my unbearable power of Posting Prevention!
I cast the spell of "anti-posta" upon thee! Run, vanquished smidgeon upon the sole of my mighty idiom! Go! Flee!
bwa-hahahahhahaha
is that even possible?
Cox does not want to maintain because he does not get to Cox linus's ass. Linus is no more gay, and Cox is going back to his gay roots: BSD, along with his buddies Kirk and other guy.
just so you know Windows XP is choice of REAL MEN.
Oh yes... I mean, how would I know?
I want AC's message up there for all posterity. Maybe I will capture it and make it my root picture.
Infuriate left and right
BS...RH is removing developers to make them produce money...sounds like trouble.
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party. You've got to fight. For your right. To parrrrrrrrr-taaaaayyyyyyyy!
u are a good spellar aren't you? cool doude.
gotta love mr. bungle and manowar.
There's another fine fucking thing spoiled by terrorists. I mean, the Mafia just doesn't cut it as evil anymore. Sure they might make you wear cement overshoes, but they always had a reason. None of this fucking business of putting a hit on somebody just for the hell of it. What's up with that? They gotta no respect I tells ya.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Is there any rationale at all behind that rule? I've never liked it; whenever I put a title on something (that isn't going to be read by uptight people who are giving me grades or money), I capitalize every word in it. It's at least as readable (I think it looks better), and I don't like propagating pointless rules.
/. crew from being pig-ignorant and illiterate.
Of course, this doesn't excuse the
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Damned straight ... even according to Struck & White !
These days, when some kid does something at school, most people will blame video games or their pop culture. I want to discuss two topics, video game violence, and their pop culture. In this post i will discuss video game violence and the sterotypes brought to it. To get into my mind of thought, you'll have to think back to the 1980s, before I was born, and to Atari. One of the most successful games was Pong, a simple game, yet was very popular. The original point of a video game was fun, competition, just like a game you play with your friends (i.e. Football, basketball etc.). Most of these days adults think of games as Doom, Quake and other violent games, and blame those games when their children get shot by some maniac at school. The only reason "sane" people play video games is for competition, to say, "I'm better than you are" or "I beat you". Pong is a great example, the point of pong isn't to bash the walls with a ball, bounce the ball into your opponents paddle and make it fall off of the screen, bounce it rapidly and destroy everything on screen, or blow up anything. The point of pong is to get the ball past your opponents paddle, and accomplishing that gave you points. The first person to a certain amount of points would win; accomplishing this goal would earn bragging rights to your opponent. We could go on to a game such as tempest, the point of tempest isn't to blow up as many enemies as possible, devastate a battlefield and hurt things, hurt things crawling up a web that intend to hurt you, or blow up and destroy stuff. The point of tempest is mainly a "save the princess" plot, where you protect yourself, and get past the enemies to victory, achieving higher scores and journeying farther than you have before, then telling your friends that you made it to level 100 and that your score was in the billions, then having a competition whether he could beat you or not. You could even go to golden eye, doom or quake and show what a video game is meant for, that everyone who hasn't played a game before takes everything for face value, like a movie trailer. Doom was never as successful as a multiplayer game like counter-strike or golden eye, or alien vs. predator, or nba jam Simply because a competition game, a multiplayer game is the most played game. the point of doom was to protect your base from these invading aliens who wanted to kill all and you were one lone soldier with a bad boy gun that would kill all, the point of the game is to get to the last level, to find any secret levels, and eliminate all enemies possible, avoiding none, and leaving no one. If you were to go to your friend as say "I played doom today and it was fun, I saw blood and guts all over my screen and killed 10 with one shot!" he'd think you were crazy, weird and were going to shoot up a school. The sane child would go to a friend and say "I beat doom in one day and had 2,000,000 points, beat that!" and his friend would think he was good and would want to see him win again with that same score. A point of a video game is for competitive purposes, not to see how much guts and blood you can blast onto your screen, but to see the effectiveness of yourself, to see that you could obtain a high score with 3 shots with a super-effective weapon you found in a hidden area. The point of the original video game was to beat your friend; the point of the modern-day game is to beat your friend. In counter-strike, the point isn't to save the world from terrorist, or to blow up the WTC, it is to beat your friend because you have a better aim, you have better hand-eye-coordination, you have a better computer and because you are better than they are. The saving the world from terrorist or blowing up targeted buildings is a side-story put there for the purpose of attracting people and mostly "eye candy". Just like Super Mario, the point isn't to learn the story, save the princess, or finish the game, its to get a high score finishing the game, finishing the game early and finding all the secret areas and sharing them with your friend. Most unsuccessful games, for example Mortal Kombat gold, are just games created by freaks, thinking because they have nice graphics and a lot of blood and guts get spilled, they will attract customers, but in reality they have left out the basics of video-gaming, you can't get a high score in mortal kombat gold, you can't beat people fast because you are better, you beat them because you push A faster and the brute force kills them. A game like street fighter, where you have special moves, combos, special characters, and scores, you can compare to your friend how well you can perform a special move or combo, which special characters you have obtained, and how fast you eliminate the enemy, unlike mortal kombat which has no scores, no special moves, no special combos (except those finish him stuff) and no time limit that forces you to be fast-paced. Street fighter is more fast-paced and you must do a lot of hits and maneuvering to get a great score and beat your friend. These days, most people will look at games like mortal kombat that are unsuccessful and say that these kids played them and killed people because of it, but in reality all successful games have the basic elements of video games, the basic principles that were in video games since the beginning, competition. The unsuccessful games lack those properties and usually only appeal to a certain audience, like adult video games, which have no point at all except entertaining you like a movie. Mortal kombat gold entertains you like a movie, nothing else at all, not a true video games. In every TRUE video game you will find the basic element of competition, and you will find that you don't play quake to see the blood and guts, you play it to out-play your friend...
you would think that the trolls around these parts would at least be somewhat creative with the free time that they have and all, but alas they are relinquished to quoting bad music that was made when even I was in high school.
Someday the trolls will impress me again - until then the can continue to quote vlad drac and his more creative crew. Stupid shits.
Exactly, kinda obvious that they are only looking for more karma. I like Heather Donahue btw.