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Slashback: Swiftness, Ender's, Streams
When it comes to records, context begets significance. Fandu writes: "In regards to the article about the new internet2 land speed record.. That is not correct, The Canadian CA*Net3 network is about 60X faster still. It may be a net speed record for Internet2, but it's certainly no new internet speed record. See the ABC Article about the network from a few years back and the NOC webpage."
And no one is in line for tickets yet? flea writes: "So, fans of orson scott card (to whom I was turned onto by luna) should be happy. The books Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow are on the track to being made into a movie. Script is being written and OSC is involved in the process. It's being made by Wolfgan Petersen, who has a few hits and misses (http://us.imdb.com/Name?Petersen,+Wolfgang); Air Force One and Outbreak are, well, ya know ... To his credit though, he did Enemy Mine, the movie with Louis Gossett Jr. playing the speach impediment'd alien trapped on a rock after a battle with Dennis Quaid and then LGj gives birth (wtf). C'mon, we all liked that. Anyway, it hasn't even started filming yet and the script isn't done, but things look good. More info here."
Speak up for Ogg Vorbis! SgtChaireBourne writes: "The BBC's testing period for Ogg Vorbis is now finished, but they are still soliciting feedback.
Now's the chance to add any words of encouragement to the BBC regarding Ogg, especially since, perhaps by oversight, RealOne (formerly RealPlayer) is now only available for Windows 98, 2000, ME, NT and XP. Currently, the download page for older versions seem to turn up empty for all requests for Linux versions, but deep links can still get you there.
As far as I can tell, the BBC is the first large (or even medium) news service to try Ogg. Here is last year's announcment on Slashdot about the start of the test."
"Sounds cool." blocksetter writes: "Cool Chips plc appreciates the interest of the Slashdot community. We've made an effort to address the points raised in last week's discussion of our technology and we've posted the resulting FAQ on our site. In the interest of conserving bandwidth, a text-only version is available for your viewing pleasure. We would like to thank everybody whose questions and criticisms inspired us to do this.
If there is something we haven't covered, you can also write directly to Cool Chips President Isaiah Cox, or to myself, Company Wonky Chris Bourne."
DIE you BASTARD!!!!!!!
It was a great book
Flamebait? You didn't deserve that. I didn't like the book either.
I'd rather read a REAL SF classic like War of the Worlds.
It's funny. Laugh. (tm)
Besides, for it to be 'karma drag-racing' would imply that I karma-whored my way up, which isn't true. I just don't bother posting unless I feel it's something worthwhile.
As a side note, I've decided to keep my sig only until someone comments on it. My new game is to see how quickly I can get someone to comment on my next sig.
Oh, and I'll quote my sig here, just so it's preserved for posterity after I go and change it: "Zero to 50 in only 88 comments!"
"Anything is better than IE, and you can quote me on that." -- Wil Wheaton.
Well, he actually did deserve flamebait, he was expressing the opposite of what everyone else was, and not very politely, usually I dont mind controversy, but when People "Hate" or "Extrememly Dislike" I personally tend to put them in a "Flamebait" catagory :D; (Hehe, here comes Mod -1; Troll :D)
raVen
It wasn't bad, but then in the second to last stanza
Linux this and Linux that,
Open Source Mandrake Red Hat;
"I wanna hack my microwave!",
Piss off you stupid twat.
it went to hell as -three- unforgivable sins were committed:
1) The fourth line only exists to make the 2-4 rhyming scheme work. It's lame profanity that adds nothing to the content of the poem, the author just -needed- something to rhyme with "Hat". That's laziness.
2) "Hat" and "twat" don't rhyme. They aren't even close. Trying to read it so that they do makes it sound even more stupid.
3) The commission of sin #1 to make a rhyme, only to commit sin #2 and not rhyme at all!
I've heard poems and songs say stupid crap just to make a rhyme, but at least they then managed to rhyme! This is just sad.
So no, don't mod it up. It was done by a lazy hack, who should really be ashamed of themself for ruining a good piece.
By the way, for any revision, I recommend making the word to rhyme with "Hat" be "fat", since everyone knows Linux users are obese.
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