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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."
FP?
Zealot, pig headed and bloody minded,
Sterotypical Slashdot user;
The worse thing is the editors,
One's an habitual child abuser! News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters.
We hear it all the time;
You'll be moderated into oblivion,
Unless you toe the party line. Government corruption, RIAA lies,
Oh! A big tax on MP3!
I've got 40 gigs of music,
And none owing to piracy. Flame and SHOUT and type *sigh*
It makes themselves look gay;
On any proper message board,
They'd just be cleared away! First year of a uni ed,
They think they know it all;
Installed RedHat from a CD,
And blitzed the '98 install. But soon they'll notice problems,
When MS Word will work no more;
The answer to their worries is
Q247804 Jesus Christ this site is lame,
Predictable Microsoft bashing;
But no-one mentions the 2.4 tree,
When bug caused filesystem crashing. Security holes debated all the time,
You'd think they'd get it right;
But Linux servers are just as bad,
Warnings published out of sight. Linux this and Linux that,
Open Source Mandrake Red Hat;
"I wanna hack my microwave!",
Piss off you stupid twat. To sum it up with a simple phrase,
(the zealots have started crying);
Linux was just a fad and phase,
Thank god Slashdot is dying.
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.
Can someone tell me what the hell 1337 and h4x0r mean. Why don't they just write the word with letters instead of numbers.
You karma drag-race too?
After the cap came, I maxed out a half-dozen accounts. It just gets boring once you hit the top.
Anonymous because this is meta-discussion.
Think before you post!
FP!
well aren't you a fucking hero then
LOL too funny!
What a terrorist.
You conviently neglected the fact that he didn't know it wasn't a videogame.
Note to moderators:
This post and parent are BAD PLOT SPOILERS.
Please MOD THIS POST DOWN TO -1 to match parent post. Thankyou.
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
I have some candy!
Would you like some?
Come closer.
Closer.
That's right.
<bonk>
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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