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D-VHS to Hit The Market This Week
An Anonymous Coward writes: "Yahoo News is has an article stating that D-VHS is hitting the market this week. The upside: D-VHS supports full high-definition picture quality. The down side: $35 - $45 per movie (although available for less) and $2k for a player. Seems to me you'd lose a lot of that HD picture after a few viewings too. 4 studios are supporting it: 'JVC persuaded Fox, Universal, DreamWorks and Artisan to support the format after developing a new copy-protection standard it calls D-Theater to prevent unauthorized copying of the high-definition movies'."
FUCK you all!
Today in the news D-VHS has been shown to be decreasing by 99% of 0.0001% leading experts in the field to believe that D-VHS is, in fact, dying. Richard Stallman, founder of the upstart Free Software Foundation was quotae as saying, "It's GNU/D-VHS damn you GNU/D-VHS!!!!!" Eric Raymond was reached for comment but he shot both of our journalists dead proclaiming, "Git offa mah propherty you city boy!" Cmdr. Taco and Hemos were unavailable for comment as they are currently in an undisclosed location doing ungodly things to CowboyNeal who by all accounts, has been dressed up in a leather and latex montage and forced to consecrate with small asian monkeys.
In other news Linus Torvalds, founder of the Loonix software movement was found chastising pigeons in a NYC subway earlier today. He claimed they were in it with the queers. Bill Gates commented, "That's what happens when you do not charge for your product, dimentia sets in and *WHAM!* you're gone." He then added, "Besides 640k should be enough for anybody."
Hey. Anime freak. Nobody uses S-VHS, and nobody is talking about it. Why don't you go back and watch Cowboy Bebop again, or some other Japanese animation that employes tired racial stereotypes?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Hey. Anti-anime freak. People use S-VHS who are not in the know, and they are talking about it. Why don't you go back and watch TV again, or some other American production that employs even more tired racial stereotypes?
The world can be wrong today for once.
Hello Slashdot, I am seeking advice from possible former-nerds and social rejects. No, this is not meant to insult or hurt anyones feelings, I just thought maybe some of you could help me out as you may have been in a similar situation in your life.
Anyways, this is a serious post.. I am looking for advice to make something of my life.
Here it goes:
I am a 22 year old male living with my parents..
Since I graduated high school with a "D" average, I've done nothing but work one hour a day at a local coffee shop so I can afford my habbit of going through a 24-pack of Caffeine-Free Diet Pepsi per-day (Yes, it is ironic that I drink caffeine-free soda when I work at a coffee shop, but my doctor says I should not drink caffeine any more because I've already done intensive damage to my liver.
I spend much of my free time reading and trolling Slashdot (with my current job, that allows for 23 hours minus some random number of hours for sleep). I also spend much of my time tinkering with computers and programming, mainly Linux type stuff. I've never really written anything usefull or contributed to any usefull open-source project, but doing what I do makes me feel important and elite.
I've never had a girlfriend or any type of relationship, never kissed a girl or had sex. I only shower about once every two to three days because I very rarely leave the house. The only incentive I have for showering as often as I do is that the stench from my self becomes too much for me to handle. You might wonder how a non-athletic computer geek like my self could end up smelling so bad, well I'll tell you that I get really worked up when my perl script notifies me of a new story with 0 posts. My heart beats intensely, my palms become sweaty and entire body trembles. I sometimes screw up my post because my hands shake too much and I try to hit Submit too early, so I miss out and I end up having to wait and I get like fifth post.
Basically the only time I leave the house is to purchase blank CD's when I need them immediately, rather than ordering them online. This is usually to burn pornographic movies for my self or warez which I sell to the neighborhood kids.
You should see my bedroom, it is stacked sky-high with computer books and magazines, dirty clothes and dishes, old pizza boxes and take out food containers, computer parts, notes, soda cans, etc. My parents are so annoying; they try and tell me to clean up my room, but why should I? No one ever comes in to it except my self. I also can't risk leaving my computer because I might miss getting a First Post on Slashdot (I wrote a perl script to refresh Slashdot and check for new stories).
My daily routine throughout the week is pretty much the same. I start off by waking up around 1:00pm, the first thing I do is roll out of bed and plop my self into my comfortable desk chair. After getting seated properly I log onto my Linux machine and immediately check Slashdot and my email. After about an hour or so of computer usage I usually get hungry so I scrounge around my room for some left-over fast-food from the day before (usually some McDonalds french fries or a slice or two of pizza). So, this continues onto the early hours of the morning (around 4:00am). Before I go to bed I do not brush my teeth, because I am way too lazy and I could care less about my breath or care of my teeth. So thats about all my day consists of. The highlight of the week is on Fridays when my mom prepares my favorite meal (this is the only time she cooks for me). The meal consists of kosher hot dogs on a fresh bun with a side of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese with a glass of cherry Kool-Aid.
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