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MPEG-4 Hardware Decoder For $99
secondsun writes: "Tom's Hardware has the story. Apparently sigma designs has made a PCI card that decodes DiVX movies in reltime with little processor overhead." Under a hundred bucks, too.
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Thank your respectful deities for the Second Amendment.
Zionist government steal Palestinian land from families who have lived there 100+ years to build housing settlements for bigoted religious fanatics
Israeli troops respond to unarmed protesters with bullets
Palestinian people are harrassed and humiliated every day by Zionist border police and army troops
Palestinian people have been denied legal representation as a nation ("Statehood") for 50+ years making them prsisoners in their own land
The only concentration camps in middle east are Zionist-run refugee camps for palestinian refugees with no future no hope
END THE ILLEGAL OCCUPATION!!! The bombings will not stop until there is JUSTICE!!!
"Quoting yourself in your sig is like bragging about your Star Wars lego collection. In your own mind, it might make you feel cool...but to everyone else, it just reveals that you're a total fucking tool. hope you realize this soon and take appropriate remedies. "
/. population. I'm sorry your hardwired brain is incapable of understanding anything that cannot be explained as a 1-sentence metaphor, but my sig still stands. Question: Do you get this hostile when somebody wears their hat backwards? You strike me as that type.
:)
You're making assumptions about why I quoted myself, and you're completely wrong.
I did't quote myself out of ego or self gratification. I originaly put my sig without the quote. I did this because I got tangled up in a thread where about 15 people or so (not exaggerating) all jumped down my throat about a post I made. 3 of them got my point and politely rebutted my comment. The rest of them said "what you're saying is like..." and they put in a really obtuse and oversimplified metaphor that, really, was unrelated. All they did was read the first couple of lines of my post and responded to that.
So I put in a sig that said "Don't bother using a metaphor to prove me wrong...it means you don't get my point" because I was sick of people being so shitheaded about it.
However, somebody approached me and said that they thought I had typed that in my original post. With Slashdot, it's really hard to tell what is really a sig unless you change your default settings. So what I did was I looked around at other people's sigs and determined that the ones that were the most obvious sigs were quotes from other people.
So I quoted myself, and now you know it's my sig as oppposed to thinking I added that to the end of a post. If Slashdot had better default settings, I would have left the comment plain. I'm a System Analyst. I design interfaces for a living. I made a design choice with my sig as a better interface to the rest of the
"Quoting yourself in your sig is like bragging about your Star Wars lego collection..." -- This is a very good example of what the sig is talking about. You used an incorrect metaphor to prove me wrong, and it turns out you totally didn't get my point. The result? You're wrong, and you look overly sensitive and hostile. I can imagine people reading your post and thinking you have a really thick forehead.
Thank you for illustrating why I needed this sig in the first place, it is much appreciated. Now I can link back to you when people ask about it! I was hoping somebody as boneheaded as you would come along and prove my point! Thank ya mucho!
"Derp de derp."
Umm okay. I didn't expect nor desire to get modded up for pasting the link. I didn't expect to get modded down though. The whole reason I wrote the linked post was to specifically answer 3 people's questions. I figured if I wrote it once and pasted a link to the other two, it'd be better than re-posting what I originally wrote.
*Sigh* Oh well. I apologize for trying to answer people's questions.
"Derp de derp."
You reply only serves to show what a giant tool you are. He was making fun of you, and you write a huge, serious retort. He wasn't comparing your huge Star Wars collection with your sig, he was comparing you with a giant tool (such as a Monster Truck or crane).
-Mark