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ISO Could Withdraw JPEG Standard
McSpew writes "According to The Register, the ISO is prepared to withdraw JPEG as a standard if Forgent Networks continues to assert its patent claims over JPEG's compression algorithm." I'm sure the JPEG committee would still be happy to hear of prior art.
Natalie Portman's panties in the moonlight
Smooth, silky panties
Panties oh so tight
Natalie Portman's furburger
Is oh so right!
Peas out...
w00t - go tr011ax0r!
I'm not trolling here; but PNG is superior in every way. Forgent Networks can cry and whine all they want, it's not going to have any adverse affect on anything enar me.. as it's all PNG :).
no text, just a big ol' finger to the forgent.
I want 2D games back.
A new version of Mandrake Linux was released today, much to the celebration of the unprofessional amateur cocksmokers for whom Linux is an excuse to avoid real work. This distribution includes more of the latest hacked-together, half-functional drivers that are the hallmark of Linux, but luckily enough of the current generation of hardware is unsupported that Linux users still have plenty of excuses not to get any work done. 'At first, I was worried that my new Dell computer would work right of the box,' says Harry Twinkfucher, a longtime Mandrake fan. 'Luckily, my video card and SCSI card were just as broken as GCC 3.1, so it'll be at least another three months before my employer discovers that I am unskilled, unintelligent, and unemployable.'
.NET framework that its architechture was stolen from. Mono promises to set the Linux community back even further, perhaps even acheiving the Linux goal of creating a truly broken system on which it is impossible to do any real work."
"Linux, an operating system so backward that just getting it installed is a challenge for many, has been one of the homosexual world's most popular time-wasters ever since Linus Torvalds decided to make an obsolete copy of the popular UNIX system for his 386 PC in 1991. Today, thousands of wannabes are successfully using Linux to hide their inadequacies.
"But what's next for Linux? Many think that Linux's many Windows-ripoff window managers will be the focus of the next wave of uneducated keyboard-banging. Miguel de Icazza, a wetback trained in the art of Visual Basic, is already hard at work on Mono, a revolutionary development framework that is both incompatible with existing Open-Source software and decades behind the
Wow, Linux truly is a bad of rancid shite!
just heard some sad news on talk radio - the distinguished author and scholar whose works revealed Orthodox Jewish life to readers around the world Chaim Potok was found dead at home outside Philadelphia this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.6 38&ncid=762&e=1&u=/nm/20020723/en_nm/people_potok_ dc_5
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=
This must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
Does this mean my porn won't work anymore? I can't live without my porn, it's more precious to me than air or water.
p.s. You slashdorks can't spell
so if you abolish it like the soviets did, you will live in a happy, clean, perfect society forevermore...
err... yeah