Slashdot Mirror
Slashback: Newton, Wal-Mart, Eats
Honestly, where would they have unloaded that anyway? yorgasor writes "Yahoo reports that the stolen copies of Newton's Principia have been successfully recovered. The thieves are also suspected of other thefts from several Moscow and St Petersburg libraries."
They have everything. An anonymous reader writes "Looks like Lycoris joins Lindows and Mandrake in being preloaded for walmart.com: 'The new $199 Desktop/LX Certified MicroTel PCs include the Desktop/ LX operating system. Desktop/LX also includes the following incredible software features without any additional downloading:'"
Who needs a war? Krieger writes "I found this link to the definitive browser wars at HardOCP, where you get to play checkers to prove your browsers superiority. Taking the browser wars to a new high/low?"
Here's the hook, can you pass that sinker please ... JoeWalsh writes "According to this article, earlier this month RMS visited India and tried to convince them to use Free (as in freedom) Software. Then along comes Bill Gates this month, handing out free (as in beer) software, and suddenly India isn't interested in RMS's message. A choice quote: "We are a poor country. We cannot develop operating systems and platforms on our own." Did RMS tell them they couldn't use GNU/Linux, or is this more Microsoft propaganda at work?"
I'm very the stolen copies of Newton's Principia have been successfully recovered. I was having trouble around here without the laws of physics.
play checkers to prove your browsers superiority.
/. and prove your webserver's superiority
or post on
I would like to add that i see nothing here about food. move along.
OH GOD, The Humanity!
stealing something like that I hope they throw the book at them. Just not THAT book.
...I wish I could convince an entire country that not paying for software is just too damn expensive.
I don't get it. Where are the "eats for the desperate computerist"?
I thought that this was a comment on something like the Dilberito.
Rustin
Data is the lever, rigor the fulcrum, brains the force that drives it all.
You know, /. has gotten things wrong before, but mixing up Checkers with Connect Four is a first.
- Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
OK, I'll supply one. Remember when that guy who draws Dilbert was going to launch a line of prepared food products for geeks... like Dilburritos, or something like that?
When things seem really bleak and hopeless, just think about what a total, colossal failure that must have been, and you'll be cheered up in no time!
- Have a picture
I think India's rationale for going with Bill Gates offering over Richard Stallman's offering is fairly simple to explain: Bill's offering a finished product, no polish necessary, at no cost.
/can't/ improve it yourself that it means it is a 'finished, polished' product.
;-)
It is not because you
[...] pointing to a bunch of half-written software.
Wow, can you imagine how big Emacs will be once they are done with it?
A message from the system administrator: 'I've upped my priority. Now up yours.'
I hope those theves get there library cards taken of them and a 90p fine for each day they didn't return the book.
"Did RMS tell them they couldn't use GNU/Linux, or is this more Microsoft propaganda at work?"
Maybe India just noticed how Bill doesn't get bent out of shape when you don't refer to it as Microsoft/Windows.
So Bill Gates is giving out software to India for free and that "Microsoft was willing to "dramatically lower" its price for socially relevant projects"? As a college student, I feel that as A SOCIALLY RELEVANT being, I am justified in giving myself a free copy of .NET.
1. Imagine a beowulf cluster of these.
2. ???
3. All your base are belong to us.
that to choose awomen, you must see her without her makeup..
:)
Bill Gate looked better without makeup than RMS did
Don't Tread on OpenSource
I went to that site to play a fair game of Connect Four in the hopes of getting a final answer as to which browser is truly better than the others. Unfortunately, hoodlums have logged in with multiple browsers to throw the game by playing poorly with one browser in the hopes of defeating a defenseless opponenent!
I mean, truly, who plays checker 3 to slot 1 when the opponent has opened with a classical Harvey the Wonder Hamster attack in slots 4,5, and 6!!
Outrageous! I see the only way this will ever be settled is through the time-honored (and FAR less unruly) game of Go Fish! Harumph, I'm taking my checkers and going home...
Mordor...a magical, mythical land where women are more rare than dragons--but where every man would rather find a dragon
Probably around as big as Microsoft Word.
N4st0r, trixx0r h0bb1tz0rz! Th3y st0l3 0ur pr3c10uzz!
I'm = I am
The verb is present. The sentence is missing a predicate adjective/nominative. Not, as another Slashdot English whiz pointed out, an object. "To be" is not transitive (and thus taking an object).
----------
I am an expert in electricity. My father held the chair of applied electricity at the state prision.
Cartman: Tell them we'll have punch and pie.
Kyle: We're not gonna' have punch and pie!
Cartman: More people will come if they think we have punch and pie!!
- An orgy of clicking and death!
That reminds me... My Girlfriend blessed Bill Gates last night. I asked her why, and she said that He was responsible for the ubiquity of the mouse wheel and therefore for the extreme dexterity of the middle finger of my right hand.Sorry, but it's a true story.
Heh, scroll on my scrigidies. Goddamn Right.
There comes a time in every man's life when he must say, "No mother! I do not want any more Jell-O!"
Anybody notice that googlebot won four games in browser wars? Wget won one so far. One has to wonder about the skills of the average IE user versus an automated bot.
Some one there made a bad business move IMHO.If you have stock in Walmart I'd sell.
Indeed. As we all know, one small misplaced cheap product can doom a multi-billion dollar empire.
Good job! We've recovered the loot, and placed the henchmen behind bars. Now, it's time to go after Carmen Sandiego, Gumshoe!
http://www.accountkiller.com/removal-requested
Indeed. As we all know, one small misplaced cheap product can doom a multi-billion dollar empire.
:)
Correction: isn't the "small misplaced cheap product" the very cornerstone of this particular "multi-billion dollar empire"?
Cost of computer: $2500
Operating System: $40 retail
Broadband Internet: $50/mo
Owning Graphical Browsers at Connect 4 using a Text Browser: Priceless
Miscrosoft Chairman Bill Gates, on his recent visit to spread propaganda and lies to the Indian government in order to get them to use his bug-filled Operating System, was deported and ordered never to return again. The reason?
He asked where he could get a good steak dinner...