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How High is Your AP?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we've-been-promised-a-wireless-topic dept.

DeAshcroft writes "The New York Times has a piece [give up your data] on the wiring of Everest. Tsering Gyaltsen, the grandson of one of Sir Edmund Hillary's orignal summit-conquering Sherpas is bringing the net to the mountain (presumably bringing the mountain to the net was even more difficult). He's attracted a great set of 'technologists' to make this happen, and, best of all, it means the locals get access (including a school of about 250 students), not just the rich geeks who come to town to climb the thing."

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  1. FUCK YOU, MICHAEL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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    MICHAEL! The most despised Slashdot editor! You are a goddamn, motherfucking, shit-snorting, baby-raping, piece of ass hypocrite! I want you to fucking commit suicide! Do us all a favor!

    Testing out your new friend-whore Slashkode patch this morning, eh? You want people to befriend you? Then how about you become a good editor for once! You goddamn fucker, the only way you can get your friend list to above zero is to force people on it if they want to comment! You FUCKER! How fucking lame is that? Just admit the fact that you are a rampant homosexual and you want attention! Just come out and admit you'd prefer to suck anonymous cock rather than spend another minute alone dealing with your pathetic existance!

    I'd love to see some random slashbot punch you in what you would call a nutsack because of your faggotry! Holy shit, you fag, can you suck any more? If you could suck cock like you suck on this website, you'd be a homosexual LEGEND! Millions of fags would line up at your doorstep to be vacu-whored by your divine, cock-trained tongue! You'd never have to eat again, what with all that manjizz occupying your stomach! Free "food", the attention you crave, and sexual satisfaction is all within your faggoty grasp, if only you'd just post a story on Fagdot indicating your true preference!

    In conclusion, michael, code slashkode all you want, but we all know what you are really after: Hot, gay, underage, pulse-pounding cocks spewing GNU/jizz down your pro-censorship throat! Quit wanking to pics of Richard Stallman and just come out! We all want you to!!!

    ALSO, COMMIT SUICIDE, YOU GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKER!!!

  2. moron being forced onto some partIE LIEn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    you could join lairIE/robbIE's source forgerIE, but if the payper goes pottIE................

  3. Algerbraic Notation is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It is official; HP confirms: Algerbraic is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Algerbraic community when HP confirmed that Algerbraic calculator usage has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all professionals. Coming on the heels of a recent hpcalc.org survey which plainly states that algerbraic notation has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Algerbraic is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent HPcalc.org speed trials.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict alberbraic's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Algerbraic faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for algerbraic because it is dying. Things are looking very bad for algerbraic. As many of us are already aware, it continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

    TI's algerbraic calculator development team is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core engineers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time algerbraic's developers Casio and Sharp only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Algerbraic is dying.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    RPN supporter Jean-Yves Avenard states that there are 70000 propfessional users of calculators. How many users of algerbraic are there? Let's see. The number of RPN versus algerbraic posts on comp.sys.hp48 is roughly in ratio of 500 to 1. Therefore there are about 70000/500 = 14 algerbraic users. Sharp DAL (Direct Algerbraic logic) posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of plain algerbraic posts. Therefore there are about 7 users of DAL. A recent article put DAL at about 50 percent of the algerbraic market. This is consistent with the number of DAL Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of mismatched brackers, excessive keystrokes and so on, algerbraic went out of favor with TI and was taken over by Casio who sell another troubled calculator. Now Casio is also dead, its corpse turned over to cheap chinese calculator manufactures.

    All major surveys show that alg has steadily declined in market share. Algerbraic is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Algerbraic is to survive at all it will be among vintage calcululator collectors. Algerbraic continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Algerbraic is dead.

    Fact: Algerbraic is dying

  4. Pr0n now available on Everest! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Iceman cometh

  5. moron 'rich' 'geeks' climbing DOWn... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    from their self-adulating po'diems, & getting involved in all forms of FraUDuleNT accouNTing (we will go) cesspools.

    in this case: ain't no mountain high enough, ....

  6. troll my .asp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    you greed/fear based, MiSinformation spewing slimebawl/shill's ?ip? has been captured? the fairytail is almost deepending on selling... what? kode? fud? even more phonIE payper? forget it.

    0, right, you guise don't care about that stuff. byte me.

  7. moron being registered by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    you managed to type in the digist for your shotmail ?accouNT? right?

    you cypherd through your geocitIEs/`/. registrations?

    butt, the venerabull NYT, isn't worth a few cliks to you? fauxking ediots. or is it just more bored filling phonIEs? troll on, its all gooed.