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Windows Media Format Could Hit Linux-Based Devices
An anonymous reader writes "LinuxDevices.com reports that Microsoft has licensed InterVideo Inc. to supply Windows Media Technology to makers of Linux-based consumer devices. Under the agreement, InterVideo is licensed to take the components of the Windows Media Format, port them to Linux, and provide them to manufacturers who are interested in running Windows Media Technology on Linux-based consumer devices such as set-top boxes, personal video recorders, and other hybrid multimedia devices."
if ya'll dont buck up and visit goatse.cx soon!!!
I am happy and satisfied with my life now. I can happily retire. Phurst Poast!! god bless me.
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*Based on obsolete pseudo-RISC design
*Only 32 registers
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It is official; Slashdot now confirms: *Logged in trolling is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *logged in troll community when IDC confirmed that that the percentage of logged in trolling has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all posts. Coming on the heels of a recent trolltalk survey which plainly states that *logged in trolls have been substantially less active since the recent Slashdot upgrade, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *Logged in trolling is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing to get a single bite in the recent "Object Prevalence: Get Rid of Your Database?" Slashdot article.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *Logged in trollings future. The hand writing is on the wall: *Logged in trolling faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *logged in trolling because *logged in trolling is dying. Things are looking very bad for *logged in trolling. As many of us are already aware, *logged in trolling continues to lose market share. Goatse man's anus flows like a river of blood.
ekrout is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of his daily post limit due to downmodding and new anti-troll technology implemented by Slashdot editor and founder CmdrTaco. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time logged in trolls sllort and PhysicsGenius only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Logged in trolling is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Logged in troll leader Trollaxor states that there are 250,000 troll user accounts registered on Slashdot. How many logged in troll posts are there in the average article? Let's see. The number of logged in trolls versus anonymous troll posts on Slashdot is roughly in ratio of 1 to 50,000. Therefore there is an average of about 1/50,000 = %0.00002 logged in troll posts. Troll posts on Usenet are about 75 percent of the volume of total Usenet posts as a whole, which is comparable percentage to the number of active troll accounts and normal accounts on Slashdot. There are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts. But that's not terribly relevant to the discussion at hand.
Due to the troubles of goatse.cx and barbie.com, abysmal restrictions put in place by CmdrTaco and so on, logged in trolling has gone into hiding and was taken over by anonymous cowards who troll in a much less convincing manner. Now anonymous trolling is also dying, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major signs show that *logged in trolling has steadily declined as demonstrated by the signal/noise ratio. *Logged in trolling is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *logged in trolling is to survive at all it will be among logged in dilettante dabblers. *Logged in trolling continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *Logged in trolling is dead.
Fact: *Logged in trolling is dying