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Real Announce Helix Grant Program, Player

Rob Lanphier writes "RealNetworks made two announcements at LinuxWorld this week: we will be giving out up to $75,000 by the end of the year for development of open source projects based on the Helix multimedia platform. Also, we just formally launched the Helix Player project, which is a project to build a GTK+ based user interface for Linux, Solaris, and other UNIXy operating systems. Press releases for the grant program here and player project here"

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

    1. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. How to suck cock (or how to get your cock sucked) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    To start out, we must first bring up an important point: women, in general, do not know how to suck dick. They don't own the equipment, they don't understand the male drive, they don't know how a blow job feels, and they don't know how penises work. In fact, while many women have experimented with dick sucking, 90% of them don't like or don't want to try sucking dick. That's unfortunate because they are missing out on a rewarding experience. Likewise, their men are missing out on a very exciting experience. Let's face it, if you want to receive not just a blowjob, but a blowjob, you probably want a guy for a partner. Unless, of course, this guide helps transfer the carnal knowledge of pleasuring a man from a gay man to the straight women out there. If not, I hope to at least transfer this knowledge to another gay man out there. :)

    The penis is one of the most wonderful parts of the body to suck. Nothing can compare to its size, shape, texture, warmth, taste, and its response to touch. Female breasts are rather inanimate in comparison. Their only redeeming qualities are the nipples that respond to touch, but guys have nipples too, so it's not an exclusively feminine part of the body.

    It is important to give yourself a weekend of privacy the first time you try to suck off a guy. You may not be able to the first time and will need extra time the next day or two to try again. If you don't give yourself a weekend, you can end up failing and then next time you have a chance, you will make the same mistakes over again because you will not remember what not to do.

    You probably have noticed it's much harder to masturbate while standing up. It is much more difficult to get a guy off if he's standing up, especially if you've never sucked off a guy before. So, let your partner lie down on his back on a bed (or somewhere soft and flat). Use your own experiences of masturbation in private to guide you as much as possible.

    Notice how the dick is not completely cylindrical, but is slightly flattened? That shape is designed to fit perfectly in the mouth. There's no way evolution could have better designed a part for sucking. Note that the most sensitive portion of the penis is the length underneath the shaft. This should clue you in on how to position yourself to suck him. You will want to scoot yourself down so that you are 1) straddling one or both of his legs or 2) kneeling beside him or between his legs. Find out what works for the both of you.

    The underneath of his shaft should rest on your tongue and his penis should lie flat in your mouth. Once you take him into your mouth, try turning your head 90 degrees around his cock and you will notice that you will have to open wider to accomodate him. The wider you have open your mouth, the quicker you will tire, so make sure you align yourself for the best comfort. Likewise, your partner will enjoy it more if your tongue is in the right place.

    Lick along the length of the shaft and give the tip a few licks around the ridge of the tip. Have fun. Take his tip in your mouth and suck. You may want to hold his shaft down at an angle just enough to allow his penis to enter your mouth smoothly. By now, you may notice a drip clear liquid forming at the tip of his dick. Some men produce a lot of precome, others a little, some none at all. Take a lick at it. It's sweet tasting and quite a bit different from come. Think of it as an appetizer. Once you are ready for main course, note that you do not actually have to suck like you would a drinking straw and probably shouldn't because it's very tiring. Instead, let your lips and tongue do the work. Some guys like a little bit of teeth, but be careful with them. Teeth are very rough, so the slightest touch goes a long way. You will want to stimulate him by taking him in and out of your mouth. Your lips need only lightly brush against his dick. From time to time, you will feel his tip swelling. Increase the pressure from your lips to match the

  3. It's a sorry state of affairs, frankly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This might seem offtopic, but you'll see pretty quickly where I'm going with it:

    Every other week, it seems, a new horror expectorates itself from the ungainly thing that is the modern American public school system. A child is suspended for pointing a chicken finger at his fellows and shouting "bang." A teacher is forbidden to teach a course in black history because his skin color is white, even though there are no african-american teachers available who are certified to teach the course. A New York public school district re-introduces segregation by opening a public high school only open to "gay, bisexual, and transgender" students. California state courts rule the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional and prohibit its recital in public schools.

    These stories shock, but they do not surprise. While each new iteration may amaze, in novelty or degree, the basic pattern is expected. The public schools, many of them at least, are run by idiotic political hacks, who churn out these sorts of events fairly regularly. They do it for many reasons, all of them political - either the vogue for "zero tolerance" polices, the constant pandering to special interest groups, the drive to ensure freedom from religion, or whatever other cause du jour feels important.

    The unifying factor behind all these absurdities is that they spring from use of the educational system as a political tool. Such use is inevitable, as long as a centrally controlled, top-down, State-run public school system exists. The temptation to use that system for political ends, either in terms of indoctrination or grandstanding, is too much to expect a thousand thousand different public school administrators and bureaucrats to forebear. The problem is the system itself, the opportunities it presents for ridiculous overpoliticization of children's lives.

    And the single best argument in favor of voucher-based school choice programs is that they would put a stop to such things. When the funding is provided, not at the whim of political bureaucrats, but at the whim of parents, no teacher is going to risk suspending a child for playing guns with a chicken finger - to do so would risk loss of that student's tuition dollars. If a private school was opened with an explicitly all-black faculty, or all-gay student body, it would not be nearly as much of an issue as when the government opens or runs such a facility, because there would be no implied government endorsement of segregation. If a private school wants its students to recite the pledge of allegiance, with or without the phrase "under God," it can do so freely, because (as the Supreme Court has confirmed) in such cases there is no conflict betweenc hurch and state.

    There is no need for any other reason to support replacing our public school system with privatized voucher programs. Not just because they give students trapped in failing schools an opportunity to opt out. Not just because they provide another option to help ensure that any child who merits a quality education can get one, regardless of financial hardship. But simply because they help prevent the use of our nation's school system as a political tool.

    - originally by Thomwell Simons

  4. morons re-announce planet/population rescue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    if you can't hear the tune, you need to have the FUDge removed from your ears.

    we've been granted an unending list of miracles. we pretend it's some kind of giveaway/entitlement. lookout bullow.

    consult with/trust in yOUR creator. vote with yOUR wallet. that's the spirit.

    you Godless greed/fear based LIEforms/billyonerrors may continue to believe that you will be secured in your fauxking bunkers. you are mistaken again, as the lights are coming up now, & there is no escape for you.

    there is a badtoll for each murdered infant. pay attention.

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  8. Listen Up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Listen up you stinking faggots, it seems you just don't get it.
    Well I've been appointed to inform you, your days are numbered.
    You would cry, you would scream
    If you knew half the things I see.
    Please, please just do as I say,
    Repent and leave your evil ways.
    Meanwhile....planes drop from the sky,
    People disappear and bullets fly.
    Little grey men are coming our way,
    Tastes just like chicken, they say.
    Actually they're all around.
    Secret bunkers underground.
    Round 'em up, skin 'em alive,
    Rolling, rolling, rolling, rawhide.

  9. Listen Up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Listen up you stinking faggots, it seems you just don't get it.
    Well I've been appointed to inform you, your days are numbered.
    You would cry, you would scream
    If you knew half the things I see.
    Please, please just do as I say,
    Repent and leave your evil ways.
    Meanwhile....planes drop from the sky,
    People disappear and bullets fly.
    Little grey men are coming our way,
    Tastes just like chicken, they say.
    Actually they're all around.
    Secret bunkers underground.
    Round 'em up, skin 'em alive,
    Rolling, rolling, rolling, rawhide.