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Terabyte DVD Recorder Available Next Month
It doesn't come easy writes "Japan's Hitachi Ltd. on Wednesday unveiled the world's first hard disk drive/DVD recorder that can store one terabyte of data, or enough to record about 128 hours of high-definition digital broadcasting."
128 hours
1 cubic polynomial post
1000000000000, 128 and 1 are the zeroes of
--polynomial_zeroesI emerge in the kitchen, since that's where my Gentoo machine is.
That is of course, unless your talking to the writer of the article, then I would agree with you. This /. entry could have been written a little clearer
Take off every sig!
What's this person. Ok. Two things he did that are bad for open source.
.NET framework will suceed if it is available on all platforms. It will fail if it remains a windows-only thing. Now thanks to mono, our linux distributions (Novell who got the $500M bonus), will ship and startup a mono-Net daemon by default. Thanks Miguel!
1) GNOME. Ok the QT license sucks but gnome was a very bad thing. Just when the users where united to make the new desktop with OLE and set the protocols for clipboard and stuff, Miguel came to make GNOME. Of course, the project was put under the 'GNU-blah' thing to get some initial moderation points that would enable it to boost off. But it divided the community of programmers *and* the standards that where supposed to unite all graphical apps where never made.
2) Mono. The MS
So. Who is this person. How did he come out of nowhere to start two of the biggest and most attention-drawing programs in the Open Source World. Is he *such* an ass-kicking programmer? Just think about it....
Don't you know that "terra" is now "violent extremism."
As in the "Global War on Terra" is now the "Struggle Against Violent Extremism."
Or is that "Struggle Against Militant Extremism."
Crap, I can't keep this stuff straight.
In any case, don't let the terra-ists byte you. Otherwise, the only way to kill you will be with a silver bullet. Or is that a wooden stake?
Whatever it is that Halliburton sells...
The headline is so misleading its almost as if it was intentional... hmm.. misleading on slashdot? Never!
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Sensationalism for Nerds. Stuff that hardly matters.
OMG! It took you over four hours to respond to my post, when it usually takes you about that number of minutes to hammer out your usual incoherence.
What's wrong...Mom kick you off the computer again?
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