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Slumdog Millionaire Takes Home 8 Oscars
Ben Burtt was robbed of his overly deserved Oscars for the sound on Wall-E, and Heath Ledger's Joker unsurprisingly got a posthumous statue, but the big winner for the night was Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire with Picture, Director, Song, and five others. Go ahead movie nerds: talk amongst yourself.
Out of all the stuff on the firehose this is what was picked for the slashdot main page?
And the browning of America continues.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
It is now official. Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore 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.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
Oscar drama? Not really.
In the politically correct world of Hollywood, there were no surprises.
Mud people are more politically correct than Fags. To handicap the Oscars one only need ask which "victim group" will take home the cheese.
This is the year of the Mud People, starting with Mulatto-in-Chief B. Hussein Obama. What more natural way to celebrate the mud in politics than by slinging mud at the movie going public. Hence, the awards to the muddiest picture of them all -- "Slumdog Millionaire".
It is based on a novel written by an Indian cultural Marxist with a vested interest in undermining the country. Big difference.
Honestly, I am sure you are not as dumb as the respective starlet but nevertheless ignore completely the context in which the comment was made.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
Agreed. What's more annoying, a post on the front page that takes up 1/8th of a screen, or 50 posts complaining about it's existence?
There's some of us here that actually enjoy movies, and those of you who don't think that entertainers have a valid place in society are being either stubborn or naive. Yes, the scientists/authors/statesmen are all important as well, but I've always thought that one of the most important markers of civility is the quality and variety of entertainment options open to people.
We can't work all the time, entertainment is important and necessary. And sometimes, it's even nerdy. If you have to, justify this post to yourself by the fact that two comic book movies were up for awards last night.
Then again probably why Rambo and Die Hard were so popular outside the States was that guns are a big deal in countries with gun control.
Actually, those movies are popular because they show what a real man does in the face of adversity. Those cultures with gun control are so subservient to their governments that they are shocked to see an individual asserting himself against evil. That is also why there is nothing wrong with "western centeredness". The West is the light of the world. It was Western values that abolished the caste system, it was western science that brought industry to the subcontinent.