Hm, I do seem to recall this site's motto being "News for nerds" not "Technology news for nerds". The creators of the site post news that they think is relevant to the 'nerd' audience. I, being one of those 'nerds', happen to like hearing anime news. I also couldn't care less about Linux, and I'm sure there are many other people who don't as well... so all the news about Linux should be dropped, right?
If you don't want to hear about Anime, block it, and let the rest of us have our conversation without having to hear your crap.
Yeah, maybe, but I have a problem with all you people's obsession with Linux. I don't care about that bullshit, it's best covered elsewhere.
We're sorry, but Slashdot doesn't cater to your personal desires only. There are plenty of people who would like to have intelligent conversations here without having to wade through all your crap. Stop being such a whiner and block the topic if you don't want to see it.
Bleh, come on... Under the "games" category, we hear about great games like Diablo 2, and crap like Daikatana. Sure AD Police may be of much less quality than Mononoke-Hime, but they still both belong under the same heading.
... and as for your last comment, just turn off the category if you don't want to hear about it. Some of us actually LIKE to hear news like this. If they took down all the stories that some people didn't want to hear about, this whole place would be crap. I'm sure a portion of the people that come here don't want to hear anything about Linux, a portion don't want to hear about windows, a portion couldn't care less about DeCSS... This isn't "news that absolutely everyone wants to hear about". Just stop complaining, get on with your life, and let the people who actually want to hold a discussion on these topics do so without having to wade through your whines.
Nonono, don't get me wrong here. There are a lot of people who care, I'm sure, but a good portion of the world has no clue that it is Sys-admin's day. Hell, a good portion of the world has no clue what a sys-admin even is, what they do, why they're needed, etc. etc. Everyone's just happy that everything works, they don't care how.
A good portion of them gave their actual number. How do I know this? They thought that we were actually looking up the number of their card when we punched in their phone number. In reality, though, it was just another number. I have a feeling that at least a good 98% of people were giving their real number out.
AFAIK, it's perfectly fine... We even had a magnet from the phone company with the reverse lookup telephone number on it. I had used the service a couple times... pretty useful, but it DOES scare me that someone could get your address from just your phone number THAT easily...
ESPECIALLY because of something they forced us to do at my job... (I'm a cashier at a grocery store.. hey, stop laughing!) If someone had forgotten their little savings card thing, we'd ask 'em for their phone number so we could put it in and still track what they buy (you didn't think that your info was just used for check cashing, did you? tsk...) Well, nearly everyone that was asked just blurted out their number (and that was a LOT of people... probably about 1/3 of the customers we got were too friggin lazy to PICK UP A CARD before they left the house...). I wonder how many of those people got unwanted 'visitors' because someone got their address from that service...
Along the same lines, there are little stations in Wal-Mart stores that lets you scan the bar code of a CD or video and then you can listen to tracks off the cd or watch scenes from the video... very cool.
Try 'The Slayers'. IMO, the animation is good, the plotline is excellent, and it's a great laugh. Plus, if you like the first series, there's another one out, and three tapes of the third one are out with more being released.
Only problem is... anime is pretty hard on the wallet;)
Calm down, man. If you don't want to give them money, don't. It's as simple as that. You're paying them for a service. If you don't want to give them money, you don't get the service.
Who cares about the danger caused by radiation. These people are going to be dead a lot sooner by another cause: Using the damn things while they're driving, swerving all over the road, going either 30 under or 30 over... argh.
Hahaha, that's hilarious. Especially considering (from what I've heard) that the radiation is coming through the antenna... Oh, and the thing making the monitor do funky stuff is probably the magnet in the speaker;)
I agree with your reccomendations, but for humor I would definitely reccomend the three Slayers series before anything else. The first series is great, Slayers Next is even better, and judging from the first 3 tapes of Slayers Try, it's even better than Next;) Not to mention the movies...
I don't think I've ever laughed as hard as I have during some of the Slayers episodes... oh, and they've got good plots as well, a must see.
And we REALLY need to do something about those high capacity hard drives, did you know one 20 gig drive can store tens of thousands of ILLEGALLY obtained MP3 files?
Yeah, but what about people who want to run Windows? There's about 3/4ths of that space gone right there...;)
I saw something on TV... it said that it took *8 hours* to put all that make-up on her. She said something along the lines of "I'm a villian, being in the make up chair for 8 hours puts me in just the right mood for my character".
I hate to get technical, here, but there were only two Juraians in the Masaki house, Aeka and Sasami. Depending on the series you watched (my personal favorite was Universe, the TV series) there's also a space pirate, a mad scientist, two galaxy policewomen, and that oh-so-lovable cabbit.
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Hm, I do seem to recall this site's motto being "News for nerds" not "Technology news for nerds". The creators of the site post news that they think is relevant to the 'nerd' audience. I, being one of those 'nerds', happen to like hearing anime news. I also couldn't care less about Linux, and I'm sure there are many other people who don't as well... so all the news about Linux should be dropped, right?
If you don't want to hear about Anime, block it, and let the rest of us have our conversation without having to hear your crap.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Yeah, maybe, but I have a problem with all you people's obsession with Linux. I don't care about that bullshit, it's best covered elsewhere.
We're sorry, but Slashdot doesn't cater to your personal desires only. There are plenty of people who would like to have intelligent conversations here without having to wade through all your crap. Stop being such a whiner and block the topic if you don't want to see it.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Bleh, come on... Under the "games" category, we hear about great games like Diablo 2, and crap like Daikatana. Sure AD Police may be of much less quality than Mononoke-Hime, but they still both belong under the same heading.
... and as for your last comment, just turn off the category if you don't want to hear about it. Some of us actually LIKE to hear news like this. If they took down all the stories that some people didn't want to hear about, this whole place would be crap. I'm sure a portion of the people that come here don't want to hear anything about Linux, a portion don't want to hear about windows, a portion couldn't care less about DeCSS... This isn't "news that absolutely everyone wants to hear about". Just stop complaining, get on with your life, and let the people who actually want to hold a discussion on these topics do so without having to wade through your whines.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Heh, wow. Can't believe we worded that the exact same.
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Maybe this one will work.
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Does anyone really care?
Nonono, don't get me wrong here. There are a lot of people who care, I'm sure, but a good portion of the world has no clue that it is Sys-admin's day. Hell, a good portion of the world has no clue what a sys-admin even is, what they do, why they're needed, etc. etc. Everyone's just happy that everything works, they don't care how.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Oh, come on. What about TANG? ;)
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If they stopped things that were moving quickly, how the heck did bullets go through?
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Life Force used that code as well, and LF was a much better game ;)
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Reflex Augmentation? Yah, I'll take a lvl 3 wired reflexes, please...
Err, sorry, ShadowRun flashback. Moving onward...
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Who on earth is Donna, and why will she be holding her breath?
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Allright, after seeing a few messages like this, I feel obligated to say something.
Evolution is a FACT. Yes, you heard me. A fact. It has been PROVEN to exist. We've WATCHED IT HAPPEN.
Whether we evolved from monkeys or not is what is being debated, not whether evolution exists.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
A good portion of them gave their actual number. How do I know this? They thought that we were actually looking up the number of their card when we punched in their phone number. In reality, though, it was just another number. I have a feeling that at least a good 98% of people were giving their real number out.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
If the phone companies provided a service like that, I'm sure the government would 'give a flying fuck'.
... and you know, the government is so full of flying fucks that they have a lot to spare.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
AFAIK, it's perfectly fine... We even had a magnet from the phone company with the reverse lookup telephone number on it. I had used the service a couple times... pretty useful, but it DOES scare me that someone could get your address from just your phone number THAT easily...
ESPECIALLY because of something they forced us to do at my job... (I'm a cashier at a grocery store.. hey, stop laughing!) If someone had forgotten their little savings card thing, we'd ask 'em for their phone number so we could put it in and still track what they buy (you didn't think that your info was just used for check cashing, did you? tsk...) Well, nearly everyone that was asked just blurted out their number (and that was a LOT of people... probably about 1/3 of the customers we got were too friggin lazy to PICK UP A CARD before they left the house...). I wonder how many of those people got unwanted 'visitors' because someone got their address from that service...
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Along the same lines, there are little stations in Wal-Mart stores that lets you scan the bar code of a CD or video and then you can listen to tracks off the cd or watch scenes from the video... very cool.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Try 'The Slayers'. IMO, the animation is good, the plotline is excellent, and it's a great laugh. Plus, if you like the first series, there's another one out, and three tapes of the third one are out with more being released.
;)
Only problem is... anime is pretty hard on the wallet
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Calm down, man. If you don't want to give them money, don't. It's as simple as that. You're paying them for a service. If you don't want to give them money, you don't get the service.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Who cares about the danger caused by radiation. These people are going to be dead a lot sooner by another cause: Using the damn things while they're driving, swerving all over the road, going either 30 under or 30 over... argh.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Hahaha, that's hilarious. Especially considering (from what I've heard) that the radiation is coming through the antenna... Oh, and the thing making the monitor do funky stuff is probably the magnet in the speaker ;)
-- Dr. Eldarion --
I agree with your reccomendations, but for humor I would definitely reccomend the three Slayers series before anything else. The first series is great, Slayers Next is even better, and judging from the first 3 tapes of Slayers Try, it's even better than Next ;) Not to mention the movies...
I don't think I've ever laughed as hard as I have during some of the Slayers episodes... oh, and they've got good plots as well, a must see.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
One could argue that windows is not a virus
Reminds me of an old tagline from the days of QWKmail:
Windows is not a virus. Viruses do something.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
And we REALLY need to do something about those high capacity hard drives, did you know one 20 gig drive can store tens of thousands of ILLEGALLY obtained MP3 files?
;)
Yeah, but what about people who want to run Windows? There's about 3/4ths of that space gone right there...
-- Dr. Eldarion --
I saw something on TV... it said that it took *8 hours* to put all that make-up on her. She said something along the lines of "I'm a villian, being in the make up chair for 8 hours puts me in just the right mood for my character".
-- Dr. Eldarion --
I hate to get technical, here, but there were only two Juraians in the Masaki house, Aeka and Sasami. Depending on the series you watched (my personal favorite was Universe, the TV series) there's also a space pirate, a mad scientist, two galaxy policewomen, and that oh-so-lovable cabbit.
-- Dr. Eldarion --