No one served any jailtime here. If the poster / headline writer would have taken half a minute to read the article, they would know this. The defendant was sentenced to a year of probation, there was no mention of jail.
Catchy lies in a headline are still lies. Get some integrity Slashdot.
Holy shit, you made a joke about the difference between DoS (denial of service) and DOS (disk operating system). I've never seen a joke like this on Slashdot!
Holy shit, you made a joke about my joke because you waste 50% of your life reading Slashdot and critiquing jokes.
Keep up the creative and original work!
Keep up the not getting laid and using Slashdot to bump up your self esteem.
This is why nothing gets accomplished, because as a community you silence the cold hard truth, while living in your pipe dream worlds that have linux coming out as the victor. I use linux every day, but defeat windows on the desktop it will never do. Wake up.
Yeah, its all over. By being able to use the word windows, Microsoft is sure to fall.
How desperate are you people to come up with these pathetic ideas of how Microsoft will be toppled because a judge decided "Windows" is a generic word. Its going to take a lot more than that... namely, an operating system that compete on the desktop level.. something linux IS NOT.
"And my friends wonder why i think religion is such a big joke..."
Do they also wonder why you are a biggot? Do they also ask you why you are so ignorant?
I find people who do nothing but stereotype others a big joke.
And by the way, no I am not at all religious, but I do respect peoples beliefs. I can also distinguish between the radical fringe religious sects, and the rest of Christianity.
After giving me years of free email service they want to (GASP!) CALL ME ON THE TELEPHONE?!?!?!!?
Oh God No!!! What is the world coming to?! Someone call the New York Times! Forget about the wars being waged around the world, forget about starving children, forget about AIDS.. YAHOO MUST BE STOPPED FROM PICKING UP THE PHONE IMMEDIATELY!!!
Google is not all high and mighty, they accept plenty of money for their "Sponsored Links", which are advertisements, but appear almost identical to search results, and appear at the top of the results. For example, a search for "compilers" will yield the following result:
The average computer user (my mom), would see this as the first result to her search.. but really its a well disguised advertisement.
Google is great, don't get me wrong.. but before you go bashing other engines for taking money for guaranteed links, you should bash Google for their manipulative and sneaky ads.
They don't stop using the software and turning to cheaper alternatives... they start pirating it. Why do you think the piracy rates in China and Korea are higher than 90%? (Yes, higher than 90%!) Its because the people can't afford to shell out $150 bucks for the latest software, and at the same time, they don't want to fall behind the rest of us.
ESR is an idiot, and his rediculous predictions have done nothing more than make me laugh at his stupidity. Its pure nonsense.
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No one served any jailtime here. If the poster / headline writer would have taken half a minute to read the article, they would know this. The defendant was sentenced to a year of probation, there was no mention of jail.
Catchy lies in a headline are still lies. Get some integrity Slashdot.
> I hope he get raped in the anus by a big gay black dude.
Totally dude.. because rape and Playstation game piracy are of equal weight.
Wow, thats really interesting considering "There was just a slight problem: Swingline didn't make bright-red staplers." (wsj)
Nice try at impressing us loser.
Next time try sticking a that flaming stapler up your ass.
Holy shit, you made a joke about the difference between DoS (denial of service) and DOS (disk operating system). I've never seen a joke like this on Slashdot!
Holy shit, you made a joke about my joke because you waste 50% of your life reading Slashdot and critiquing jokes.
Keep up the creative and original work!
Keep up the not getting laid and using Slashdot to bump up your self esteem.
I knew they were behind the times but man... I bet they still program in QBASIC too.
what company would that be?
oh.. microsoft. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
microsoft totally sux0rz d00d! n1c3 j0k3!
"Will Digital Cinema Wipe-Out Today's Movie Theaters?"
No.
its not a matter of what i would say.. its how i would say it... with a gun.
-gerbik
In other news..
Theres a sale at JC Pennies!!!
"A Milky Way is quite hospitable. Leave one on your back porch. It'll be teeming with ant life pretty darn quick."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
--catching my breath--
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Not the candy bar silly!!! HAHAHAHAHA!
"Then they made SimCity 3000 and The Sims and now they're not cool anymore."
Yeah.. the Sims is the best selling PC game of all time because it totally sucks. How uncool.
I'm going to write an Aibo virus that should prove quite profitable... here is a brief rundown of the algorithm for those interested.
1) Direct Aibo to pick up its things (manuals, charger, etc)
2) Walk Aibo from owners house to my house carrying its things.
3) Take picture of itself and post a listing on ebay.
4) Wait for auction ending and payment.
5) Walk to new owners house.
6) Repeat.
This is why nothing gets accomplished, because as a community you silence the cold hard truth, while living in your pipe dream worlds that have linux coming out as the victor. I use linux every day, but defeat windows on the desktop it will never do. Wake up.
Mod me down some more.
Yeah, its all over. By being able to use the word windows, Microsoft is sure to fall.
How desperate are you people to come up with these pathetic ideas of how Microsoft will be toppled because a judge decided "Windows" is a generic word. Its going to take a lot more than that... namely, an operating system that compete on the desktop level.. something linux IS NOT.
-gerbik
"And my friends wonder why i think religion is such a big joke..."
Do they also wonder why you are a biggot? Do they also ask you why you are so ignorant?
I find people who do nothing but stereotype others a big joke.
And by the way, no I am not at all religious, but I do respect peoples beliefs. I can also distinguish between the radical fringe religious sects, and the rest of Christianity.
-gerbik
"When will they learn that these memos always come back to haunt them ..."
When will Slashdot learn that if they continue to pass such unfounded BS, they will go the way of the inquirer.
Slashdot is really becoming the trailerpark of the internet.
After giving me years of free email service they want to (GASP!) CALL ME ON THE TELEPHONE?!?!?!!?
Oh God No!!! What is the world coming to?! Someone call the New York Times! Forget about the wars being waged around the world, forget about starving children, forget about AIDS.. YAHOO MUST BE STOPPED FROM PICKING UP THE PHONE IMMEDIATELY!!!
-gerbik
Now he won't have to worry about getting any rodents stuck in unfortunate places... unless the batteries wear out.
-gerbik
A pentagon implies a 2 dimensional shape.
It is a GameCube, not a GameSquare, thus GamePentagon would not be the natural progression.
Honestly, my vote would be for GameSphere. Boxy shapes are so 2001... or so 2002 for you Europeans who are always a year behind the times.
-gerbik
"Sanders said Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates asked him to testify and that he agreed out of concern over the remedy proposal."
I imagine the conversation went something like this...
Gates: 'If you know whats good for you, you will testify regarding the proposal...'
"The proposal, he argued, could lead to the fragmentation of Windows and "would set the computer industry back almost 20 years." "
Ahh yes.. I almost forgot that there have not been any advances in the computer industry except for Windows and Microsoft software since 1982.
"In addition, Sanders contended it would be too expensive for companies like AMD to "create products for multiple, inconsistent versions of Windows."
Hmm.. AMD products seem to work fine for my multiple inconsistent linux boxes..
Its apparant. AMD is now Microsoft's bitch.
What?? My KT7 is stable as a mofo'. Overclocks like a charm too. Never had a problem with it. (knock on wood)
"however it wouldn't work in alot of areas, such as mountian communities where thetre is wireless service"
1) we are talking 2010 here.. in 7 1/2 years a lot of things can change 2) gps uses satellites.. you don't need a cellular tower.
Google is not all high and mighty, they accept plenty of money for their "Sponsored Links", which are advertisements, but appear almost identical to search results, and appear at the top of the results. For example, a search for "compilers" will yield the following result:
Intel® COMPILER - Improve Application Performance
www.intel.com/software/products
how about... "stocks"
Convenient account access. Powerful tools. Advanced trading technology.
www.ameritrade.com
The average computer user (my mom), would see this as the first result to her search.. but really its a well disguised advertisement.
Google is great, don't get me wrong.. but before you go bashing other engines for taking money for guaranteed links, you should bash Google for their manipulative and sneaky ads.
They don't stop using the software and turning to cheaper alternatives... they start pirating it. Why do you think the piracy rates in China and Korea are higher than 90%? (Yes, higher than 90%!) Its because the people can't afford to shell out $150 bucks for the latest software, and at the same time, they don't want to fall behind the rest of us.
ESR is an idiot, and his rediculous predictions have done nothing more than make me laugh at his stupidity. Its pure nonsense.
-Ryan
Nasa has some High Res versions here.
;)
Yes.. you too can download a 410MB TIFF of the earth