Re:KKK member at an African American rally
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I always thought it would be funny to have some black guy sue the KKK for refusing to allow them into their organization... on the grounds of discrimination, of course.
it seems the slashdot trend leans towards "The government did something?!? it must be evil!! who cares WHAT they did! they're filthy capitalist pigs!"
I seriously wonder how many of them actually even read what the gov't DID, let alone whatever articles are attached to the story
I hardly define downloading music that you HAVEN'T PAYED FOR as "Fair Use"... it doesn't matter how much of hte $ from the record goes to the artist, if you don't like it enough to pay for it, then don't listen to it. -watches karma go down the tubes-
Re:I didn't expect a Spanish Inquisition!
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NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.
Getting OT here, but anyways, did you notice when she said the like "This is a UNIX system. I know this." she was navigating around in a 3D environment? yeah, i'm sure it could be a shell ontop of a UNIX system, but it woudln't be what i would call, using a UNIX system.
Getting a bit OT here, but i think this is an example of why political parties are evil... i'm sure that Bush will pass it, simply because the Republican house passed it - whether he really agrees with it or not.
Sorry, I can't resist... It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: TRANSMETA is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered TRANSMETA community when recently IDC confirmed that TRANSMETA accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that TRANSMETA has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. TRANSMETA is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Torvald [amdest.com] to predict TRANSMETA's future. The hand writing is on the wall: TRANSMETA faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for TRANSMETA because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for TRANSMETA. As many of us are already aware, TRANSMETA 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.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, TRANSMETA went out of business and was taken over by INTEL who sell another troubled CHIP. Now INTEL is also dead(!), its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that TRANSMETA has steadily declined in market share. TRANSMETA is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If TRANSMETA is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. TRANSMETA continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, TRANSMETA is dead.
I used to work at an amusement park, we sell hot dogs for $3.00 before tax.
One day we were bored (It was raining), so someone asked the manager how many hotdogs we could buy with a million dollars (from the company we buy them at, not at $3 per dog)... It turns out that the total price of a hot dog, counting bun, container, etc. is around 4 cents... So we're making $2.96 profit on each hotdog, or around 99%. Sad isn't it?
I wasn't talking about kazaa... I was talking about them blocking web servers to stop Code Red & friends. Not really a bad idea, as i get hit with codered-ish viruses scores of times per day
Well, the port 80 block isn't neccesarily because of running servers... i know Verizon DSL in my area blocks port 80 because there network was getting raped with code red worms a good 6 months back.
Just a thought... perhaps they're there just to piss people off, they can record those idiots that walk by, flip them off, swear at them, throw stuffed tuxes, and use it as anti-linux PR.
You fail to mention that more often than not, the subtitles are unreadable. It's like a word-for-word translation, and they spell half the words wrong.
Confiscating computers is idiotic. I have a friend who was accused of trading kiddie pr0n (he wasn't, and wasn't even officially charged with anything)... the police came in, and took all of his computers, monitors, assorted hardware (NICS, spare modems, etc.) every single CD, floppy, power strip, monitor, keyboard... Everything... as "evidence". They didn't find anything, and he never got his equipment back eithere (this was like 7 or 8 PCs too).
Re:Advertising would help
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Actually, they did, in a way. Napster was virtually unheard of in the 'mainstream' community until acts like Metallica, Dr. Dre, etc., started suing and bringing national attention to the company.
It changes the resolution of the display [640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, etc] but doesn't change the size of the desktop [it could still be a 1600x1200 desktop] on a 640x480 res display
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I always thought it would be funny to have some black guy sue the KKK for refusing to allow them into their organization... on the grounds of discrimination, of course.
it seems the slashdot trend leans towards "The government did something?!? it must be evil!! who cares WHAT they did! they're filthy capitalist pigs!"
I seriously wonder how many of them actually even read what the gov't DID, let alone whatever articles are attached to the story
I hardly define downloading music that you HAVEN'T PAYED FOR as "Fair Use"... it doesn't matter how much of hte $ from the record goes to the artist, if you don't like it enough to pay for it, then don't listen to it.
-watches karma go down the tubes-
NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.
I thought that microns were different from millimeters? (if .1 microns = 100nm and .1mm = 100nm then microns=mm)
Getting OT here, but anyways, did you notice when she said the like "This is a UNIX system. I know this." she was navigating around in a 3D environment? yeah, i'm sure it could be a shell ontop of a UNIX system, but it woudln't be what i would call, using a UNIX system.
Getting a bit OT here, but i think this is an example of why political parties are evil... i'm sure that Bush will pass it, simply because the Republican house passed it - whether he really agrees with it or not.
It's not a server... it's just a piece of software that collects code red requests :)
Sorry, I can't resist...
It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: TRANSMETA is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered TRANSMETA community when recently IDC confirmed that TRANSMETA accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that TRANSMETA has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. TRANSMETA is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Torvald [amdest.com] to predict TRANSMETA's future. The hand writing is on the wall: TRANSMETA faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for TRANSMETA because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for TRANSMETA. As many of us are already aware, TRANSMETA 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.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, TRANSMETA went out of business and was taken over by INTEL who sell another troubled CHIP. Now INTEL is also dead(!), its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that TRANSMETA has steadily declined in market share. TRANSMETA is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If TRANSMETA is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. TRANSMETA continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, TRANSMETA is dead.
Fact: TRANSMETA is dead!
OT, but oh well...
I used to work at an amusement park, we sell hot dogs for $3.00 before tax.
One day we were bored (It was raining), so someone asked the manager how many hotdogs we could buy with a million dollars (from the company we buy them at, not at $3 per dog)... It turns out that the total price of a hot dog, counting bun, container, etc. is around 4 cents...
So we're making $2.96 profit on each hotdog, or around 99%. Sad isn't it?
TRL!!! OMG carson is soooo hott... i'll buy anything he tells me too!
I thought it was MTV... i know very few people that listen to the radio anymore. MTV is "trendy" and radio isn't.
neuroproductive? not in the "test subjects" i've observed :P
Yeah, but it's a good start.
Yeah, i sumbitted this as a story, but it got rejected... anyways, MPlayer has Sorenson support now.
I wasn't talking about kazaa... I was talking about them blocking web servers to stop Code Red & friends. Not really a bad idea, as i get hit with codered-ish viruses scores of times per day
Well, the port 80 block isn't neccesarily because of running servers... i know Verizon DSL in my area blocks port 80 because there network was getting raped with code red worms a good 6 months back.
the book by Andre laMothe is "Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus"... not too bad of a book, i liked the chapters on AI and such.
Along those same lines are The Alpha Conspiracy
At least American's don't smell like cheese.
Just a thought... perhaps they're there just to piss people off, they can record those idiots that walk by, flip them off, swear at them, throw stuffed tuxes, and use it as anti-linux PR.
You fail to mention that more often than not, the subtitles are unreadable. It's like a word-for-word translation, and they spell half the words wrong.
I belive he tried, but there was something in the local laws preventing him from it... I'm not sure of all the details though.
Confiscating computers is idiotic. I have a friend who was accused of trading kiddie pr0n (he wasn't, and wasn't even officially charged with anything)... the police came in, and took all of his computers, monitors, assorted hardware (NICS, spare modems, etc.) every single CD, floppy, power strip, monitor, keyboard... Everything... as "evidence". They didn't find anything, and he never got his equipment back eithere (this was like 7 or 8 PCs too).
Actually, they did, in a way. Napster was virtually unheard of in the 'mainstream' community until acts like Metallica, Dr. Dre, etc., started suing and bringing national attention to the company.
no, no, no, you have it backwards
It changes the resolution of the display [640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, etc] but doesn't change the size of the desktop [it could still be a 1600x1200 desktop] on a 640x480 res display