Agreed, I can almost see the sysadmins' studio apartments: dirty, smelly T-shirts and jeans, used cum rags stiffening with age, fuck sleeves encrusted with jizz, empty, maggot-filled pizza boxes along-side pictures of Famke Jansen bloated with body-fluids. Bleck!
*sigh* Why oh WHY was this blatant shit posted by timothy? His comments are - at best - a string of facile observations.
On top of that, I think most of you are aware of the controversy surrounding regular Slashdot article submitter D Ninja (aka Roland Piquepaille).
For those of you who don't know, please allow me to bring forth all the facts. Roland Piquepaille has an online journal (I refuse to use the word "blog") located at www.primidi.com. It is titled "Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends". It consists almost entirely of content, both text and pictures, taken from reputable news websites and online technical journals. He does give credit to the other websites, but it wasn't always so. Only after many complaints were raised by the Slashdot readership did he start giving credit where credit was due. However, this is not what the controversy is about.
Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends serves online advertisements through a service called Blogads, located at www.blogads.com. Blogads is not your traditional online advertiser; rather than base payments on click-throughs, Blogads pays a flat fee based on the level of traffic your online journal generates. This way Blogads can guarantee that an advertisement on a particular online journal will reach a particular number of users. So advertisements on high traffic online journals are appropriately more expensive to buy, but the advertisement is guaranteed to be seen by a large amount of people. This, in turn, encourages people like Roland Piquepaille to try their best to increase traffic to their journals in order to increase the going rates for advertisements on their web pages. But advertisers do have some flexibility. Blogads serves two classes of advertisements. The premium ad space that is seen at the top of the web page by all viewers is reserved for "Special Advertisers"; it holds only one advertisement. The secondary ad space is located near the bottom half of the page, so that the user must scroll down the window to see it. This space can contain up to four advertisements and is reserved for regular advertisers, or just "Advertisers". Visit Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends (www.primidi.com) to see it for yourself.
Before we talk about money, let's talk about the service that Roland Piquepaille provides in his journal. He goes out and looks for interesting articles about new and emerging technologies. He provides a very brief overview of the articles, then copies a few choice paragraphs and the occasional picture from each article and puts them up on his web page. Finally, he adds a minimal amount of original content between the copied-and-pasted text in an effort to make the journal entry coherent and appear to add value to the original articles. Nothing more, nothing less.
Now let's talk about money. Visit http://www.blogads.com/order_html?adstrip_category =tech&politics= to check the following facts for yourself. As of today, December XX 2004, the going rate for the premium advertisement space on Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends is $375 for one month. One of the four standard advertisements costs $150 for one month. So, the maximum advertising space brings in $375 x 1 + $150 x 4 = $975 for one month. Obviously not all $975 will go directly to Roland Piquepaille, as Blogads gets a portion of that as a service fee, but he will receive the majority of it. According to the FAQ [blogads.com], Blogads takes 20%. So Roland Piquepaille gets 80% of $975, a maximum of $780 each month. www.primidi.com is hosted by clara.net (look it up at http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/index. jhtml). Browsing clara.net's hosting solutions, the most expensive hosting service is their Clarahost Advanced (http://www.uk.clara.net/clarahost/advanced.php [clara.net]) priced at £69.99 GBP. This is roughly, at the time of this writing, $130 USD. Assuming Roland Piquepaille pays for the
Until we tera-form Mars there will be no populating the solar system. Think of it like living in Las Vegas: everything has to be trucked in or the whole thing dies.
That to me doesn't sound like populating the solar system as much as staking an extended out-post dependent on cheeseburgers trucked in from the home-world.
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Agreed, I can almost see the sysadmins' studio apartments: dirty, smelly T-shirts and jeans, used cum rags stiffening with age, fuck sleeves encrusted with jizz, empty, maggot-filled pizza boxes along-side pictures of Famke Jansen bloated with body-fluids. Bleck!
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Think that's bad just wait for the 'unsigned' tag to start showing up. :)
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What will become of those hordes of CS degree-seeking paycheck-hunters? I pity the fool.
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PS> I'm the real one, not the fake troll Smidge from Scotland. That guy's a bloody fag.
I, for one, saw a sweet, lovely FUCKING COW.
That is all.
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...a category of MILFs, perchance? WANT!
...but decided on being a Paladin instead.
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Now I'm *really* confused!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian
Just buy them all C=64s and a Beowulf Cluster of 1521 floppy external drives.
The world would probably melt in a day.
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You chose...poorly.
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RandoX, my dear, my sweet, my love, you sound like a nice boy...but from your above comments I'd say you're about as sharp as a sack of wet mice.
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Think that's bad you should try the GGG interface. Yeah, you really should.
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Hey...easy on him, WianR! He's just living in Solipsistic Land. :-)
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or slashdot troll! or rob malda! or suxor! or coxor!
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In other news, water is wet.
In other news, you are a cock.
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THIS. Teh 'Hancock' cam sucked green donkey dick!
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Sadly, you're not the first to think along these lines of reasoning. You are a cock though.
=Smidge=
Am I a crazy mad man?
Meh. Only if you think 'camelcase' is a form of erudite luggage.
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*sigh* Why oh WHY was this blatant shit posted by timothy? His comments are - at best - a string of facile observations.
On top of that, I think most of you are aware of the controversy surrounding regular Slashdot article submitter D Ninja (aka Roland Piquepaille).
For those of you who don't know, please allow me to bring forth all the facts. Roland Piquepaille has an online journal (I refuse to use the word "blog") located at www.primidi.com. It is titled "Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends". It consists almost entirely of content, both text and pictures, taken from reputable news websites and online technical journals. He does give credit to the other websites, but it wasn't always so. Only after many complaints were raised by the Slashdot readership did he start giving credit where credit was due. However, this is not what the controversy is about.
Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends serves online advertisements through a service called Blogads, located at www.blogads.com. Blogads is not your traditional online advertiser; rather than base payments on click-throughs, Blogads pays a flat fee based on the level of traffic your online journal generates. This way Blogads can guarantee that an advertisement on a particular online journal will reach a particular number of users. So advertisements on high traffic online journals are appropriately more expensive to buy, but the advertisement is guaranteed to be seen by a large amount of people. This, in turn, encourages people like Roland Piquepaille to try their best to increase traffic to their journals in order to increase the going rates for advertisements on their web pages. But advertisers do have some flexibility. Blogads serves two classes of advertisements. The premium ad space that is seen at the top of the web page by all viewers is reserved for "Special Advertisers"; it holds only one advertisement. The secondary ad space is located near the bottom half of the page, so that the user must scroll down the window to see it. This space can contain up to four advertisements and is reserved for regular advertisers, or just "Advertisers". Visit Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends (www.primidi.com) to see it for yourself.
Before we talk about money, let's talk about the service that Roland Piquepaille provides in his journal. He goes out and looks for interesting articles about new and emerging technologies. He provides a very brief overview of the articles, then copies a few choice paragraphs and the occasional picture from each article and puts them up on his web page. Finally, he adds a minimal amount of original content between the copied-and-pasted text in an effort to make the journal entry coherent and appear to add value to the original articles. Nothing more, nothing less.
Now let's talk about money. Visit http://www.blogads.com/order_html?adstrip_category =tech&politics= to check the following facts for yourself. As of today, December XX 2004, the going rate for the premium advertisement space on Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends is $375 for one month. One of the four standard advertisements costs $150 for one month. So, the maximum advertising space brings in $375 x 1 + $150 x 4 = $975 for one month. Obviously not all $975 will go directly to Roland Piquepaille, as Blogads gets a portion of that as a service fee, but he will receive the majority of it. According to the FAQ [blogads.com], Blogads takes 20%. So Roland Piquepaille gets 80% of $975, a maximum of $780 each month. www.primidi.com is hosted by clara.net (look it up at http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/index. jhtml). Browsing clara.net's hosting solutions, the most expensive hosting service is their Clarahost Advanced (http://www.uk.clara.net/clarahost/advanced.php [clara.net]) priced at £69.99 GBP. This is roughly, at the time of this writing, $130 USD. Assuming Roland Piquepaille pays for the
Yeah but maybe it's Bizarro earth where Barack is half-white instead of half-black.
Oh. Wait. Damn.
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Or did you really mean 'orthogonal'
Yeah...because all Apple users are at right-angles with the rest of the world...right.
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Its our national healthcare system.
Hope it beats you're [sic] national grammar system.
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Actually, my brother was eaten by wolves one winter on the Connecticut turnpike. But I digest.
=Smidge=
Until we tera-form Mars there will be no populating the solar system. Think of it like living in Las Vegas: everything has to be trucked in or the whole thing dies.
That to me doesn't sound like populating the solar system as much as staking an extended out-post dependent on cheeseburgers trucked in from the home-world.
Hans is that you?
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Hans is that you?
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