Okay here's the thing, it's cool to have your own domain, but I think the hype of buying a domain that Daddy Warbucks might want to come and buy from you for $1Mill days are long over.
Plus lets look at it from a pure financial arena. Back in "the day" Network Solutions was basically the only place to grab a domain name, but that's not true anymore. Check This out for a little taste of why NetSol is screwed in the market. I remember switching from NetSol, to register.com to finally, Tucows OpenSRS which is dirt cheap. But NetSol is like the microsoft of the DNS world where people know it as being fairly big and its security sucks.
With the trtouble to get MY OWN DOMAIN out of their database, I hope they go bankrupt and never set up anytype of ecommerce site again. Does anyone have anything positive to say about netsol, I mean they really were and are a horrible company that overprices everything. I mean look at verisign now, the prices for a "virtual certificate". Insane.
But I'm going to have to agree whole-heartidly here. I'm the type of person who has 3 pairs of foot attire, one to wear 95% of the time that shoes are required, usually a casual sport shoe (right now they're chuck taylors), a pair a schnazzy expensive shiney leather shoes (to go with the suit I wear twice a year if that), and slippers or sandals (whichever I have at that point in time). And I wear them until they fall apart, and by fall apart I mean the sole has become detached and superglue is not going to fix it, detached.
Enter the woman: The only species on the planet that can have a shoe for an "occassion", would you believe there is such a thing as a "thanksgiving" shoe? Or that there is an evil spy that documents the occasions that a shoe has been worn and will strike you dead if you wear the same shoe twice? Or that you just can't have too many solid black shoes or white shoes (even though they look exactly alike). And it's always a good idea to keep backup shoes, and lets not forget shoes that you can use with more than one thing, but not more than three things.
I literally have a spot under the bed for my shoes because the closet has been taken over by a TWO LAYER shoe rack that holds, catch this, 52 pairs of shoes (for all you REAL geeks who want to mentally picture this... 2 layers that hold 2 rows of 13 pairs paralell... 104 seperate shoes!). And that's not counting the ones in boxes above the hanging clothes.
I'm not whining/complaining I seriously do not understand this phenomenon.
Geeks throughout the world, in order to be loved and accepted by your fellow slashdot peers you MUST buy the following product.
Businesses, please follow these simple steps.
1.) Make something that involves a computer (nearly anything will do)
2.) In your pitch make sure you include words that aren't usually associated with the target crowd:"Must Have", "Sleek", "Sexy", "Expensive", and of course "HandSized".
3.) After that setup a sham of a fake website that looks like it's ran by an independent source, then give yourself great reviews.
4.) Submit the story to slashdot.org and make it look like the product is obviously well known by menioning "older" and "outdated" products that every geek who is a geek SHOULD already know about, even though more tha 99% of the readers will have no idea what your company is even about.
5.) When the story is published on slashdot, immediately take down the sham site and proceed to the article in question. Provide a personal insight as to how wonderful you think the company is, along with a shitty cut and paste job of the text from the page (make sure you paste text from frames close to each other to make it nearly impossible follow. (do this as what they call an "Anoynmous Coward"
6.) Have someone with a "ScreenName" on the website submit a personal encounter with the company and how wonderful they were to them.
7.) And then have someone mention how horrible it is that slashdot would waste a companies bandwidth like this thus making the consumers think they are helping you out by purchasing your product.
Please don't mod this +1 funny, as it's not meant to be that way. I really do find strinkingly large simularities between the way the Nazi's do things and the way certain members of congress try to force the people that elected them to give up their rights. Just because "Rights" is one of the DRM words, doesn't make it right.
... but you would think that this whole problem could be solved by just making a player for linux and a way to copy DVD's for the consumer...
Should the MPAA not be THANKING the opensource community for making their propritary media work on a system that they wish not to support. It's not DeCSS that makes people not buy as many DVD's, it's the price. While DVD players are slowly becoming better and better and selling for less than $60 at the local Wal-Mart it's just a matter of time before the DVD is standard over a VHS player. But even with falling hardware prices it's still nearly $16 - $25 for a new release DVD. This just seems a bit high for a technology that makes it easier, more efficient, and cheaper way of copying, shipping, and packaging. And yet, VHS tapes are still cheaper than DVD's.
I want this to hit the supreme court and once and for all legalize DeCSS so it can be included with the major distributions. I want to be able to take a DVD play it, rip and re-encode it, and burn it to VCD if I want to. This is simply nothing more than Fair Use and the MPAA is nothing more than a company trying to convolute a situation by confusing people with technicalities.
All VCR's come with a record button, this doesn't even seem odd to anyone who owns one, as a matter of fact a VCR without one would be shunned from the market. Why then does it seem a DVD is so much different than a VHS? Why, there isn't, they are both being used to store a movie that you bought rights to have a copy of when you walked out the store with it (and a receipt). If you want to take it home and watch it you can, if you want to wear it as an earring you can, or if you want to make a copy of it/watch it on your computer in linux, you can't.
Wait a minute here, doesn't this mean that the DVD that I own the rights to have a copy of is protected by some unknown law to me? I thought that copyright law states that if I own me a legally purchased copy of a video I can do what I please with it, so long as I don't resell copies of it, distribute copies of it, or play it to large audiences (I'm sure there's more to that FBI warning, but I really don't want to go read it again).
Does it surprise me that the MPAA is taking the matter to court? No, this is a country where you can sue a fast food chain because you're fat and too dumb to quit eating fast food to make yourself not fat. We're a sue happy society that is accustomed to being in court because that's the american way damn it. Everyone has a right to a fair and impartial trial and we should excercise that right every chance we get, even if that means that someone might actually use a new form of technology to make a shitty copy of a shitty movie and then not go buy an overpriced shitty legal version of their own.
You know what I want to do, I want to sue the MPAA for $16 for every DVD I own that I have seen so many times I know every scene and every word of. Because I purchased a movie for entertainment and that movie is no longer entertaining to me. Yeah, I think I'll call me a lawyer right now.
ice cast and shoutcast offer mp3 streaming. Shoutcast is my favorite because it plays in QuickTime, RealPlayer, WinAmp, XMMS, iTunes, and mpg123... a standard like mp3 is pretty easy to stream (or so I'd assume).
But shoutcast's website has a search engine to classify the channels by bitrate or genre or whatever... might be something worth checking out. Plus you pick the software you want to use, and platform.
And if you get bored a shoutcast server is always fun to play with, possibly set your own up.
So I'm reading the +2 and above posts from highest to lowest threaded. (so you know where I'm coming from here)
So why don't we make just bomb the hell out of the countries that jobs are outsourced to, close our borders, and purify our nation once again.
You are all sounding a little too much like some other not so popular websites. If you suck at your job or someone can do it cheaper or better, then you're not going to keep your job. Blame whoever you want to, ever think maybe it was YOU who was YOUR problem?
Whoa... back to the wonders of the open source world where one thing is obviously better than the other, they can't both be... *gasp* equally great *gasp*...
Needless to say if anyone ever asks you a question of what runs NetBSD... you can safely say more things than any other operating system. NetBSD runs on everything from a supercomputer to a dreamcast and everything in between. The most impressive things I've seen from NetBSD is the ability to get the OS running on anything that can process information and NFS... second to none.
There are ninches for everything... portability... netbsd wins hands down.
You think your local college spends money more wisely, just because it's a college? You think that the banker at your trust knows what's being done in your name? How much money do you think they wasted getting you to think this way?
I didn't say give to a college, I said give to a scholarship. Aid a student who is trying to better themselves through an education.
A trust in the name of the owner can't just be moved by the banker? That money is yours or the person who owns it's account to do with as they please, 9 times out of 10 to help someone or something.
I never said I gave to black tie events either. I think you completely missed my point so I'm not going to hide them in vague sentences of explanation.
1. Make a difference in your own backyard. Increase the level of living for your next door neighbors in turn making your level of living higher (push pull action). Don't blindly give to some project for a country that is poor because of poor decisions of the past (remember how young even america is).
2. Don't come to slashdot looking for money, historically slashdot has refrained from making itself into a pledge drive, but low-and-behold a new trend is starting
3. Screw LAOS... I think we as Americans have done enough in that part of Asia as far as lives spent and money as well. I know who was on what side, but I think it's time that we as Americans give it a rest in that part of the world.
4. I'm a greedy bastard who worked for his money and I know that all you have to do to make as much if not more than me is get off your ass and try.
"parody" movies are those which include, Austin Powers (james bond), Naked Gun (every cop/investigation movie), Scary Movie (all the scary movies), Not Another Teen Movie (all the teen movies), and so on.
Galay Quest (which I mistakingly called Space Quest) was meant to poke fun at the UltraObsessives mentioned above. I placed "parody" in quotes to discern between the word and the classification. I felt this movie made fun of the lifestyle more than anything. It's not necessarily a parody. A parody of the lifestyle would have been A group of people who learn everything they can about... growing pains...
I think we need a new category with the Southpark Salley Struthers head as the icon for all "Cries for monetary help".
And of course... more of my opinion on the post...
Like I said to mandrake (a company) and many before on the slashdot donation network, NO... the only thing that I donate to is things I can directly control. IE scholarships, trusts, etc. I wanna know who I'm benifiting not the well dressed president of the NON-PROFIT organization. I still can't believe the black-tie events I've been invited to in the name of "Charity"... I love the fact that "feeding children" requires a fucking charity dinner... how about this... invite everyone to a charity dinner and then don't have one, make them see what it's like to be hungry.
As far as internet in Laos... laughable... I would really like to see the benifit of this... not from the begging for money site too. Plus... $25,000 because grants won't come in time... pretty optimistic about those grants coming in.
You all really have money to burn after the holliday season? Why dontcha look at what's happening in your own backyard. Call your old college and tell them you want to start a scholarship (they won't mind really). Education is the key to it all, don't care what you say.
... who thinks this sucks? I mean jesus these aren't highschool kids with a little free time after school, these look to be grown adults running around a park and then probably their parents basement. I mean what would say, their co-workers or immediate family have to say about this? Are they going to be proud of it? I've done my share of crap movies (exact caliber as these) but they were for some type of theatre or acting type classes in which you had to create a script and film the damn thing.
You want to know what I think really does it for me? The lack of music, that was the greatest thing of every single star trek, or any science fiction movie for that matter. I like star trek just as much as the next guy but I'm going to go back to my original thought here.
There is a difference between a star trek fan and a weirdo ultraobsessive person. Fans go and see the movies, sometimes buy memorabillia (games, DVD's, etc.)... ultraobsessive's they dress up in star trek uniforms and go to "conventions". You know the movie Space Quest... exactly... that wasn't meant to be a "parody" that was meant to make fun of every ultra obsessives wet dream.
Plus to top it off, they used a mac with non-standard video codecs... and they want to be called geeks?
... the computer sense a little... you know... "in the mood"... "more ready than usual"... "ready for a different kind of action"... "ready to play ball"... "ready to take one for the team"... "in the mood for some lovin"
If it can cater to that need... then it is DEFINANTELLY slashdot worthy and should be expanded to a market far wider than the military.
erik@SPAM-ME-NOT.multipledigression.com (minus the spam filter)
This site continously makes false emails randomly, this is absolutely wonderful and the first time I've ever seen something like this done. Score one for the geek team!!
So if you think a small individual can make a difference in a world whose apathy exceeds all bounds, by all means, show me a solid plan. Show me where you plan on finding the hundreds of thousands of dedicated individuals who won't just get behind the cause of the moment but who'll stand behind your everlasting cause of change of the system through thick and thin.
Look back... everyone is a "small" individual as no one is born great. Granted some get their a little quicker through opportunities that aren't present for others. But anyone who wants to get to the top can, it takes simple determination. The day you become part of the the solution and not a critic of the problem will be the day you see where I'm coming from. Many many campaigns have been won on "grass roots" approaches where a candidate goes door to door and uses the idea of people knowing other people and spreading the word to gain popularity. You want to get to the top you gotta start small I would love for you to point out ANY prime minister/president who started there with no other background or proven political track record.
India beat U.S. supercomputer sanctions by building a teraflop $5 million PARAM Padma supercomputer...
And India IS nuclear and has a fairly stable government. The U.S. or U.N. will be hard pressed to tell them "bad". Plus I really wouldn't mind their nuclear program going digital, a little less radiation in the morning breeze. They're going to do nuke research no matter what, might as well encourage them to not blow shit up in the process.
To top it off, why is it exactly we, as THE U.S. feel we can be top dawg and keep everyone else down. India, like the U.S., has quite a bit of poverty and it really wouldn't hurt to encourage them to look towards bettering themselves and their people. (nuclear research can actually be used for things other than building bombs...)
In the tech world there are no borders, and this really pisses the old schoolers off. We're not going to do anything except identify they broke a sanction trust me we've picked enough fights to last us a while... plus just think about the benchmarks they'll get on that baby... it will just kick the shit outta everyone else at the U.N. LAN parties...
You don't like it? You think there's something wrong?
Get up off your ass and RUN FOR PUBLIC FREE ELECTIONS. The old saying of "vote to voice your opinion" is pure and utter apathetic BULLSHIT. You want something to change, talk to your Representative, Governor, AG, SecState, Comptroller, Treasurer, Clerk, Judge, Senator, FBI, or whoever you just don't like because people who seem to be "privledged" run the country.
Tell them how you feel, don't think you're getting the right response, then run against them in the next election. This really isn't a hard concept, in democracy if you don't like something, you a citizen can change it. Don't tell me you're so helpless that you think you can't change anything, if so then you are worthless to society as a whole and should move to a dictatorship country where your shit views of government can make some real sense.
Funny you should mention fairy tales, those are stories told to small children to enstill the philosophy that anything is possible... ANYTHING.
... People are using the payphones less, therefore demand has gone down so price has gone up. My cell's battery went dead the other day and I needed to make a local call, so I headed to the payphone, $0.55 to make a Local 2 minute call!!
Think about it, that's 25 cents a minute, most cellular phone contractual plans are LOWER than this price.
Here's the irony of the story, I didn't have any change either, so I stopped a gentleman to ask him for some change to use the phone, he said he was on his lunch break and had no problem with me using his phone.
I think the saying "everyone has a cell phone" is wrong, but not so untrue, like the computer most people have at least one in their family, if not three or four.
Moral of the story, I got a car charger now and don't try to see if the lithium ion battery can hold a charge for more than 4 days. Totally off topic but motorolla's new phones with a Lithium Ion battery are hella nice and last a rather long time (just not longer than 4 days).
In closing of a long post, it's the price of the payphone that has made them less appealing, and what gets me even more is most of these phone companies who supply payphones ALSO have a division that supply celluar phones. So they really aren't "losing" money as a whole, just certain departments.
I say more emergency solar based Cell Phones Stations on Highways, Interstates, and Rest Stops because technically Cell Phones have to be free when dialing emergency numbers, and being solar you can put them anywhere.
I'm sure "phreakers" and 2600 will be upset though...
Would the US really blow up their own people for the sake of global military supremacy? Naaaah...
It is very American to stand up and say that you're patriotic especially after September 11th, and then go on and on about how "they" the government are trying to control you "the sheep", or how "they" want to go to war.
Here's a little lesson in how things work for Americans, because obviously some of you just don't get it. American Government is ran by AMERICANS. "they" are "us" and no different except the titles beside their names.
So would "they" set off a nuke on "their" own people?
HELL NO
This was an accident that was covered up because the Armed forces (that ensure our freedom and lifestyles as Americans) made a mistake and like ANY human they didn't want to fess up to it. It's a whole lot easier to pretend something didn't happen or "bend the truth" then to come right out with it. That's the one thing that just doesn't register with me, since when is "the government" some new breed of people in America?
Sometimes it sickens me to see people so proud to be Americans to just turn around and bitch about what they take for granted.
In Soviet Russia, you wouldn't see a book like this.
"I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will fight to my death for your right to say it" - Voltaire
Which was based off of the Epic Beowulf, hence it's a translation/interpretation, hence in reference I am still right and you come out looking like a schmuck.
Slashdot Mirror
Aight, well I know about 1 million slashdot readers who would love to meet you. Pssobily a story submission? :-)
Plus lets look at it from a pure financial arena. Back in "the day" Network Solutions was basically the only place to grab a domain name, but that's not true anymore. Check This out for a little taste of why NetSol is screwed in the market. I remember switching from NetSol, to register.com to finally, Tucows OpenSRS which is dirt cheap. But NetSol is like the microsoft of the DNS world where people know it as being fairly big and its security sucks.
With the trtouble to get MY OWN DOMAIN out of their database, I hope they go bankrupt and never set up anytype of ecommerce site again. Does anyone have anything positive to say about netsol, I mean they really were and are a horrible company that overprices everything. I mean look at verisign now, the prices for a "virtual certificate". Insane.
But I'm going to have to agree whole-heartidly here. I'm the type of person who has 3 pairs of foot attire, one to wear 95% of the time that shoes are required, usually a casual sport shoe (right now they're chuck taylors), a pair a schnazzy expensive shiney leather shoes (to go with the suit I wear twice a year if that), and slippers or sandals (whichever I have at that point in time). And I wear them until they fall apart, and by fall apart I mean the sole has become detached and superglue is not going to fix it, detached.
Enter the woman: The only species on the planet that can have a shoe for an "occassion", would you believe there is such a thing as a "thanksgiving" shoe? Or that there is an evil spy that documents the occasions that a shoe has been worn and will strike you dead if you wear the same shoe twice? Or that you just can't have too many solid black shoes or white shoes (even though they look exactly alike). And it's always a good idea to keep backup shoes, and lets not forget shoes that you can use with more than one thing, but not more than three things.
I literally have a spot under the bed for my shoes because the closet has been taken over by a TWO LAYER shoe rack that holds, catch this, 52 pairs of shoes (for all you REAL geeks who want to mentally picture this ... 2 layers that hold 2 rows of 13 pairs paralell ... 104 seperate shoes!). And that's not counting the ones in boxes above the hanging clothes.
I'm not whining/complaining I seriously do not understand this phenomenon.
Geeks throughout the world, in order to be loved and accepted by your fellow slashdot peers you MUST buy the following product.
Businesses, please follow these simple steps.
1.) Make something that involves a computer (nearly anything will do)
2.) In your pitch make sure you include words that aren't usually associated with the target crowd:"Must Have", "Sleek", "Sexy", "Expensive", and of course "HandSized".
3.) After that setup a sham of a fake website that looks like it's ran by an independent source, then give yourself great reviews.
4.) Submit the story to slashdot.org and make it look like the product is obviously well known by menioning "older" and "outdated" products that every geek who is a geek SHOULD already know about, even though more tha 99% of the readers will have no idea what your company is even about.
5.) When the story is published on slashdot, immediately take down the sham site and proceed to the article in question. Provide a personal insight as to how wonderful you think the company is, along with a shitty cut and paste job of the text from the page (make sure you paste text from frames close to each other to make it nearly impossible follow. (do this as what they call an "Anoynmous Coward"
6.) Have someone with a "ScreenName" on the website submit a personal encounter with the company and how wonderful they were to them.
7.) And then have someone mention how horrible it is that slashdot would waste a companies bandwidth like this thus making the consumers think they are helping you out by purchasing your product.
8.) Cut a check to OSDN for 10% of the profit.
9.) Repeat in 6 months with new product.
And I told MS it was viral ... I never knew they'd put it in a leaked presentation.
Please don't mod this +1 funny, as it's not meant to be that way. I really do find strinkingly large simularities between the way the Nazi's do things and the way certain members of congress try to force the people that elected them to give up their rights. Just because "Rights" is one of the DRM words, doesn't make it right.
I believe in Law that is for the people.
please follow the links...
Should the MPAA not be THANKING the opensource community for making their propritary media work on a system that they wish not to support. It's not DeCSS that makes people not buy as many DVD's, it's the price. While DVD players are slowly becoming better and better and selling for less than $60 at the local Wal-Mart it's just a matter of time before the DVD is standard over a VHS player. But even with falling hardware prices it's still nearly $16 - $25 for a new release DVD. This just seems a bit high for a technology that makes it easier, more efficient, and cheaper way of copying, shipping, and packaging. And yet, VHS tapes are still cheaper than DVD's.
I want this to hit the supreme court and once and for all legalize DeCSS so it can be included with the major distributions. I want to be able to take a DVD play it, rip and re-encode it, and burn it to VCD if I want to. This is simply nothing more than Fair Use and the MPAA is nothing more than a company trying to convolute a situation by confusing people with technicalities.
All VCR's come with a record button, this doesn't even seem odd to anyone who owns one, as a matter of fact a VCR without one would be shunned from the market. Why then does it seem a DVD is so much different than a VHS? Why, there isn't, they are both being used to store a movie that you bought rights to have a copy of when you walked out the store with it (and a receipt). If you want to take it home and watch it you can, if you want to wear it as an earring you can, or if you want to make a copy of it/watch it on your computer in linux, you can't.
Wait a minute here, doesn't this mean that the DVD that I own the rights to have a copy of is protected by some unknown law to me? I thought that copyright law states that if I own me a legally purchased copy of a video I can do what I please with it, so long as I don't resell copies of it, distribute copies of it, or play it to large audiences (I'm sure there's more to that FBI warning, but I really don't want to go read it again).
Does it surprise me that the MPAA is taking the matter to court? No, this is a country where you can sue a fast food chain because you're fat and too dumb to quit eating fast food to make yourself not fat. We're a sue happy society that is accustomed to being in court because that's the american way damn it. Everyone has a right to a fair and impartial trial and we should excercise that right every chance we get, even if that means that someone might actually use a new form of technology to make a shitty copy of a shitty movie and then not go buy an overpriced shitty legal version of their own.
You know what I want to do, I want to sue the MPAA for $16 for every DVD I own that I have seen so many times I know every scene and every word of. Because I purchased a movie for entertainment and that movie is no longer entertaining to me. Yeah, I think I'll call me a lawyer right now.
go to netbsd.org and they're all listed on the right. There are quite a few systems that linux does not run on.
But shoutcast's website has a search engine to classify the channels by bitrate or genre or whatever ... might be something worth checking out. Plus you pick the software you want to use, and platform.
And if you get bored a shoutcast server is always fun to play with, possibly set your own up.
So why don't we make just bomb the hell out of the countries that jobs are outsourced to, close our borders, and purify our nation once again.
You are all sounding a little too much like some other not so popular websites. If you suck at your job or someone can do it cheaper or better, then you're not going to keep your job. Blame whoever you want to, ever think maybe it was YOU who was YOUR problem?
Needless to say if anyone ever asks you a question of what runs NetBSD ... you can safely say more things than any other operating system. NetBSD runs on everything from a supercomputer to a dreamcast and everything in between. The most impressive things I've seen from NetBSD is the ability to get the OS running on anything that can process information and NFS ... second to none.
There are ninches for everything ... portability ... netbsd wins hands down.
I didn't say give to a college, I said give to a scholarship. Aid a student who is trying to better themselves through an education.
A trust in the name of the owner can't just be moved by the banker? That money is yours or the person who owns it's account to do with as they please, 9 times out of 10 to help someone or something.
I never said I gave to black tie events either. I think you completely missed my point so I'm not going to hide them in vague sentences of explanation.
1. Make a difference in your own backyard. Increase the level of living for your next door neighbors in turn making your level of living higher (push pull action). Don't blindly give to some project for a country that is poor because of poor decisions of the past (remember how young even america is).
2. Don't come to slashdot looking for money, historically slashdot has refrained from making itself into a pledge drive, but low-and-behold a new trend is starting
3. Screw LAOS ... I think we as Americans have done enough in that part of Asia as far as lives spent and money as well. I know who was on what side, but I think it's time that we as Americans give it a rest in that part of the world.
4. I'm a greedy bastard who worked for his money and I know that all you have to do to make as much if not more than me is get off your ass and try.
Galay Quest (which I mistakingly called Space Quest) was meant to poke fun at the UltraObsessives mentioned above. I placed "parody" in quotes to discern between the word and the classification. I felt this movie made fun of the lifestyle more than anything. It's not necessarily a parody. A parody of the lifestyle would have been A group of people who learn everything they can about ... growing pains ...
So that's what I mean by a parody.
And of course ... more of my opinion on the post ...
Like I said to mandrake (a company) and many before on the slashdot donation network, NO ... the only thing that I donate to is things I can directly control. IE scholarships, trusts, etc. I wanna know who I'm benifiting not the well dressed president of the NON-PROFIT organization. I still can't believe the black-tie events I've been invited to in the name of "Charity" ... I love the fact that "feeding children" requires a fucking charity dinner ... how about this ... invite everyone to a charity dinner and then don't have one, make them see what it's like to be hungry.
As far as internet in Laos ... laughable ... I would really like to see the benifit of this ... not from the begging for money site too. Plus ... $25,000 because grants won't come in time ... pretty optimistic about those grants coming in.
You all really have money to burn after the holliday season? Why dontcha look at what's happening in your own backyard. Call your old college and tell them you want to start a scholarship (they won't mind really). Education is the key to it all, don't care what you say.
You want to know what I think really does it for me? The lack of music, that was the greatest thing of every single star trek, or any science fiction movie for that matter. I like star trek just as much as the next guy but I'm going to go back to my original thought here.
There is a difference between a star trek fan and a weirdo ultraobsessive person. Fans go and see the movies, sometimes buy memorabillia (games, DVD's, etc.) ... ultraobsessive's they dress up in star trek uniforms and go to "conventions". You know the movie Space Quest ... exactly ... that wasn't meant to be a "parody" that was meant to make fun of every ultra obsessives wet dream.
Plus to top it off, they used a mac with non-standard video codecs ... and they want to be called geeks?
Am I the only one here who thinks this??
If it can cater to that need ... then it is DEFINANTELLY slashdot worthy and should be expanded to a market far wider than the military.
erik@SPAM-ME-NOT.multipledigression.com (minus the spam filter)
This site continously makes false emails randomly, this is absolutely wonderful and the first time I've ever seen something like this done. Score one for the geek team!!
Would this classify as a "case-mod" ???
Look back ... everyone is a "small" individual as no one is born great. Granted some get their a little quicker through opportunities that aren't present for others. But anyone who wants to get to the top can, it takes simple determination. The day you become part of the the solution and not a critic of the problem will be the day you see where I'm coming from. Many many campaigns have been won on "grass roots" approaches where a candidate goes door to door and uses the idea of people knowing other people and spreading the word to gain popularity. You want to get to the top you gotta start small I would love for you to point out ANY prime minister/president who started there with no other background or proven political track record.
And India IS nuclear and has a fairly stable government. The U.S. or U.N. will be hard pressed to tell them "bad". Plus I really wouldn't mind their nuclear program going digital, a little less radiation in the morning breeze. They're going to do nuke research no matter what, might as well encourage them to not blow shit up in the process.
To top it off, why is it exactly we, as THE U.S. feel we can be top dawg and keep everyone else down. India, like the U.S., has quite a bit of poverty and it really wouldn't hurt to encourage them to look towards bettering themselves and their people. (nuclear research can actually be used for things other than building bombs ...)
In the tech world there are no borders, and this really pisses the old schoolers off. We're not going to do anything except identify they broke a sanction trust me we've picked enough fights to last us a while ... plus just think about the benchmarks they'll get on that baby ... it will just kick the shit outta everyone else at the U.N. LAN parties ...
For everyone else reading this ...
SATA - serial advanced technology attachment
ATA - advanced technology attachment
PATA - parallel advanced technology attachment
MBPS - megabytes per second
PCB - printed circuit board
OEM - original equipment manufacturer
Just in case you aren't Slashdottiness enough to know them already...
Get up off your ass and RUN FOR PUBLIC FREE ELECTIONS. The old saying of "vote to voice your opinion" is pure and utter apathetic BULLSHIT. You want something to change, talk to your Representative, Governor, AG, SecState, Comptroller, Treasurer, Clerk, Judge, Senator, FBI, or whoever you just don't like because people who seem to be "privledged" run the country.
Tell them how you feel, don't think you're getting the right response, then run against them in the next election. This really isn't a hard concept, in democracy if you don't like something, you a citizen can change it. Don't tell me you're so helpless that you think you can't change anything, if so then you are worthless to society as a whole and should move to a dictatorship country where your shit views of government can make some real sense.
Funny you should mention fairy tales, those are stories told to small children to enstill the philosophy that anything is possible ... ANYTHING.
Think about it, that's 25 cents a minute, most cellular phone contractual plans are LOWER than this price.
Here's the irony of the story, I didn't have any change either, so I stopped a gentleman to ask him for some change to use the phone, he said he was on his lunch break and had no problem with me using his phone.
I think the saying "everyone has a cell phone" is wrong, but not so untrue, like the computer most people have at least one in their family, if not three or four.
Moral of the story, I got a car charger now and don't try to see if the lithium ion battery can hold a charge for more than 4 days. Totally off topic but motorolla's new phones with a Lithium Ion battery are hella nice and last a rather long time (just not longer than 4 days).
In closing of a long post, it's the price of the payphone that has made them less appealing, and what gets me even more is most of these phone companies who supply payphones ALSO have a division that supply celluar phones. So they really aren't "losing" money as a whole, just certain departments.
I say more emergency solar based Cell Phones Stations on Highways, Interstates, and Rest Stops because technically Cell Phones have to be free when dialing emergency numbers, and being solar you can put them anywhere.
I'm sure "phreakers" and 2600 will be upset though...
It is very American to stand up and say that you're patriotic especially after September 11th, and then go on and on about how "they" the government are trying to control you "the sheep", or how "they" want to go to war.
Here's a little lesson in how things work for Americans, because obviously some of you just don't get it. American Government is ran by AMERICANS. "they" are "us" and no different except the titles beside their names.
So would "they" set off a nuke on "their" own people?
HELL NO
This was an accident that was covered up because the Armed forces (that ensure our freedom and lifestyles as Americans) made a mistake and like ANY human they didn't want to fess up to it. It's a whole lot easier to pretend something didn't happen or "bend the truth" then to come right out with it. That's the one thing that just doesn't register with me, since when is "the government" some new breed of people in America?
Sometimes it sickens me to see people so proud to be Americans to just turn around and bitch about what they take for granted.
In Soviet Russia, you wouldn't see a book like this.
"I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will fight to my death for your right to say it" - Voltaire
Well ... if you really wanna see my interpretation of Beowulf ... here you go Benini Bewulfo it's an old encode, and not one of my finer works.
Which was based off of the Epic Beowulf, hence it's a translation/interpretation, hence in reference I am still right and you come out looking like a schmuck.