Slashdot Mirror


User: ArsonSmith

ArsonSmith's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
6,100
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 6,100

  1. Re:Come on, man on RMS on Proposed GPLv3 changes · · Score: 1

    Because if he was worried about what you do with the software it would be called free developers, and not free software. RMS couldn't care less about your freedom, he is worried about the software.

  2. Re:Come on, man on RMS on Proposed GPLv3 changes · · Score: 1

    They call this a free contry yet I am not allowed to run around killing people. If it's a free contry why am I not free to restrict others freedom?

    The restrictions on free software are there to keep it free.

  3. Re:So outsourcing hasn't killed the economy? on U.S. IT Hiring Increases Despite Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should tell that to the constant phone calls I seem to get. At least daily if not more offten I am getting phone calls for new job opertunites. I have interviewed with a few over the past 6 months and turned down several. I finally decided that I could go back to contract work at least for a year or two to help broaden my skills. No mater how you want to interpret the numbers the jobs are now there. Period.

  4. Re:How do you tell if it's running? on Quantum Computer Works Better Shut Off · · Score: 1

    Microsoft figured that out back around 1993.

  5. Re:Dark matter eh. on Einstein's Theory Improved? · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that be transparent matter then? Seems like Dark matter infers interacting with photons, as in blocking them.

  6. Re:Holy fuck! Call in the Mythbusters! on Christian Churches Celebrate Darwin's Birthday · · Score: 1

    I thought god came to Adam and told him, "I have created a being that is beautiful, loving, caring, intelligent and will charish you for eternity, but it'll cost you an arm and a leg."

    Adam asked, "What can I get for a rib?"

  7. Re:2 Rules: on The Secret Cause of Flame Wars · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I don't want to go from writting 100 emails a day to writting 100 English papers a day. Grammer Nazis are bad enough, Emeoticons may not be the best answer but they fit to the lowest common denominator that even someone with little reading comprehension can understand.

  8. Re:It's Vim's fault on The Secret Cause of Flame Wars · · Score: 4, Funny

    With statements like that your sarcasm is just too obvious. If you were to switch Emacs and Vim around you may have a better flame starter because there are some mutants out there that thing Emacs is better for some bizzar reason.

    I honestly think they are trolls because I have never met someone who actually used Emacs for more than the 10 seconds it takes to find out how much it sucks.

  9. Re:Optimus, we hardly knew ye.... on A Real Transformer? · · Score: 1

    Juliet and Romeo buy King Kong. Suckers!!

  10. Re:Hard to defend the trademark... on Red Cross Condemns Misuse of Emblem In Games · · Score: 1

    Ok, the didn't effectivly and hense loose out on the trademark argument.

  11. Re:Nah, it means something else. on Internet Radio Failing to Find Support? · · Score: 1

    It does influence me quite a bit. Actually I'll refuse to buy several things if I've seen it overly advertised. I seem to have a very negitive reaction to 90% of all sales stratigies out there. The only time I usually buy things is either based solely on price and direct handling feel (for most things in the grocry store,) convinece (it was present when I wanted it,) or after a lot of research either online or through friends famaly or other people. Almost all other sales techniques have a negitive effect on me.

  12. Re:Backup on UNIX Security: Don't Believe the Truth? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't think cron is the solution for this. Perhaps LVM and snapshots is what people should be looking into for this type of backups and locking away.

  13. Re:Old but with a new twist. on NASA Science Under Attack · · Score: 1

    so to sum it up:

    Republicans state the right thing to do but don't do it.
    Democrates state the wrong thing to do and then do it.

    Yeah, why don't I vote again?

  14. Re:Old but with a new twist. on NASA Science Under Attack · · Score: 1

    That is all because of the neo conservitives who have invaded the Republican party. It is no longer what it once was. It is growing more and more into a socilists tyrany just as teh Democrats have always been.

  15. Re:The only thing running on Understanding Memory Usage On Linux · · Score: 1

    Nahw, gcj code is a slow version of native compiled code all on it's own.

  16. Re:First Weapons ports on Linux Powers Military UGV · · Score: 3, Funny

    An earlier model. Soldiers didn't care much for it as it was bulkier and didn't have the distructive power. The BFG2000a was a slight improvement but didn't help that much. Now the BFG4150 was an awesome weapon. Might not have had the raw destructive power of the BFG9000 but it was light, comfortable and durable has all hell.

  17. Re:Bush = Chimera vs Bush = Liar on The President, The State of the Union, and Genetics · · Score: 0, Troll

    WMDs, well first off we knew he had them because we sold them to him. It wasn't a question of weather or not he had them it was weather or not he was still ready to use them and what he was going to do with them. We just had Sadam's #2 state that they did have WMDs as recently as 2002 but they were shipped out as discretly as possible. It wasn't only the US that said they had WMDs either it was pretty much everybody. Of course France and Germany had their heads so far up Sadams ass to get oil that they like to change what they had said. If Sadam didn't have any he was going out of his way to make people think he did.

    Oil? where is this mythical oil that the US is suppose to be getting? Why is Bush saying we need to get rid of our dependancy on oil? Or are you just paroting lies from the other side.

    Pork barrel spending is something that congress does. Bush has attacked it at every point that he can. Congres has been rejecting everything he has suggested because it would kill their little pork projects.

    I'm still trying to figure out what he's lied about with the wire taps? He seems to be telling congress pretty much everything. He belives he has the right under executive power in a time of war, they think he was wrong and should fill out extra paper work. If you don't want to be wire tapped then don't communicate with terrists. It's really that simple.

    All this and I really don't like Bush. Go figure, I just pay attention.

  18. Re:Bush = Chimera vs Bush = Liar on The President, The State of the Union, and Genetics · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Q1. something tomhudson does bad?
    A1. He lies. To everyone. Including himself.

    Q2. Why he thinks it is good?
    A2: He must think he's good at it, because he keeps on doing it.

    Q3. Why you think it is bad?
    A3: this post ...

    What exactly did he lie about with WMDs? Iraq? Deficit, or Wiretapping?

  19. Re:Bush = Chimera on The President, The State of the Union, and Genetics · · Score: 1

    The truth in your argument reminds me of most of the rest of the anti-Busy retoric.

    If you can give me a clear and concise argument of something Bush does bad, why he thinks it is good, and why you think it is bad please do so.

  20. Re:I'm not passing judgement... on The President, The State of the Union, and Genetics · · Score: 1

    Show me an example. You know slashdot isn't a group that all thinks exactly alike. out of 100 slashdoters Im sure you could easyly find 10 that vocally detest modified foods and a completely diffrent 10 people that think genetic modification is ok.

    So please give me some names and posts of people that are doing this so I can put them on my foes list.

  21. Re:That Tauntaun thing... on Putting Star Wars to the MythBusters Test · · Score: 1

    Unless you count hunger pain.

  22. Re:That Tauntaun thing... on Putting Star Wars to the MythBusters Test · · Score: 1

    I don't know, are humans tasty?

  23. Re:That Tauntaun thing... on Putting Star Wars to the MythBusters Test · · Score: 5, Informative

    As someone who grew up hunting and skinned many a deer and elk I can say that the insides will stay rather warm for quite some time. While bow hunting you often have to track an animal the next morning because a bow wont kill it right away. While I think Hoth was suppose to be something like -60 or more I know that an Elk will hold heat for well over 12 hours in 0-10degree weather.

  24. Re:Honestly on ATI vs. Nvidia in a Video Shootout · · Score: 1

    Yea, I don't even care so much about Nvidia vs. ATI I want to see a list of all Nvidia cards ranked by performace. I mean everything from the old r128 to the lastes wiz bang 7800GT in order of crappiest (or oldest however you want to look at it) to newest. That way I can work out the price/performance of the one that I want and not worry to much about it.

  25. Re:Too little, too late? on John Carmack Talks Graphics · · Score: 1

    I don't mind realistic physics, but I do want 100% or atleast high 90% interactive environments, with close to realistic looking, persistant dents, holes, damage and structural integrity.

    If my grenade lands under a jeep I want to see the jeep blown partially apart not just have some black spot on it that goes away when I look away and back. I want to be able to blast a hole in a wall with a rocket launcher and walk through it, or watch the entire structure begin to crumble.