Yeah, but how many Libraries of Congress is that? Until they release their accomplishment in Libraries-of-Congress-per-second, it means absolutely nothing to me, or anyone else. Right?
That means absolutely nothing to me... for I am just a helpless know-nothing American. Please announce your new storage products in Library-of-Congress terms, otherwise I have nothing to base it against.;)
Actually, from reading every single story that might have anything to do with the job market, it seems to me that a lot of Slashdot readers don't have all that much disposable income. In fact, it seems that a lot of them are quite bitter about it, too. Any story related to the job market invariably gets inundated with posts to the tune of "Yeah, just try getting a job without a college degree..." "...and once you get a college degree, nobody will hire you anyway because there are no jobs..." "...people who know Windows really well are stupid because that can't get them jobs..." "...I know Linux really well, and I'm angry that that doesn't help me in the job market."
Note that this is only an observation, but I haven't noticed many signs of vast sources of disposable income here, unless there is a silent majority.
Ummm, the % that is most likely to want to steal the most (having just spent enough money to crack the smart cards). This gets into the same argument the US Treasury once had to ask: would you rather have 5 people counterfeiting $10000, or 10000 people counterfeiting $5. It isn't an easy question to answer.
Isn't this just asking for another method of circumvention? That is, if it is to be used as some form of copy protection. Someone could encode the images as.mpg and the music as.mp3, and offer them both up for download, and the downloader could combine them at his end if he really wanted to have the image with the sound. Or just keep them separate. Shouldn't be too tough, right?
That's a good way for some random band to boost their sales: encode moving pictures of a scantily clad pop-star dancing (or in some other way gyrating) into their music. People would have to buy their CD, and as a bonus they get some music. And as a bigger bonus, they get pictures of Britney...
Interesting way to get people to buy CDs instead of downloading them... how many people would actually download a song of Britney Spears' if pictures of her came with the songs that you buy? Yeah, the RIAA should just try this...
or that he was heading a Communist conspiracy to take over Hollywood.
Interestingly, it was the same conspiracy theorists who had always been accusing Hollywood of already being Communist. It seems that there is yet another quite evident hole in their false accusations...
If I may make one point about the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima: Vengeance may be the method of justification used by people today, but that wasn't the reason Truman chose to drop the bomb. His generals had written up something called Operation Overlord, which outlined a large-scale invasion of the Japanese islands. It predicted something like 1 million American soldiers dead, and 10-12 million Japanese (soldiers & civilians) dead. Truman wanted to end the war. I'm not going to say he saved a dozen million lives, but he did avoid trying to kill that many people.
1) What the hell do I care? Hemos' UID is even lower than yours, do get up and shout "Heil Hemos" every morning? I didn't think so.
2) "Some large group of people really hates you." Actually, English is my first language, and I'm damn good at it. There is nothing wrong with that sentence, and it goes against your minimal intelligence that you were unable to fathom its simplicity. Try going through it a couple more times, someday you'll get it. Perhaps.
3) What comments? Hey, just be glad it isn't "Post-Columbine Spider-Man in a Globalist Techno Geek World" so turn off the lights 'cause it's night on the sun +3 for spamming? Hmm... maybe I can pick up some extra karma too: Increase your ejaculation 800% with Ejacu-spurt! All natural, all legal, all herbal! "the" event? Which event is that? You don't mention a specific event in the story. Imagine if Slashdot had something like 'editors' to correct stories before they were posted... damn... that'd almost be something worth paying for. Wil, do you sell pairs of used underwear, and if so, how much? You pedophiles disgust me. this fp brought to you buy the hardy boys... SuSe is gnome-only, and Mandrake can do KDE or Gnome or whatever. How the hell would those be rewarded with high moderation? I think you need to recheck your definition of "infinite." Or at least your definitions of "intelligent" and "informative." Your posts are none of these.
4) Congratulations, you have managed to bring in the ultimate buzzword: September 11th! Oh hot damn, isn't this great? The son of a bitch named beee who started this little argument here is now accusing the articulate defendant of "tearing apart" the proverbial "us." O you, as shocked and outraged as you may be, are the party guilty of flinging four pieces of shit in my direction.
My karma is going to get killed for this, but that's okay, because as of this morning I had 50. How the hell was the parent rated Offtopic? It contained a quote from the article, and cited information given in the submission. The fact that the information was incorrectly cited (since I made an obvious and stupid mistake) should not by any means make it off-topic; rather, it should perhaps make it overrated, or, preferably, just ignored.
Then again, if he has the +2 bonus, he should know that other people might just have it as well. That is, unless he really is an idiot. And I do occasionally check the "No Bonus" box. I don't know what you mean by shouted, because neither he nor I did it... unless of course you want to accuse yourself of the same thing.
That's what I'm guessing, because it seems to have nothing to do with what happens in the film, based on the previews. Then again, "XXX" really has nothing to do with anything. But, basically, the producer is going to be successful with their title (at least at preventing it from being pirated). Unless, of course, the public thinks of a new name for it and uses that when they spread it...
It's interesting that you would say such a thing, as it only draws attention to yourself. Your comment prompted me to look at your comment history, and it is quite evident that you are an ass that has little trouble making enemies, simply by your presence. Of course I am citing the fact that your highest rated comment on the most recent 24 is ZERO- and there is only one of those. Some large group of people really hates you. Perhaps you should start listening to people (which is what you accuse me of doing), and after having done this, perhaps kill yourself when you realize how utterly useless you are.
You've been around awhile, haven't you? People who aren't idiots can easily upgrade from their original +1 bonus to the more prestigious +2. You have obviously been unable to do this.
As soon as some scientist comes up with a warp drive let me know. Until then space travel is just an exercise in futility.
I don't follow. I suppose a century ago you would have said "Flying? In the air? That's useless. Cut all that damn funding and make more bicycles! Come back when you've broken the sound barrier." It seems to me that you need to fly before you can break the sound barrier, just as you need to walk before you can run. Is it not reasonable to assume that you also need to putz around in space for a while before you can break the speed of light? And how the hell could you develop a warp drive if you refuse to fund such development???? Go ahead, cut the damn taxes, because Joe Dumbass can use his extra $600 to build a warp drive. Every single piece of evidence since Roosevelt has said, loudly, that medium level taxes mixed with lots of benefits is better for the economy- and the people- than low taxes and no government involvement in people's lives. I simply cannot fathom why more people haven't realized this.
Oh yeah, I remember. It's that illiteracy rate creeping back up again. People can't read a damn history book, but they can read the number of dollars taken out of their check every fortnight for this weird thing called "taxes." Maybe we should spend less money buying tanks and more money educating people like you in such a way that they can make decisions that would be better for everyone, rather than just themselves, and would take into account the next couple hundred years, rather than the next couple of days.
a lot of unfunny non-humor, contrived anti-government cynicism, and the obligatory stab at George W.
Unfunny humor... you mean like accusing someone of "fuzzy math" and then crippling the budget with tax cuts that will ensure the national debt for decades to come- and then ignoring/denying the inevitable future while taxes are cut again in the face of increased spending? And it is interesting that you say anti-government and George W. Bush in the same sentence, because he is as anti-government as anyone (except, perhaps, that nutjob domestic terrorist from Minnesota).
"I'm a liberal. That means I have opposable thumbs and I read books."
Well, when an ancient civilizations communicated that they didn't want people going into a place by drawing pictures nearby. I propose we do the same thing. The DOE should hire a group of artists to paint/carve a massive mural onto the rocks around the site, depicting various means of hideous death, all having to with radiation or nuclear explosions in some way. If the visitor is absolutely terrified out of his/her/its wits, it has two options: get the hell out and stay the hell out, or get the hell out and come back when you have taken the necessary precautions to deal with whatever might be doing all this. Granted, in today's Hollywood-ridden America, those necessary precautions either mean the overbearing and evil US Army, or, for the more industrious type, a bigger gun; perhaps in the future the "necessary equipment" will have been redefined.
Sorry about the length, but to summarize: massive, terrifying, grotesque mural.
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if he went swinging around like that, it would litteraly rip his arm off.
I tried to explain that to friend of mine who is really big on comic books. He was disappointed at how far away from the original comic books the new movie was. I tried to tell him that the centripetal acceleration on some of those swings would not only tear his arms off, but would send his one armed body into the ground fast enough to make a sizable crater. He didn't understand what I was getting at, and said it was quite obvious how it worked, at least in the comic books, because in the comic books he actually had to build the spider web machines himself, they didn't just "grow into his wrists." I don't see how that explains anything, but he was adamant on the subject, so I decided to leave well enough alone. These comic book fellows are not to be messed with.
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Yeah, but how many Libraries of Congress is that? Until they release their accomplishment in Libraries-of-Congress-per-second, it means absolutely nothing to me, or anyone else. Right?
That means absolutely nothing to me... for I am just a helpless know-nothing American. Please announce your new storage products in Library-of-Congress terms, otherwise I have nothing to base it against. ;)
Actually, from reading every single story that might have anything to do with the job market, it seems to me that a lot of Slashdot readers don't have all that much disposable income. In fact, it seems that a lot of them are quite bitter about it, too. Any story related to the job market invariably gets inundated with posts to the tune of "Yeah, just try getting a job without a college degree..." "...and once you get a college degree, nobody will hire you anyway because there are no jobs..." "...people who know Windows really well are stupid because that can't get them jobs..." "...I know Linux really well, and I'm angry that that doesn't help me in the job market."
Note that this is only an observation, but I haven't noticed many signs of vast sources of disposable income here, unless there is a silent majority.
Go ahead and rape my karma for this, but your entire post, especially the conclusion, begs the following questions:
What would you be saying if Microsoft were only out to do the exact same thing? Would the situation be different?
No, but they will buy all the power companies and reap the profits from all the extra energy they're burning...
Ummm, the % that is most likely to want to steal the most (having just spent enough money to crack the smart cards). This gets into the same argument the US Treasury once had to ask: would you rather have 5 people counterfeiting $10000, or 10000 people counterfeiting $5. It isn't an easy question to answer.
Isn't this just asking for another method of circumvention? That is, if it is to be used as some form of copy protection. Someone could encode the images as .mpg and the music as .mp3, and offer them both up for download, and the downloader could combine them at his end if he really wanted to have the image with the sound. Or just keep them separate. Shouldn't be too tough, right?
That's a good way for some random band to boost their sales: encode moving pictures of a scantily clad pop-star dancing (or in some other way gyrating) into their music. People would have to buy their CD, and as a bonus they get some music. And as a bigger bonus, they get pictures of Britney...
Interesting way to get people to buy CDs instead of downloading them... how many people would actually download a song of Britney Spears' if pictures of her came with the songs that you buy? Yeah, the RIAA should just try this...
Huh... I thought 7 came after 6. Damn it, back to first grade again...
or that he was heading a Communist conspiracy to take over Hollywood.
Interestingly, it was the same conspiracy theorists who had always been accusing Hollywood of already being Communist. It seems that there is yet another quite evident hole in their false accusations...
If I may make one point about the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima: Vengeance may be the method of justification used by people today, but that wasn't the reason Truman chose to drop the bomb. His generals had written up something called Operation Overlord, which outlined a large-scale invasion of the Japanese islands. It predicted something like 1 million American soldiers dead, and 10-12 million Japanese (soldiers & civilians) dead. Truman wanted to end the war. I'm not going to say he saved a dozen million lives, but he did avoid trying to kill that many people.
Four more things:
1) What the hell do I care? Hemos' UID is even lower than yours, do get up and shout "Heil Hemos" every morning? I didn't think so.
2) "Some large group of people really hates you." Actually, English is my first language, and I'm damn good at it. There is nothing wrong with that sentence, and it goes against your minimal intelligence that you were unable to fathom its simplicity. Try going through it a couple more times, someday you'll get it. Perhaps.
3) What comments? Hey, just be glad it isn't "Post-Columbine Spider-Man in a Globalist Techno Geek World" so turn off the lights 'cause it's night on the sun +3 for spamming? Hmm... maybe I can pick up some extra karma too: Increase your ejaculation 800% with Ejacu-spurt! All natural, all legal, all herbal! "the" event? Which event is that? You don't mention a specific event in the story. Imagine if Slashdot had something like 'editors' to correct stories before they were posted... damn... that'd almost be something worth paying for. Wil, do you sell pairs of used underwear, and if so, how much? You pedophiles disgust me. this fp brought to you buy the hardy boys... SuSe is gnome-only, and Mandrake can do KDE or Gnome or whatever. How the hell would those be rewarded with high moderation? I think you need to recheck your definition of "infinite." Or at least your definitions of "intelligent" and "informative." Your posts are none of these.
4) Congratulations, you have managed to bring in the ultimate buzzword: September 11th! Oh hot damn, isn't this great? The son of a bitch named beee who started this little argument here is now accusing the articulate defendant of "tearing apart" the proverbial "us." O you, as shocked and outraged as you may be, are the party guilty of flinging four pieces of shit in my direction.
My karma is going to get killed for this, but that's okay, because as of this morning I had 50. How the hell was the parent rated Offtopic? It contained a quote from the article, and cited information given in the submission. The fact that the information was incorrectly cited (since I made an obvious and stupid mistake) should not by any means make it off-topic; rather, it should perhaps make it overrated, or, preferably, just ignored.
Then again, if he has the +2 bonus, he should know that other people might just have it as well. That is, unless he really is an idiot. And I do occasionally check the "No Bonus" box. I don't know what you mean by shouted, because neither he nor I did it... unless of course you want to accuse yourself of the same thing.
That's what I'm guessing, because it seems to have nothing to do with what happens in the film, based on the previews. Then again, "XXX" really has nothing to do with anything. But, basically, the producer is going to be successful with their title (at least at preventing it from being pirated). Unless, of course, the public thinks of a new name for it and uses that when they spread it...
It's interesting that you would say such a thing, as it only draws attention to yourself. Your comment prompted me to look at your comment history, and it is quite evident that you are an ass that has little trouble making enemies, simply by your presence. Of course I am citing the fact that your highest rated comment on the most recent 24 is ZERO- and there is only one of those. Some large group of people really hates you. Perhaps you should start listening to people (which is what you accuse me of doing), and after having done this, perhaps kill yourself when you realize how utterly useless you are.
You've been around awhile, haven't you? People who aren't idiots can easily upgrade from their original +1 bonus to the more prestigious +2. You have obviously been unable to do this.
As soon as some scientist comes up with a warp drive let me know. Until then space travel is just an exercise in futility.
I don't follow. I suppose a century ago you would have said "Flying? In the air? That's useless. Cut all that damn funding and make more bicycles! Come back when you've broken the sound barrier." It seems to me that you need to fly before you can break the sound barrier, just as you need to walk before you can run. Is it not reasonable to assume that you also need to putz around in space for a while before you can break the speed of light? And how the hell could you develop a warp drive if you refuse to fund such development???? Go ahead, cut the damn taxes, because Joe Dumbass can use his extra $600 to build a warp drive. Every single piece of evidence since Roosevelt has said, loudly, that medium level taxes mixed with lots of benefits is better for the economy- and the people- than low taxes and no government involvement in people's lives. I simply cannot fathom why more people haven't realized this.
Oh yeah, I remember. It's that illiteracy rate creeping back up again. People can't read a damn history book, but they can read the number of dollars taken out of their check every fortnight for this weird thing called "taxes." Maybe we should spend less money buying tanks and more money educating people like you in such a way that they can make decisions that would be better for everyone, rather than just themselves, and would take into account the next couple hundred years, rather than the next couple of days.
ignore that. the guy at the computer next to me read it to me and either i misinterpreted him or he misspoke. damn it.
This includes the first C++ compiler that fully implements the 1998 ISO/ANSI C++ standard (including "export")
1998. Ten years, eh? Oh wait- what year is it again?
It takes you 30 seconds? I'm much more efficient than that, it takes me only 15 seconds. Then again, I use my Whole Life, so it balances out...
a lot of unfunny non-humor, contrived anti-government cynicism, and the obligatory stab at George W.
Unfunny humor... you mean like accusing someone of "fuzzy math" and then crippling the budget with tax cuts that will ensure the national debt for decades to come- and then ignoring/denying the inevitable future while taxes are cut again in the face of increased spending? And it is interesting that you say anti-government and George W. Bush in the same sentence, because he is as anti-government as anyone (except, perhaps, that nutjob domestic terrorist from Minnesota).
"I'm a liberal. That means I have opposable thumbs and I read books."
Well, when an ancient civilizations communicated that they didn't want people going into a place by drawing pictures nearby. I propose we do the same thing. The DOE should hire a group of artists to paint/carve a massive mural onto the rocks around the site, depicting various means of hideous death, all having to with radiation or nuclear explosions in some way. If the visitor is absolutely terrified out of his/her/its wits, it has two options: get the hell out and stay the hell out, or get the hell out and come back when you have taken the necessary precautions to deal with whatever might be doing all this. Granted, in today's Hollywood-ridden America, those necessary precautions either mean the overbearing and evil US Army, or, for the more industrious type, a bigger gun; perhaps in the future the "necessary equipment" will have been redefined.
Sorry about the length, but to summarize: massive, terrifying, grotesque mural.
if he went swinging around like that, it would litteraly rip his arm off.
I tried to explain that to friend of mine who is really big on comic books. He was disappointed at how far away from the original comic books the new movie was. I tried to tell him that the centripetal acceleration on some of those swings would not only tear his arms off, but would send his one armed body into the ground fast enough to make a sizable crater. He didn't understand what I was getting at, and said it was quite obvious how it worked, at least in the comic books, because in the comic books he actually had to build the spider web machines himself, they didn't just "grow into his wrists." I don't see how that explains anything, but he was adamant on the subject, so I decided to leave well enough alone. These comic book fellows are not to be messed with.