I would have been insulted reading that this was 'aimed' at me when I was 11. At that time I was reading DOS manual figuring out batch files, and at 12 I moved on to hardware, reinstalling OSes, QuickBasic (compilable version), etc.
so fuck off with the age naming -- you are offending young slashdot readers, maybe age appropriateness is closer to 2-7 years. stop fucking forgetting how much you knew at 10,11,12 years assholes
If the guys would consider, even CONSIDER putting Firefox in the top 10, I guess they are too much of PRICKS to realize that (1) there are SOME people who view graphic files in their webbrowser [ones imbedded in html pages] (2) there are SOME people who use language other than English...
Can fuckwad Firefox handle either one ? HELL NO. Don't believe me ?
(1) Try viewing a web BBS which has maybe 5-10 50-100k jpegs per message. The only efficient way is to open maybe 5-10 tabs of message you want to read, and then flip through them... Well this turns out not to be so efficient after about the THIRD TIME when Firefox eats a whole through your entire system memory and your system grinds to a hault.
(2) Try dealing with ANY FILES which are ANYWHERE in a directory path which has a SINGLE Non-English language word anywhere in that path. Yeah, doesn't fucking work. I just LOVE having to COPY files around and rename them everytime I want to submit them in a webmail or in POS Thunderbird to attach to email. You guys are real fags.
don't let me hear about your faggy ass NEW VERSION until you FIX THE EXISTING ONE. I'm SICK AND TIRED of disgusting memory leaks in CURRENT Firefox, and I AM up to date. Also how about recognizing there are languages in the world OTHER THAN ENGLISH you twits ?
Don't believe me ? (1) Go to a message board (BBS) where people post 10-15 jpegs on each message, open about 10 of them in tabs. Read them all, enjoy, close the tabs, and repeat. You will see about 250megs of ram gone by the 3rd time you do this. NONE of the memory is freed. Your system will soon be FUCKED.
(2) Try saving a file into a path that has a SINGLE Chinese or Japanese word in just ONE SINGLE directory name anywhere in the path that you save the file --- good fucking luck.
McDownloads PIECE formula ? Dumbass I hate to tell you, but the 'piece' from 'piece of ass' is NOT a valid substitution for the completely different and unrelated word peace. ON TOP OF THAT, the stupid theory is long dead -- there was bombing that canceled it out years ago.
God, I was wondering myself today what exactly the pin-point accuracy is, because I'm spending so much time in the student union restroom downloading porn and jacking off. (In my favorite unpatroled bathroom), now i'm worried it might get suddenly more popular
Is this temporary blindess business actually NEWS to anyone ? Personally I'm not surprised in the LEAST by a fraction of a second, because often time I can go as long as 1 hour with no awareness whatsoever what has passed through my field of vision during that time. This happens quite often when I 'zone out' on what seems to be a really good idea --- perhaps I'll have a DVD playing when it comes. Then the next thing I'll notice is the ending credits are scolling by. When I rewind the DVD to re-watch the entirely missed 2nd half of the movie, I will realize that not a SINGLE scene in the entire hour has left an impression on my visual memory -- so I was really and truly blind for that period.
The two Xbox 360 package may not be what the consumers want -- I mean who buys videos with a friend ? And a bit pricey at $299, but the thing is none of this matters nor needs to be debated. You can be CERTAIN that Ebay sellers will buy these suckers in bulk, at a discount, and then resell individual units for as little as $160. A smattering more for the convenience of being able to buy one X-box. Now the only thing to worry about is the LAWSUITS sure to ensue when Microsoft decides they have violated their seller agreement by not selling two Xboxen together. *sigh*
You know... if you are in the US (haven't checked other countries, but probably similar), with standard phone line equiptment, I wouldn't have to go into your house at all to make that call to the Prime Minister... Infact (and I'm 100% sure it is still the case) back in the day when I was a kid, I had *err err* quite personal knowledge of a certain someone using the neighbor's phone line to call and make various threats to various of his enemies -- enemies who thought they were 'so smart' with their little caller-ID boxes... har har har... How long did it take to tap into that phone line ? Well, put it this way, a screw-driver, a telephone, and about a total of 1 minute standing by the dark-side of their house INCLUDING the whole phone call.
What is with the faggot reference to desktop foot print ? HMMMMmmmm you GOD DAMN DIPFUCKS, I wonder would it be cheaper to buy an LCD to save your 'desk' footprint space, or to buy a BIGGER DESK. Well if you didn't figure that one out, you need to invest in a FUCKING BRAIN first.
Running 1.0.3 here, and having upgraded to it in the last week, I am quite miserably unhappy to see the SAME RIDICULOUS cpu eating and memory hole problems exist. Why is everyone so excited about a browser that needs to be 'rebooted' every 15 mins if you want it to remain responsive ? I'm trying to do something VERY simple: go to some Japanese BBS'es and collect a few jpegs. Said Jpegs each pop open in a new window. Each time I open a save dialogue it gets progressively slower -- and slower -- and within 30 mins my machine is crawling with 300 megs of ram EATEN and 90% CPU going to fucking firefox. FUCK FIREFOX I SAY.
Yesterday I tempted fate -- I am sick of bookmarking every GOD DAMNED THING just so I can reload it after rebooting the browser... So I kept going -- ignoring the slowness... Until finally BECAUSE OF FIREFOX, my CPU overheated, and the entire laptop instantaneously shut-down for safety.
It's obvious this guy probably just memorized the root code from a CS book, and emulated a Pentium inside of his head to run it. Not so hard you guys. sheesh.
"Even remote rural hotels in China, not previously known for world-beating hygiene"
I can tell you a little something about hygiene in a small town in China -- a small town of only a million or so... I went there for my friend's wedding -- we went to one of the fanciest restaurants in hotel for the wedding dinner.
If you eat in Beijing at a Chinese style restaurant with several items in the center of the table to be shared by everyone -- often they are on a circular rotatable piece of glass. You'll be given a small plate to serve the food to yourself on, and every once in a while the waiter will come to give you a fresh plate so that you don't get too many different types of food (and garbage like fat hunks and bones etc.. ) mixed together...
Well as for my friend's wedding, I really lost my appetite when they collected all of the plates from everyone at the table -- took them to the corner of the room, rubed the excess food garbage off with a dirty napkin, and then stacked the plates back up and redistributed them to everyone so they could continue eating (from a random other person's dirty plate). It makes me wonder if they aren't doing the same thing in Beijing, but simply wiping the plates off in another room instead of in the corner of the room.
Never mind the fact that about half of the items on this list appear in ONE small up-scale region of one of the top 3 cities in the country -- none of the more ubiquitous items will mean JACK to you when you realize:
1. Frequent power black-outs will constantly cause you to lose whatever work you were doing on your computer. Have a UPS ? Good for you -- you can save your work, and then find something else to do while you wait 10 hours for the power to come back on.
2. Hot water-- something I never thought twice about in my life. Even in my parent's entire lives it was never a consideration. But in China you should consider yourself quite blessed if you live in a dorm offering two one-hour periods of hot water per day. Most normal Chinese have to go to a bathhouse. Don't multiply it now -- but if a family of ONE went to the bathhouse on a daily basis, it would consume more than 50% of their monthly salary. Thank god Asians aren't know for producing strong BO.
3. You can surf the internet and send instant messages over your cell phone in safety knowing the Chinese government's automatic filters are scanning your every message for keywords -- just to make sure you don't find any information that could be harmful to you. Oh -- and some more mundane things as well. For example, don't bother trying to read the newsgroup for learning Chinese (or anything else for that matter) at groups.google.com inside of China.
4. If you are a college student in China you can look forward to living claustrophobically with 8 roommates, wooden board "mattresses" on the beds, no electrical outlets whatsoever (forget about studying with your laptop), and no heat in the winter. (That's why all the Chinese students prefer to study in an empty classroom.)
Even if you are wealthy enough to afford your own luxury (ie with heat) apartment instead of the dorm -- you can expect that the university will coerce you to live in their accomodations.
Maybe PDA sales are GOING DOWN because most of the people who want a PDA already have one... Ya frick'in RETARDS. It should be obvious... I mean, really, give me ONE convincing reason to upgrade from my Palm Vx that I got more than 5 years ago -- just ONE! I don't expect there will be one -- for at least the 5+ more years I expect to get out of it before finding something new...
Really bad frick'in news for those of us in China paying $.12/megabyte for international traffic at the foreigner's dormitory... So what in the hell am I supposed to do ? I guess staying offline is the only safe way... I sure as hell can't afford to update my fresh XP install to have all the patches.
...now if only this could spread to ALL sectors of the market, and we can end this terrible wholesale violation of employer's rights, then American can once again gain status as a "free country" which defends individual rights, and we can again go proudly marching around the world, pointing to the shining example. But in the interm, it is a disgraceful and sickening thing that hangs over my head everyday -- knowing the sickening state which we have reached through this excess democracy, where the rights of individuals have become subordinate to those of the various "powerful" lobbies -- collective groups hell-bent on using their majority rule, with no less powerlust and malice than an evil dictator... Let's all help bring an end to this excess democracy, and fight to make America a better place.
...and to think I've been waiting all this time for the "absurd" initial price point of $.99 to finally drop to affordable levels... Looks like it's back to downloading "tab" files and learning to play anything I want to hear on the guitar myself -- now if only I had a better singing voice.
Actually I did care-- just 'cause I call it faggotty don't mean I'm a troll... And thanks a lot, you may have saved someone from something... because if it really does originate from some military thing, I'm at least a LITTLE more apt to respect it enough to not beat in someone's mutherfucker if they say the word... I mean -- that is, as opposed to the case if the origin of the word were some stupid ass black inner-city G-dawgs, or some "oh we're so cool with out trend vocab" Ivy league bitchass fuck heads.
Get rid of it, cellphones are the worst fucking nightmare that ever happened to America... I remember back in 2002, before anyone had them... then I go away for 1 frick'in year, and come back, and they're ubiquitous! NIGHTMARE
Checkout my Kuro5hin.org diary post regarding: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/7/6 /6303/20398
Well at least the Chinese seem to understand capitalism better than this fucktard lost cause of a country. In China I saw several people turned away -- it doesn't matter if you have a BANK STATEMENT showing your wealth, if you don't have cash in hand -- you ain't gonna fuckin' see a doctor! I saw people in China COVERED in blood and dying -- SCREAMING at the hospital entrance, just a few feet away from the security that kept them out until they called on some family members to show up with CASH!! @_@
Could someone please enlighten me to the origin of this faggot phrase "Cup o joe " ? It makes me think that the guy who prepared it, joe, jacked off into my cup under the counter. I'm sick of hearing fucking asshole use their gay fucking slang-- everytime i hear it i just want to beat the living fuck out of the fucking bitch who said it.
This thing says it can detect a discrepency of a single bit! But the problem is -- hey, harddrives aren't perfect! There is going to be at least a 1-bit error on average out of every 125 megabytes of data when you copy that shit over. And 125 megs isn't altogether THAT many pictures when you are taking'em at 5 megapixels. So what happens if the image that happens to have a bit off just so happens to be the one that proves who the murder is ?! *GASP*
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I would have been insulted reading that this was 'aimed' at me when I was 11. At that time I was reading DOS manual figuring out batch files, and at 12 I moved on to hardware, reinstalling OSes, QuickBasic (compilable version), etc.
so fuck off with the age naming -- you are offending young slashdot readers, maybe age appropriateness is closer to 2-7 years. stop fucking forgetting how much you knew at 10,11,12 years assholes
If the guys would consider, even CONSIDER putting Firefox in the top 10, I guess they are too much of PRICKS to realize that (1) there are SOME people who view graphic files in their webbrowser [ones imbedded in html pages] (2) there are SOME people who use language other than English...
Can fuckwad Firefox handle either one ? HELL NO. Don't believe me ?
(1) Try viewing a web BBS which has maybe 5-10 50-100k jpegs per message. The only efficient way is to open maybe 5-10 tabs of message you want to read, and then flip through them... Well this turns out not to be so efficient after about the THIRD TIME when Firefox eats a whole through your entire system memory and your system grinds to a hault.
(2) Try dealing with ANY FILES which are ANYWHERE in a directory path which has a SINGLE Non-English language word anywhere in that path. Yeah, doesn't fucking work. I just LOVE having to COPY files around and rename them everytime I want to submit them in a webmail or in POS Thunderbird to attach to email. You guys are real fags.
Welcome to the U.S.S.A. What did you expect in this extreme level of statism where the government is allowed to intervene in the economy ?
And why is the GOVERNMENT involved in this debate ? One which has no business involving anyone but the companies and their customers ?
FUCK YOU AMERICA. FUCK YOU U.S.S.A.
don't let me hear about your faggy ass NEW VERSION until you FIX THE EXISTING ONE.
I'm SICK AND TIRED of disgusting memory leaks in CURRENT Firefox, and I AM up to date. Also how about recognizing there are languages in the world OTHER THAN ENGLISH you twits ?
Don't believe me ?
(1) Go to a message board (BBS) where people post 10-15 jpegs on each message, open about 10 of them in tabs. Read them all, enjoy, close the tabs, and repeat. You will see about 250megs of ram gone by the 3rd time you do this. NONE of the memory is freed. Your system will soon be FUCKED.
(2) Try saving a file into a path that has a SINGLE Chinese or Japanese word in just ONE SINGLE directory name anywhere in the path that you save the file --- good fucking luck.
Whats the big frigging deal, Jap have been paying as much as $4 per song, since the '80s! (3000-4000 yen CD with 10 tracks on it).
McDownloads PIECE formula ? Dumbass I hate to tell you, but the 'piece' from 'piece of ass' is NOT a valid substitution for the completely different and unrelated word peace. ON TOP OF THAT, the stupid theory is long dead -- there was bombing that canceled it out years ago.
God, I was wondering myself today what exactly the pin-point accuracy is, because I'm spending so much time in the student union restroom downloading porn and jacking off. (In my favorite unpatroled bathroom), now i'm worried it might get suddenly more popular
Is this temporary blindess business actually NEWS to anyone ? Personally I'm not surprised in the LEAST by a fraction of a second, because often time I can go as long as 1 hour with no awareness whatsoever what has passed through my field of vision during that time. This happens quite often when I 'zone out' on what seems to be a really good idea --- perhaps I'll have a DVD playing when it comes. Then the next thing I'll notice is the ending credits are scolling by. When I rewind the DVD to re-watch the entirely missed 2nd half of the movie, I will realize that not a SINGLE scene in the entire hour has left an impression on my visual memory -- so I was really and truly blind for that period.
The two Xbox 360 package may not be what the consumers want -- I mean who buys videos with a friend ? And a bit pricey at $299, but the thing is none of this matters nor needs to be debated. You can be CERTAIN that Ebay sellers will buy these suckers in bulk, at a discount, and then resell individual units for as little as $160. A smattering more for the convenience of being able to buy one X-box. Now the only thing to worry about is the LAWSUITS sure to ensue when Microsoft decides they have violated their seller agreement by not selling two Xboxen together. *sigh*
You know... if you are in the US (haven't checked other countries, but probably similar), with standard phone line equiptment, I wouldn't have to go into your house at all to make that call to the Prime Minister... Infact (and I'm 100% sure it is still the case) back in the day when I was a kid, I had *err err* quite personal knowledge of a certain someone using the neighbor's phone line to call and make various threats to various of his enemies -- enemies who thought they were 'so smart' with their little caller-ID boxes... har har har... How long did it take to tap into that phone line ? Well, put it this way, a screw-driver, a telephone, and about a total of 1 minute standing by the dark-side of their house INCLUDING the whole phone call.
What is with the faggot reference to desktop foot print ? HMMMMmmmm you GOD DAMN DIPFUCKS, I wonder would it be cheaper to buy an LCD to save your 'desk' footprint space, or to buy a BIGGER DESK. Well if you didn't figure that one out, you need to invest in a FUCKING BRAIN first.
Running 1.0.3 here, and having upgraded to it in the last week, I am quite miserably unhappy to see the SAME RIDICULOUS cpu eating and memory hole problems exist. Why is everyone so excited about a browser that needs to be 'rebooted' every 15 mins if you want it to remain responsive ? I'm trying to do something VERY simple: go to some Japanese BBS'es and collect a few jpegs. Said Jpegs each pop open in a new window. Each time I open a save dialogue it gets progressively slower -- and slower -- and within 30 mins my machine is crawling with 300 megs of ram EATEN and 90% CPU going to fucking firefox. FUCK FIREFOX I SAY.
Yesterday I tempted fate -- I am sick of bookmarking every GOD DAMNED THING just so I can reload it after rebooting the browser... So I kept going -- ignoring the slowness... Until finally BECAUSE OF FIREFOX, my CPU overheated, and the entire laptop instantaneously shut-down for safety.
It's obvious this guy probably just memorized the root code from a CS book, and emulated a Pentium inside of his head to run it. Not so hard you guys. sheesh.
"Even remote rural hotels in China, not previously known for world-beating hygiene"
I can tell you a little something about hygiene in a small town in China -- a small town of only a million or so... I went there for my friend's wedding -- we went to one of the fanciest restaurants in hotel for the wedding dinner.
If you eat in Beijing at a Chinese style restaurant with several items in the center of the table to be shared by everyone -- often they are on a circular rotatable piece of glass. You'll be given a small plate to serve the food to yourself on, and every once in a while the waiter will come to give you a fresh plate so that you don't get too many different types of food (and garbage like fat hunks and bones etc.. ) mixed together...
Well as for my friend's wedding, I really lost my appetite when they collected all of the plates from everyone at the table -- took them to the corner of the room, rubed the excess food garbage off with a dirty napkin, and then stacked the plates back up and redistributed them to everyone so they could continue eating (from a random other person's dirty plate). It makes me wonder if they aren't doing the same thing in Beijing, but simply wiping the plates off in another room instead of in the corner of the room.
Never mind the fact that about half of the items on this list appear in ONE small up-scale region of one of the top 3 cities in the country -- none of the more ubiquitous items will mean JACK to you when you realize:
1. Frequent power black-outs will constantly cause you to lose whatever work you were doing on your computer. Have a UPS ? Good for you -- you can save your work, and then find something else to do while you wait 10 hours for the power to come back on.
2. Hot water-- something I never thought twice about in my life. Even in my parent's entire lives it was never a consideration. But in China you should consider yourself quite blessed if you live in a dorm offering two one-hour periods of hot water per day. Most normal Chinese have to go to a bathhouse. Don't multiply it now -- but if a family of ONE went to the bathhouse on a daily basis, it would consume more than 50% of their monthly salary. Thank god Asians aren't know for producing strong BO.
3. You can surf the internet and send instant messages over your cell phone in safety knowing the Chinese government's automatic filters are scanning your every message for keywords -- just to make sure you don't find any information that could be harmful to you. Oh -- and some more mundane things as well. For example, don't bother trying to read the newsgroup for learning Chinese (or anything else for that matter) at groups.google.com inside of China.
4. If you are a college student in China you can look forward to living claustrophobically with 8 roommates, wooden board "mattresses" on the beds, no electrical outlets whatsoever (forget about studying with your laptop), and no heat in the winter. (That's why all the Chinese students prefer to study in an empty classroom.)
Even if you are wealthy enough to afford your own luxury (ie with heat) apartment instead of the dorm -- you can expect that the university will coerce you to live in their accomodations.
Maybe PDA sales are GOING DOWN because most of the people who want a PDA already have one... Ya frick'in RETARDS. It should be obvious... I mean, really, give me ONE convincing reason to upgrade from my Palm Vx that I got more than 5 years ago -- just ONE! I don't expect there will be one -- for at least the 5+ more years I expect to get out of it before finding something new...
Really bad frick'in news for those of us in China paying $.12/megabyte for international traffic at the foreigner's dormitory... So what in the hell am I supposed to do ? I guess staying offline is the only safe way... I sure as hell can't afford to update my fresh XP install to have all the patches.
...and to think I've been waiting all this time for the "absurd" initial price point of $.99 to finally drop to affordable levels... Looks like it's back to downloading "tab" files and learning to play anything I want to hear on the guitar myself -- now if only I had a better singing voice.
Actually I did care-- just 'cause I call it faggotty don't mean I'm a troll... And thanks a lot, you may have saved someone from something... because if it really does originate from some military thing, I'm at least a LITTLE more apt to respect it enough to not beat in someone's mutherfucker if they say the word... I mean -- that is, as opposed to the case if the origin of the word were some stupid ass black inner-city G-dawgs, or some "oh we're so cool with out trend vocab" Ivy league bitchass fuck heads.
thanks
Get rid of it, cellphones are the worst fucking nightmare that ever happened to America... I remember back in 2002, before anyone had them... then I go away for 1 frick'in year, and come back, and they're ubiquitous! NIGHTMARE
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Checkout my Kuro5hin.org diary post regarding:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/7/
Well at least the Chinese seem to understand capitalism better than this fucktard lost cause of a country. In China I saw several people turned away -- it doesn't matter if you have a BANK STATEMENT showing your wealth, if you don't have cash in hand -- you ain't gonna fuckin' see a doctor! I saw people in China COVERED in blood and dying -- SCREAMING at the hospital entrance, just a few feet away from the security that kept them out until they called on some family members to show up with CASH!! @_@
I like it!
Could someone please enlighten me to the origin of this faggot phrase "Cup o joe " ? It makes me think that the guy who prepared it, joe, jacked off into my cup under the counter. I'm sick of hearing fucking asshole use their gay fucking slang-- everytime i hear it i just want to beat the living fuck out of the fucking bitch who said it.
This thing says it can detect a discrepency of a single bit! But the problem is -- hey, harddrives aren't perfect! There is going to be at least a 1-bit error on average out of every 125 megabytes of data when you copy that shit over. And 125 megs isn't altogether THAT many pictures when you are taking'em at 5 megapixels. So what happens if the image that happens to have a bit off just so happens to be the one that proves who the murder is ?! *GASP*