Damn, if i'd had 2 billion dollar I wouldn't need Google. I'd had some naked petrified girls doing all the searching for me...
Google needs this kind of money, then! Hell, I'd sure prefer the naked chicks over the pigeons...PS did you mean the girls where petrified, or they make you petrified?
This guy is making some valid points, and while you might not agree, I dont' see any links to goatse.cx or any "Linus is a stupid mangina" comments thrown in randomly.
Someone please mod the parent up, it's actually an interesting discussion.
I suppose...but in years to come don't think something like "Alien vs. Predator" is perhaps more official sounding than "AVP"?
Resivoir Dogs would never be RD, A Clockwork Orange is never ACO, and if you can even tell what movie DBAMTSCWDYJITH is, I'll declare you...well...capitain ovbious, probably.
My point is that if they're going to make a movie, especially one for the dedicated fans, they should have more...respect, I suppose, for the film than marketing gimmicks. It tends to cheapen the experience. I probably would have thought much less of the bad reviews and perhaps seen LXG (word-of-mouth, didnt' read any "real" reviews), had it not looked corny due to that. That being said, I've heard that probably saved me some money, so I suppose perhaps it was all good; that however, is exactly what worries me about this movie. It makes me feel like I'm going to watch pro wrestling or something. "NEXT ROUND: LGX vs HHH". It might be a great movie, but people will say "Christ, that looks cheesy."
That being said, I haven't seen it (obviously). Grain of salt not included.
Exactly! The TLA namespace needs to be reserves for things and people who will actually count next year. Like GNU, or dmr, or ken, or rms, or esr, or jms.
...use initials, as if they where some kind of open-source project or something?
"Yes, the new AVP system can completely increase the likelyhood of blood, guts, and gore; thus guarenteeing people will pack into theaters to see it."
We all know how well LXG did. Ever since ID4 was so popular...*sigh* AVP isn't even that good of an abbriviation. Ashcroft Vs. Powell? Anti-Virus Protection? Always Verify Postings? Avril laVigne's Poontang? It's like they're trying to market to the Internet hype crowd by "giving" us an official acronym/abbrivitation/initial-shortened spelling, whatever they want to call it. Hey guys if your movie is worth a shit after the 8 years you spent pretending it was comming out, we'll dub it what we feel worthy. Perhaps less on marketing and more on "movie" and you wont' have to worry about us giving it some other name like FPC - Festering Pile of Crap.
Erm, perhaps i should see it first before I call it crap. But marketing ploys like this sure make it look like they have something to hide.:-\
I've heard a lot lately about car manufacturers flat out lying about their horsepower ratings, and every electrical engeneer and audiophile I know swears that Watt ratings on speakers mean absolutely jack shit. So what else is new?
Which is why I buy the cheap Schick (heh) knock-off of the Mach3, which works well enough. When it comes to something that needs to last me a long time, I'll be glad to invest some money, but for everyday throwaway things like ink or razors, cut me a deal.
It does make me think, however...on average an ink cartredge will last a while, so they're not always purchased that frequently. Therefore, in order to maintain enough cash reserves, this could mean that the price of ink will remain the same and printers will go up. Eek.
Would you bother to buy, read, and review a book that sucked ass, and could the average/.'er post the article in such a way as to get it submitted?
I can see it now:
New Book Sucks Ass
2/10
goatseman writes: OMFG this book is teh sux0rs. I opened the first chapter and almost puked, it's all confusing and crap. This guy rambles on about irrelevant subjects and you never learn much except stupid factoids. Never buy this book, or anythign from this author. It's way to MS-centric and it violated the DMCA, even though it's about hardware. Read More to read the rest of goatseman's review.
2003-10-29 08:41:28 New Book Sucks Ass (news,books) (rejected)
How asinie is it to sell a product at below cost and lock people in to the highly marked-up and frequently replaced accessory products? I wouldn't mind paying $200 for a printer if the ink refils where like $10.
It's not everyday you see a story about the US court system doing something right. Honestly, I didn't see see how creating an ink cartredge compatible with a printer was any kind of circumvention of copyrights, and I'm glad the judge saw it that way as well. Horray for competition!
Perhaps Microsoft didn't want anyone to know that they hadn't been on the ball with G5 development until now,and this guy was exposing them.
Actually, now that I think about it, perhaps they waited to buy the G5s until Panther was out, which was probably a good move; the Longhorn team had already seen Jaguar several times by now and where fresh out of ideas.;-)
Methinks creating a life-sustaining pod capable of traveling between solar systems would be a hell of alot easier than creating something that
Can get close enough to the Sun to perform such a task without being destroyed
Can acomplish such a task in a way as not to fundementally alter the gravitational centerpoint of out solar system
If you could get around that, perhaps it would be feasable...but it really does sound quite far fetched (no offense).
Besides, by the time we have to worry about the sun burning out and/or exploding (unless something wildly unexpected happens) we'll have probably either become extinct or populated several more planets...
Why can't you talk to your computer? Sounds like a good idea, right? Hell, it's a star trek fanatasy come true for 90% of the geeks out there. So why can't you?
You don't own a Mac?;-) (for those who would rant on, this is an obvious joke, grow a sense of humor)
The only reason humans can use speech to effciently communicate with each other is that along with speech comes tone, body language, and symantic context that conveys as much (if not more) information than the vocal message itself. Computers cannot pick up on those kinds of things.
I suppose in conjunction with a camera, a system could be designed that could use body language combined with speech recognition (Mozilla could use actual gestures?), but the rest is nothing short of requiring AI of some sort.
That being said, I find many useful things to do with voice recognition. Simple commands, especually ones that can respond with synthesized speech, are most effective, something like "Check time". I can watch where I'm walking or driving and not have to look away at a clock.
Personally I'd vote for some sort of internet driving license, without having thought much about it. But it feels like the right thing.
Excuse me, but I already pay $50 a month for broadband, that's enough, thanks. I don't need to pay more for some stupid competency license. I know what I'm doing just fine, and to put it mildly, "..we don't need no stinkin' licences!"
The conter-attacks to patch infected machines are a bad idea, most certainly illegal.
Slashdot Mirror
/me blushes.
Thanks.
Geek debates at their finest...
This guy is making some valid points, and while you might not agree, I dont' see any links to goatse.cx or any "Linus is a stupid mangina" comments thrown in randomly.
Someone please mod the parent up, it's actually an interesting discussion.
I suppose...but in years to come don't think something like "Alien vs. Predator" is perhaps more official sounding than "AVP"?
Resivoir Dogs would never be RD, A Clockwork Orange is never ACO, and if you can even tell what movie DBAMTSCWDYJITH is, I'll declare you...well...capitain ovbious, probably.
My point is that if they're going to make a movie, especially one for the dedicated fans, they should have more...respect, I suppose, for the film than marketing gimmicks. It tends to cheapen the experience. I probably would have thought much less of the bad reviews and perhaps seen LXG (word-of-mouth, didnt' read any "real" reviews), had it not looked corny due to that. That being said, I've heard that probably saved me some money, so I suppose perhaps it was all good; that however, is exactly what worries me about this movie. It makes me feel like I'm going to watch pro wrestling or something. "NEXT ROUND: LGX vs HHH". It might be a great movie, but people will say "Christ, that looks cheesy."
That being said, I haven't seen it (obviously). Grain of salt not included.
Tahnk yuo anonomus gramer nasi.
- GNU: Goddamn Newbie Users?
- dmr: Didn't Mean that, Richard
;-) - ken: KDE Envy's gNome?
- rms: Read the Manual, Stupid
- esr: Everyone Sneers at Redmond
- jms: Just Motherfscking Shutup, tokerat
Did I remmeber them all correctly?Spin for the conservatives, distractions for the morons. How right you are!
Althoguth I have to admit, I'm addicted to "C.O.P.S."....lol
...use initials, as if they where some kind of open-source project or something?
"Yes, the new AVP system can completely increase the likelyhood of blood, guts, and gore; thus guarenteeing people will pack into theaters to see it."
We all know how well LXG did. Ever since ID4 was so popular...*sigh* AVP isn't even that good of an abbriviation. Ashcroft Vs. Powell? Anti-Virus Protection? Always Verify Postings? Avril laVigne's Poontang? It's like they're trying to market to the Internet hype crowd by "giving" us an official acronym/abbrivitation/initial-shortened spelling, whatever they want to call it. Hey guys if your movie is worth a shit after the 8 years you spent pretending it was comming out, we'll dub it what we feel worthy. Perhaps less on marketing and more on "movie" and you wont' have to worry about us giving it some other name like FPC - Festering Pile of Crap.
Erm, perhaps i should see it first before I call it crap. But marketing ploys like this sure make it look like they have something to hide.
Perhaps they're not crawling your old site if the new one is linked too instead?
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aslashdot.or
Hah, no pun intended
I doubt they're anywhere near surgical quality, or else they wouldn't rust...
I've heard a lot lately about car manufacturers flat out lying about their horsepower ratings, and every electrical engeneer and audiophile I know swears that Watt ratings on speakers mean absolutely jack shit. So what else is new?
Which is why I buy the cheap Schick (heh) knock-off of the Mach3, which works well enough. When it comes to something that needs to last me a long time, I'll be glad to invest some money, but for everyday throwaway things like ink or razors, cut me a deal.
It does make me think, however...on average an ink cartredge will last a while, so they're not always purchased that frequently. Therefore, in order to maintain enough cash reserves, this could mean that the price of ink will remain the same and printers will go up. Eek.
Would you bother to buy, read, and review a book that sucked ass, and could the average
I can see it now:
How asinie is it to sell a product at below cost and lock people in to the highly marked-up and frequently replaced accessory products? I wouldn't mind paying $200 for a printer if the ink refils where like $10.
Exactly, for using the DMCA as an anti-competition tool. They deserve it. Suckaz.
It's not everyday you see a story about the US court system doing something right. Honestly, I didn't see see how creating an ink cartredge compatible with a printer was any kind of circumvention of copyrights, and I'm glad the judge saw it that way as well. Horray for competition!
Perhaps Microsoft didn't want anyone to know that they hadn't been on the ball with G5 development until now,and this guy was exposing them.
Actually, now that I think about it, perhaps they waited to buy the G5s until Panther was out, which was probably a good move; the Longhorn team had already seen Jaguar several times by now and where fresh out of ideas.
*ionosphere ;-)
Methinks creating a life-sustaining pod capable of traveling between solar systems would be a hell of alot easier than creating something that
- Can get close enough to the Sun to perform such a task without being destroyed
- Can acomplish such a task in a way as not to fundementally alter the gravitational centerpoint of out solar system
If you could get around that, perhaps it would be feasable...but it really does sound quite far fetched (no offense).Besides, by the time we have to worry about the sun burning out and/or exploding (unless something wildly unexpected happens) we'll have probably either become extinct or populated several more planets...
That being said, I find many useful things to do with voice recognition. Simple commands, especually ones that can respond with synthesized speech, are most effective, something like "Check time". I can watch where I'm walking or driving and not have to look away at a clock.
The conter-attacks to patch infected machines are a bad idea, most certainly illegal.