Anyone else think this has nothing to do with Software - Free, Open or Whatever - and everything to do with Mozilla's ability to sell branded Merchandise?
They should just open the Firefox Restaurant and be done with it.
Heh. On my screen your message is directly below this one.
Re:Haw! (Score:1) by heinousjay (683506) Alter Relationship on 18:36 24th June, 2006 (#15596823) I'm only here for the blowjobs. I bet our experiences are similarly disatisfying.
Adverts? (Score:3, Insightful) by Karellen (104380) Alter Relationship on 17:17 24th June, 2006 (#15596520) Do people still get them? I thought everyone had adblock [mozdev.org] installed.
Which became even funnier when I saw who the post was from.
The complaint is that a word that originally meant "with hope" is instead being used as a substitute for "I hope".
There becomes a confusion when I write: "Hopefully, he left on Tuesday"
Do I mean that I hope he left on Tuesday, or that he had hope when he left on Tuesday? It should mean the latter but in common use it's starting to instead mean the former.
I wouldn't worry about it too much as languages have always been fluid and the relatively new usage isn't entirely unintuitive except in very rare circumstances like the one I outline above.
"What is the mark? Well the mark Brian, is the barcode. The ubitiqous barcode that you'll find on every bog roll, and every packet of johnny's and every poxie-pot pie. And every [expletive-removed] barcode is divided into two parts by three markers and those three markers are always represented by the number six. Six-six-six. Now what does it say? No one shall be able to buy or sell without that mark. And now what they're planning to do in order to eradicate all credit card fraud and in order to precipitate a totally cashless society. What they're planning to do; what they've already tested on the American troops; they're going to subcutaneously laser tattoo that mark onto your right hand or onto your forehead."
In the United Kingdom the head of the Judiciary is the Lord Chancellor and is an appointee of the Prime Minister and has many political as well as judicial duties.
Our consitution isn't even written down although wikipedia seems to be steadily doing it for us;-)
However, the Lord Chancellor has very little direct power over judicial matters as most judicial duties are shared by the Law Lords [They don't all have the first initial L. It stands for Lord or one case B for Baron]. The Law Lords are also appointees but are senior judges, appointed to the House of Lords for life, and tend to have a great deal of independence from the parties that appointed them.
It's always interesting to turn these stories around and wonder how slashdot would react if the litigant were a beloved cause-celebre and the plaintiff a moustachioed villain.
Like, for instance, if Microsoft released a mail product called "qmail".
Seriously, do you think the same people would be posting "it's just a letter Q!"
Please don't allow your inconvenient alleged "facts" and "first-hand knowledge" and the fact that the story is about "you" get in the way of a good old-fashioned slashdot Microsoft bash.
Too many people seem to treat MMOGs as work, or a must-win competition, or something otherwise onerous and unpleasant.
I'm playing World of Warcraft. I'm enjoying World of Warcraft. I'll unsubscribe when I stop enjoying it.
I won't be yelling "DAmm yu Bliizard!" on forums any time soon just because they changed the effectiveness of one spell by 1% or increased the drop rate of one blue item shortly after I "worked hard" to acquire it.
That's what being a casual gamer is about. Play, have fun, leave. Without bitching about it.
One 1990s smart bomb could have taken out the Death Star without waves of fighters, let alone "the Force".
Well, it might accidentally take out the Chinese, um, I mean, Neimoidian Embassy next door, but that would be down to an intelligence error rather than a failing of the weaponry.
In the area if MMORPG development, where so many projects seem to get canned after months or even years of development, I really don't think "announced" is newsworthy any more.
How about not publishing MMORPG stories until they're "finished" - at least finished enough to alpha test.
As a side benefit, we'll not have to read any of the "cancelled" stories the following year...
Slashdot Mirror
And every rose has its thorn, and every cowboy sings a sad sad song.
Maybe if it shut down just that one tab.
But in a multi-tabbed environment losing the entire application because of malicious code in a web page in one tab could be a problem.
What if I was composing an amazing, insightful, guaranteed +5 karma comment in one tab when another tab went and crashed my entire browser?
Or, even worse, when American brewers got bought by darned furners.
You can have our laptops, but you'll never have our beers!
I like the idea of enemy spies infiltrating or cracking the system and editing their own entry to read "not an enemy spy".
Phone for pizza.
Int(Rnd*UBound(tabs))
Anyone else think this has nothing to do with Software - Free, Open or Whatever - and everything to do with Mozilla's ability to sell branded Merchandise?
They should just open the Firefox Restaurant and be done with it.
Heh. On my screen your message is directly below this one.
Re:Haw! (Score:1)
by heinousjay (683506) Alter Relationship on 18:36 24th June, 2006 (#15596823)
I'm only here for the blowjobs. I bet our experiences are similarly disatisfying.
Adverts? (Score:3, Insightful)
by Karellen (104380) Alter Relationship on 17:17 24th June, 2006 (#15596520)
Do people still get them? I thought everyone had adblock [mozdev.org] installed.
Which became even funnier when I saw who the post was from.
I recommend a peer-moderated system.
That never fails.
"seriously tasty" according to reports
"maybe"
The complaint is that a word that originally meant "with hope" is instead being used as a substitute for "I hope".
There becomes a confusion when I write:
"Hopefully, he left on Tuesday"
Do I mean that I hope he left on Tuesday, or that he had hope when he left on Tuesday? It should mean the latter but in common use it's starting to instead mean the former.
I wouldn't worry about it too much as languages have always been fluid and the relatively new usage isn't entirely unintuitive except in very rare circumstances like the one I outline above.
Hopefully, you understand what I mean.
"What is the mark? Well the mark Brian, is the barcode. The ubitiqous barcode that you'll find on every bog roll, and every packet of johnny's and every poxie-pot pie. And every [expletive-removed] barcode is divided into two parts by three markers and those three markers are always represented by the number six. Six-six-six. Now what does it say? No one shall be able to buy or sell without that mark. And now what they're planning to do in order to eradicate all credit card fraud and in order to precipitate a totally cashless society. What they're planning to do; what they've already tested on the American troops; they're going to subcutaneously laser tattoo that mark onto your right hand or onto your forehead."
The link on the story is not future-proof once a new Studio Briefing is published by IMDB.
The archive URL is http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2005-10-05
In the United Kingdom the head of the Judiciary is the Lord Chancellor and is an appointee of the Prime Minister and has many political as well as judicial duties.
;-)
Our consitution isn't even written down although wikipedia seems to be steadily doing it for us
However, the Lord Chancellor has very little direct power over judicial matters as most judicial duties are shared by the Law Lords [They don't all have the first initial L. It stands for Lord or one case B for Baron]. The Law Lords are also appointees but are senior judges, appointed to the House of Lords for life, and tend to have a great deal of independence from the parties that appointed them.
Maybe they've seen the early rushes for Dungeon Siege and it's brilliant!!!!!
Well, it might be.
It's got Burt Reynolds in it, how bad can it be?
For an extra $10 you can get a deluxe edition that *doesn't* come with the movie.
It's always interesting to turn these stories around and wonder how slashdot would react if the litigant were a beloved cause-celebre and the plaintiff a moustachioed villain.
Like, for instance, if Microsoft released a mail product called "qmail".
Seriously, do you think the same people would be posting "it's just a letter Q!"
If it plays Counter-Strike better than me I'm claiming haxx.
Please don't allow your inconvenient alleged "facts" and "first-hand knowledge" and the fact that the story is about "you" get in the way of a good old-fashioned slashdot Microsoft bash.
They tried something new, it was called Black and White, and it was shite.
Apologies for profanity, but sometimes only profanity will do.
Too many people seem to treat MMOGs as work, or a must-win competition, or something otherwise onerous and unpleasant.
I'm playing World of Warcraft. I'm enjoying World of Warcraft. I'll unsubscribe when I stop enjoying it.
I won't be yelling "DAmm yu Bliizard!" on forums any time soon just because they changed the effectiveness of one spell by 1% or increased the drop rate of one blue item shortly after I "worked hard" to acquire it.
That's what being a casual gamer is about. Play, have fun, leave. Without bitching about it.
One 1990s smart bomb could have taken out the Death Star without waves of fighters, let alone "the Force".
Well, it might accidentally take out the Chinese, um, I mean, Neimoidian Embassy next door, but that would be down to an intelligence error rather than a failing of the weaponry.
I had assumed that the hive mind of Slashdot was now legally registered as a single entity.
In the area if MMORPG development, where so many projects seem to get canned after months or even years of development, I really don't think "announced" is newsworthy any more.
How about not publishing MMORPG stories until they're "finished" - at least finished enough to alpha test.
As a side benefit, we'll not have to read any of the "cancelled" stories the following year...