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  1. Thoughts from OOG on Yet Unuzeer Internet Treckeeng Ixplueet · · Score: 5

    Timothy, while I understand that this the initial day of April, also regarded as the prank day April Fool's, I still must question the intentions of your article.

    You see, we at slashdot try to respect this forum as a posting area where the intelligent, wise, and technologically saavy can exchange valuable information and even discuss ponderous philosophical issues. Indeed, in my own posts, I work exceptionally hard to present my arguments in clear, crisp, and coherent manner such that others my understand and benefit from what I have to share intellectually. I expect and recieve the same treatment from the other fine members of the slashdot community.

    While, I again would like to reinforce that the aforementioned post does have its moments in jest, the crude and garbled presentation only takes away from slashdot and its respectability. I expected more high brow, intellectual humor from people like you and this site. And to be honest, any relevance contained in the actual article is lamentably lost because of the coarse summary of it that you display. I implore you, sir, to consider the levity of such a practical joke and to present your humorous intentions in other ways so that we readers may enjoy and comprehend your humor instead of simply staring a the screen with a baffled haze on our faces.

    I realize that many of my slashdot peers, including the moderators who evaluate and critique the posts of slashdot, may consider this plea a troll or offtopic or such, but I must butress my current argument by saying that timothy's presentation of the article fully justifies my heated response. Humor is humor, and a joke is a joke, but I really cringe at the thought of deciphering such babbling, nonsensical language. I, for one, never have and never will speak in such confusing tongues, and I feel it benefits the quality of my posts and allows others to glean from it. And I respect my aquaintances at slashdot for doing so as well.

    In conclusion, I would like to ask that you, timothy, would reconsider the obvious impulses to perform such a chilidish joke before the deed is done. Indeed, I have managed to see some humor in your joke, but the cost is at the quality and respectability of this fine web site. I trust your good judgement and am fully assured that you will make the correct decision should the thought present itself in the future. And if you do not, I am afraid that I, OOG THE CAVEMAN, may find myself compelled to approach you and rupture your cranium.

    Cheers and Happy April Fool's Day,
    OOG THE OPEN SOURCE CAVEMAN

    OOG SAY YOU APRIL FOOL!!!

  2. OOG THINK LINDVD BAD FOR OPEN SOURCE!!! on Intervideo LinDVD 'To Be Released' · · Score: 5

    OOG AGREE THAT LINUX NEED DVD PLAYER, BUT OOG NO CONTENT WITH LINDVD PROJECT. OOG NOTICE THAT PROJECT BILLED AS CLOSED SOURCE, AND THAT VIOLATE PRINCPLE OF WHOLE LINUX/OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY, DISAPPOINTING OOG MUCH!!! OOG NO WANT SIMPLY BINARIES, OOG WANT BETTER WITH SOURCE CODE!!!

    OOG ALSO SEE HUGE IMPLICATIONS WITH MPAA LEGAL ISSUES!!! PLAYER ADVERTISES SELF AS FIRST LEGAL LINUX DVD, IN OTHER WORDS DEFAMING CURRENT EFFORTS FOR LINUX DVD (I.E. LIVID AND DECSS)!!! WITH THIS PLAYER OUT, MPAA COULD EASILY WIN DECSS CASE BY USING LINDVD AS EVIDENCE!!! THIS ANOTHER BAD THING FOR OPEN SOURCE!!! SEEMS LIKE MAYBE INTERDVD AND MPAA HAVE SOMETHING FISHY GOING ON (BAD FISHY, NOT GOOD FISHY LIKE YUMMY FISH HEADS) TOGETHER!!! INTERDVD GETS ENDORSEMENT FROM MPAA AND LOTS OF MONEY THROUGH SALES, WHILE MPAA GAINS BIG EVIDENCE IN THEIR CASE TO SQUELCH DECSS AND OPEN SOURCE DVD!!! FURTHERMORE, REGION CODES STILL THERE!!! REGION CODES HORRIBLE THING THAT SCREW CONSUMERS AND FIX PRICES!!! OOG NO TOLERATE REGION CODES!!!

    IN CONCLUSION, OOG NO LIKE LINVID!!! LINDVD VIOLATE PRINCIPLE OF LINUX/OPEN SOURCE MOVEMENT AND TRY TO USE LINUX HYPE TO MAKE MONEY!!! NOT TO MENTION INTERVIDEO PROBABLY IN BED WITH MPAA TO CRUSH DECSS CASE AND MAKE MONEY!!! OOG BREAK INTERVIDEO HEAD!!!

  3. OOG BREAK SONY HEAD!!! on Playstation 2 Recalled In Japan · · Score: 1

    OOG DIGUSTED BY SONY AND MPAA'S PRACTICES!!! OOG DONT SEE HOW SONY HAS RIGHT TO TRY TO FORCE CONSUMERS TO REPLACE PSX START UP SOFTWARE (NOT CONSOLES, PEOPLE) THAT THEY SCREWED UP THEMSELVES!!! WORSE, OOG THINK SONY USE PROPAGANDA TO TRY TO CONVINCE PSX2 OWNERS THAT SOFTWARE IS FUNCTIONALLY DEFECTIVE AND NEED BE RETURNED!!!

    OOG DISAPPOINTED BY REGIONAL ENCODING AND PRICE FIXATION AND SONYS ATTEMPTS TO FORCE CONSUMERS UNDER THIS STANDARD!!! OOG THINK SOMEONE SHOULD START CAMPAIGN IN JAPAN TO INFORM PSX2 OWNERS OF TRUE FEATURES OF SOFTWARE, INFORM THEM OF REGION ENCODING SCHEME, AND EXPLAIN SONYS ATTEMPTS AT PROPOGANDA THROUGH MANDATORY RECALL!!! MAYBE ENCOURAGE CONSUMER TO KEEP "DEFECTIVE CONSOLE" AS FORM OF PROTEST AGAINST SONYS BULLSHIT!!! IN OOG'S OPINION, IF AVERAGE JOE CONSUMER FIND OUT ABOUT REGIONAL ENCODING AND SONYS PSX2 LIE, CONSUMER BE PISSED, AND THIS MIGHT LEAD TO WORLDWIDE REGULATIONS OVER REGIONAL ENCODING AND PRICE FIXING!!! MAYBE OOG IDEALISTIC, BUT OOG LIKE TO SEE EFFORTS IN CASE!!!

  4. OOG WANT CECIL PUPPET!!! on CyberPatrol Update - Mattel Wins? · · Score: 2

    OOG WANT CECIL SERPENT PUPPET!!! OOG LIKE!!! BUT OOG NO HAVE EBAY ACCOUNT BECAUSE OF EBAY PREJUDICE AGAINST CAVEMAN!!! BUT OOG WANT!!! MIGHT HAVE TO BREAK HEAD!!!
    WAIT!!! OOG REWRITE CPHACK!!! OOG IGNORE EXISTING GPLED SOURCE AND READ DOCUMENTATION TO CPHACK AND REIMPLEMENT!!! THEN OOG ADD KDE ENHANCEMENT AND RELEASE UNDER QT LISCENCE!!! OF COURSE OOG GET SUED AND BY MATELL AND GET BADASS CECIL PUPPET!!! OOG BE HAPPY THEN!!!
    OOG NOT WANT BE FORCED TO PROGRAM KDE, BUT MUST DO FOR CECIL PUPPET!!! OOG BE HUGE BADASS WITH CECIL PUPPET!!! OOG JUST HOPE MATTEL LAWYERS DONT TRY TO STEAL OOG'S CAVE!!!

  5. OOG WANT THOUGHTS ON CORPORATE SITES!!! on Interview: Lynda Weinman · · Score: 5

    OOG LIKE VIEWING WEBSITES, BUT GROWING ESPECIALLY DISGRUNTLED WITH LARGE CORPORATE SITES AND LIKE!!! OOG UNDERSTAND ATTEMPTS TO BE GRAPHICALLY PLEASING, BUT GETTING ANNOYED OF BEING FORCED TO WATCH OBNOXIOUS FLASH ANIMATIONS (E.G. FOX.COM), DEAL WITH PERL/CGI SCRIPTS AND JAVA/JAVASCRIPT POPUPS, AND HAVE VIEWING SPACE REDUCED BY FRAMES!!! OOG WONDER IF CORPORATE WEBSITES EVER ACTUALLY GO BEYOND SERVING AS BLOATED ADVERTISIMENTS AND SERVE AS INFORMATION SITES LIKE THEY INTENDED!!! SEEMS LIKE MOST CORPORATE PAGES ONLY EMPHASIZE FLASHINESS WITHOUT ANY CONTENT QUALITY!!! OOG WANT KNOW IF THIS TREND CONTINUE, AND WHEN BIG COMPANIES FINALLY, IF EVER, REALIZE THAT FUNCTIONALITY MORE IMPORTANT THAN GIMMICKY LAYOUT AND TECHNIQUES???

  6. Re:Interactive Story! Join in! on Oscar and Interactivity · · Score: 2

    Once, there was a mediocre non-fiction writer who decided to write for a "hip" pseudo-news website to aid his aging career. Unfortunately, he was so clueless, he lost the affections of Natalie Portman, who was engrossed in a bowl of grits while staring at a picture of Rob Malda. Yet, by focusing his laser-like intellect, he was able to develop new hi-tech theories about a special turtle-nerd culture being persecuted in the Galapagos Islands. These turtle-nerds, grititarians all, were more than welcome to accept this writer, so long as he buttered their grits and stroked their necks. Unfortunately, the writer for got to yell "FIRST POST!" Knowing that there was an unsavory crowd from wence he came, he lauched a tacticle nuclear strike against the critics from his past, thus abolishing them to the moronic demnsion of their deciet! Just then, 300 shipwrecked teenage cheerleaders swam onto the island, their tight sweaters and skimpy skirts clinging to their bodices and fundaments. The turtles, grits buttered and necks stroked, were excited -- they hadn't had any fundaments for years. No good could come from this.

    WHILE THIS HAPPEN, OOG BUSY IN CAVE MAKING QUALITY POST ON SLASHDOT, THOUGH STUPID MODERATOR NO UNDERSTAND OOG'S PROFOUND AND ELOQUENT STATEMENT, SO CLUELESS MODERATOR MARK DOWN POST AS OFFTOPIC!!! OOG BURN WITH HOMICIDAL FURY, SWIM TO ISLAND, AND BREAK HEAD OF TURTLES!!!

  7. OOG BACK!!! on RedHat 6.2 - RSN · · Score: 1

    OOG NO RIPOFF, OOG JUST CAVEMAN WHO GET BORED READING SLASHDOT AND DECIDE TO ADD SOME WORTH TO IT!!! OOG TAKE STAND AGAINST KARMA WHORES AND DOGMA ON SLASHDOT!!!

  8. OOG SUGGEST READ ARTICLE!!! on It Came From Beyond ... In Buckyballs! · · Score: 1

    BUCKYBALL NAME COME FROM BUCKMINSTER FULLER!!! FULLER KNOWN FOR DESIGN GEODESIC DOME!!! MOLECULAR STRUCTURE OF CARBON ATOMS IN BUCKYBALL SIMILAR TO SHAPE OF FULLER GEODESIC DOME!!! THEREFORE SCIENTIST NAME IT BUCKYBALL IN HONOR OF BUCKMINSTER FULLER!!!

  9. OOG CONFUSED!!! on Microsoft Windows 2001 Beta Slips Out · · Score: 1

    OOG MAY BE INTELLIGENT CAVEMAN, BUT OOG NO HAVE CLUE WHAT HELL MICROSOFT UP TO!!! OOG SEE MICROSOFT BRANCH OUT PRODUCT SO THAT THEY WORK ON MANY DIFFERENT WINDOWS TYPES AT SAME TIME (WIN2K, NEPTUNE, ODDYSEY, WHISTLER, BLACKCOMB)!!! THIS NOT MAKE SENSE TO OOG!!! WHY NOT MICROSOFT JUST FOCUS FULL EFFORTS INTO SINGLE QUALITY OPERATING SYSTEM INSTEAD OF BUGGY MULTIPLE VERSIONS!!! OOG NO WANT PIRATE WINDOWS 2001 BECAUSE IT BE SO BUGGY IT MESS WITH OOG COMPUTER!!! OOG SHAKE HEAD AT MICROSOFT, SAY TAKE TIME CONTINUALLY PERFECTING ONE MAIN VERSION OF WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM INSTEAD OF ALTERNATING AND GOING OFF ON TANGENT WITH MANY DIFFERENT CODEBASE DESIGN!!! MAYBE THEN WINDOWS NOT BE SO BUGGY AND SCATTERED... MAYBE WINDOWS GET MORE RESPECT FROM TECH COMMUNITY!!!

    ON UNRELATED NOTE, OOG LEAVE FOR VACATION IN BEDROCK TOMORROW, NO MORE OOG POSTS FOR SEVERAL DAYS!!! BUT OOG BE BACK AND BREAK HEAD AGAIN!!!

  10. OOG YAWN!!! on Caldera Publically Trading · · Score: 5

    OOG SEE MANY IPO!!! THEY ALL SAME!!! INITIAL SUCESS AT HIGH RATE, BUT THEN COOL DOWN AND ENTER VOLATILE STATE OF PRICES!!! ESPECIALLY WITH INFLATED PRICE OF MANY TECH/SOFTWARE STOCKS!!! OOG CONSIDER INVESTING WITHIN FIRST FEW DAYS, BUT THEN SELL ONLY A LITTLE LATER BEFORE PRICES CRASH AND GO CRAZY!!!

  11. OOG NO NEED MORE CAR GADGETS!!! on Cool Japanese Gadgets You Can't Have · · Score: 1

    OOG ALREADY SICK OF IDIOTS DRIVE CAR WHILE TALK ON CELL PHONE!!! OOG AFRAID WEB CELL PHONES AND IN CAR DVD PLAYERS PROVIDE MORE DISTRACTION!!! THESE EVEN BIGGER DEAL THAN CAR AUDIO BECAUSE DVD AND WEB REQUIRE FULL VISUAL ATTENTION!!! IF STUPID PEOPLE USE GADGET AND NOT LOOK AT ROAD MANY MORE ACCIDENTS!!! OOG WONDER IF COMPANIES MAKING POINTLESS PRODUCTS GIVE SHIT ABOUT POTENTIALLY RAISING CAR ACCIDENT RATE!!!

  12. OOG BREAK COKE HEAD!!! on Is "coke.ch" A Violation of Coca-Cola's (tm)? · · Score: 1

    OOG UNDERSTAND COKE WANTING TO PROTECT TRADEMARK, BUT THINK THIS GO TO FAR!!! OOG ALSO AWARE THAT COKE ALSO MEAN COCAINE OR KIND OF COAL IN SOME CASES??? HOW CAN COCA COLA CONTROL THIS USAGE??? THOUGHT OF COCA COLA TRYING TO STEAL INTERNATIONAL DOMAINS AS OPPOSED TO TRADITIONAL .COM EVEN MORE ABSURD!!! OOG NOT LAWYER LIKE HIS COUSIN, UNFROZEN CAVEMAN LAWYER, BUT OOG THINK YOU COULD WIN IN COURT, ESPECIALLY SINCE SITE PROVIDE SERVICE FOR COCAINE ADDICTS!!! TRY SETTLE PEACEFULLY AND ASK IF YOU COULD USE DISCLAIMER OR WORK TOGETHER WITH THEM AS COMPROMISE!!!

  13. OOG LIKE GAME BUT WANT MORE!!! on Heavy Gear II for Linux Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    OOG LIKE PLAYING GAMES, THOUGH OOG ALSO HOPE FOR MORE VARIETY AND QUALITY!!! OOG AGREE HEAVY GEAR II IS OK GAME, BUT MEDIOCRE COMPARED TO MANY OTHER!!! OOG GLAD LOKI TAKE TIME TO PORT, BUT OOG WANT LOKI TRY GET LICENSE TO PORT MORE SIGNATURE GAMES SUCH AS FINAL FANTASY, STAR/WARCRAFT SERIES, THE SIMS, ETC. OOG HOPE FOR MORE DISTINCTION IN GAME LIBRARY FOR LINUX TOO!!! OOG AGREE CONVINCING GAME PUBLISHERS HARD, BUT GROWING LINUX SUPPORT AND SALES SHOULD HELP!!! ALSO OOG THINK MORE EFFORT SHOULD BE MADE TO GET GOOD GAME SUPPORT FOR LINUX AND MAKE LINUX MORE FRIENDLY TO HOME USER!!! MANY PEOPLE STAY ON WINDOWS FOR SOFTWARE SUPPORT, AND MORE GAME ON LINUX HELP CHANGE THAT!!! OOG GLAD FOR LOKI, BUT WANT LINUX GAMING GO BEYOND POINT WHERE EACH NEW GAME PORT SEEN AS MAJOR NEWS ITEM AMONG COMMUNITY!!! BUT OOG GLAD LOKI TRYING, SO OOG NO BREAK LOKI HEAD!!!

  14. FIRST OOG POST!!! on Net Firms Running Out Of Cash? · · Score: 1

    OOG GET THIS ACCOUNT, SADLY OOG TAKEN, AND OOG MISTYPE EMAIL WHILE REGISTERING OOG THE CAVEMAN. THIS REAL OOG ACCOUNT, SO NO NEED TO BREAK HEAD OF IMPOSTERS!!!