"There has been a lot of smoke and mirrors, but what we need is actually a public utility that is well managed in the public interest."
I thought thats what.mil was..:) Seriously, isn't it nice to know the guy who wants to run the.org TLD thinks.mil isn't well managed -OR- in the public interest?
Filmmakers often use camera tricks to hide or embellish certain scenes.. A "depth map" would expose these tricks, and in so doing take AWAY one of the fundemental tools that directors have in composing their work. $25K to take power away from the director? Boy, that should catch on like wildfire.
Back when I was in high school, I walked into the kitchen one morning on the way to the bus, and my mom looks at me weird, and starts sniffing the air around me.. "You smell like a french whore!" she told me. Turns out I used one of those "decorative soaps" on accident. But yeah, its my birthday. Thanks.:)
Re:Are you a legal man, or a moral man?
on
Live from Iran, Film88
·
· Score: -1, Flamebait
Hey Michael.
im*be*cile Pronunciation Key (mb-sl, -sl)
n.
A stupid or silly person; a dolt.
A person whose mental acumen is well below par.
A person of moderate to severe mental retardation having a mental age of from three to seven years and generally being capable of some degree of communication and performance of simple tasks under supervision. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
Cheers,
Re:Are you a legal man, or a moral man?
on
Live from Iran, Film88
·
· Score: -1, Flamebait
Michael? You're a moron. Just thought i'd let you know in case nobody else does..
Yesterday morning, I had a Karma of 50. Now its down to 23. What happened? Michael happened -- He blew a fuse over a response I had written to one of his posts that pointed out he was abusing his power by using Slashdot to aire his lame-ass pissy fit about antivirus companies. He's one of those YRO shitheads that sleep with tinfoil hats on so the dogs in the neighborhood don't beam him messages in his sleep. Anyway, I pointed out that in the eyes of the APA, his love of Anime was on par with child porn. He didn't like that, so he went down the list of my recent posts and force modded them down, every single one of them. Posts that were 5 in the morning were -1 after lunch. Silly Michael.
Must suck being so sexually frustrated like that.
Anyway, I could care less if the gubmint wants to see me take a shit. I've often thought about inviting them to do so around April 15th every year, as my hard-earned money goes to support every other Lawanda's crack habit, that and her 18 kids.
I've heard rumors that these "P2P Cell Phones" will have the ability to travel back in time and call themselves "Walkie Talkies".
Technology is so amazing!!!
For the humor impaired: This response is an example of a satire. The original post attempts to glorify an idea that has existed since the 1940's as some sort of new-fangled ubergeek invention. Whats even more sad, is how Slashdot's editors are so completely out of touch with reality that they can be fooled into running this kind of story.
Cheers,
Here's the long and short of it:
on
Gnome 2.0 RC1
·
· Score: -1, Troll
It looks like GNOME 2.0's release date is on track. However.....
It looks like utter crap.
I'm not trying to drop a load of flamebait here -- I've been following Gnome since the early days, and its becoming more and more evident that Gnome as a project has failed to produce an attractive, usable desktop. No one's going to adopt it, unless they offer something resembling an "upgrade", visually. Until that happens, GNOME will remain a sad, neglected cousin to KDE3. And yup, i'm qualified to make that statement. I've worked with both teams, and both include my work.
Something tells me little Michael got burned opening an anime attachment in Outlook, and walked away from the experience with a dead system. So he decided to vent his sexual frustration on Slashdot.
Michael should be thankful that virus coders took the liberty of destroying any incriminating evidence on his drive. Child porn like anime carries stiff penalties in this country.:)
For the humor impaired: This is an example of satire. Michael is throwing a fit, and using his moderator status to essentially bitch and moan... A priveledge that you and I don't have. Face it--If we were to have posted this hissy-fit, it would be rejected outright. In any event, Mikey doesn't understand that having executable code isn't necessarily the only vector of virus transmission. Lets play devil's advocate for a moment---As many of you know, any goon with a hex editor can tickle a few bits in a JPEG to make any loader think the file is impossibly large. After all, upper limit on JPEG is 65535 x 65535.. Smart applications would ignore such an issue, while exploiting crappy JPEG loaders into malloc()'ing a system to its knees. And concievably, the file would be spread, and the same problem keeps occuring. Some people can view it, while others end up having their system choke on it. Sounds like a virus to me.
Tell it to your therapist, Michael.
Cheers,
Good lord, what will they think of next?!
on
P2P Television?
·
· Score: -1, Flamebait
Sharing TV programs? Holy cow! Any day now, somebody is gonna build a device that will record TV programs on portable casette tapes. Then they'll be millionaires. Like Shawn Fanning!
For the humor impaired: Slashdot's authors dont realize it (and dont disturb them--they're innocent, like little kids..) but the genie is already out of the bottle. People have had the ability to record, duplicate and share TV programs for about 20 years now. They're friggin called VCRs. Beyond that, TV programs en masse from Gnutella and other filesharing services already. This "genie" is out of the bottle and on a cruise ship to the Bahamas.
No doubt, telling your employer that you're about to jump ship will make them nervous. Its been my experience that its sort of split 75/25, with 75% of the time incurring negative results, and only 25% of the time being positive results.
Case in point: Larger companies know they can replace you with a six-pack of Hindu programmers that will work for rice and curry. Try to avoid lighting a fire under their ass if know you can be easilly replaced. If you feel you're integral to a particular project, try to leverage them very, very far away from the date of a project's completion. If you try to leverage them near a project's completion date, they'll have no choice but to keep you on, but pulling a stunt like that will land you at the top of the list of people who get the axe next time layoffs come around. PHBs dont like having their hands forced.
When it comes to contracting, find a company you feel treats you well, and STAY WITH THEM. The vast majority of contracting agencies wont give two shits less than half a rats ass about you or your career. They are parasitic by nature--they make money off of you at every turn. NEVER accept a counter-offer from another contracting agency. It'll be the worst career move you ever made. Find an agency you like, with people you trust. Show your loyalty to them, and you'll be at the top of their list for reccomendations next time the economy hits the crapper.
And, if you happen to be a boss, and you're reading this: Wise the fuck up. Your employees WANT to be loyal to your company. Playing musical chairs with your workforce is a sure-fire way to show them your company doesn't have it's shit together. If your employees see a 15-year veteran get the axe only to be replaced by some badonkadonk who can't even speak English, can you really blame them for wanting to leave? I saw this over and over again where I worked last. Hire good people, keep good people. Is it really that hard?
/* Its June 11, 2002...And Mozilla STILL lacks anti-aliased font support. */
Yes, kids, i'm aware of the fact that umpteen zillion different AA hacks for Mozilla exist. But guess what--I dont want hacks. I want a friggin browser that looks like it was written in 2002, not 1995.
It just amazes me that so many people can put so much work into a project, and then NOT include something as fundemental as AA support. What gives? Is there a real-world reason why Mozilla doesn't offer it? Or rather, is it what we all suspect it is -- Mozilla is a browser built for programmers, not end-users, and Mozilla's programmers dont give a flying fuck how their work looks at the end of the day...their only care is just that it works......sort of.
Meanwhile, i'm enjoying Konqueror. Stable, fast, and has included anti-aliased font support since day one. So whats the problem, Mozilla?
Running yet another story on Slashdot that nobody gives a flying fuck about, while hundreds of overlooked open-source projects continue to languish in near-total obscurity: PRICELESS.
Here's Your Slashdot Daily Recap, Applicable to every article that has run since late '99:
Two companies you've never heard of are fighting over something you're not familliar with, and as a result, theyre leaving virtually TENS of people without a service you havent heard of either!
An evil corporate entity you've never heard of is DANGEROUSLY CLOSE to finally pushing a bill you've never heard of through Congress that will DANGEROUSLY restrict the rights you're not quite sure you had to begin with!
A popular author you've never heard of has a new book you've never heard of...Don't laugh! Critics you've never heard of are hailing it as a masterpiece, and the author himself has an enormous mob of fans (numbering in the dozens!!!) who have read everything he has written, including several other titles you've never heard of. He gets compared to William Gibson somewhere along the way, which makes him incredibly relevant, because everyone knows William Gibson = Relevant.
Someone has finally perfected a way to do something you were never aware of, which involves a cash prize, numerous officiating bodies you've never heard of and extra-long acronyms everyone but you has known about for years... These acronyms, so sinister, often stretch into the mind-numbing 4 and 5-letter category.
Someone wanna write a Perl script to replace Slashdot the same way that Slashdot wrote one to replace Jon Katz?
So, here's what i've learned in summary for this thread:
"If you go HDTV, you'll never go back because 1080i BSkyB Sky+ Enhanced DVD Digital 480 Mega Overscan HD Super Mario PVR is great for viewing 2006 DIgital NTSC 480i CSI!!!! If you haven't spent $3000 on a television, you arent as cool as me and the other 2% of the population stupid enough to pay $3000 for a television!!! You're poor, because me and this guy I've heard of a couple towns over have HDTV! You're poor!!"
And...
"I just want to watch TV, and watch movies occasionally. I could care less if its digital. If a movie sucks, watching it in high-definition digital quality isn't going to make it suck any less. Besides, half the time, all thats on TV are commercials and reruns, and I could care less if I can see every individual hair on Ted Koppel's toupee."
You don't have to be a brain surgeon to see which group I subscribe to. Then again, if you were one of the unfortunate morons who bought a $3000 idiot box, here's a hint: I belong to the -second- of the two groups mentioned. Get crackin'!
Has it occured to Slashdot's staff that nobody in the real world owns a digital television? I mean, I like watching "Everybody Loves Raymond", but i'm not going to spend $4000 so I can see what brand of breakfast cereal he eats.
I dont know of a single person, anywhere, that owns a digital television.
"As if they didn't have a monopoly already: it costs us between $500-$1000 (or half of our profits, whichever is more) for each night we show a movie!"
Cost of a typical movie-ticket for a first-run show: $8.00
Cost of a bucket of popcorn, a drink, and a box of candy: $12.00
Cost to make a whiner STFU and quit bitching about how little his theater makes: PRICELESS
Do the math, Eisnstein. $500 per night? $500.00 / 20.00 = Your theater needs to put just 25 people PER DAY to pay for the cost! Thats PER DAY, not per showing! A typical movie theater shows the same movie about 5 times a night. That means, in any theater, the money made off of just 5 people out of the entire theater is enough to pay the evil, satan-worshipping, tyrannical monopolistic Hollywood studio for the rights to show that film. Shut up.
Coincedentally, the camera pays for itself for every 7,000 people who walk in the door. 7000 * 20 = 140,000. To get that many people through the door in most theaters would take about three days, tops. So quit yer bitching, clean the fucking floor once in a while, and use your toes if you run out of fingers to count on. Jesus.
Slashdot Mirror
God, this is so fucking relevant. Thank God timothy is here to alert us to MEDIA ABUSE IN ZIMBABWE.
.mil is run by the government, and the government is run by who? The public.
.edu is run by Verisign.
Cheers,
"There has been a lot of smoke and mirrors, but what we need is actually a public utility that is well managed in the public interest."
I thought thats what
Cheers,
Filmmakers often use camera tricks to hide or embellish certain scenes.. A "depth map" would expose these tricks, and in so doing take AWAY one of the fundemental tools that directors have in composing their work. $25K to take power away from the director? Boy, that should catch on like wildfire.
Cheers,
Back when I was in high school, I walked into the kitchen one morning on the way to the bus, and my mom looks at me weird, and starts sniffing the air around me.. "You smell like a french whore!" she told me. Turns out I used one of those "decorative soaps" on accident. But yeah, its my birthday. Thanks. :)
Hey Michael.
im*be*cile Pronunciation Key (mb-sl, -sl)
n.
A stupid or silly person; a dolt.
A person whose mental acumen is well below par.
A person of moderate to severe mental retardation having a mental age of from three to seven years and generally being capable of some degree of communication and performance of simple tasks under supervision. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
Cheers,
Michael? You're a moron. Just thought i'd let you know in case nobody else does..
Cheers,
Yesterday morning, I had a Karma of 50. Now its down to 23. What happened? Michael happened -- He blew a fuse over a response I had written to one of his posts that pointed out he was abusing his power by using Slashdot to aire his lame-ass pissy fit about antivirus companies. He's one of those YRO shitheads that sleep with tinfoil hats on so the dogs in the neighborhood don't beam him messages in his sleep. Anyway, I pointed out that in the eyes of the APA, his love of Anime was on par with child porn. He didn't like that, so he went down the list of my recent posts and force modded them down, every single one of them. Posts that were 5 in the morning were -1 after lunch. Silly Michael.
Must suck being so sexually frustrated like that.
Anyway, I could care less if the gubmint wants to see me take a shit. I've often thought about inviting them to do so around April 15th every year, as my hard-earned money goes to support every other Lawanda's crack habit, that and her 18 kids.
Cheers,
PS.. its my birthday today.
...Wouldn't it just be easier to install a window?
Cheers,
I've heard rumors that these "P2P Cell Phones" will have the ability to travel back in time and call themselves "Walkie Talkies".
Technology is so amazing!!!
For the humor impaired: This response is an example of a satire. The original post attempts to glorify an idea that has existed since the 1940's as some sort of new-fangled ubergeek invention. Whats even more sad, is how Slashdot's editors are so completely out of touch with reality that they can be fooled into running this kind of story.
Cheers,
It looks like GNOME 2.0's release date is on track. However.....
It looks like utter crap.
I'm not trying to drop a load of flamebait here -- I've been following Gnome since the early days, and its becoming more and more evident that Gnome as a project has failed to produce an attractive, usable desktop. No one's going to adopt it, unless they offer something resembling an "upgrade", visually. Until that happens, GNOME will remain a sad, neglected cousin to KDE3. And yup, i'm qualified to make that statement. I've worked with both teams, and both include my work.
Cheers,
Something tells me little Michael got burned opening an anime attachment in Outlook, and walked away from the experience with a dead system. So he decided to vent his sexual frustration on Slashdot.
Michael should be thankful that virus coders took the liberty of destroying any incriminating evidence on his drive. Child porn like anime carries stiff penalties in this country.
For the humor impaired: This is an example of satire. Michael is throwing a fit, and using his moderator status to essentially bitch and moan... A priveledge that you and I don't have. Face it--If we were to have posted this hissy-fit, it would be rejected outright. In any event, Mikey doesn't understand that having executable code isn't necessarily the only vector of virus transmission. Lets play devil's advocate for a moment---As many of you know, any goon with a hex editor can tickle a few bits in a JPEG to make any loader think the file is impossibly large. After all, upper limit on JPEG is 65535 x 65535.. Smart applications would ignore such an issue, while exploiting crappy JPEG loaders into malloc()'ing a system to its knees. And concievably, the file would be spread, and the same problem keeps occuring. Some people can view it, while others end up having their system choke on it. Sounds like a virus to me.
Tell it to your therapist, Michael.
Cheers,
Sharing TV programs? Holy cow! Any day now, somebody is gonna build a device that will record TV programs on portable casette tapes. Then they'll be millionaires. Like Shawn Fanning!
For the humor impaired: Slashdot's authors dont realize it (and dont disturb them--they're innocent, like little kids..) but the genie is already out of the bottle. People have had the ability to record, duplicate and share TV programs for about 20 years now. They're friggin called VCRs. Beyond that, TV programs en masse from Gnutella and other filesharing services already. This "genie" is out of the bottle and on a cruise ship to the Bahamas.
No doubt, telling your employer that you're about to jump ship will make them nervous. Its been my experience that its sort of split 75/25, with 75% of the time incurring negative results, and only 25% of the time being positive results.
Case in point: Larger companies know they can replace you with a six-pack of Hindu programmers that will work for rice and curry. Try to avoid lighting a fire under their ass if know you can be easilly replaced. If you feel you're integral to a particular project, try to leverage them very, very far away from the date of a project's completion. If you try to leverage them near a project's completion date, they'll have no choice but to keep you on, but pulling a stunt like that will land you at the top of the list of people who get the axe next time layoffs come around. PHBs dont like having their hands forced.
When it comes to contracting, find a company you feel treats you well, and STAY WITH THEM. The vast majority of contracting agencies wont give two shits less than half a rats ass about you or your career. They are parasitic by nature--they make money off of you at every turn. NEVER accept a counter-offer from another contracting agency. It'll be the worst career move you ever made. Find an agency you like, with people you trust. Show your loyalty to them, and you'll be at the top of their list for reccomendations next time the economy hits the crapper.
And, if you happen to be a boss, and you're reading this: Wise the fuck up. Your employees WANT to be loyal to your company. Playing musical chairs with your workforce is a sure-fire way to show them your company doesn't have it's shit together. If your employees see a 15-year veteran get the axe only to be replaced by some badonkadonk who can't even speak English, can you really blame them for wanting to leave? I saw this over and over again where I worked last. Hire good people, keep good people. Is it really that hard?
Yes, kids, i'm aware of the fact that umpteen zillion different AA hacks for Mozilla exist. But guess what--I dont want hacks. I want a friggin browser that looks like it was written in 2002, not 1995.
It just amazes me that so many people can put so much work into a project, and then NOT include something as fundemental as AA support. What gives? Is there a real-world reason why Mozilla doesn't offer it? Or rather, is it what we all suspect it is -- Mozilla is a browser built for programmers, not end-users, and Mozilla's programmers dont give a flying fuck how their work looks at the end of the day...their only care is just that it works......sort of.
Meanwhile, i'm enjoying Konqueror. Stable, fast, and has included anti-aliased font support since day one. So whats the problem, Mozilla?
Cheers,
Yeah, feed it some chocolate and anything from Taco Bell. ;)
I have discovered that if I strap wings on my dog and shoot him with a high-powered laser, he will heat up and fly around my backyard as well.
Cheers,
It seems to have the mysterious ability to travel back in time to the mid 80's and call itself "Teddy Ruxpin".
Cheers,
I think it will be wildly successful -- The music industry has been plugging the analog holes of both musicians and consumers decades.
Cheers,
Why don't they just ask Cyc if what it knows so far is true?
Price of front-row seats at Wimbeldon: $595
Airfare from O'Hare to Heathrow: $2000
Price of piezoelectric tennis racket: $35,000
Running yet another story on Slashdot that nobody gives a flying fuck about, while hundreds of overlooked open-source projects continue to languish in near-total obscurity: PRICELESS.
Cheers,
Here's Your Slashdot Daily Recap, Applicable to every article that has run since late '99:
Two companies you've never heard of are fighting over something you're not familliar with, and as a result, theyre leaving virtually TENS of people without a service you havent heard of either!
An evil corporate entity you've never heard of is DANGEROUSLY CLOSE to finally pushing a bill you've never heard of through Congress that will DANGEROUSLY restrict the rights you're not quite sure you had to begin with!
A popular author you've never heard of has a new book you've never heard of...Don't laugh! Critics you've never heard of are hailing it as a masterpiece, and the author himself has an enormous mob of fans (numbering in the dozens!!!) who have read everything he has written, including several other titles you've never heard of. He gets compared to William Gibson somewhere along the way, which makes him incredibly relevant, because everyone knows William Gibson = Relevant.
Someone has finally perfected a way to do something you were never aware of, which involves a cash prize, numerous officiating bodies you've never heard of and extra-long acronyms everyone but you has known about for years... These acronyms, so sinister, often stretch into the mind-numbing 4 and 5-letter category.
Someone wanna write a Perl script to replace Slashdot the same way that Slashdot wrote one to replace Jon Katz?
So, here's what i've learned in summary for this thread:
"If you go HDTV, you'll never go back because 1080i BSkyB Sky+ Enhanced DVD Digital 480 Mega Overscan HD Super Mario PVR is great for viewing 2006 DIgital NTSC 480i CSI!!!! If you haven't spent $3000 on a television, you arent as cool as me and the other 2% of the population stupid enough to pay $3000 for a television!!! You're poor, because me and this guy I've heard of a couple towns over have HDTV! You're poor!!"
And...
"I just want to watch TV, and watch movies occasionally. I could care less if its digital. If a movie sucks, watching it in high-definition digital quality isn't going to make it suck any less. Besides, half the time, all thats on TV are commercials and reruns, and I could care less if I can see every individual hair on Ted Koppel's toupee."
You don't have to be a brain surgeon to see which group I subscribe to. Then again, if you were one of the unfortunate morons who bought a $3000 idiot box, here's a hint: I belong to the -second- of the two groups mentioned. Get crackin'!
Cheers,
Has it occured to Slashdot's staff that nobody in the real world owns a digital television? I mean, I like watching "Everybody Loves Raymond", but i'm not going to spend $4000 so I can see what brand of breakfast cereal he eats.
I dont know of a single person, anywhere, that owns a digital television.
Cheers,
"As if they didn't have a monopoly already: it costs us between $500-$1000 (or half of our profits, whichever is more) for each night we show a movie!"
Cost of a typical movie-ticket for a first-run show: $8.00
Cost of a bucket of popcorn, a drink, and a box of candy: $12.00
Cost to make a whiner STFU and quit bitching about how little his theater makes: PRICELESS
Do the math, Eisnstein. $500 per night? $500.00 / 20.00 = Your theater needs to put just 25 people PER DAY to pay for the cost! Thats PER DAY, not per showing! A typical movie theater shows the same movie about 5 times a night. That means, in any theater, the money made off of just 5 people out of the entire theater is enough to pay the evil, satan-worshipping, tyrannical monopolistic Hollywood studio for the rights to show that film. Shut up.
Coincedentally, the camera pays for itself for every 7,000 people who walk in the door. 7000 * 20 = 140,000. To get that many people through the door in most theaters would take about three days, tops. So quit yer bitching, clean the fucking floor once in a while, and use your toes if you run out of fingers to count on. Jesus.
Cheers,