but remember, the slashdot editors don't link to registration required stories, but for the almighty great New York Times. Apparently, registration is evil, but they'll make an exception for such awesome fine stories.
old movie and a horrible horrible review
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Review: U-571
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· Score: 2, Interesting
ok, everyone is posting comments that slashdot is posting reviews of a movie that came out a few years ago so I'll refrain from piling on.
But the biggest problem here is that the "review" was horrifically written. It read like it came from the reject pile out of AICN.
If the review contained something new or interesting to say, then ok, maybe it's worth posting. But all the issues this review bitches about had been pointed out when the movie came out.
It may be a slow news day, but c'mon. If you don't have anything good to post, tis better to not post, than print this drivel.
I wasn't asking for any sympathy, but I can't stand when people play the "blame the victim" card. That is a just lazy and stupid way out. If you have any evidence that the US government actually funds the IRA please let me know.
Please, enough with the "this war that can't be won", too. They was played up before we stepped one foot into Afghanistan and we thoroughly routed them. True, we still have a long way to go, but by no means is this an unwinnable war. As for the British, they have been with the USA lockstep ever y step of the way. No dragging is necessary.
sigh..i guess it's no surprise that idiotic crap like this on slashdot gets modded up to 5.
Yes, I guess we were asking for what happened to us on 9/11 because we pissed off the arabs, right? Nothing like advancing your cause by mass murdering civilians. Oh wait, their only cause is to kill as many civilians as possible. There's nothing that will stop them until the USA is vanquished off the world.
Perhaps most of the blame lies with their own govnernments which breed and support this type of hatred. But no, it's the USA's fault!!
you are so incredibly dumb, i can't believe you waste this much time to write so much garbage. i have no idea where you got your education, you really are a shocking example of its inadequacies.
I was only speaking about the microsoft deal with the university, not to OEM contracts and restrictions on you buying a pc. so my argument can't fall down when i didn't mean to apply it there.
but speaking of that, I have no idea where people think they can't buy a PC without windows. I bought mine a year ago, without any OS and just pirated windows from a friend. i know at least half a dozen people who have done this. of course you'll have to do it through smaller vendors, the big ones want to sell you the moon.
Oh please. Do you think your entire tuition goes only to pay for the courses you take and the professors you learn from? Here's a hint, your tuition goes to pay for many many things which you will probably never used. You probably didn't use the gym at all or went to the football games or take writing courses but your tuition helped pay for them.
If you never said anything about that, you can't complain about this. Universities do not exist to cater to your needs alone. Not everybody is as leet as you to be a Linux guru. Some actually like MS products.
sorry, but even with your own evolved definition of tax, this still doesn't apply. the fee is not mandatory, the University is paying it of their own accord. The costs are then passed down to students, but there is no force or cohersion involved. A tax is imposed by authority. This fee is in exchange for goods and services.
As for the blank media tax, it's a law passed by the government, Microsoft does not charge through the law.
others have said it, but here's the dictionary.com definition of tax.
tax n.
1. A contribution for the support of a government required of persons, groups, or businesses within the domain of that government.
2. A fee or dues levied on the members of an organization to meet its expenses.
3. A burdensome or excessive demand; a strain.
No matter how you slice it, what Microsoft charges to customers has no resemblance to a tax. You could facetiously argue the third definition qualifies this as a tax, but the first two just don't apply.
Microsoft charges somebody and they get something in return. If they don't want it, they don't have to pay for it. That's a service not a tax.
ok, i believe that georgia tech is in the wrong here because their rules were too vague and you shouldn't get busted just for discussing homework with someone else. But for chrisd to put such an inflammatory headline like "GA Tech Cracks Down On Learning" is just stupid and non-informative to anybody. This smacks of a cheap tabloid headline just to get pageviews.
Also , GATech has one of the top engineering schools in the country, I don't think you should suggest people stay away from it just because of a stupid incident like this. They meant well, it backfired on them, and they will probably reevaluate their policy, as the article says.
This was not one of slashdot's finest days. I think most readers caught on pretty quick, I did, and immediately went surfing elsewhere.
Yes, it's april's fools day, but every joke has it's time and place and this was not it. It doesn't reflect well on you guys when slashdot is your work, and you don't even bother to take it seriously. I don't go into my workplace and put some lame aprils fools joke into my code. It's not only not professional, but it's just outright lame. It's good to know VA pays your salaries and servers for your own little amusement.
I know you guys have done this in the past, but I'm pretty sure I saw CmdrTaco say he wouldn't do this in the future because too many people bitched about it. Oh well. His rep of not taking reader input is legendary. And to put the onus on readers for not getting the joke is just asinine.
This is what slashdot subscriptions are for? I can't say the quality or speed or anything else for that matter has gotten any better since it was implemented. It's really not like I can't take a joke, but not only was this whole thing painfully unfunny, but it was just a complete waste.
jesus, you are stupid. not everything under the sun is censorship. you can't threaten to hurt or kill somebody, is that censorship?
If big companies are losing money due to "stealing" of information they own, perhaps they need to figure out a new way to make money, or go out of business
I see, so if others were violating the laws it's up the victims to go somewhere else to be victimized again? you're playing the "she was asking for it" defense now which only someone in junior high school would use.
Look, its as simple as this, controlling information and restricting it from the mass, is censorship, its no diffrent than china controlling the internet.
yes, it's moral equivalence time! if you really believe this, you really should read the world news, and see how free you really have it in the US of A. censorship is not just common in china, it's built into the entire system.
Censorship sucks, the USA is a hypocrite nation telling other countries to not censor anything, yet they censor information more than any other country.
this statement is so idiotic, i don't even need to say anything else.
Notice PC sales are down and console sales are up?
1. one does not necessarily have anything to do with the other. not unless you can provide surveys and reports that show that.
2. PC sales are not down, they are flat. Their actual sales numbers are still growing. Their growth is down, as is to be expected when the the product is mature.
Is certification really that important vs. having the experience anyways?
sometimes a chair is just a chair
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Review: Showtime
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· Score: 3, Insightful
Jon, not every movie is intended as message or a lecture about some issue. seems you like to think every movie contains one, but it's more like you're reading into something that's just not there.
btw, please stop harping on ethics when you still haven't answered your "message from kabul" hoax.
I get sick and tired of reading the same story on different web sites. That's why I like slashdot so much.
HA! this guy must be a newbie. you could generate the same slashdot headlines with the bbsport slashdot story generator that provides the typos, misspellings and bad links that you know and love, and you wouldn't know the difference
c'mon now..watching documentaries at the theaters is a dry experience to begin with. None can really fill a big screen and the surround sound with much depth. I've seen a few at the theatres, and none were worth paying $9.50 to see, no matter how riveting it was. If it was on PBS or some other tv channel now then I would check it out.
When i first was the "Breathing" teaser (the one with no dialogue, just vader breathing and quick cuts), I was excited to see the movie because it showed me enough to whet my appetite for more. But lately, after the "forbidden love" and "mystery" trailers came out, I'm starting to lose my enthusiasm for it. They basically are telling the whole story in these new trailers. In general, I really don't like the way trailers nowadays just reveal every good bit of the movie.
Nevertheless, I will probably be watching. I only hope they blow the rest of the story with this one.
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wow..thats a funny lie.
you want to point to any credible source he used cocaine? that's right, you can't.
of course any bad, uninformed, false joke about the President will get +5 on slashdot.
gotta love the hypocrisy in all this.
nuff said.
A movie Katz actually liked? That's unpossible!
But the biggest problem here is that the "review" was horrifically written. It read like it came from the reject pile out of AICN.
If the review contained something new or interesting to say, then ok, maybe it's worth posting. But all the issues this review bitches about had been pointed out when the movie came out.
It may be a slow news day, but c'mon. If you don't have anything good to post, tis better to not post, than print this drivel.
I wasn't asking for any sympathy, but I can't stand when people play the "blame the victim" card. That is a just lazy and stupid way out. If you have any evidence that the US government actually funds the IRA please let me know.
Please, enough with the "this war that can't be won", too. They was played up before we stepped one foot into Afghanistan and we thoroughly routed them. True, we still have a long way to go, but by no means is this an unwinnable war. As for the British, they have been with the USA lockstep ever y step of the way. No dragging is necessary.
sigh..i guess it's no surprise that idiotic crap like this on slashdot gets modded up to 5.
Yes, I guess we were asking for what happened to us on 9/11 because we pissed off the arabs, right? Nothing like advancing your cause by mass murdering civilians. Oh wait, their only cause is to kill as many civilians as possible. There's nothing that will stop them until the USA is vanquished off the world.
Perhaps most of the blame lies with their own govnernments which breed and support this type of hatred. But no, it's the USA's fault!!
you are so incredibly dumb, i can't believe you waste this much time to write so much garbage. i have no idea where you got your education, you really are a shocking example of its inadequacies.
but speaking of that, I have no idea where people think they can't buy a PC without windows. I bought mine a year ago, without any OS and just pirated windows from a friend. i know at least half a dozen people who have done this. of course you'll have to do it through smaller vendors, the big ones want to sell you the moon.
If you never said anything about that, you can't complain about this. Universities do not exist to cater to your needs alone. Not everybody is as leet as you to be a Linux guru. Some actually like MS products.
As for the blank media tax, it's a law passed by the government, Microsoft does not charge through the law.
others have said it, but here's the dictionary.com definition of tax.
tax
n.
1. A contribution for the support of a government required of persons, groups, or businesses within the domain of that government.
2. A fee or dues levied on the members of an organization to meet its expenses.
3. A burdensome or excessive demand; a strain.
No matter how you slice it, what Microsoft charges to customers has no resemblance to a tax. You could facetiously argue the third definition qualifies this as a tax, but the first two just don't apply.
Microsoft charges somebody and they get something in return. If they don't want it, they don't have to pay for it. That's a service not a tax.
Also , GATech has one of the top engineering schools in the country, I don't think you should suggest people stay away from it just because of a stupid incident like this. They meant well, it backfired on them, and they will probably reevaluate their policy, as the article says.
i glazed this review as soon as i read the "technology won't save us from everything" spiel.
The movie came out last weekend, if you guys wanted to do a review of it, shouldn't it have come out a little earlier than on the next sunday morning?
Yes, it's april's fools day, but every joke has it's time and place and this was not it. It doesn't reflect well on you guys when slashdot is your work, and you don't even bother to take it seriously. I don't go into my workplace and put some lame aprils fools joke into my code. It's not only not professional, but it's just outright lame. It's good to know VA pays your salaries and servers for your own little amusement.
I know you guys have done this in the past, but I'm pretty sure I saw CmdrTaco say he wouldn't do this in the future because too many people bitched about it. Oh well. His rep of not taking reader input is legendary. And to put the onus on readers for not getting the joke is just asinine.
This is what slashdot subscriptions are for? I can't say the quality or speed or anything else for that matter has gotten any better since it was implemented. It's really not like I can't take a joke, but not only was this whole thing painfully unfunny, but it was just a complete waste.
If big companies are losing money due to "stealing" of information they own, perhaps they need to figure out a new way to make money, or go out of business
I see, so if others were violating the laws it's up the victims to go somewhere else to be victimized again? you're playing the "she was asking for it" defense now which only someone in junior high school would use.
Look, its as simple as this, controlling information and restricting it from the mass, is censorship, its no diffrent than china controlling the internet.
yes, it's moral equivalence time! if you really believe this, you really should read the world news, and see how free you really have it in the US of A. censorship is not just common in china, it's built into the entire system.
Censorship sucks, the USA is a hypocrite nation telling other countries to not censor anything, yet they censor information more than any other country.
this statement is so idiotic, i don't even need to say anything else.
so he is famous for the cathederal and bazaar, but he has really contributed nothing else.
1. one does not necessarily have anything to do with the other. not unless you can provide surveys and reports that show that.
2. PC sales are not down, they are flat. Their actual sales numbers are still growing. Their growth is down, as is to be expected when the the product is mature.
I wonder if others can use names like OpenBe without fear of getting sued now.
Is certification really that important vs. having the experience anyways?
btw, please stop harping on ethics when you still haven't answered your "message from kabul" hoax.
HA! this guy must be a newbie. you could generate the same slashdot headlines with the bbsport slashdot story generator that provides the typos, misspellings and bad links that you know and love, and you wouldn't know the difference
c'mon now..watching documentaries at the theaters is a dry experience to begin with. None can really fill a big screen and the surround sound with much depth. I've seen a few at the theatres, and none were worth paying $9.50 to see, no matter how riveting it was. If it was on PBS or some other tv channel now then I would check it out.
Nevertheless, I will probably be watching. I only hope they blow the rest of the story with this one.