Why don't they just punch themselves in the balls now and get the pain over with? Producing a music CD that won't play on most music CD playing equipment out in the wild is the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. Sell your stock in these companies, fols, 'cause they're doomed.
Adobe gets screwed. Good. It couldn't happen to a more despicable company. The entire Adobe board of directors and their dimwitted attorneys deserve to be bent over Billy-boy's desk and deeply penetrated sans lubricants.
No, I don't like them. Did I fail to make that point clear?
While this is bad news, even more horrific is the announcement that Comedy Central has decided not to renew the critically acclaimed "Let's Bowl!" for a third season. Between that news and now this, I may just crawl up on my roof and dismantle my pirate satellite and unplug my stolen cable in protest. That'll teach 'em....
Hey we sold you this! Top of the range! But it's broken, even before we sold it to you. If you pay us £500000 we'll fix them all, but if you don't your blood will boil and your head will explode, all your kids will die of pestilence, your wife will sleep around, your plane will try to reach the moon and all your elevators are belong to us.
Careful. Quoting from a Microsoft EULA like that without proper attribution could get you tossed into jail for a DMCA violation, sport.
I used to consult for a client whose server room was in the women's restroom. It had the largest unallocated space of any room in the building, so they stuffed in two low-boy cabinets full of DEC gear right next to the ladies' crapper.
First of all, drive through Nevada some time. Mile after mile of empty space, but according to this report, humans have "appropriated" it. Technically, I'm sure they're right in the sense that someone owns it, but it's not as if the land is being used for anything.
If you drive it, you're missing a lot. Try flying the central corridor as I've done and you'll get a better appreciation for all that "desolation". You'll see widely separated but huge tracts of farmland under cultivation for hay and alfalfa. That hay and alfalfa is used to augment the natural growth in feeding hundreds of thousands of head of open-range cattle that occupy the "empty" between those farms. You'll see thousands of acres of mine tailings, land permanently removed from use because of its toxicity. You'll see on your sectional that there's a huge part of Nevada you can't fly over because it's used for testing aircraft and nuclear weapons. You'll see a watershed that eventually keeps a half million people from dying of thirst. You'll see that almost the entire state is checkerboarded with fences. Those fences are there only because someone is using the land for their purposes and wants to keep all the other uses out.
All those thing sure meet the definition for "appropriated" to me.
But, as any jarhead will tell you, the Marines don't get jack-shit from the squids until they've used it all up, it's infeasible to repair, and it has an auction value of zero.
Now I can 'goatse' the soccer mom in the big SUV up in front of me who's not paying attention. All this high tech and somebody somewhere will surely waste it on digital mooning.
I am surprised that nobody has mentioned Bobby yet. Developed by the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) in cooperation with the W3C, Bobby is "a software tool designed to help expose and repair barriers to accessibility and encourage compliance with existing accessibility guidelines."
I've used it extensively over the past year. It used to be freeware when it was owned by CAST, but still... at $99USD it is a miniscule cost for any company that must comply with accessibility on it's web pages.
I hope they are doing this one better than that poor Tomb Raider movie. Jon Voight's daughter, whatever is her name, just did not have large enough boobs to be Lara Croft. And the plot was a real sleep inducer. By the time any really interesting F/X hit the screen, I couldn't hear the soundtrack over the snoring.
I wonder, do they still have that lurker guy from MSFT who hits refresh all day until he finds a sale of used MSFT software and then complains to e-Bay to have it removed?
And no, I don't think I'm off-topic. The words fraud and Microsoft are synonymous here on/., aren't they?
Well that means my ex-wife will never have to worry about having a dead battery in her car ever again. She's got enough MacDonalds french fries stuck in the seat crack to crank the engine for *days*. And still have enough Joules left over to light Las Vegas on Christmas Eve.
My son just got married a few months ago. We had about 200 guests between ours and the bride's family. For the reception, I put a Kodak MAX one-time-use flash camera on every table, about 25 of the damn things for under $200. Got the film processed, and put everything into a scrapbook of memories for the newlyweds.
When I can do that with digital for less money, then maybe I'll agree film is dead. Until then, I got three more kids to marry off....
Slashdot Mirror
Typical view error...
CREATE VIEW girls AS SELECT * FROM slashdot WHERE sex = "F"
... returns an empty set iteself, so your subselect isn't going to do you any good, naturally.
Why don't they just punch themselves in the balls now and get the pain over with? Producing a music CD that won't play on most music CD playing equipment out in the wild is the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. Sell your stock in these companies, fols, 'cause they're doomed.
Adobe gets screwed. Good. It couldn't happen to a more despicable company. The entire Adobe board of directors and their dimwitted attorneys deserve to be bent over Billy-boy's desk and deeply penetrated sans lubricants.
No, I don't like them. Did I fail to make that point clear?
And especially so when you complement its use with the /dev/null video accelerator.
In response to all those posters who've said our negative remarks against Microsoft are uncalled for, I have only two words....
Steve Ballmer.
While this is bad news, even more horrific is the announcement that Comedy Central has decided not to renew the critically acclaimed "Let's Bowl!" for a third season. Between that news and now this, I may just crawl up on my roof and dismantle my pirate satellite and unplug my stolen cable in protest. That'll teach 'em....
The IP octet in a Slashdot post didn't point to goatse.cx for a change.
Hey we sold you this! Top of the range! But it's broken, even before we sold it to you. If you pay us £500000 we'll fix them all, but if you don't your blood will boil and your head will explode, all your kids will die of pestilence, your wife will sleep around, your plane will try to reach the moon and all your elevators are belong to us.
Careful. Quoting from a Microsoft EULA like that without proper attribution could get you tossed into jail for a DMCA violation, sport.
I used to consult for a client whose server room was in the women's restroom. It had the largest unallocated space of any room in the building, so they stuffed in two low-boy cabinets full of DEC gear right next to the ladies' crapper.
I had to remember to knock before rebooting.
First of all, drive through Nevada some time. Mile after mile of empty space, but according to this report, humans have "appropriated" it. Technically, I'm sure they're right in the sense that someone owns it, but it's not as if the land is being used for anything.
If you drive it, you're missing a lot. Try flying the central corridor as I've done and you'll get a better appreciation for all that "desolation". You'll see widely separated but huge tracts of farmland under cultivation for hay and alfalfa. That hay and alfalfa is used to augment the natural growth in feeding hundreds of thousands of head of open-range cattle that occupy the "empty" between those farms. You'll see thousands of acres of mine tailings, land permanently removed from use because of its toxicity. You'll see on your sectional that there's a huge part of Nevada you can't fly over because it's used for testing aircraft and nuclear weapons. You'll see a watershed that eventually keeps a half million people from dying of thirst. You'll see that almost the entire state is checkerboarded with fences. Those fences are there only because someone is using the land for their purposes and wants to keep all the other uses out.
All those thing sure meet the definition for "appropriated" to me.
The EarthFirst website could carry ads from Weyerhaeuser.
Go suck on a bog-lolly, urinal-breath.
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Oh, just counting all the posts that included some reference to pr0n.
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But, as any jarhead will tell you, the Marines don't get jack-shit from the squids until they've used it all up, it's infeasible to repair, and it has an auction value of zero.
When the whole Navy converts to W2K, who will be left to tow them into port when it crashes? Some jarheads in a rowboat?
Now I can 'goatse' the soccer mom in the big SUV up in front of me who's not paying attention. All this high tech and somebody somewhere will surely waste it on digital mooning.
So... is this film being classified as drama, comedy, or documentary? I know, it was intended to be a horror flick.
I am surprised that nobody has mentioned Bobby yet. Developed by the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) in cooperation with the W3C, Bobby is "a software tool designed to help expose and repair barriers to accessibility and encourage compliance with existing accessibility guidelines."
I've used it extensively over the past year. It used to be freeware when it was owned by CAST, but still... at $99USD it is a miniscule cost for any company that must comply with accessibility on it's web pages.
"Bobby"
With apologies to Alfred E. Newman...
What, me old?
By the way, I have a copy of Crowther and Woods' original Adventure on paper tape for the PDP-11/55, and I have got the Zork Trilogy on my Linux box.
I hope they are doing this one better than that poor Tomb Raider movie. Jon Voight's daughter, whatever is her name, just did not have large enough boobs to be Lara Croft. And the plot was a real sleep inducer. By the time any really interesting F/X hit the screen, I couldn't hear the soundtrack over the snoring.
I wonder, do they still have that lurker guy from MSFT who hits refresh all day until he finds a sale of used MSFT software and then complains to e-Bay to have it removed?
/., aren't they?
And no, I don't think I'm off-topic. The words fraud and Microsoft are synonymous here on
The jobless man, identified by police only by his last name Kim [...]
For those of you who have never been to Korea, everybody's last name is Kim. No shit.
Well that means my ex-wife will never have to worry about having a dead battery in her car ever again. She's got enough MacDonalds french fries stuck in the seat crack to crank the engine for *days*. And still have enough Joules left over to light Las Vegas on Christmas Eve.
Cell phone.
Humongous gas guzzling SUV.
Inattentive soccer mom.
Unlighted bicycle on same roadway.
That's what came to mind skimming the headline, cell phone death. I gotta sell my bike, it's making me paranoid.
My son just got married a few months ago. We had about 200 guests between ours and the bride's family. For the reception, I put a Kodak MAX one-time-use flash camera on every table, about 25 of the damn things for under $200. Got the film processed, and put everything into a scrapbook of memories for the newlyweds.
When I can do that with digital for less money, then maybe I'll agree film is dead. Until then, I got three more kids to marry off....