God damn I wish I had mod points. This is exactly what I've been thinking when every single person makes that comment - "News for Nerds? This doesn't matter! Why is this on slashdot?!!?!?!"
No, seriously.. I'm not some kind of hardcore patriot or anything who is doubting you. I find your statement interesting and would like to know where you find this information.
No, you won't. You can go out and buy a satellite receiver by itself.
If you're paying for the satellite service.. then, uhm, guess what? You're paying for a service. The X-Box is not a service, nor is Microsoft licensing it to you. You can do whatever you want to it, although pirating actual games is illegal.
Ditto. One of the employees in my building (near a friend who told me the story) got extremely angry, and kept saying, "Not after 9/11. They're taking away all our rights." Of course, they're not taking away any rights, and the guy was crazy. Pretty much me and my friend were the only ones that agreed with the ruling.
Also of note, they kept saying, "The President will fix this. He'll over rule it!"
Actually, if you watch The Matrix (I), and pay attention, you'll notice that Neo has significantly less lines than the other main characters. Most of the ones he does have are confused one or two word sentences. Of course, I suppose I would be confused too..
Perhaps they found that humans produce more power when the brain is stimulated? I'm not a bio major or anything at all, so I'm just throwing that out there.
Also, it did mention that they combined the power with some kind of fusion.
For your other points, you're right. It is a bit silly.
Since there are no guestbook entries (well, there were none at the time that I viewed this site a couple of hours ago), I'm guessing the site is merely a few days old and probably was made for the sole purpose of trolling. I doubt they expected such a large turnout.
I could be wrong, if someone would like to try and convince me.
Sigh. It's amazing how the gamer community segments in two, the "RPG lovers" and "RPG ignorers" - don't forget FFX. (Not being insulting, just amused:) )
Yes. I also find it amazing how the world seems to be split in two: those who can disarm nuclear bombs, and those who can't.:)
I think everyone is angry at Microsoft (or happy that Gateway is doing this), not sympathetic for Gateway's position. Most people at/. probably have built their on PCs, so they really don't care if Gateway does down the drain.
However, Gateway testifying is good news, even though Microsoft may punish them for it.
Dude. If you're talking about slashdot, they put fucking 5 port switch bears that MIT students made on their front page. You know what? I'm glad they did, and I completely agree with the sarcastic reply above me.
What do you think the real newspapers cut out for *one* day to have an article about the oscars?
Actually, you can sort of browse the site now. Sometimes certain pages just don't load.. reload, wait, it may work.
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Brand New Concept!
Most of us are looking for the "BIG ONE"
An opportunity to allow us to earn extra money from a home based business, with little or no effort and a healthy residual income...right?
How many people do you know who use VISA cards? How many people do you know who cash in rebates? How many people could you refer to VISA to receive a VISA card that gives rebates on the things they buy everyday? How about if you got paid for each person you refer, (up to 10 levels) and then got paid each time they use their card!
This is a NO BRAINER!! This is NOT A GIMMICK!!
Answer the door folks, opportunity is knocking!
To find out all the How's and Why's of this unique opportunity reply with your Name and Phone Number. You will be contacted shortly!
Oy, G'day Mate,
My name is Jonathan Land and I'm the host of an upcoming special on the Discovery Channel called: Jonathan Land, Earthquake Hunter. I'm a professional seismologist who's out there looking for THE BIG ONE. Actually the show is called The Big One: Seis Does Matter. I know. When we ran the title past the board, we got seis and gasps. SOMEBODY STOP ME! No one likes puns but we have one more for the ad campaign: "You don't want us to Super Seis this MoFo!!!" And then the screen shakes. I'd just like to point out that I have no control over these things. They're also making me speak in that ridiculous Australian accent, but hey, I'm on tv.
The concept of the special is that we will find out where the next big earthquake will hit, and WE ARE THERE.... LIVE!!! My film crew and I will be hovering from a helicopter, filming the entire thing (with some stock footage and historical information interspersed during refueling). We're keeping our fingers crossed that a large crevice will open up in the Earth and someone will fall in so we can rescue them and subsequently interview them, but the chances are they won't speak English. I mean, asking some unwashed foreigner "You scared of shaky shaky? Excuse me, sir, You... scared... shaky...shaky?" after watching people's worlds get literally rocked would be an anti-climax. Hell, they'd probably think it was one of their multitudes of angry Gods, but our audience can't even relate to that silliness. Hopefully we won't need to kill too much time after the quake, or it'll happen in the U.S. I really hope so the interview would be a nice touch. We don't want to make ourselves a laughing stock, and we take ourselves very seriously. VERY seriously.
That's why I'm writing to you about your advertisement. It indicates to me that you have the finger on the pulse of some new technology that could help us find this earthquake-in-waiting, and it's my job as a seismologist to be up on all the latest technology. Then again, I was so giddy after reading the first line, that I'm making a few assumptions here and I have no idea what the rest of your text said. I just started mindlessly responding. Hey, look at me go!
Incidentally, I know what you're thinking... Yes: We really blew it with the India thing... but I don't feel so bad... no one else saw it coming. I was on vacation anyway.
We don't want this to be another Geraldo Rivera/Al Capone's Vault thing.
Hopefully this new technology of yours will help us avoid that pitfall.
Until then, if you see me and my film crew in your town, pack your bags and run, and it's not because we're crashing your party. But hopefully you'll be able to help us.
Thank you, Jonathan Land Earthquake Hunter
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The point, I believe, is giving people a choice.
Of course, I, like many others, still think they should've tried a donation system first. Penny-Arcade used this scheme successfully for quite a while, pulling in $3,000 a month on it. Imagine how much/. could pull in (probably not 1.5M a year, though).
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Do you think that Rob does that stuff? It was in the forum - he said he's just in charge of content. There's probably a financial sector that takes care of that stuff. Believe me, they'll never see what you just posted.
It doesn't have to be a trendy redesign or anything with lots of images. It could have one image, for all I care. It's not that I've grown tired of it, either - I've just hated this design since I first saw it. If they had a good design, I wouldn't be crying for a new design every 6 months.
Example: Kuro5hin (note that I'm not a hardcore Kuro5hin supporter, I just think that it has a quality content related design) has a very, very nice design that loads very quickly. Everything is nice and spaced out, it just feels right. Slashdot feels kind of.. stuffy and clogged up to me.
Of course, this will stay the same forever. Oh well.
Right on! Slashdot does need a redesign. For christ's sake, it's one of the god damn ugliest things I've ever seen. Kuro5hin seems to be right on target, as well as many of the other "geek news sites". Mrf. Come on/.!
Try this crazy method - have all your forwarding accounts forward to one permanent forwarding account. That way, you only change one forwarding account when you change your primary email.
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True 'dat. I have experienced hell before it, and it is AOL.
God damn I wish I had mod points. This is exactly what I've been thinking when every single person makes that comment - "News for Nerds? This doesn't matter! Why is this on slashdot?!!?!?!"
Prove it.
No, seriously.. I'm not some kind of hardcore patriot or anything who is doubting you. I find your statement interesting and would like to know where you find this information.
No, you won't. You can go out and buy a satellite receiver by itself.
If you're paying for the satellite service.. then, uhm, guess what? You're paying for a service. The X-Box is not a service, nor is Microsoft licensing it to you. You can do whatever you want to it, although pirating actual games is illegal.
Ditto. One of the employees in my building (near a friend who told me the story) got extremely angry, and kept saying, "Not after 9/11. They're taking away all our rights." Of course, they're not taking away any rights, and the guy was crazy. Pretty much me and my friend were the only ones that agreed with the ruling.
Also of note, they kept saying, "The President will fix this. He'll over rule it!"
Actually, if you watch The Matrix (I), and pay attention, you'll notice that Neo has significantly less lines than the other main characters. Most of the ones he does have are confused one or two word sentences. Of course, I suppose I would be confused too..
Perhaps they found that humans produce more power when the brain is stimulated? I'm not a bio major or anything at all, so I'm just throwing that out there.
Also, it did mention that they combined the power with some kind of fusion.
For your other points, you're right. It is a bit silly.
Since there are no guestbook entries (well, there were none at the time that I viewed this site a couple of hours ago), I'm guessing the site is merely a few days old and probably was made for the sole purpose of trolling. I doubt they expected such a large turnout.
I could be wrong, if someone would like to try and convince me.
I'm not 100% positive, but I'm pretty sure it's not going to be in the game at all. I believe I read that somewhere.. :D
Anyhow, they're introducing new gameplay modes that seem to be pretty tactical.
Honestly, I was glad they posted this. In fact, this has been the first /. article I've read all day.
/. editors post it for us to see.
If something is interesting, whether it be a product or a story, I would hope that the
Well, this is mostly true. However, I think they did an excellent job on the new dub of Akira. Not to mention the improvement of the video quality.
Yes. I also find it amazing how the world seems to be split in two: those who can disarm nuclear bombs, and those who can't.
I think everyone is angry at Microsoft (or happy that Gateway is doing this), not sympathetic for Gateway's position. Most people at /. probably have built their on PCs, so they really don't care if Gateway does down the drain.
However, Gateway testifying is good news, even though Microsoft may punish them for it.
Dude. If you're talking about slashdot, they put fucking 5 port switch bears that MIT students made on their front page. You know what? I'm glad they did, and I completely agree with the sarcastic reply above me.
What do you think the real newspapers cut out for *one* day to have an article about the oscars?
Yesh.. ar, Memento should have won. One of the best movies I've seen in awhile.
Actually, you can sort of browse the site now. Sometimes certain pages just don't load.. reload, wait, it may work.
-
Brand New Concept!
Most of us are looking for the "BIG ONE"
An opportunity to allow us to earn extra money from a home based business, with little or no effort and a healthy residual income...right?
How many people do you know who use VISA cards? How many people do you know who cash in rebates? How many people could you refer to VISA to receive a VISA card that gives rebates on the things they buy everyday? How about if you got paid for each person you refer, (up to 10 levels) and then got paid each time they use their card!
This is a NO BRAINER!!
This is NOT A GIMMICK!!
Answer the door folks, opportunity is knocking!
To find out all the How's and Why's of this unique opportunity reply with your Name and Phone Number. You will be contacted shortly!
Oy, G'day Mate,
My name is Jonathan Land and I'm the host of an upcoming special on the Discovery Channel called: Jonathan Land, Earthquake Hunter. I'm a professional seismologist who's out there looking for THE BIG ONE. Actually the show is called The Big One: Seis Does Matter. I know. When we ran the title past the board, we got seis and gasps. SOMEBODY STOP ME! No one likes puns but we have one more for the ad campaign: "You don't want us to Super Seis this MoFo!!!" And then the screen shakes. I'd just like to point out that I have no control over these things. They're also making me speak in that ridiculous Australian accent, but hey, I'm on tv.
The concept of the special is that we will find out where the next big earthquake will hit, and WE ARE THERE.... LIVE!!! My film crew and I will be hovering from a helicopter, filming the entire thing (with some stock footage and historical information interspersed during refueling). We're keeping our fingers crossed that a large crevice will open up in the Earth and someone will fall in so we can rescue them and subsequently interview them, but the chances are they won't speak English. I mean, asking some unwashed foreigner "You scared of shaky shaky? Excuse me, sir, You... scared... shaky...shaky?" after watching people's worlds get literally rocked would be an anti-climax. Hell, they'd probably think it was one of their multitudes of angry Gods, but our audience can't even relate to that silliness. Hopefully we won't need to kill too much time after the quake, or it'll happen in the U.S. I really hope so the interview would be a nice touch. We don't want to make ourselves a laughing stock, and we take ourselves very seriously. VERY seriously.
That's why I'm writing to you about your advertisement. It indicates to me that you have the finger on the pulse of some new technology that could help us find this earthquake-in-waiting, and it's my job as a seismologist to be up on all the latest technology. Then again, I was so giddy after reading the first line, that I'm making a few assumptions here and I have no idea what the rest of your text said. I just started mindlessly responding. Hey, look at me go!
Incidentally, I know what you're thinking... Yes: We really blew it with the India thing... but I don't feel so bad... no one else saw it coming. I was on vacation anyway.
We don't want this to be another Geraldo Rivera/Al Capone's Vault thing.
Hopefully this new technology of yours will help us avoid that pitfall.
Until then, if you see me and my film crew in your town, pack your bags and run, and it's not because we're crashing your party. But hopefully you'll be able to help us.
Thank you,
Jonathan Land
Earthquake Hunter
The point, I believe, is giving people a choice.
/. could pull in (probably not 1.5M a year, though).
Of course, I, like many others, still think they should've tried a donation system first. Penny-Arcade used this scheme successfully for quite a while, pulling in $3,000 a month on it. Imagine how much
Do you think that Rob does that stuff? It was in the forum - he said he's just in charge of content. There's probably a financial sector that takes care of that stuff. Believe me, they'll never see what you just posted.
It doesn't have to be a trendy redesign or anything with lots of images. It could have one image, for all I care. It's not that I've grown tired of it, either - I've just hated this design since I first saw it. If they had a good design, I wouldn't be crying for a new design every 6 months.
.. stuffy and clogged up to me.
Example: Kuro5hin (note that I'm not a hardcore Kuro5hin supporter, I just think that it has a quality content related design) has a very, very nice design that loads very quickly. Everything is nice and spaced out, it just feels right. Slashdot feels kind of
Of course, this will stay the same forever. Oh well.
Right on! Slashdot does need a redesign. For christ's sake, it's one of the god damn ugliest things I've ever seen. Kuro5hin seems to be right on target, as well as many of the other "geek news sites". Mrf. Come on /.!
I sure can. I haven't tried it, but I've just kept the URL around in case I needed hosting. Check it out, though.
http://www.imagelinkusa.net/
Try this crazy method - have all your forwarding accounts forward to one permanent forwarding account. That way, you only change one forwarding account when you change your primary email.
Gah! Memento! If anyone hasn't seen it yet, I suggest you go see it now. It's a really great movie. It deserves more nominations.. oh well.
Well, I think that the Windows servers just weren't up half the time to get the viruses.
Yes, but at least 5 people make the same points on just about every other story. It's really just getting old..