C'mon, you too. This is SLASHDOT. This isn't the "New York Times". This isn't real journalism. This is news aggregation, and one very opinionated segment of the population's opinions on said news. If you want real, "just the facts" journalism, you're in entirely the wrong place.
Here's how it works: some person sends a link to a sotry alon with their comments on it, which are almost always unbased and ill-informed. Then the editors add their own comments to the story, which are frequently even more biased and uninformed than those of the submitter.
If Jon Katz were still here, non-existent ties to globalism would also be revealed.
I think the objection here essentially lies in his ego being so large to think that his opinion is so important that it needs to be in the article text as opposed to posting a comment like us underlings get to do.
Perhaps your accusations of michael's ego being the problem are merely a reflection of your own feelings of inadequecy/your under-developed ego? The faults we see in others are often similar to the faults we see in ourselves.
Sounds like you're just pissed because your pithy comment has to be modded up to be seen (much like you), whereas everybody gets to see micahel's comment. You, sir, are jealous. Get over it.
If micahael's comment is the stupidest thing you've read on slashdot, perhaps you should re-examine your own analogy - buying a car and finding you need to also buy gas is not nearly the same thing. A better analogy:
Buying a car and then discovering that GM can deactivate it at any time it wants, and that if GM goes belly-up it no longer runs; nevermind the fact that it only had 58,000 miles on it.
Jackass.
No, wait. I apologize; I have no proof you are descended from equines.
You, sir, are a) a liar, b) an idiot, and c) a distorter of the facts (only slightly different from (A)).
A - Zap2It has NEVER SAID they intend to go to a pay-service model. In fact, they have repeatedly said they have NO plans to do so - they may be lying, but so are you if you claim "looming promises of having to pay for the right to access it"
B - I don't understand how you can "fight with [a modern linux system] monthly" when so many others have gargantuan uptimes and NO problems - ONCE the initial setup has been taken care of. Now, to be fair, XMLTV - the old method of scraping Zap2It's data did break frequently - about once a month, which often involved rpm -U'ing a new package. Oooo, that's tough.
C - Since going to the DataDirect model, Zap2It hasn't changed anything, and XMLTV is obsolete (in NA, anyway). Yes, every three months you have to sign in to Zap2It's website and answer three questions about what you're using the service for - big deal. It's free.
You are right on one count - for most of the people out there, building their own PVR is not an option. I disagree that it's not an option for "most techno-geeks". I can see why YOU'D think so; you obviously fancy yourself to be one of these said techno-geeks. Unfortunatly, you are only half-right, at best, and only in the classical sense of the word. You, sir, may bite the heads off of chickens for fun and profit, but you certainly aren't a modern geek.
Twenty-five cents a SONG is NEAR your pricepoint? What the fuck is your pricepoint? Free? A paltry two bits is out of your price range? Three bucks an album seems unreasonable to you?
It's obvious this jackass is plugging his own site - it's crap, and nobody but the site's owner would give it a thumbs-up. Unless this "Mynister" idiot (ooooh... he spells his nayme witha "y" - how c00l is he?) actually considers a site with a small handful of sites reviewed by ONE person each "robust". I don't know who's more of a jag-off - Mynister, or the morons who modded him up.
What I don't understand is the purpose of this release. People protesting and hacking in the name of the democratic party is only going to piss off the undecided people.
Ah! But what if the GOP is doing this to their own delegates in order to frame the dems? Or what if the dems did it knowing full well everybody would think they'd be too smart to do something like that, hence causing blame to be shifted to the repubs - who are the ones accused of doing the framing.
I think the budget is the reason. Clerks made it so the talent had to shine through because they had no money.
Have you ever *seen* "Clerks"? It was a good flick and all, but talent? "Shine through"? Who's talent? Smith's, maybe. The other 'actors' were crap. Jay just had to act like an idiot, Dante was cardboard, and the video store guy just plain *sucked*. As a film-school project it rocks. As a hollywood movie, or even an indie film - not so much.
There are all sorts of paraphrasings of the following, some of them perhaps more apropos than the original - but it's still the original:
"In Germany they came first for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me--and by that time no one was left to speak up."
Quitcher bitchin'. This only applies to a) individuals posting to MORE THAN THREE blogs, and b) blogs with multiple authors. Anybody meeting one of these criteria is likely not doing this 'just as a hobby', and can afford to pony up a one-time software fee that seems perfectly reasonable. Or switch to something else. Just quit whining already.
People are not nearly so uptight as in the US. Gor crying out loud, we had an office party here for Christmas and everyone got a drunk
You sure you aren't just working for the wrong people? Lots of places throw a x-mas party, and there's even alcohol on occasion.
My current employers throw parties whenever they can, and the boss is usually the most drunk. 'Sgot nuthin; to do with the country. Though there are other reasons Canadia appeals to me...
hand out some sort of tag to the hikers when they arrive
Riiiight... Don'y get to the woods much, do you? "When they arrive"? You mean, like, pass these things out while people wait in line by the sign that says "line for woods starts here --->"?
Oh, wait. I don't wait in line when I arrive. Come to think of it, I usually don't see anybody else the whole time.
I don't want to seem overly harsh here, but I don't care if it *does* save a few would-be darwin-award winners each year, I don't want to see sensors in trees when I'm in the backcountry. I take a GPS sometimes, but other than that, electronics in the woods is just wrong.
I understand that accidents completely beyond folks' control *do* happen, but most search-and-rescue missions are the direct result of inneptitude, inexperience, incompetence, ignorance, failure to properly plan and prepare, or other reasons related entirely to deficiencies of the missing. Don't distract from my outdoor experience to help out those that won't help themselves.
Slashdot Mirror
C'mon, you too. This is SLASHDOT. This isn't the "New York Times". This isn't real journalism. This is news aggregation, and one very opinionated segment of the population's opinions on said news. If you want real, "just the facts" journalism, you're in entirely the wrong place.
Here's how it works: some person sends a link to a sotry alon with their comments on it, which are almost always unbased and ill-informed. Then the editors add their own comments to the story, which are frequently even more biased and uninformed than those of the submitter.
If Jon Katz were still here, non-existent ties to globalism would also be revealed.
Rinse, and repeat.
I think the objection here essentially lies in his ego being so large to think that his opinion is so important that it needs to be in the article text as opposed to posting a comment like us underlings get to do.
Perhaps your accusations of michael's ego being the problem are merely a reflection of your own feelings of inadequecy/your under-developed ego? The faults we see in others are often similar to the faults we see in ourselves.
Sounds like you're just pissed because your pithy comment has to be modded up to be seen (much like you), whereas everybody gets to see micahel's comment. You, sir, are jealous. Get over it.
If micahael's comment is the stupidest thing you've read on slashdot, perhaps you should re-examine your own analogy - buying a car and finding you need to also buy gas is not nearly the same thing. A better analogy:
Buying a car and then discovering that GM can deactivate it at any time it wants, and that if GM goes belly-up it no longer runs; nevermind the fact that it only had 58,000 miles on it.
Jackass.
No, wait. I apologize; I have no proof you are descended from equines.
Idiot.
Is it really so surprising that MS would fund anti-linux activites? "The enemy of my enemy...", after all.
The original Civilization on floppies.
It's funny. Laugh.
You, sir, are a) a liar, b) an idiot, and c) a distorter of the facts (only slightly different from (A)).
A - Zap2It has NEVER SAID they intend to go to a pay-service model. In fact, they have repeatedly said they have NO plans to do so - they may be lying, but so are you if you claim "looming promises of having to pay for the right to access it"
B - I don't understand how you can "fight with [a modern linux system] monthly" when so many others have gargantuan uptimes and NO problems - ONCE the initial setup has been taken care of. Now, to be fair, XMLTV - the old method of scraping Zap2It's data did break frequently - about once a month, which often involved rpm -U'ing a new package. Oooo, that's tough.
C - Since going to the DataDirect model, Zap2It hasn't changed anything, and XMLTV is obsolete (in NA, anyway). Yes, every three months you have to sign in to Zap2It's website and answer three questions about what you're using the service for - big deal. It's free.
You are right on one count - for most of the people out there, building their own PVR is not an option. I disagree that it's not an option for "most techno-geeks". I can see why YOU'D think so; you obviously fancy yourself to be one of these said techno-geeks. Unfortunatly, you are only half-right, at best, and only in the classical sense of the word. You, sir, may bite the heads off of chickens for fun and profit, but you certainly aren't a modern geek.
"...near my pricepoint"
Twenty-five cents a SONG is NEAR your pricepoint? What the fuck is your pricepoint? Free? A paltry two bits is out of your price range? Three bucks an album seems unreasonable to you?
It's obvious this jackass is plugging his own site - it's crap, and nobody but the site's owner would give it a thumbs-up. Unless this "Mynister" idiot (ooooh... he spells his nayme witha "y" - how c00l is he?) actually considers a site with a small handful of sites reviewed by ONE person each "robust". I don't know who's more of a jag-off - Mynister, or the morons who modded him up.
What I don't understand is the purpose of this release. People protesting and hacking in the name of the democratic party is only going to piss off the undecided people.
Ah! But what if the GOP is doing this to their own delegates in order to frame the dems? Or what if the dems did it knowing full well everybody would think they'd be too smart to do something like that, hence causing blame to be shifted to the repubs - who are the ones accused of doing the framing.
I think the budget is the reason. Clerks made it so the talent had to shine through because they had no money.
Have you ever *seen* "Clerks"? It was a good flick and all, but talent? "Shine through"? Who's talent? Smith's, maybe. The other 'actors' were crap. Jay just had to act like an idiot, Dante was cardboard, and the video store guy just plain *sucked*. As a film-school project it rocks. As a hollywood movie, or even an indie film - not so much.
Oh, yeah! I've been waiting my wholelife for this moment!
Q: Why doesn't IBM just buy out SCO for a cool 64M?
A: Dude! Do you know how much 64 megs of RAM costs these days? It's pretty cheap...
There are all sorts of paraphrasings of the following, some of them perhaps more apropos than the original - but it's still the original:
"In Germany they came first for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me--and by that time no one was left to speak up."
Martin Niemoller
damn right its interesting. how could i possibly have known that before i clicked the links? i suppose it's ESP.
Maybe you should click on and read the links BEFORE you post...
could anakin get burned during the lava fight, hence the need for the darth vader get-up? or is that just too BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS?
WOW!!!! This dude PREDICTED SOMETHING THAT WAS IN ONE OF THE ARTICLES! Better mod this '+1, Interesting'.
Hate to be pedantic...
No you don't. You love it.
...I think most people would opt for watching TV or going outside.
Outside? What's the URL for that?
. Two A4's equal an A3, and two A3's equal an A2, and so on.
So... two A2's = one A1, two A1's = an A0, two A0's = an A-1, two A-1's = an A-2?
Quitcher bitchin'. This only applies to a) individuals posting to MORE THAN THREE blogs, and b) blogs with multiple authors. Anybody meeting one of these criteria is likely not doing this 'just as a hobby', and can afford to pony up a one-time software fee that seems perfectly reasonable. Or switch to something else. Just quit whining already.
Doubt it. What are gonna use instead? Dogpile? MSN?
No matter how much Google with "ImageAds" (WOW! What an idea!) will suck, it'll still be better than the competition. For now.
People are not nearly so uptight as in the US. Gor crying out loud, we had an office party here for Christmas and everyone got a drunk
You sure you aren't just working for the wrong people? Lots of places throw a x-mas party, and there's even alcohol on occasion.
My current employers throw parties whenever they can, and the boss is usually the most drunk. 'Sgot nuthin; to do with the country. Though there are other reasons Canadia appeals to me...
hand out some sort of tag to the hikers when they arrive
Riiiight... Don'y get to the woods much, do you? "When they arrive"? You mean, like, pass these things out while people wait in line by the sign that says "line for woods starts here --->"?
Oh, wait. I don't wait in line when I arrive. Come to think of it, I usually don't see anybody else the whole time.
I don't want to seem overly harsh here, but I don't care if it *does* save a few would-be darwin-award winners each year, I don't want to see sensors in trees when I'm in the backcountry. I take a GPS sometimes, but other than that, electronics in the woods is just wrong.
I understand that accidents completely beyond folks' control *do* happen, but most search-and-rescue missions are the direct result of inneptitude, inexperience, incompetence, ignorance, failure to properly plan and prepare, or other reasons related entirely to deficiencies of the missing. Don't distract from my outdoor experience to help out those that won't help themselves.
If you'd read your own post, you might've been able to figure out I was joking. Ie:
"1800 items found for powerbook".
Likely much worse when they sell them on Ebay after messing with them.
What does a link to pages and pages of batteries and power adaptors have to do with fried failed-mod Powerbooks?