1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Then
look up "aluminium". Check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at
just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. The letter 'U' will be
reinstated in words such as 'favour' and 'neighbour', skipping the letter
'U' is nothing more than laziness on your part. Likewise, you will learn to
spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters. You will end your love
affair with the letter 'Z' (pronounced 'zed' not 'zee') and the suffix "ize"
will be replaced by the suffix "ise".
You will learn that the suffix 'burgh is pronounced 'burra' e.g. Edinburgh.
You are welcome to respell Pittsburgh as 'Pittsberg' if you can't cope with
correct pronunciation. Generally, you should raise your vocabulary to
acceptable levels. Look up "vocabulary". Using the same twenty seven words
interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is an
unacceptable and inefficient form of communicat ion. Look up "interspersed".
There will be no more 'bleeps' in the Jerry Springer show. If you're not old
enough to cope with bad language then you shouldn't have chat shows. When
you learn to develop your vocabulary then you won't have to use bad language
as often.
2. There is no such thing as "US English". We will let Microsoft know on
your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take account of
the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of "-ize".
3. You should learn to distinguish the English and Australian accents. It
really isn't that hard. English accents are not limited to cockney,
upper-class twit or Mancunian (Daphne in Frasier). You will also have to
learn how to understand regional accents - Scottish dramas such as "Taggart"
will no longer be broadcast with subtitles.
While we're talking about regions, you must learn that there is no such
place as Devonshire in England. The name of the county is "Devon". If you
persist in calling it Devonshire, all American States will become "shires"
e.g. Texasshire, Floridashire, Louisianashire.
4. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as the
good guys. Hollywood will be required to cast English actors to play English
characters. British sit-coms such as "Men Behaving Badly" or "Red Dwarf"
will not be re-cast and watered down for a wishy-washy American audience who
can't cope with the humour of occasional political incorrectness.
5. You should relearn your original national anthem, "God Save The Queen",
but only after fully carrying out task 1. We would not want you to get
confused and give up half way through.
6. You should stop playing American "football". There is only one kind of
football. What you refer to as American "football" is not a very good game.
The 2.15% of you who are aware that there is a world outside your borders
may have noticed that no one else plays "American" football. You will no
longer be allowed to play it, and should instead play proper football.
Initially, it would be best if you played with the girls. It is a difficult
game.
Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby
(which is similar to American "football", but does not involve stopping for
a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like
nancies). We are hoping to get together at least a US Rugby sevens side by
2005. You should stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an
event called the 'World Series' for a game which is not played outside of
America. Since only 2.15% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your
borders, your error is understandable. Instead of baseball, you will be
allowed to play a girls' game called "rounders" which is baseball without
fancy team strip, oversized gloves, collector cards or hotdogs.
7. You will no longer be allowed to own or carry guns. You will no longer be
allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous in public than a v
Ah great! I was actually wondering what Kapersky would find as a new whistleblowing topic for this month.
Not a bad one this Lexus thing. And he AGAIN got the Slashdot attention. And AGAIN more publicity, although I have yet to hear anything from Kapersky that would be of any real interest.
In Soviet Russia, Kapersky OWNS Slashdot. But well...nevermind, he's an insensitive clod.
When ignorance of sociology, human nature, gaming and their benefits added together meet with the idiocy of bureaucracy, you get a prison in a USA state.
Death penalty is probably more efficient to fight crime and violence than plonking an inmate for 8h in front of Mario Bros. I wonder if it's also less expensive than running a few computers in a room.
You guys don't watch news too often, or listen to what is said, right?
In the last week, Bush first stated that he has a "Stellar" mission. Then when asked about Iran, he did not exclude military options, and worse, did not deny the fact that special forces where already on ground, AND that they were discussing options with the Isrelians to blast any uranium related effort from Iran.
Now don't tell me it's just a coincidence that shutting down an Iranian web site for iranian students RIGHT after those speeches has nothing to do with any governement agency? Give me a break!
You don't listen to the news AND you don't even understand when US politicians don't even try to hide facts.
I really wonder who are the slashidiots who modded you different than troll or at best flamebait, or better +10 ignorant.
However, it is always fun to see how much many of you are just completely clueless of the world. This provides me a nice feeling of beeing better educated.
And why, oh why, out of the many services that we pay for and hold to a standard: Mobile phones, home phones, Internet, Cable TV, etc. do we not hold MMO's out to a similar standard?
Oh..because you never had trouble with cell phone or home phone companies?
I mean:
* Getting overcharged or having billing issues (which seem to be the common denominator in all phone companies). This happens ALL the time. So much that it's nearly fun to receive a new bill and find out what blling part is screwed up for the last month.
* Not have the cell phone working where you expect it to work (bad coverage).
* Phones advertised with a lot of features, but you find out it's just lies since features are capped by companies so you overpay them for idiocies like sending images (as an example, TELUS is blocking their phones so the non-geek cannot use a computer to get images from the phone).
* Cable TV repair guy coming 1 week after the scheduled date (whicho of course was inconvenient enough that you already had to take a day off from work).
To me Blizzard is actually doing pretty well in working toward customer satisfaction. All this whining is nonsensical and your arguments just don't hold a small exam.
At least Blizzard doesn't charge you for accessing customer support where I think it is EXTREMELY SHOCKING that in North America, phone companies charge a monhtly fee for access to 911, whatever the fee is.
Why is it a game that 'people spend too long on' is any different than a mobile phone service used for communicating with friends, where days worth of downtime a month would be considered terrible service?
Because it is a GAME, not a business or life-threatening *service*. It is not even a *service* as such.
Honestly, this game is working great with a few post-launch glitches due to unexpected success. Have you ever lived the launch of pathetic "Ultima Online"? In constant value, it was more expensive than WOW is at that time. And my! What a load of crap it was! Funnily enough nobody seems to remember that mess.
7. Will the European launch utilize the same realms ?
They will be on their own set of hardware, as with our Korean release. Our teams are learning from the experience of our North American launch and are applying that knowledge to the servers in Europe. We hope to provide them with a smooth launch.
Does this means people in north america won't be able to play with our europeans friends?
You do more damage simply by revealing what version of the operating system
OS identification is generally forgotten by most. A simple wget on a machine with any URL will usually return you an error page with the server name and version.
I still wonder why even Apache has this stupid default settings of informing the world what the server is running on, although it is recommended to change it. Why not just NOT display anything by default?
Because outside of USA there is countries where you can go to court of OTHER reasons than MONEY.
In many countries, including Soviet Russia, you don't NEED to have a monetary loss to claim for some damages or get justice.
Well..actually, in Soviet Russia, the police calls you. Nevermind.
Your "local authority" is Wikipedia. With the recent noise about its content, you should try to find other sources of information.
Moreover, when the article you point mentions a BSOD since Win2.0 (which very few probably have ever seen) in a middle of ONE sentence but fails to mention anything in the list of BSODs it provides and their description.
I stop reading when I saw that XSL examples are XSL:FO examples.
XSL:FO is set of XML definitions on top of XSL to address the PRINT world's requirements.
As such, it contains ALL the tags and attributes needed by this industry and provides EXTREME flexibilty, at a price: verbosity.
However, the article does simple CSS formatting vs XSL:FO where XSL:FO is obviously not needed for that usage.
So it's basically taking a hammer to kill a fly, maybe drop a nuke on it.
Nonsense...
how about spending $5000 for an extra 20 servers? Is that unreasonable too?
Because that would be 250$ per server. With such a cheap price, talk about waiting queues, lag and crashes.
$5000 would not cover the expense of ONE server, plus the hosting, plus renting the bandwith, plus service, plus...
Makes me sick.
Stop being cheap and spend more at your pharmacy store.
That is just great. Now that we have pre-formatted music since a while and an automated way to find a "hit" song, we do no longer need artists to write songs or anything.
To me that's good news!
Artists are expensive and counter-productive in our society. They should be working like peons instead.
Great for P2P: soon, the MPAA, RIAA, WAAAZUP, whatever you call them, will be irrelevant since there will be no more artists to steal copyright from.
Who needs creativity anyway? You only need to download what the major companies tell you to. No brain used -> no risk of choking.
All other the world now, just as in Soviet Russia, you do not need to choose songs anymore, the songs choose YOU.
Seriously speaking, although I am not surprised, this is very sad for the future of music.
Worse thing is that it is BECAUSE of that damn software that we now have to hear Norah Jones and her awfully boring songs all the bloody time.
You haven't been too much in computing have you?
The blue screen of death dates from Windows NT, which dates from after those pics.
The blue color is one of the few colors available at that time on monochrome monitors.
Green
Yellow
or
Blue
Slashdot Mirror
I hereby announce that there will be summer between 22 of june and 22 of september in the northern hemisphere.
It is not yet known what will be the temperature though.
Thanks Slashdot for this piece of non-information!
In Slashdot, you don't get void, the void gets YOU!
Having nothing else to do than pointing out typos from someone who types on the keyboard however...
Important instructions from John Cleese
To the citizens of the United States of America:
1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Then look up "aluminium". Check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'favour' and 'neighbour', skipping the letter 'U' is nothing more than laziness on your part. Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters. You will end your love affair with the letter 'Z' (pronounced 'zed' not 'zee') and the suffix "ize" will be replaced by the suffix "ise".
You will learn that the suffix 'burgh is pronounced 'burra' e.g. Edinburgh. You are welcome to respell Pittsburgh as 'Pittsberg' if you can't cope with correct pronunciation. Generally, you should raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. Look up "vocabulary". Using the same twenty seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communicat ion. Look up "interspersed". There will be no more 'bleeps' in the Jerry Springer show. If you're not old enough to cope with bad language then you shouldn't have chat shows. When you learn to develop your vocabulary then you won't have to use bad language as often.
2. There is no such thing as "US English". We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of "-ize".
3. You should learn to distinguish the English and Australian accents. It really isn't that hard. English accents are not limited to cockney, upper-class twit or Mancunian (Daphne in Frasier). You will also have to learn how to understand regional accents - Scottish dramas such as "Taggart" will no longer be broadcast with subtitles.
While we're talking about regions, you must learn that there is no such place as Devonshire in England. The name of the county is "Devon". If you persist in calling it Devonshire, all American States will become "shires" e.g. Texasshire, Floridashire, Louisianashire.
4. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as the good guys. Hollywood will be required to cast English actors to play English characters. British sit-coms such as "Men Behaving Badly" or "Red Dwarf" will not be re-cast and watered down for a wishy-washy American audience who can't cope with the humour of occasional political incorrectness.
5. You should relearn your original national anthem, "God Save The Queen", but only after fully carrying out task 1. We would not want you to get confused and give up half way through.
6. You should stop playing American "football". There is only one kind of football. What you refer to as American "football" is not a very good game. The 2.15% of you who are aware that there is a world outside your borders may have noticed that no one else plays "American" football. You will no longer be allowed to play it, and should instead play proper football. Initially, it would be best if you played with the girls. It is a difficult game.
Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which is similar to American "football", but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like nancies). We are hoping to get together at least a US Rugby sevens side by 2005. You should stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the 'World Series' for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.15% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. Instead of baseball, you will be allowed to play a girls' game called "rounders" which is baseball without fancy team strip, oversized gloves, collector cards or hotdogs.
7. You will no longer be allowed to own or carry guns. You will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous in public than a v
Ah great! I was actually wondering what Kapersky would find as a new whistleblowing topic for this month.
Not a bad one this Lexus thing. And he AGAIN got the Slashdot attention. And AGAIN more publicity, although I have yet to hear anything from Kapersky that would be of any real interest.
In Soviet Russia, Kapersky OWNS Slashdot. But well...nevermind, he's an insensitive clod.
How can a story about a politician doing something in office fit with your statement "Politics have nothing to do with this story at all" ?
Would that be because people here read the fucking article AFTER they comment on it?When ignorance of sociology, human nature, gaming and their benefits added together meet with the idiocy of bureaucracy, you get a prison in a USA state.
Death penalty is probably more efficient to fight crime and violence than plonking an inmate for 8h in front of Mario Bros. I wonder if it's also less expensive than running a few computers in a room.
The fact that they actually DO have a plan to invade Iran does not ring any bell to you?
Where's the speculating part here?
You guys don't watch news too often, or listen to what is said, right?
In the last week, Bush first stated that he has a "Stellar" mission. Then when asked about Iran, he did not exclude military options, and worse, did not deny the fact that special forces where already on ground, AND that they were discussing options with the Isrelians to blast any uranium related effort from Iran.
Now don't tell me it's just a coincidence that shutting down an Iranian web site for iranian students RIGHT after those speeches has nothing to do with any governement agency? Give me a break!
You don't listen to the news AND you don't even understand when US politicians don't even try to hide facts.
At least you must sleep really well at night.
I really wonder who are the slashidiots who modded you different than troll or at best flamebait, or better +10 ignorant.
However, it is always fun to see how much many of you are just completely clueless of the world. This provides me a nice feeling of beeing better educated.
That is true, but one way or the other users will whine.
How about voting laws to send spammers to long-term jail?
Yes, I'm stupid the answer is obvious...PROFIT
If only that was just the stem cells that were contaminated in US bodies...Unfortunately, contamination seems to spread to brain cells before that.
Slashdot has once again attracted my attention enough to have me lose 1mn of my precious life.
Honestly, list off those who really care about such an outstanding story.
Can I ask you what are your intentions by asking about my security settings?
It is not because you are not paranoid that they are not out there to get you
And why, oh why, out of the many services that we pay for and hold to a standard: Mobile phones, home phones, Internet, Cable TV, etc. do we not hold MMO's out to a similar standard?
Oh..because you never had trouble with cell phone or home phone companies?
I mean:
* Getting overcharged or having billing issues (which seem to be the common denominator in all phone companies). This happens ALL the time. So much that it's nearly fun to receive a new bill and find out what blling part is screwed up for the last month.
* Not have the cell phone working where you expect it to work (bad coverage).
* Phones advertised with a lot of features, but you find out it's just lies since features are capped by companies so you overpay them for idiocies like sending images (as an example, TELUS is blocking their phones so the non-geek cannot use a computer to get images from the phone). * Cable TV repair guy coming 1 week after the scheduled date (whicho of course was inconvenient enough that you already had to take a day off from work).
To me Blizzard is actually doing pretty well in working toward customer satisfaction. All this whining is nonsensical and your arguments just don't hold a small exam.
At least Blizzard doesn't charge you for accessing customer support where I think it is EXTREMELY SHOCKING that in North America, phone companies charge a monhtly fee for access to 911, whatever the fee is.
Why is it a game that 'people spend too long on' is any different than a mobile phone service used for communicating with friends, where days worth of downtime a month would be considered terrible service?
Because it is a GAME, not a business or life-threatening *service*. It is not even a *service* as such.
Honestly, this game is working great with a few post-launch glitches due to unexpected success. Have you ever lived the launch of pathetic "Ultima Online"? In constant value, it was more expensive than WOW is at that time. And my! What a load of crap it was! Funnily enough nobody seems to remember that mess.
So give us a break and quit the whining
7. Will the European launch utilize the same realms ?
They will be on their own set of hardware, as with our Korean release. Our teams are learning from the experience of our North American launch and are applying that knowledge to the servers in Europe. We hope to provide them with a smooth launch.
Does this means people in north america won't be able to play with our europeans friends?You do more damage simply by revealing what version of the operating system
OS identification is generally forgotten by most. A simple wget on a machine with any URL will usually return you an error page with the server name and version.
I still wonder why even Apache has this stupid default settings of informing the world what the server is running on, although it is recommended to change it. Why not just NOT display anything by default?
You have a point but what worth is a school that refuses video games such as HL2 deeming them violent, where the actual goal is to raise funds?
What does that teaches to the kids? Better be censored and/or politically correct rather than be generous and donate?
If it the "stellar" coming of Bush that produces such nonsense, I suggest you jump out the mothership and land in Canada.
It is not because you are not paranoid that Aliens are not out to get you.
Because outside of USA there is countries where you can go to court of OTHER reasons than MONEY. In many countries, including Soviet Russia, you don't NEED to have a monetary loss to claim for some damages or get justice. Well..actually, in Soviet Russia, the police calls you. Nevermind.
Your "local authority" is Wikipedia. With the recent noise about its content, you should try to find other sources of information. Moreover, when the article you point mentions a BSOD since Win2.0 (which very few probably have ever seen) in a middle of ONE sentence but fails to mention anything in the list of BSODs it provides and their description.
I stop reading when I saw that XSL examples are XSL:FO examples. XSL:FO is set of XML definitions on top of XSL to address the PRINT world's requirements. As such, it contains ALL the tags and attributes needed by this industry and provides EXTREME flexibilty, at a price: verbosity. However, the article does simple CSS formatting vs XSL:FO where XSL:FO is obviously not needed for that usage. So it's basically taking a hammer to kill a fly, maybe drop a nuke on it. Nonsense...
how about spending $5000 for an extra 20 servers? Is that unreasonable too?
Because that would be 250$ per server. With such a cheap price, talk about waiting queues, lag and crashes. $5000 would not cover the expense of ONE server, plus the hosting, plus renting the bandwith, plus service, plus...Makes me sick.
Stop being cheap and spend more at your pharmacy store.Analized? Analized? - what dedication these folks have. Brings tears to my eyes.
Why did I post in this forum before? I should have used my mod points and give you a +5 funny - you made my shiny day!That is just great. Now that we have pre-formatted music since a while and an automated way to find a "hit" song, we do no longer need artists to write songs or anything.
To me that's good news!
Seriously speaking, although I am not surprised, this is very sad for the future of music.
Worse thing is that it is BECAUSE of that damn software that we now have to hear Norah Jones and her awfully boring songs all the bloody time.
ctually I do/did realize that. I was making a comment in jest
My bad then...You haven't been too much in computing have you? The blue screen of death dates from Windows NT, which dates from after those pics. The blue color is one of the few colors available at that time on monochrome monitors. Green Yellow or Blue