It's offtopic to say that I posted this same story last month. Then why isn't it offtopic for someone to say "I also found this very interesting when I read it today on various sites. Kudos to/. for enlightening us boobs."?
Essentially both say they already saw the same news. But, one points out/. editors suck, and the other kisses up.
tutorial about transforming that old Nintendo into a PC
Really, this is just a very-much-not-unique-or-novel story on taking a mini-ITX board and stuffing it into some random thing.
Next we'll see:
Jim sends us a tutorial about transforming that old empty Whitman's Sampler box into a PC
Pam sends us a tutorial about transforming that old kitty litter box into a PC
Ned sends us a tutorial about transforming that old lunch box into a PC
Oh yeah...I remember where I've already read all this stuff...
Nice ditch effort to bolster the story, Taco: Does anyone else think that Super Mario 3 might have been the best game ever?
Technique #4- if a story topic is lame, just add a few (unrelated) topics to the story in a shotgun approach to digging up interest.
Seems to me that this ID is intended to track how many 'shipments' of a song from any particular source (like Microsoft, Amazon, whatever) for the purpose of billing them some share of the transaction (which of course is passed along to the consumer, but nevermind that).
So...would there possibly be a hacker out there interesting in spoofing transactions? Why? Maybe they don't like a certain retailer. But, they know that this retailer has to pay out per transactions. So, they might find a way to make it seem as though this retailer is 'shipping' 1000% more than usual and then have to pay out.
Or, competitive hacking...one retailer spoofs another to drive up the competition's cost.
My brother gave me a 30 second run down on the movie. It was enough to change my "must go see" into "ahhh...maybe someday I'll add it to my Netflix queue...probably".
Maybe I don't have the story straight. The Romulans clone Picard for a big secret mission. But, they say "nah..." and forget about the clone, locked up in a prison somewhere. OK, today, in real-life...if you're in prison you get computer time and porn. Newspapers, too, but no prisoner cares about those. Apparently in Romulan prison colonies, you get everything you need to become a genius, learn you are a clone, learn about Picard (meanwhile, Romulan's main intelligence agency can't learn this much), learn how to be a brilliant starship captain / war strategist...and then escape and get yourself a crew and ship. Amazing for a prison colony dude.
So, normally, I *prefer* that SciFi movies are kinda unbelievable. It's fun. But this one sounded pretty darn weak. And...the motivation seemed dumb. Maybe more dumb than all of Star Wars stemming from a trade treaty violation on some pointless planet that nobody cares about.
OK, I've convinced myself...I'll put it near the top of my queue and see how sucky it is (or not).
On the positive...my brother did tell me he thought it was more entertaining than "Insurrection"...which I thought was a plenty alright rental.
BTW, I maintain that any reply to a story that is a dupe should never be considered off-topic. Maybe not even redundant.
Think about it...you won't see people actually reply with pertinent information to a dupe. A dupe is useless, so are it's replies. It's just a bandwidth-sucking no-op that serves as nothing other than an example of/.'s decline.
And when brought to his attention what does he do? Remove the dupe? Fold the two together? Apologize for being the biggest offender of krunk on/. in recent months?
Oh...CT Ok it's a dupe. But it's still neat!
You're right!! It's neat! Please, dupe it more. Let's post this story once every 4 hours! Because it's neat! Hey...how about you dupe all neat stories!
First off, how can it be OS independent and have a list of compatible OS's?
It's just a marketing phrase. It doesn't necessarily mean anything. It's like Sally Struthers saying "earn your degree in almost anything" and then she lists stuff like "dog grooming". The list serves as a set of ideas for people unwilling to believe the word "anything" and who only click when they hear the one word important to them.
That's not a contradiction, it's just annoying ad copy. Keep in mind the kind of people writing ads. Watch TV for a few minutes and see that while broadcasters are upset over ad-skipping Tivos we might have a strong case to sue them for cruel and unusual punishment.
More annoying ad copy is the advertising which says "up to 10, or more!". How can it be more?? They just said it's up to 10!
Truly annoying (and common) are the ads that say "Sugar...because cookies would be bland without it.", or "Diamonds...because we've got everyone duped." Well, actually, I never asked why!
It seems each generation does many of the same things the previous generation did...and then goes around believing it was a new and unique thing. Highly innovative and clever, filled with exciting danger and evil laughs.
But the Taco is still quite young and likely to accept many more such posts of things he believes are original wacky antics.
In a few weeks he'll be posting a submission from some guy that claims to have invented the funnelator (the story will be duped the next day).
Slashdot Mirror
to my boot sector...I hope it's a really lovely story. Maybe a romance novel would be nice.
you stupid piss. there are 4.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/04/152123 4&mode=thread&tid=106
/. editor a paid gig? Me thinks nobody's gotten a motivating paycheck in a few months...
The attitude of the editors here towards dupes is super. Dupes are neat!
Is being a
It's offtopic to say that I posted this same story last month. Then why isn't it offtopic for someone to say "I also found this very interesting when I read it today on various sites. Kudos to /. for enlightening us boobs."?
/. editors suck, and the other kisses up.
Essentially both say they already saw the same news. But, one points out
A funny thing happened on the way to the Bureau of Old News... I submitted the same story last month:
2003-01-24 21:02:42 Senate Blocks Funding for Pentagon Database (yro,news) (rejected)
Of course, now I'm apparently grousing...which is far worse than Slashdot's constant duping.
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Karma - am I supposed to care?
tutorial about transforming that old Nintendo into a PC
Really, this is just a very-much-not-unique-or-novel story on taking a mini-ITX board and stuffing it into some random thing.
Next we'll see:
Jim sends us a tutorial about transforming that old empty Whitman's Sampler box into a PC
Pam sends us a tutorial about transforming that old kitty litter box into a PC
Ned sends us a tutorial about transforming that old lunch box into a PC
Oh yeah...I remember where I've already read all this stuff...
Nice ditch effort to bolster the story, Taco: Does anyone else think that Super Mario 3 might have been the best game ever?
Technique #4- if a story topic is lame, just add a few (unrelated) topics to the story in a shotgun approach to digging up interest.
Nifty stuff you could do with it??
Seems to me that this ID is intended to track how many 'shipments' of a song from any particular source (like Microsoft, Amazon, whatever) for the purpose of billing them some share of the transaction (which of course is passed along to the consumer, but nevermind that).
So...would there possibly be a hacker out there interesting in spoofing transactions? Why? Maybe they don't like a certain retailer. But, they know that this retailer has to pay out per transactions. So, they might find a way to make it seem as though this retailer is 'shipping' 1000% more than usual and then have to pay out.
Or, competitive hacking...one retailer spoofs another to drive up the competition's cost.
we knew how to focus the camera!
I love the ATI 9700, but ATI seems to be in need of some pressure (ie. competition) to keep up work on the still buggy drivers.
hiccups explained
catchy title...too bad it's krunk. Should've read hiccups given yet another theory by yet another crackpot
There are many similarities between hiccuping and gill ventilation in animals like tadpoles
Sure, and there are many similarities between the way the Straus takes a crap and the way a lab rat takes a crap.
people who cannot manage their own finances may not be good employees
Or...a good employee is the one that is expected to work 12 hour days and have no time left over to manage his own finances
There's something so heart-warming about stuffing these types of people with disinformation.
What the parent says gives me yet another reason to fill out every single business reply card that I can with bogus krunk and send it back.
My brother gave me a 30 second run down on the movie. It was enough to change my "must go see" into "ahhh...maybe someday I'll add it to my Netflix queue...probably".
Maybe I don't have the story straight. The Romulans clone Picard for a big secret mission. But, they say "nah..." and forget about the clone, locked up in a prison somewhere. OK, today, in real-life...if you're in prison you get computer time and porn. Newspapers, too, but no prisoner cares about those. Apparently in Romulan prison colonies, you get everything you need to become a genius, learn you are a clone, learn about Picard (meanwhile, Romulan's main intelligence agency can't learn this much), learn how to be a brilliant starship captain / war strategist...and then escape and get yourself a crew and ship. Amazing for a prison colony dude.
So, normally, I *prefer* that SciFi movies are kinda unbelievable. It's fun. But this one sounded pretty darn weak. And...the motivation seemed dumb. Maybe more dumb than all of Star Wars stemming from a trade treaty violation on some pointless planet that nobody cares about.
OK, I've convinced myself...I'll put it near the top of my queue and see how sucky it is (or not).
On the positive...my brother did tell me he thought it was more entertaining than "Insurrection"...which I thought was a plenty alright rental.
Ahhh don't be too hard on him. I'm sure that if anyone can, he'll figure out how to dupe his own.
Just wait a couple hours and check back.
I think that subscribers get even more dupes.
Either that, or stories about the next fancy release almost ready to be released very very very very very soon...
BTW, I maintain that any reply to a story that is a dupe should never be considered off-topic. Maybe not even redundant.
/.'s decline.
Think about it...you won't see people actually reply with pertinent information to a dupe. A dupe is useless, so are it's replies. It's just a bandwidth-sucking no-op that serves as nothing other than an example of
A dupe within 5 hours?
/. in recent months?
And when brought to his attention what does he do? Remove the dupe? Fold the two together? Apologize for being the biggest offender of krunk on
Oh... CT Ok it's a dupe. But it's still neat!
You're right!! It's neat! Please, dupe it more. Let's post this story once every 4 hours! Because it's neat! Hey...how about you dupe all neat stories!
Somebody's ego has blinded his brain.
great idea, and I applaud the effort.
but, somebody, please...buy them a camera with macro!
medicines
italian food
my job
I still won't drink coffee, though.
go to ebay and buy any of those CD's full of "banned insider info that eBay doesn't want you to know!!"
or, start archiving your spam
First off, how can it be OS independent and have a list of compatible OS's?
It's just a marketing phrase. It doesn't necessarily mean anything. It's like Sally Struthers saying "earn your degree in almost anything" and then she lists stuff like "dog grooming". The list serves as a set of ideas for people unwilling to believe the word "anything" and who only click when they hear the one word important to them.
That's not a contradiction, it's just annoying ad copy. Keep in mind the kind of people writing ads. Watch TV for a few minutes and see that while broadcasters are upset over ad-skipping Tivos we might have a strong case to sue them for cruel and unusual punishment.
More annoying ad copy is the advertising which says "up to 10, or more!". How can it be more?? They just said it's up to 10!
Truly annoying (and common) are the ads that say "Sugar...because cookies would be bland without it.", or "Diamonds...because we've got everyone duped." Well, actually, I never asked why!
with my chance for a first post??
btw, I can't take criticism (especially when right).
The "troll" mod came quickly. Taco must still be in the room.
Some people...just can't take criticism (especially when right).
It seems each generation does many of the same things the previous generation did...and then goes around believing it was a new and unique thing. Highly innovative and clever, filled with exciting danger and evil laughs.
But the Taco is still quite young and likely to accept many more such posts of things he believes are original wacky antics.
In a few weeks he'll be posting a submission from some guy that claims to have invented the funnelator (the story will be duped the next day).