Ugh. You are absolutely right. It actually looks like they hired Real's UI designers. It looks startingly like RealPlayer Intrusive(tm).
Judging by what others have said about asking for a zip code for weather reports, forcing a reboot, etc., it sounds like they probably hired their core development and marketing team as well.:-(
Ted Turner spent billions of dollars to buy the rights of a bunch of classic movies, which he then went and colourized. He owns at least three stations that I can think of (I don't watch a lot of TV, so there may be more)--TNT, TBS and Turner Classic Movies.
This man is in no position to talk about big media. This is like Bill Gates bemoaning monopolistic business practices in the software industry.
Any minute now, the Torontonians of Slashdot will probably start posting the usual Irv Weinstein references. "Blaze busters battle a five bell barn burner in Cheektowaga!"
LMAO! I grew up in St. Catharines, so we watched a lot of the WKBW 'Action News'. And Commander Tom, when I was a kid. I can't believe how at the time I didn't realize he was the weatherman.
For a long time, I have felt differently from the other boys at my school. I like to talk to girls and be their friends, but I just don't... feel anything towards them.
But televisions, computers, disk drives--hell, even toasters give me that thrill that only the most metallic and electrical of devices can provide. I'm very conflicted about this. Everyone in my community would shun me if I were to divulge my feelings, so for now I've kept this to myself and it's tearing me up inside.
What sort of advise then, Doctor, would you give to a closted robosexual?
I am sick of the male genital mutilation apologists saying that there are health and cleanliness benefits to being circumsized when each of their arguments has been nicely debunked.
As an uncircumsized male, let me say that I feel bad for the mutilated ones. Sex and masturbation are many times more pleasurable when uncut, since the foreskin acts as a lubricating smooth sheath. My partners also seem to like the difference too, saying that it feels different, but better. (When I ask how, they just shrug, say 'Shut up, I'm coming', and we just continue.):-)
I'd like to see circumcision outlawed myself, but I know it's just not going to happen overnight. Until then, I'll be quite happy with my body in its intended form.
Pourquoi veut-on prendre la citoyennete US? Il n'y a aucun pays dans le monde dont on deteste les citoyens. On a un gouvernement dingue avec un president non elu et qui est au service des personnes riches et leur compagnies. De plus en plus on enleve les droits des citoyens avec l'aide du Cour Supreme, controle aussi par le president et ses amis neo-conservateurs.
Mieux d'aller au Canada, qui est mille fois plus sensible que les USA.
(Je m'excuse pour des erreurs... je parle francais mais ce n'est pas ma langue maternelle. J'aime bien essayer de le parler de temps en temps.)
I think this is a very cool development. Don't get me wrong. But this is not what Linux needs right now.
There is a huge push to make Linux a true desktop OS that non-tech-savvy people can use. I take the example of the typical Slashdot mom--she can probably open Outlook or IE and perform all of her e-mailing and Web surfing tasks just fine. Present her with KDE or Gnome, though, and it's scary and unfamiliar. And all of this fails to break Microsoft's strangehold on the desktop which is as much a product of Linux's unwillingness to adopt a unified GUI standard as it is Microsoft's anticompetitive practices.
How about developers concentrate on two things--firstly, agreeing on a cohesive Linux desktop experience and forget about the Gnome/KDE fragmentation/flamewars that plague the Linux community, and secondly, writing the next generation of desktop apps for Linux, getting those perfected and at a level of usability and stability to rival Microsoft's offerings.
It's not a 3D desktop that going to get Linux on desktops. It's going to be a solid, stable, easy-to-use standarized GUI experience with mature, full-featured apps that surpass the functionality that Microsoft's and other vendor's Win32 apps bring to the table.
One of the good things about Microsoft Windows is that is you've written a driver for Windows 98's to the WDM standard, it's still pretty much supported under Windows 2000 and Windows XP. That is to say that there isn't a lot of retrofitting that needs to be done to get a legacy driver working under the latest Microsoft OS.
Linux, on the other hand, seems to think it's OK to make developers retrofit their code when they don't like the ad hoc design that the OS contributors came up with. This coupled with issues (questions?) of compatibility with things like the GNU C runtime libraries really must make it frustrating to do any serious development on Linux. (Feel free to rebut--it's been a long time since I've been active in Linux development.)
Still, I think it's a testament to Microsoft that an.EXE can run under Windows 95, 98, 2K and XP and most of the time, it's just going to work. You can't say the same about versions of Linux.
Look, it's been said before, I'll say it again now, and I'll continue to say it until things change.
Stop purchasing industry CDs!
Your purchase of music released on a label affiliated with the RIAA indirectly supports these efforts which most of you agree is capricious, unfair, predatory and illegal. And yet all I see are a bunch of people who complain about copy protection, the myriad subpoenas being sent by the RIAA standing in line down at the local Best Buy (which is another evil altogether) because they have to have the new friggin' Puddle Of Mudd (or is that Dumm?) CD.
If you really want to send the industry a message, don't buy CDs on labels that are part of the RIAA. Look at places like CD Baby, which are not affiliated with the RIAA, offer 2-minute high-quality preview of many of the songs on each CD, sell non copy-protected CDs, and offer all the rights that you should expect in your CDs. Yes, you can rip the CD and download it to your MP3 player, and no one is going to come and hunt you down like the dog you are merely for exercising your fair use rights.
It really is going to take a big effort on all our parts to get this message out. But while people mindlessly go down to the local box retailer to buy another copy protected CD from some industry teat-sucking band, you're really not helping things.
I noticed it was a Foo Fighters' CD that the story poster bought. How about, 'It's times like these you need to think again...'?
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...most of the energy needs in Iceland are currently met by good old hydro
Talk about 'green power' indeed!
Nice one.
I'd hate to have this thing hooked up when playing Leisure Suit Larry...
Let me guess... only old people play jazz fusion.
Ugh. You are absolutely right. It actually looks like they hired Real's UI designers. It looks startingly like RealPlayer Intrusive(tm).
:-(
Judging by what others have said about asking for a zip code for weather reports, forcing a reboot, etc., it sounds like they probably hired their core development and marketing team as well.
The next thing I know, someone will be telling me that speaking my peace in public is legal!
Only as long as it remains illegal to spank your piece in public...
You manage to spell 'tonsillolith' correctly, but you misspell the following words:
throaght (throat)
throughally (thoroughly)
posibility (possibility)
paitent (patient)
nasel (nasal)
surgen (surgeon)
specilist (specialist)
Are you sure they didn't remove some grey matter as they fixed your tonsils? Damn...
Ted Turner spent billions of dollars to buy the rights of a bunch of classic movies, which he then went and colourized. He owns at least three stations that I can think of (I don't watch a lot of TV, so there may be more)--TNT, TBS and Turner Classic Movies.
This man is in no position to talk about big media. This is like Bill Gates bemoaning monopolistic business practices in the software industry.
Looks like you won't be competing in any type of intellectual sport, doesn't it?
Any minute now, the Torontonians of Slashdot will probably start posting the usual Irv Weinstein references. "Blaze busters battle a five bell barn burner in Cheektowaga!"
LMAO! I grew up in St. Catharines, so we watched a lot of the WKBW 'Action News'. And Commander Tom, when I was a kid. I can't believe how at the time I didn't realize he was the weatherman.
I understand that one of them was an impressive rhyming orator, but he had a bit of a lisp. His name? Tupac Thakur. :-)
The corporations that are supported by politicians that YOU DIDNT BOTHER VOTING AGAINST helped this happen.
We did vote against them, but they ended up getting appointed. We will make sure that never happens again.
For a long time, I have felt differently from the other boys at my school. I like to talk to girls and be their friends, but I just don't... feel anything towards them.
But televisions, computers, disk drives--hell, even toasters give me that thrill that only the most metallic and electrical of devices can provide. I'm very conflicted about this. Everyone in my community would shun me if I were to divulge my feelings, so for now I've kept this to myself and it's tearing me up inside.
What sort of advise then, Doctor, would you give to a closted robosexual?
I am sick of the male genital mutilation apologists saying that there are health and cleanliness benefits to being circumsized when each of their arguments has been nicely debunked.
:-)
As an uncircumsized male, let me say that I feel bad for the mutilated ones. Sex and masturbation are many times more pleasurable when uncut, since the foreskin acts as a lubricating smooth sheath. My partners also seem to like the difference too, saying that it feels different, but better. (When I ask how, they just shrug, say 'Shut up, I'm coming', and we just continue.)
I'd like to see circumcision outlawed myself, but I know it's just not going to happen overnight. Until then, I'll be quite happy with my body in its intended form.
Pourquoi veut-on prendre la citoyennete US? Il n'y a aucun pays dans le monde dont on deteste les citoyens. On a un gouvernement dingue avec un president non elu et qui est au service des personnes riches et leur compagnies. De plus en plus on enleve les droits des citoyens avec l'aide du Cour Supreme, controle aussi par le president et ses amis neo-conservateurs.
Mieux d'aller au Canada, qui est mille fois plus sensible que les USA.
(Je m'excuse pour des erreurs... je parle francais mais ce n'est pas ma langue maternelle. J'aime bien essayer de le parler de temps en temps.)
I think this is a very cool development. Don't get me wrong. But this is not what Linux needs right now.
There is a huge push to make Linux a true desktop OS that non-tech-savvy people can use. I take the example of the typical Slashdot mom--she can probably open Outlook or IE and perform all of her e-mailing and Web surfing tasks just fine. Present her with KDE or Gnome, though, and it's scary and unfamiliar. And all of this fails to break Microsoft's strangehold on the desktop which is as much a product of Linux's unwillingness to adopt a unified GUI standard as it is Microsoft's anticompetitive practices.
How about developers concentrate on two things--firstly, agreeing on a cohesive Linux desktop experience and forget about the Gnome/KDE fragmentation/flamewars that plague the Linux community, and secondly, writing the next generation of desktop apps for Linux, getting those perfected and at a level of usability and stability to rival Microsoft's offerings.
It's not a 3D desktop that going to get Linux on desktops. It's going to be a solid, stable, easy-to-use standarized GUI experience with mature, full-featured apps that surpass the functionality that Microsoft's and other vendor's Win32 apps bring to the table.
[...] [S]hower? And I do that everyday.
And you're reading Slashdot? That does not compute!
One of the good things about Microsoft Windows is that is you've written a driver for Windows 98's to the WDM standard, it's still pretty much supported under Windows 2000 and Windows XP. That is to say that there isn't a lot of retrofitting that needs to be done to get a legacy driver working under the latest Microsoft OS.
.EXE can run under Windows 95, 98, 2K and XP and most of the time, it's just going to work. You can't say the same about versions of Linux.
Linux, on the other hand, seems to think it's OK to make developers retrofit their code when they don't like the ad hoc design that the OS contributors came up with. This coupled with issues (questions?) of compatibility with things like the GNU C runtime libraries really must make it frustrating to do any serious development on Linux. (Feel free to rebut--it's been a long time since I've been active in Linux development.)
Still, I think it's a testament to Microsoft that an
Y'know what I like about that solution? It's so intuitive.</sarcasm>
Look, it's been said before, I'll say it again now, and I'll continue to say it until things change.
Stop purchasing industry CDs!
Your purchase of music released on a label affiliated with the RIAA indirectly supports these efforts which most of you agree is capricious, unfair, predatory and illegal. And yet all I see are a bunch of people who complain about copy protection, the myriad subpoenas being sent by the RIAA standing in line down at the local Best Buy (which is another evil altogether) because they have to have the new friggin' Puddle Of Mudd (or is that Dumm?) CD.
If you really want to send the industry a message, don't buy CDs on labels that are part of the RIAA. Look at places like CD Baby, which are not affiliated with the RIAA, offer 2-minute high-quality preview of many of the songs on each CD, sell non copy-protected CDs, and offer all the rights that you should expect in your CDs. Yes, you can rip the CD and download it to your MP3 player, and no one is going to come and hunt you down like the dog you are merely for exercising your fair use rights.
It really is going to take a big effort on all our parts to get this message out. But while people mindlessly go down to the local box retailer to buy another copy protected CD from some industry teat-sucking band, you're really not helping things.
I noticed it was a Foo Fighters' CD that the story poster bought. How about, 'It's times like these you need to think again...'?
I don't even want to know where you put the speedometer cable.
We don't call it 'The Canadian Supreme Court' here. Its proper name is the Supreme Court of Canada.
This is not the United States, and thank fucking god for that.
BTW, hooding prisoners is NOT torture and neither is shackeling for transport, both accusations tossed about by the hysterical Left.
And the Geneva Convention is still binding law in the US, something forgotten about by nutcase right-wing neocons like yourself.
With people like you living in it, it is no fucking wonder the entire world hates this country.
So that means Apple's bad today, right?
I half expect to see a post praising Sony in a couple of hours--wait, no, Sony's only good on Tuesday afternoon in odd months. My error.
(please be gentle on my ADSL connection!)
Saying that on Slashdot is like entering prison wearing a woman's dress and a long blonde wig and saying 'please be gentle on my asshole'.