Potshots taken from behind a comfortable shield of anonymity. Nice. Accusations from a net stereotype don't phase me.
How about answering some of my criticisms of/.'s editors and policies? I pay for plenty of things worth paying for, but I have no intention of paying for lies and coverups and the unfettered right of editors to squelch unpopular opinion. If you like paying for such "services" you are entitled to, but you seem aware yourself that/. is headed for a dirtnap.
With the number of pages they serve, how is that possible? Hubris, motherfucker, hubris.
By the way, stay anonymous and I'll continue to entertain the amusing possibility that you are one of the cowardly/. editors. Yeah, I'll bet you "don't like Slashdot."
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It seems like even the submitter didn't read the article.
"CNet has an article about the first (?) inevitable PC imitation LCD..."
Ummm...no. The article is about the fourth iteration of Gateway's imac-inspired line.
However, anyone who thinks this is not a Mac wannabe, consider that the current model is dubbed the "3cx." CX? Gee, where did I see those letters together before?
That equation bothered me as well, I would have posted this question if you hadn't.
The statement "laptops run twice their cpu clock speed in dollars" seems to have slim bearing on reality anyway, unless the author is willing to pay $200 for my 100mhz 486 Thinkpad (it's got the old "butterfly" full-sized keyboard, so maybe somebody would bite for that, butnot for its processor).
Fuck you, pal. The content that mosts interests me here is in the comments, the stuff that the/. chieftains seem to feel is the "dressing" to their artfully selected "stories." I don't feel "entitled" to services here. What I do feel is that/. currently expresses more contempt for its users than the regard a commercial enterprise must hold for a customer if they expect to get anywhere. Even in the chat transcript we're discussing, hemos and Taco constantly give off a "too cool for the room" vibe. If they continue this course, their belief that the audience consists mostly of morons will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. I'm sure you'll still behere, though.
I know you think you're trolling, but you do have a point there. I'm 55 years old and I can't get enough of that cute Card Captor chick! She's only 10!
The editing requirements could be Promethian, however
A premium all-anime channel for $10/month would have no editing requirements whatsoever, just dubbing/subbing chores to be done. I'd sign up in a minute. "Kero Kero Hime" and "Digi Charat" in the mornings, "GALS," "Child's Toy" and "His and "Her Circumstances" in the afternoons, "Big O" and "Giant Robo" in late afternoon, "Fushigi Yuugi" and "El Hazard" in early prime, "Noir" and "Excel Saga" in late prime. At 10, a selected anime feature, followed by an all-night block of classic anime. Intersperse with it all some "Making of" featurettes and creator interviews. Closed captions will carry subs, SAP Channel has the dubs.
It'd be really nice to have a Toonami channel that had only subbed anime (for those of us who don't prefer dubs). It'd certainly save me money, as I waste my money on tons of DVDs.
That would also solve the protesting parents problem, as it's unlikely that their subliterate little ass-bastards would be watching a subbed cartoon. Of course, this being a nation of subliterate ass-bastards, it would be hell on ratings.
On a more serious note, it's people like you that cause my local movie-snob video shop to carry subs instead of dubs. Maybe that makes sense for Akira, but all I wanted to do was rent some Giant Robo for my 6-year-old nephew (subliterate little ass-bastard). Why subs? Why?
"Here's the reality: You block ads. You cost us money. Ultimately, I mean."
This is where you have to stop and think "Hey... if Slashdot DOES go down because of a lack of profits, where will I turn?"
Guilt-tripping is no basis for a business model. Volunteering to be subject to ads because of a guilt trip is just as foolish.
Nor am I under any obligation to unblock ads on/. because I find some of their content useful or informative. It is their responsibility to arrive at a working business model. I am their "customer," not their partner.
If I were more their partner than their customer, then an attitude like yours may be worth consideration. But certain recent responses and non-responses by those who run this site indicate that they have no idea whatsoever of how to "partner" with the/. readers.
If they did, the FAQ would clearly state the powers and limits of editorial moderation, and/. would also have taken some editorial responsibility for the Jon Katz/Junis hoax (no "news" publication in the world is so lax), instead of waiting (so very unprofessionally!) for the whole thing to blow over.
With such tiny regard shown for the readers of/., hemos has some colossal gall to accuse us of thievery for blocking ads on our own goddam machines.
That's it in a nutshell, as I read it. When the original poster said:
I wonder if these legal types are ever going to actually blame this on the actual people who are sharing...
What he didn't get is that is exactly the argument they are making with this reductio ad absurdum argument. They are not blaming the net at large, they are saying if you blame the software, then you may as well blame other enabling technologies.
In other words, if file exchange is unlawful, take it to the file exchangers, not the software, unless you see the whole concept of the net as a "copyright-defeating-device."
Thanks for breaking the ice in this thread with the first round of insults
No, that was you, when you told some guy he had made a "pretty poor definition of a laser" in a post in which no one was attampting a definition. Review your posts, you are being pretty combative, if not insulting.
The purpose of the post was not to define a laser, it was to explain in simple terms how a wideband laser was not a contradiction in terms. Not every communication need be "definitive."
Among the investors in TiVo are Viacom, Walt Disney, Comcast Corp., Cox Communications, Discovery Communications Inc., and Liberty Media.
That's why TiVo does not auto-skip ads like RePlay does. That's why RePlay (SonicBlue) is being sued by Viacom, Disney and GE (which own CBS, ABC and NBC), and TiVo is not.
Most of the stuff Futurama did could be adapted into a Simpsons script.
Yeah, just like Hamlet could be adapted for a Gilligan's Island ep (it was a musical ep... To be or not to be/That's what I ask of me).
Sorry, not. I can see Bart becoming a super over-achiever by cheating (which he's done) but not from a bad sandwich infected by intelligent bacteria. And just as Lisa!=Leela, Nelson!=Fry. Give me one goddam example of a Futurama plot that would make a Simpson's (non-Halloween) episode.
How many shows have his writing credit? As a producer, he was one of about a dozen "producing" credits.
And he wasn't there that long.
The Simpsons is still worth several good laughs every ep, and now and then they still turn out a transcendentally good one. I hope they stick around forever, even if only for the Halloween specials, which are good even when the show in general is in a slump.
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How about answering some of my criticisms of /.'s editors and policies? I pay for plenty of things worth paying for, but I have no intention of paying for lies and coverups and the unfettered right of editors to squelch unpopular opinion. If you like paying for such "services" you are entitled to, but you seem aware yourself that /. is headed for a dirtnap.
With the number of pages they serve, how is that possible? Hubris, motherfucker, hubris.
By the way, stay anonymous and I'll continue to entertain the amusing possibility that you are one of the cowardly /. editors. Yeah, I'll bet you "don't like Slashdot."
"CNet has an article about the first (?) inevitable PC imitation LCD..."
Ummm...no. The article is about the fourth iteration of Gateway's imac-inspired line.
However, anyone who thinks this is not a Mac wannabe, consider that the current model is dubbed the "3cx." CX? Gee, where did I see those letters together before?
The statement "laptops run twice their cpu clock speed in dollars" seems to have slim bearing on reality anyway, unless the author is willing to pay $200 for my 100mhz 486 Thinkpad (it's got the old "butterfly" full-sized keyboard, so maybe somebody would bite for that, butnot for its processor).
I know you think you're trolling, but you do have a point there. I'm 55 years old and I can't get enough of that cute Card Captor chick! She's only 10!
Digitally changing signs is standard practice in preparing anime for US consumption, as most signs are in Japanese.
I am tempted to reply with a goatse link.
You never saw Love Hina, sir, did you? It's not about events, its about character.
A premium all-anime channel for $10/month would have no editing requirements whatsoever, just dubbing/subbing chores to be done. I'd sign up in a minute. "Kero Kero Hime" and "Digi Charat" in the mornings, "GALS," "Child's Toy" and "His and "Her Circumstances" in the afternoons, "Big O" and "Giant Robo" in late afternoon, "Fushigi Yuugi" and "El Hazard" in early prime, "Noir" and "Excel Saga" in late prime. At 10, a selected anime feature, followed by an all-night block of classic anime. Intersperse with it all some "Making of" featurettes and creator interviews. Closed captions will carry subs, SAP Channel has the dubs.
Let me at it!!!!
That would also solve the protesting parents problem, as it's unlikely that their subliterate little ass-bastards would be watching a subbed cartoon. Of course, this being a nation of subliterate ass-bastards, it would be hell on ratings.
On a more serious note, it's people like you that cause my local movie-snob video shop to carry subs instead of dubs. Maybe that makes sense for Akira, but all I wanted to do was rent some Giant Robo for my 6-year-old nephew (subliterate little ass-bastard). Why subs? Why?
This is where you have to stop and think "Hey... if Slashdot DOES go down because of a lack of profits, where will I turn?"
Guilt-tripping is no basis for a business model. Volunteering to be subject to ads because of a guilt trip is just as foolish.
Nor am I under any obligation to unblock ads on /. because I find some of their content useful or informative. It is their responsibility to arrive at a working business model. I am their "customer," not their partner.
If I were more their partner than their customer, then an attitude like yours may be worth consideration. But certain recent responses and non-responses by those who run this site indicate that they have no idea whatsoever of how to "partner" with the /. readers.
If they did, the FAQ would clearly state the powers and limits of editorial moderation, and /. would also have taken some editorial responsibility for the Jon Katz/Junis hoax (no "news" publication in the world is so lax), instead of waiting (so very unprofessionally!) for the whole thing to blow over.
With such tiny regard shown for the readers of /., hemos has some colossal gall to accuse us of thievery for blocking ads on our own goddam machines.
Well, here is some "Jeremiah" art by the creator of the comic book series. It doesn't look to me like a clone of either, though YMMV.
I wonder if these legal types are ever going to actually blame this on the actual people who are sharing ...
What he didn't get is that is exactly the argument they are making with this reductio ad absurdum argument. They are not blaming the net at large, they are saying if you blame the software, then you may as well blame other enabling technologies.
In other words, if file exchange is unlawful, take it to the file exchangers, not the software, unless you see the whole concept of the net as a "copyright-defeating-device."
No, that was you, when you told some guy he had made a "pretty poor definition of a laser" in a post in which no one was attampting a definition. Review your posts, you are being pretty combative, if not insulting.
The purpose of the post was not to define a laser, it was to explain in simple terms how a wideband laser was not a contradiction in terms. Not every communication need be "definitive."
Try posting under your real name...you may get a backbone someday.
I wish you weren't an AC. I would track you down man. Nobody contradicts my cartoon taste and lives.
You can expect an asshole who loves Family Guy to hate Futurama.
That's why TiVo does not auto-skip ads like RePlay does. That's why RePlay (SonicBlue) is being sued by Viacom, Disney and GE (which own CBS, ABC and NBC), and TiVo is not.
Yeah, just like Hamlet could be adapted for a Gilligan's Island ep (it was a musical ep ... To be or not to be/That's what I ask of me).
Sorry, not. I can see Bart becoming a super over-achiever by cheating (which he's done) but not from a bad sandwich infected by intelligent bacteria. And just as Lisa!=Leela, Nelson!=Fry. Give me one goddam example of a Futurama plot that would make a Simpson's (non-Halloween) episode.
How many shows have his writing credit? As a producer, he was one of about a dozen "producing" credits.
And he wasn't there that long.
The Simpsons is still worth several good laughs every ep, and now and then they still turn out a transcendentally good one. I hope they stick around forever, even if only for the Halloween specials, which are good even when the show in general is in a slump.
The TV series was more like the comic in this respect than the kiddie-oriented, conventionally-structured cartoon.