legions of lawyers have proven to be ineffective against music hungry teenagers. how effective do you think they will be against literally hungry people?
Point well taken, but I would also say that there is another problem with the lawyers: in lots of developing countries, they also defend the major landowners. If the landowners decide, as they have done consistently in the last 50 years in Latin America, that filling up the gas tanks wit biofuel in the US is more profitable than feeding the local people, they will certainly choose to starve their workforce and turn them into slaves rather than sacrificing a tiny bit of land to allow them to live decently. And so far, the lawyers have never had to sue: the owners just sent death squads to terminate the squatters.
I have Firefox 3 pre-beta5 (Minefield) release, nightly build from 12 days ago. Works flawlessly on MEPIS Linux 7.0. Adblock works OK too.
It feels more responsive and faster than Firefox 2.0.0.x. It may be nicknamed "Minefield", but still it hasn't blown my legs off since I installed it. So for me it's pretty stable. Even though it's not a production-grade release, I'd still recommend it over 2.0.0.1x, which in my experience has had a tendency to blow up way more often. Particularly on AJAX-heavy sites such as the new Yahoo!Mail. JavaScript handling is tremendously better in Firefox 3.
Ssssshhhhh... that's all part of the underground conspiracy. We all knew that M$ someday would hit version 11 for DirectX. We've had plenty of time to train our OSS developers commando that will soon produce the expected Direct X11 in Redmond, from the inside, after capturing the head developers, molding masks off their faces and taking their place. So far nobody noticed.
Now will you just shut up while I'm compiling my native port of Xemacs for Windows ?
Heck, even in Russia we have a number of court rulings against M$. They just ignore them outright!
Go on, Steve Ballmer, push your luck a little further in Russia. Keep ignoring their court rulings. Next time you travel there, I'm sure Mr Putin will be delighted to introduce you to Mr Khodorkovsky. What do I know, you might even have plenty of time to get acquainted with him and talk about the state of the industry in Russia. Lots, lots of time. Really.
... some towns around the planet have quite a reputation for having a high sulphur rate in their atmosphere (Rotorua in NZ is nicknamed "Sulphur City" because of that -- you can actually smell it when you're getting close to the town, and it takes a little while to get used to breathing that air !). Why don't they conduct a survey on the metabolism of the people naturally exposed to those gases ?
I guess, if the Mozilla developer had his cup of jo the morning he came up with that feature, that he decided to store the contents of the deleted tabs in the Mozilla cache, that has a user-defined maximum size on disk or RAM. That would sound logical to me.
Calling them "different colors" doesn't mean much to us mere humans, since the whole set of "colors" used is way down in the infra-red range. But since this is laser light anyway, you need to be extra careful when handling those devices: even though you cannot see the light rays, they can still damage your retina.
Imagine the surprise when you land on Mars to find a place named "Castle Maaaaaarrrrs" that happens to be occupied by rude French soldiers farting in your general direction and calling your father a hamster....
These wussies in Vatican are just a bunch of flip-floppers ! What do they think, do they know better than what's written in the Book ? And now, they're worshiping a guy that they nearly burned 400 years ago. What's wrong with you, people ? Can't you stick to your beliefs ?
["depravation"] I would have thought you'd know that it's spelled "deprivation".
I was wondering whether he was actually trying to talk about "depravity", which could have made some sense, since I lost a lot of sleep to that one too... oh, well...
Man, thanks for bringing it up, I had forgotten Carl's name and I was fumbling around in the Colbert Reports archive, but there it is : Carl Hiaasen's interview on the Colbert Report, a true moment of fun.
This is more of a "I'M STILL AROUND PAY ATTENTION TO ME" move, just like Janet Jackson's wardrobe "malfunction."
All in all, I'm glad that they chose to make that legal move -- anybody else shuddering at the idea that the Village People of today could have had a "wardrobe malfunction" instead ?
Good job Newline, I have a feeling you may have a hard time attracting talent in the future.
Well possibly, but they've got money. When you're desperate enough to find a producer to fund your movie, when you've been preparing your project for a while and money is running low, sometimes you can't be too picky....
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Unfortunately, there are (pleasureable) ways around that birth control method too ;-)
Point well taken, but I would also say that there is another problem with the lawyers: in lots of developing countries, they also defend the major landowners. If the landowners decide, as they have done consistently in the last 50 years in Latin America, that filling up the gas tanks wit biofuel in the US is more profitable than feeding the local people, they will certainly choose to starve their workforce and turn them into slaves rather than sacrificing a tiny bit of land to allow them to live decently. And so far, the lawyers have never had to sue: the owners just sent death squads to terminate the squatters.
Here are a few Google links...
Cooool ! Now it's going to take 3 times fewer Slashdotters to bring a server down !
:-)
I have Firefox 3 pre-beta5 (Minefield) release, nightly build from 12 days ago. Works flawlessly on MEPIS Linux 7.0. Adblock works OK too.
It feels more responsive and faster than Firefox 2.0.0.x. It may be nicknamed "Minefield", but still it hasn't blown my legs off since I installed it. So for me it's pretty stable. Even though it's not a production-grade release, I'd still recommend it over 2.0.0.1x, which in my experience has had a tendency to blow up way more often. Particularly on AJAX-heavy sites such as the new Yahoo!Mail. JavaScript handling is tremendously better in Firefox 3.
Ssssshhhhh... that's all part of the underground conspiracy. We all knew that M$ someday would hit version 11 for DirectX. We've had plenty of time to train our OSS developers commando that will soon produce the expected Direct X11 in Redmond, from the inside, after capturing the head developers, molding masks off their faces and taking their place. So far nobody noticed.
Now will you just shut up while I'm compiling my native port of Xemacs for Windows ?
No, seriously. On this side of the Channel, we seem to be able to download them perfectly.
(But I guesse zats becoz we're not suppoz to understend inglish at oll ?)
Yeah. Works with Nac Mac Feegle too.
Thanks for taking the time to show us how many Slashdot user accounts were created to this day ;-)
Breathing DHMO is OK, contrary to a widespread belief... as long as it's in its gaseous phase, of course.
GODWIIIIIIINN !
There, you have it. Oh, and BTW :
Since we're talking about sulphur gases, it's "the end justifies the beans".... some towns around the planet have quite a reputation for having a high sulphur rate in their atmosphere (Rotorua in NZ is nicknamed "Sulphur City" because of that -- you can actually smell it when you're getting close to the town, and it takes a little while to get used to breathing that air !). Why don't they conduct a survey on the metabolism of the people naturally exposed to those gases ?
Seriously. H2S is not something harmless, you should be careful when playing with it.
I guess, if the Mozilla developer had his cup of jo the morning he came up with that feature, that he decided to store the contents of the deleted tabs in the Mozilla cache, that has a user-defined maximum size on disk or RAM. That would sound logical to me.
Calling them "different colors" doesn't mean much to us mere humans, since the whole set of "colors" used is way down in the infra-red range. But since this is laser light anyway, you need to be extra careful when handling those devices: even though you cannot see the light rays, they can still damage your retina.
I checked the "d)" answer. Also, it makes the false assumption that more scientists are men than women.
What about women scientists ? Should they date someone who spends money on gambling, and who actually believes he has a chance ?
From the comments on TFA:
(note, this is not even on /. !)
Which begs the question: Should anybody date someone who recommends taking a look at a 68k Mac software in 2008 ?
Imagine the surprise when you land on Mars to find a place named "Castle Maaaaaarrrrs" that happens to be occupied by rude French soldiers farting in your general direction and calling your father a hamster....
... and some shark we have here ! Stephen L. Norris, from Utah, co-founder of the Carlyle Group.
What do I know, he might even have hired his brother Chuck to collect the debts.
(*shudders*)
(*ducks to avoid roundhouse-kick*)
These wussies in Vatican are just a bunch of flip-floppers ! What do they think, do they know better than what's written in the Book ? And now, they're worshiping a guy that they nearly burned 400 years ago. What's wrong with you, people ? Can't you stick to your beliefs ?
Man, thanks for bringing it up, I had forgotten Carl's name and I was fumbling around in the Colbert Reports archive, but there it is : Carl Hiaasen's interview on the Colbert Report, a true moment of fun.