manga is the japanese word for comic, so by definition its a manga when its made by japanese people
Wonderful non sequitur... If manga is the Japanese word for comic, then by defenition manga = comic. That is all. The defenition says nothing about the country of origin.
If you're going to insist that you're right anyway, what's the word for American style comics? "Comic" is a word from the English language, so by your logic it's only a comic when it's made by English people. There could be no American entrepreneurs, as that's a French word, and so can only be applied to French people, etc. Taking this logic to the extreme you'd have to come up with new words for just about everything, since a word can only be applied to objects created in it's country of origin.
Back a couple of years ago, people were saying things like "$3 is a joke, reduce the price to something like.99 and everyone'll be more than happy to pay such cheap rates"...
All the stuff people care about'll be copied back & forth onto the latest media anyway, and probably in several locations via some sort of network; what's left is stuff that's been implicitly declared "not important enough to update"
Maybe 5% of them; the other 95% are dupes, non-news, spam, links to people's own advertisment-filled blogs, etc, etc. You might get one story a day before slashdot, but there's way too much noise compared to signal... By comparison, slashdot's editors do a *great* job.
and the users pick what gets on the site.
Which is good in theory, until you notice that most users (on the internet as a whole, not just digg), are morons.
You also fail to mention that a large chunk of users are annoying fanboys, who spend most of their time saying how digg's so much better than slashdot, but they never seem to demonstrate...
Also the sheer level of ignorance scares me, like when aforementioned fanboys were using scripts to give digg thousands of votes in a best site poll, someone changed "digg" to "slashdot", then fanboys threw a hissy fit about how *slashdot* was cheating (with theories like "cmdr taco bought out the poll - slashdot are only ahead because they're richer!"), and people were saying that what slashdot did was *illegal* (it turned out a digg user did it, but the fanboys like to ignore things like that...)
Also works in Epiphany (the Gnome browser based on Gecko - my choice as GTK2 is much faster than XUL on my 200MHz box). Other gecko-based browsers should be supportable in theory.
AFAIK Basically everyone uses their own copy of ffmpeg pulled from CVS; the suckiness of the front end (web site, release page, etc) is caused by everyone being 100% concentrated on the actual code.
Apache Perchild MPM: Coder selected, can't find any code
Apache mod-bandwidth-limit: 2 people have shown an interest, can't find any code
Firefox bittorrent: Alpha 0.0.2
Several gaim projects: One project has commited *something* to HEAD
Several gnome projects: Can't find any news
Several SVN projects: Can't find any news
I wonder how many people noticed there wasn't a link; I didn't, as I always scan the comments looking for the probable "This is fake / false / otherwise crap, and here's why" first...
But if you can get a non-linked article past the editors, what's to stop getting a wrongly-linked one through? Goatse anyone? (IIRC that actually happened a week or two back...)
If you even went to www.somethingawful.com and read LowTax's thoughts on Katrina, you would not question this being a scam
So if I were to cut & paste his thoughts but replace the donate link to one of my own, you'd trust me too?
This is the internet; scammers have access to just as many words as real people -- judging something to be legitimate just because it claims itself to be is quite foolish...
http://technocrat.net/ may be worth a look; like slashdot, but edited with a bit more sense (IIRC by Bruce Perens? Someone I'd heard of anyway). The main thing it's lacking right now is people to make comments~
Pray tell, *how* is requesting a phone number evil?
Lots of people are saying that google are evil because they allow people to, at their own discretion, give up some personal info. They aren't demanding it, and I know of no reason that anoyone would be forced to sign up to any of their services, so what's the problem?
Even for those of us who do use their services - where's the link between people telling google their interests for the sake of targeted advertising, and said people being in any way harmed?
Grammar nazi, not troll. A troll is someone who writes things with the aim of causing pointless discussion, usually of the flame variety. What I was doing was being annoyed, and hence replying harshly, because of easiliy avoided communication error:P
Spelling & grammar really ought to come natrually, not be something you have to explicitly turn on for business use...
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Their income comes from not being evil -- given that being evil will lose them money, why would they do it?
Wonderful non sequitur... If manga is the Japanese word for comic, then by defenition manga = comic. That is all. The defenition says nothing about the country of origin.
If you're going to insist that you're right anyway, what's the word for American style comics? "Comic" is a word from the English language, so by your logic it's only a comic when it's made by English people. There could be no American entrepreneurs, as that's a French word, and so can only be applied to French people, etc. Taking this logic to the extreme you'd have to come up with new words for just about everything, since a word can only be applied to objects created in it's country of origin.
But with stripped down options -- Debian asks you what you want, Ubuntu just gives you sane defaults
... how can someone do a run in an amount of distance?
... that's a software?
On the contrary, I notice far more microsoft-basher-bashing, even when there are no microsoft-bashers in the first place...
It's a copy & pasted troll that appears in pretty much every article; it's in this one twice already...
Back a couple of years ago, people were saying things like "$3 is a joke, reduce the price to something like .99 and everyone'll be more than happy to pay such cheap rates"...
All the stuff people care about'll be copied back & forth onto the latest media anyway, and probably in several locations via some sort of network; what's left is stuff that's been implicitly declared "not important enough to update"
Either you must cool down really quickly, or you have a very smokey gun :-|
A HA HA HA! Thanks, I nearly didn't get that joke!
Maybe 5% of them; the other 95% are dupes, non-news, spam, links to people's own advertisment-filled blogs, etc, etc. You might get one story a day before slashdot, but there's way too much noise compared to signal... By comparison, slashdot's editors do a *great* job.
and the users pick what gets on the site.
Which is good in theory, until you notice that most users (on the internet as a whole, not just digg), are morons.
You also fail to mention that a large chunk of users are annoying fanboys, who spend most of their time saying how digg's so much better than slashdot, but they never seem to demonstrate...
Also the sheer level of ignorance scares me, like when aforementioned fanboys were using scripts to give digg thousands of votes in a best site poll, someone changed "digg" to "slashdot", then fanboys threw a hissy fit about how *slashdot* was cheating (with theories like "cmdr taco bought out the poll - slashdot are only ahead because they're richer!"), and people were saying that what slashdot did was *illegal* (it turned out a digg user did it, but the fanboys like to ignore things like that...)
Also works in Epiphany (the Gnome browser based on Gecko - my choice as GTK2 is much faster than XUL on my 200MHz box). Other gecko-based browsers should be supportable in theory.
AFAIK Basically everyone uses their own copy of ffmpeg pulled from CVS; the suckiness of the front end (web site, release page, etc) is caused by everyone being 100% concentrated on the actual code.
Apache Perchild MPM: Coder selected, can't find any code
Apache mod-bandwidth-limit: 2 people have shown an interest, can't find any code
Firefox bittorrent: Alpha 0.0.2
Several gaim projects: One project has commited *something* to HEAD
Several gnome projects: Can't find any news
Several SVN projects: Can't find any news
So has anything really changed?
But if you can get a non-linked article past the editors, what's to stop getting a wrongly-linked one through? Goatse anyone? (IIRC that actually happened a week or two back...)
There's nothing hard to understand about that, but that isn't what you said, and it isn't what I responded to.
So if I were to cut & paste his thoughts but replace the donate link to one of my own, you'd trust me too?
This is the internet; scammers have access to just as many words as real people -- judging something to be legitimate just because it claims itself to be is quite foolish...
OpenOffice isn't Java, it just (optionally) uses it for plugins
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X needs root to get access to the hardware
... how? All I see is a tired old troll :/ Where's the funny / insightful that "satire" implies?
http://technocrat.net/ may be worth a look; like slashdot, but edited with a bit more sense (IIRC by Bruce Perens? Someone I'd heard of anyway). The main thing it's lacking right now is people to make comments~
IMHO a little common sense is worth *far* more than anything I've ever seen measured in any tests...
Lots of people are saying that google are evil because they allow people to, at their own discretion, give up some personal info. They aren't demanding it, and I know of no reason that anoyone would be forced to sign up to any of their services, so what's the problem?
Even for those of us who do use their services - where's the link between people telling google their interests for the sake of targeted advertising, and said people being in any way harmed?
Spelling & grammar really ought to come natrually, not be something you have to explicitly turn on for business use...