All this weekend, I have been unfortunate enough to see many pictures of Don Knotts and ulcerated anal cavities (seperated at birth?), that I have been trying to figure out a way to avoid accidentally (read:not paying attention to the URLin the status bar) viewing these 2 atrocities.
Well, here's my suggestion. Don't allow AC to post HTML. Surely that couldn't be THAT hard to implement...and we wouldn't be subjected to the kind of filth we have seen this past weekend (some would say *months* ).
I like to view at -1. I frequently like the comments that get blurbled over at a higher setting, but, man oh man. That guy with the seriously ill posterior makes we wanna puke. I'm literally afraid to click an URL on SlashDot anymore...
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust." Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
Ay caramba. From the bottom of their homepage: ______________________
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"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust." Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
To play devils advocate: Office is just software. No one is forced to use it. This statement you have made is akin to saying that "English is a monopoly in the business world. It is absolutely necessary to be able to speak, read and write in its' closed format"
Most decent Office suites can 'open/save/save as' MS-Office compatible files. The keyword here is DECENT. Better software means better sales/usage.
There is a difference in being stifled by overbearing competition and the inability to create a product as good as the competitor.
Heya. I don't want to get involved in a flame war here, but I have to say this...
When people try to 'protect' children from sexual images, innuendo and violent and usually unsavory acts, it isn't because of the 'south park/warped my fragile little mind' thing.
At least in my case, I simply can't stand the thought that my 4 year old will not have the innocence she deserves. Children used to have a period of time when they could BE CHILDREN. Now, every 11 year old (and, yes, my 4 year old also) knows who Britney Spears is, and openly acknowledges she has 'big boobs' and is 'slutty'. Well, guess what, I DO NOT WANT my kids to have to think like that, but, with the amazing reach of the Internet, television and even public schools, even a watchful parent can't shield their children from all the crap out there.
Now, to clarify my rant, I thoroughly enjoy South Park, Austin powers, and the occasional 'adult picture', but, hey, I'm 30 years old.
Let's just accept that kids shouldn't have to be 'mini-grown-ups'. When a child reaches the age where they support themselves, and behave like adults, and are physically at that point also, then they can see and do what they want. But, why make it easy for kids to be corrupted, and robbed of their childhood?
Do you folks remember being a child? Do you recall seeing pictures of women giving oral sex to a horse when you were 11 years old? Do you recall saying 'give it to me baby', or 'I'm a sexy bitch' at age 8?
It doesn't inhibit you at all. It simply protects the innocence of children.
Odd that you mention that. I have installed several distributions on a few different PCs..My home PC is a dual P-Pro system, and I have NEVER had a SMP kernel by default.
Today, I installed Corel on a Celeron 366 (single cpu) and it installed an SMP kernel! From outta nowhere. Was bizarre.
Anyway, install is nice, my mother could use it. BUT, I wouldn't let her I think. I just hate Corel , probably as much as some people hate MS...
I'll bet they will. You'll probably sue them, the individuals that work there, there grandparents and then, when they settle with you, for a decidedly paltry sum, and the judge declares a gag order on the settlement talks, you will be madder when they tell on you for STILL ranting about their ISP.
You are a loser, and need to seek mental help. I have followed your case for several years, and I have just become more and more sickened by it. As a former Learning Company employee, and then a Mattel employee, I find your behavior reprehensible. TLC has one of the most incredible benefit packages available, and the staff and management are superb in dealing with Human Resource issues. Generally, when a case evolves as yours did, it indicates that there was a personality conflict involved. I would dare say that your abrasive and litigious personality is the one that caused this mess.
Get a life, and may God have mercy on your soul.
(Note, if this AC post is not REALLY you, Mr.Sorehands, I hope someone points the REAL you to this posting.)
"so blindingly obvious nobody else thought there was a race on."
This is the single most intelligent thing I have read in this thread. You said it all pete. I don't think the boycott is a good idea, but, the patent IS stupid. This would be the same as someone filing a patent for "web page 'navigation frames'...consisting of a series of 'hyperlinks'..."
That's the perfect email to send. Full of spelling, grammatical and flow errors.
This entire 'boycott' is a joke. It's time to wake up guys. Are you 'nerds', or are you the new wave rebels, looking for the Matrix?
I know some of you have real lives, so start being practical, instead of attempting to jump onto this utopian bandwagon where no one owns anything, and there is peace and love all around.
Scott McNealy is the worlds biggest crybaby(well..either he or Larry Ellison). Both deserve to be crippled with baseball bats for their 'we are good, MS is bad' stances. Both simply want to, as a poster in another thread recently wrote, 'Get the king removed, so they can have his chair'...
And, the sheer arrogance of their new Solaris motto-"Solaris 8 - The.com OS" ugh...MAKE ME PUKE!
You MAY wanna join the 1990's, and take a look at the numerous articles regarding the transfer of ownership from Rob to Andover.net, and the brand spanking new IPO.
Andover didn't pay good $$$ to/. for the 'joy of working on the wickedass code'...
To paraphrase weird al and puffedup daddy: 'It's all about the ad rates baby'
To clarify. They are not acting as a proxy. They are simply acquiring the signal, and then throwing the signal into a (really bad) RealVideo presentation, resplendent with their tacky banners.
And to expand on my/. theft idea, let's say that I did what some joker did a few years ago, and made a frame heavy page that displayed ONLY the real content from/., the NY Times and CNN, WITHOUT their banners.
For now, icravetv is showing the networks commercials, but, I'll betcha their gonna offer a 'premium' service soon that will be time lagged, and will insert THEIR ads instead of good old Tide or McDonalds.
It's really an exercise in futility arguing the point, as they are simply another form of pirate, looking for that click-thru and impression rate.
No Sparky.... HERE is why it's wrong. Someone that was NOT YOU went to the trouble to assemble, market and produce the content. Then, you simply breeze in and take the proceeds and say 'Look guys, look what I did..." (Kinda like Redhat making $$$ off of the 1000's of developers) That is inherently wrong.
My apologies on the subject line...I was going for that whole 'South Park/Celine Dion' thing. Some of my best 'net pals are Canadian, and, oddly enough, they think it's funny when I tease their sorry, too-whitebread country. :-)
OK. This one is simple, and I can break it down with one short hypothetical.
I am going to start a website that is an EXACT duplicate of SlashDot.org. I'm going to show their ads, but, I'm also going to have MY banners everywhere. I'm not going to ask SlashDot, or Andover.net for permission.
How long will I last? Not too long my friends. I am STEALING. I am stealing their copyrighted information, and displaying it to their intended audience without their permission. And that, like it or not, is wrong.
These television stations have paid an enormous amount of money for these programs, these station identifiers and the syndication rights to other broadcasts. They have to recoup these costs by advertising, and being able to PROVE to their advertisers that the viewer saw the advertisement on THAT station. This incident is taking away their way of life, and is wrong.
Now, my prediction: icravetv.com will be bought out by either: AOL Real Microsoft, and will be launched as a branded 'broadcast' site, and everyone will be rich, bceause icravetv is now going to be an, um, not household but perhaps, desktop word. Can anyone say IPO?
Slashdot Mirror
Hmm..
All this weekend, I have been unfortunate enough to see many pictures of Don Knotts and ulcerated anal cavities (seperated at birth?), that I have been trying to figure out a way to avoid accidentally (read:not paying attention to the URLin the status bar) viewing these 2 atrocities.
Well, here's my suggestion. Don't allow AC to post HTML. Surely that couldn't be THAT hard to implement...and we wouldn't be subjected to the kind of filth we have seen this past weekend (some would say *months* ).
I like to view at -1. I frequently like the comments that get blurbled over at a higher setting, but, man oh man.
That guy with the seriously ill posterior makes we wanna puke. I'm literally afraid to click an URL on SlashDot anymore...
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
Ay caramba.
From the bottom of their homepage:
______________________
Minimum requirements are Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 SP2 or Netscape Communicator 4.06 with 800 x 600 screen resolution
in 256 colors. To take full advantage of this website's features, install RealPlayer G2 and Macromedia Flash 4.0 (all free).
Your browser must be enabled for Java, JavaScript and cookies.
______________________
"Don't try to confuse the issue with half truths and gorilla dust."
Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman)
To play devils advocate:
Office is just software. No one is forced to use it. This statement you have made is akin to saying that "English is a monopoly in the business world. It is absolutely necessary to be able to speak, read and write in its' closed format"
Most decent Office suites can 'open/save/save as' MS-Office compatible files. The keyword here is DECENT. Better software means better sales/usage.
There is a difference in being stifled by overbearing competition and the inability to create a product as good as the competitor.
Heya. I don't want to get involved in a flame war here, but I have to say this...
When people try to 'protect' children from sexual images, innuendo and violent and usually unsavory acts, it isn't because of the 'south park/warped my fragile little mind' thing.
At least in my case, I simply can't stand the thought that my 4 year old will not have the innocence she deserves. Children used to have a period of time when they could BE CHILDREN. Now, every 11 year old (and, yes, my 4 year old also) knows who Britney Spears is, and openly acknowledges she has 'big boobs' and is 'slutty'. Well, guess what, I DO NOT WANT my kids to have to think like that, but, with the amazing reach of the Internet, television and even public schools, even a watchful parent can't shield their children from all the crap out there.
Now, to clarify my rant, I thoroughly enjoy South Park, Austin powers, and the occasional 'adult picture', but, hey, I'm 30 years old.
Let's just accept that kids shouldn't have to be 'mini-grown-ups'. When a child reaches the age where they support themselves, and behave like adults, and are physically at that point also, then they can see and do what they want. But, why make it easy for kids to be corrupted, and robbed of their childhood?
Do you folks remember being a child? Do you recall seeing pictures of women giving oral sex to a horse when you were 11 years old? Do you recall saying 'give it to me baby', or 'I'm a sexy bitch' at age 8?
It doesn't inhibit you at all. It simply protects the innocence of children.
This is OLD news. Was on the Paul Harvey show last week.
Did you guys hear, JFK got shot...
Trolling? This is hilarious. Off Topic -1 maybe..but, wow. Hahaha. (Although, I DO think the poster needs to get out more...)
Odd that you mention that.
I have installed several distributions on a few different PCs..My home PC is a dual P-Pro system, and I have NEVER had a SMP kernel by default.
Today, I installed Corel on a Celeron 366 (single cpu) and it installed an SMP kernel! From outta nowhere. Was bizarre.
Anyway, install is nice, my mother could use it. BUT, I wouldn't let her I think. I just hate Corel , probably as much as some people hate MS...
:-)
Damn.
:-)
At least we have naked women still..
(They do still have naked women...right?)
So, the chances for a naked and petrified /. seem a little closer tonight...
Error: Obscure Suck Reference.
Contacting Scott Kurtz.
Press ctrl-alt-backspace to continue.
Scott Kurtz = Jon Katz ?
:-)
"Someone will be in trouble"
I'll bet they will. You'll probably sue them, the individuals that work there, there grandparents and then, when they settle with you, for a decidedly paltry sum, and the judge declares a gag order on the settlement talks, you will be madder when they tell on you for STILL ranting about their ISP.
You are a loser, and need to seek mental help. I have followed your case for several years, and I have just become more and more sickened by it.
As a former Learning Company employee, and then a Mattel employee, I find your behavior reprehensible. TLC has one of the most incredible benefit packages available, and the staff and management are superb in dealing with Human Resource issues.
Generally, when a case evolves as yours did, it indicates that there was a personality conflict involved. I would dare say that your abrasive and litigious personality is the one that caused this mess.
Get a life, and may God have mercy on your soul.
(Note, if this AC post is not REALLY you, Mr.Sorehands, I hope someone points the REAL you to this posting.)
This is all well and good, but, I wanna throw a linux distrib on my Philips nino. 16mb of ram/rom and a 15mb storage card. How cool would THAT be...
At least a Linux handheld would be fast, stable and cheap...
Ordinarily, KB would refer to 'Knowledge Base'.
Hope this helps you in your journey...
"so blindingly obvious nobody else thought there was a race on."
This is the single most intelligent thing I have read in this thread.
You said it all pete.
I don't think the boycott is a good idea, but, the patent IS stupid.
This would be the same as someone filing a patent for "web page 'navigation frames'...consisting of a series of 'hyperlinks'..."
Excellent thought sir.
So now, any license thats not GPL or GNU is simply weaselly?
Is that a word?
Anyway, can we continue to tear down the establishment we have worked so hard to build?
Hang on to your stocks boys, were going to war!!!
That's the perfect email to send. Full of spelling, grammatical and flow errors.
/dev/null. Why? Because they don't care about you. They care about you as much as you care about the families and friends of your work competitors.
This entire 'boycott' is a joke.
It's time to wake up guys. Are you 'nerds', or are you the new wave rebels, looking for the Matrix?
I know some of you have real lives, so start being practical, instead of attempting to jump onto this utopian bandwagon where no one owns anything, and there is peace and love all around.
The folks at Amazon are going to read these emails you send, and they are going straight to
(NOTE: Does not apply to Mobsters©)
So, again, time to decide. Are you hot headed, drop of the hat activists, or are you computer and technology crazy human beings?
I call for a boycott of VA Linux, for changing their name to make a few billion dollars...
(Say goodbye to my karma...)
"Sun©-We put the 'whatthefsck?' in DotCom."
.com OS"
Have you ever tried to navigate their website?
Time yourself in finding the boot disk for Sol7.
No cheating.
Scott McNealy is the worlds biggest crybaby(well..either he or Larry Ellison). Both deserve to be crippled with baseball bats for their 'we are good, MS is bad' stances.
Both simply want to, as a poster in another thread recently wrote, 'Get the king removed, so they can have his chair'...
And, the sheer arrogance of their new Solaris motto-"Solaris 8 - The
ugh...MAKE ME PUKE!
/disjointed rant
You MAY wanna join the 1990's, and take a look at the numerous articles regarding the transfer of ownership from Rob to Andover.net, and the brand spanking new IPO.
/. for the 'joy of working on the wickedass code'...
Andover didn't pay good $$$ to
To paraphrase weird al and puffedup daddy:
'It's all about the ad rates baby'
To clarify.
/. theft idea, let's say that I did what some joker did a few years ago, and made a frame heavy page that displayed ONLY the real content from /., the NY Times and CNN, WITHOUT their banners.
:-)
They are not acting as a proxy. They are simply acquiring the signal, and then throwing the signal into a (really bad) RealVideo presentation, resplendent with their tacky banners.
And to expand on my
For now, icravetv is showing the networks commercials, but, I'll betcha their gonna offer a 'premium' service soon that will be time lagged, and will insert THEIR ads instead of good old Tide or McDonalds.
It's really an exercise in futility arguing the point, as they are simply another form of pirate, looking for that click-thru and impression rate.
Mmmm...I'm done.
Since we are diss-cussing Gateway..
http://cnnfn.com/1999/12/08/technology/gateway/
Ted Waitt stepped down today. Maybe he's going to RedHat...or VA...or Corel...
:-)
No Sparky.... HERE is why it's wrong.
Someone that was NOT YOU went to the trouble to assemble, market and produce the content.
Then, you simply breeze in and take the proceeds and say 'Look guys, look what I did..."
(Kinda like Redhat making $$$ off of the 1000's of developers)
That is inherently wrong.
My apologies on the subject line...I was going for that whole 'South Park/Celine Dion' thing.
Some of my best 'net pals are Canadian, and, oddly enough, they think it's funny when I tease their sorry, too-whitebread country.
:-)
Yours in perpetual sarcasm...
OK. This one is simple, and I can break it down with one short hypothetical.
I am going to start a website that is an EXACT duplicate of SlashDot.org. I'm going to show their ads, but, I'm also going to have MY banners everywhere. I'm not going to ask SlashDot, or Andover.net for permission.
How long will I last?
Not too long my friends.
I am STEALING. I am stealing their copyrighted information, and displaying it to their intended audience without their permission. And that, like it or not, is wrong.
These television stations have paid an enormous amount of money for these programs, these station identifiers and the syndication rights to other broadcasts. They have to recoup these costs by advertising, and being able to PROVE to their advertisers that the viewer saw the advertisement on THAT station. This incident is taking away their way of life, and is wrong.
Now, my prediction:
icravetv.com will be bought out by either:
AOL
Real
Microsoft,
and will be launched as a branded 'broadcast' site, and everyone will be rich, bceause icravetv is now going to be an, um, not household but perhaps, desktop word.
Can anyone say IPO?
This is just too weird.
t ml
I suffered a strain of an old hand injury on Thanksgiving, and, like the author, I too did the splint thing.
I was researching around, and found that KDE has several predefined shortcuts, and even allows the user to bind the Windows© keys to certain things. Here is the link:
http://www.kde.org/documentation/faq/kdefaq-7.h
This helped me enough to get started, but, it made me seriously thnk about the way X ignores the kb, which, with its console roots, is quite ironic.
Good luck to you.