I agree, reading these comments it felt like people were turning against the open use of information.
Turnitin is using information (which is not in the public space but their method of use could be [I.E. meta-data of essays]) for a purpose apparently beneficial to academia.
I think there is very little dangerous information and support most information being free so this doesn't immediately contradict what I feel many/. ers feel about information. That the works of others are being exploited for the financial profit of this company is problematic, but their application doesn't really examine the contents of the works themselves (nor make those contents available as GBS does) and the meta data that is being used is likely useful ONLY for this type of application.
I think the schools are at fault for allowing their staff to make a compromise which may increase marking efficiency (Big classes can now be marked by several markers with no concerns surrounding plagarism etc.) while violating their students rights in several ways.
I'm anti corporation myself but I feel that this knee jerk reaction is at least partially to blame for IP freedom advocates not being taken seriously.
Agree with parent, grandparent is a fool. I've held one, they're awsome, keyboard is a little small and touchpad was strange (Something they changed in the new revision.)
I don't think they should sell it to the public, but I've had my hands on one and at any price it is a very slick peice of kit.
It feels like an apple project, things are so well designed.
Everything is very slick and simple, processing power wasn't an issue with any of the applications I ran (And I did try to pain test the unit, running everything I could think of).
These would overturn the laptop market, but for them it's probably easier for linux developers to run the images, work through their own laptop and submit code. Why would they want to ship to thousands of people who already have laptops.
My you sure covered all your bases there, well for a conservative.
Doesn't all the talk of companies losing their focus register with you? These people are passionate about educating children in developing nations (3rd world is a conservative or American term not used in most of the Civilized world).
Since we see companies losing focus every day you'd be right in thinking that there exists no possible solution, except these guys seem to have found one.
Now capitalists are stepping in and saying "Just sell a few, you'll be hands off" but they'll be back distracting open source developers and the company doing the work with "easy" solutions to "consumers" problems.
Additionally from the perspective of a third world government a non-profit is trying to help and brilliant minds may actually be involved, as soon as it becomes capitalistic it's just another American quick fix, which translated to Non-American means quick sale.
That's just how the world see's American, you and the 5 people who modded you up thinking you'd actually examined the issue are the problem, deal with it.
Only a really boneheaded company will lose nerve after wasting a ton of money on R&D It's called throwing good money after bad.
The real reason Apple must release the iPhone is the same as they must release high end iPods, they want to appear to have the best gear. That way when they filter down into a market segment where they can actually make a profit they will have mindshare as well as R&D behind them, people often refer to V1 mac products as "Beta" and that's the case, often they are excellent on paper (and look pretty) but have problems in implementation. The Good on Paper part is the most important aspect. Apple doesn't have some magical system that produces "just works" products they have a public beta testing unit that exploits the Apple fanboy market segment ruthlessly.
Fortunately for me my Qualcomm Q2760 still works perfectly and I don't need a status symbol, if they release a quality product in a few years within my budget I'll buy it and be happy for all the fools who beta tested it for me at $600.
As an aside Apple had to lock down the iPhone, otherwise people would use the 802.11n (Which is now final) and VOIP to thwart subsciption services. It's going to happen eventually and Apple's iPhone is a perfect example of what advanced smart phones without ties to carriers will look like.
iPhone V3 will likely come with a 10 year phone # registered to it and no provider.
Or at least it will unless teleco's lobbying power is even greater than the *IAA or energy companies.
Agreed, though why it has taken so long is subject to inquiry.
I think the Conservatives under Bush have made a brutal attack on the court system and Judges have found themselves serving two masters (The public interest and the White House).
An interesting thing to consider about the legal system is that almost all court cases are trying to define "fair" or "equal" as benefits their client, piracy can't claim that it is directly fair.
The arguement for piracy is that information can be shared without loss and that it's beneficial to do so and errode the attempt at defining some information as more valuable than other information (largely though marketting).
While I do think the Judges have taken their time (obviously these are not young people) learning about this civil rights position and accepting it to the point where they have decided to violate the letter of the law to promote a more equal society.
The fact that these decisions put their heads on the Bush chopping block means that they haven't been undertaken lightly and these people should have our respect.
More modern high speed trains (I.E. the kind we don't have in North America) don't vibrate as much and run on electricity, as such they are INCREADIBLY quiet.
Sitting in a japanse rail station and watching a Shinkansen go past at 230kmph 4 meters away is increadible.
And once again you are assuming a transitional period (Which makes the whole point moot as people will simply drive across the country) of largely driving with some slight rail usage for long distances.
Japan's model of linking the rail system with the subway system (moving between cities is handled the same way local travel is) makes far more sense, you walk to a subway station and make a transition like transfering subway lines getting on an inner city train.
Imagine no traffic at all, and perfect timing (I.E. if the subway is supposed to arrive at 10:36 and the train is supposed to leave at 10:43 you can plan on buying some food.) further you don't need to worry about long term parking or transit to and from a distant airport and it's remarkably comfortable. The less dense cities of the U.S. and Canada means that busses are needed to bridge the gap between home and subway but disability conscious busses make carrying large bags easy.
It's a far superior way to travel, especially with mounting airport security advising you to show up 3 hours early for a flight (I once showed up 40 minutes early for an inner Canada flight [Montrel to Toronto] to be told that I shouldn't expect to be on the plane).
If fuel prices continue to rise and paranoia does as well plane travel will eventually resort to knocking everyone out and stacking them like cord wood, which would be fine for me but many people won't enjoy it.
Conservatives seem to feel that protecting the rights of actual terrorists isn't important, I think that's where the line is drawn.
Most liberals don't enjoy feeling they should have rights, but do feel so. And when you look at the possibility of terrorist attack, possible victims it quickly becomes apparent that only large organized groups are a threat worth fighting because of the implications towards person freedoms and privacy.
The Canadian government has long had more powers than our Southern Neighbors, powers we would like to think they don't abuse. It's bills like this one make us question that, there simply aren't a lot of good reasons to not get warrants, if it's too expensive hire more paralegals. If they're worried about terrorists infiltrating the courts then it will never stop, they could infiltrate any aspect of society and be potentially dangerous.
When I see the Muslim (or any minority group) society of Canada come forward and say that Muslims in the court system are revealing information about wiretaps (A discovery which doesn't put lives at risk) and that the risks are real enough that they're willing to have their court members moved to other areas of the legal system, then it will be threat enough and not until then.
But doesn't perform as well when used by an operating system.
Since flash doesn't have sectors that are faster than others; Thus, this is incorrect.
Flash chips each have a read and write speed limit the more of them you have in parrelel the faster it can read/write. It's trivial to make the chips within a flash drive have JBOD(F) properties.
This is one of the major advantages for me, disks that will be able to max out gigabit+ ethernet with increadible seek times, data redundancy, and massive througput.
As disks get bigger it may become nescessary to have some space for a read/write buffer (normal HD's have ram for this) which will increase the life or need for higher MTBF sections, both of these properties are showing up in variations on flash.
So if you have a flash disk with 1 Increadible MTBF chip, 1 super speed no storage sector (like ram), 1 massive storage space, and a bunch of standard flash you can have all the advantages of every kind of disk with the internal controller handling performance and wear leveling (not a trivial programming problem but one which we have a bunch of excellent solutions in place for).
My personal problem with flash disks is that industry seems to be holding back development, trying to develop an upgrade cycle instead of realeasing a perfect solution.
I can get a 1GB microsd flash card for $15 about 400-600(conservative) of them would fit into a 2.5 disk enclosure. With JBOD and wear leveling across the chips and I'm assuming it would be cheaper because you wouldn't need hundreds of cases/interfaces a 200GB drive with read/write speeds of 100-300 Gb a sec and seek time of Hmm, well maybe the price does need to come down but the other concerns about flash seem unjustified, write wear isn't a problem, it's not scary. losing all your data to a HD failure, now that's scary.
I don't understand why the monitor is needed for interfacing with the computer. Usually what you interface with is text, reading what I write, reading menu items, reading over what you've written. Writting is a subset of language and can be handled through speech (though sometimes people assume not as fast, if a computer can modulate itself to your listening and speaking speed it could be quite efficient).
The smallest computer needs to have some way of interfacing with the user, whether it be an ear jack (think dictation and contextual information) or a connection to a nerve (If implanted at birth one connection could become increadibly efficient, obvious if you've ever observed the disabled interfacing with their tools).
One line in, one line out that's it that's all you need.
The problem is that information is also sometimes represented graphically, which is used to add context. With a simple computer literary system which could offer context to information there would be no need for images.
Good stuff, well several of the pastoral poets and authors used vistas to mean a great many things.
If the editor felt that someone viewing a panorama should be on the cover that probably means he relates the book to the works of Wordsworth, Malory, and sundry.
I installed ubuntu 6.04 updated to 6.10, it broke a few things but mostly is working fine.
As mentioned before the wireless applications and support are a show stopper. Typing sudo ifdown and ifup is no fun, and having to hard type the ssid without getting a list of available ones, also no fun.
So I fixed it, got a wlassistant program, very nice.
Only problem it needs sudo to run and I haven't been able to figure out how to do that from inside gnome or blackbox.
Seems like something that should be in the right click menu (Especially if it will fail without it)... For me personally these are the kinds of things that totally need to be solved, they are so simple that they are hard to describe and hard to search for, "sudo gnome right-click ubuntu"?
Other than that I'm pretty happy with it, I've got maybe 4-5 error messages that I'd like to disable but can't (wireless access uses a web prompt and wlassistant complains needlessly, symantec has packages it can't download but keeps trying etc)...
Also some open source applications I'd gotten used to running in windows seem to work WORSE in linux, there is no support for Miranda (an excellent IM client for windows), and the Open-Office spellcheck isn't working (And doesn't offer Canadian english[which I assume they replace with British English, though how hard is it to offer a link file to the British dictionary in that case]... Opera is a pain to install in Linux but got it running...
I guess these are mostly application concerns but they've become something of a pain in the ass.
Just saying it's not all roses, but I'm enjoying it and I have a good support team:)
Well photorealistic textures are starting to take over, so instead of artists needing to make 1024x1024 bitmaps all the time they can just take photo's (And blend them together in software which is fuzzy or do it by hand which is still faster than designing the whole thing) Motion capture is getting a lot cheaper (and replacing the animators, which I assume is because it's cheaper/better).
The Genre's are becoming more defined so programmers are getting experience in the genre they will be designing.
They typically use existing engines instead of designing their own and they don't need to fight for every gram of power because the consoles have so much more head room (though software tools such as sh are just coming out usually they are learned by the engine designers not the rank and file game dev houses).
Publishing costs on the 360 and ps3 will be really high due to high console costs, but that doesn't explain the 20% increase in price.
I think a lot of it comes from being in a $40bln industry and being gouged for movie liscences, hardware liscences and publishing.
Probably 5-10% is internal fighting because dev's want to do something exciting and management takes out features (See "evolution" of Halo for an example).
Each detail takes time and effort, but the big stuff should be getting easier at a rate which evens out with the increasing complexity of the small touches, there just isn't a good reason why games need to be so expensive.
Hardware, also the creative Jukebox and Zen lines.
They used a riser for the headphone jack, that riser had a 5 month lifespan (Across 5 players I've owned or had friends own, all broken:().
Creatives Drivers for these products were terrible, so terrible that a company was started to provide a replacement, Notmad.
Thier Soundstorm technology put into several Nforce 2 boards is a gigantic pile of crap, basically you have to remove their drivers, do several updates and then run all the sound processing through software (And the card still creates lag in some games).
Several friends have had creative speakers break within the lifetime of my $50 logitec Z540s (Far cheaper than Creative speakers).
So please don't defend them, they don't seem to be doing many things right, except driving people to onboard sound.
Don't you find it's kind of funny that the best configuration you can come up with Opera ships with by default, bet there's lots of stuff like that... Oh well it's closed source guess it isn't an option.
It would be just like the American political debate, but without the finger in the ears and yelling.
I find/. quite right wing and I enjoy hearing about the right wing stuff, I find it really scary sometimes but I like to hear the other side.
I find it kind of disturbing that people want to block out the other side of the debate,/. does a pretty good job of presenting both sides of the debate and having both sides present to mod up their advocates.
I think if Slashdot splits into left and right it will lose most of the non-American audience who enjoys hearing intellectual discourse in their politics, as well as flag waving.
Slashdot Mirror
Because my computer updated, and my school didn't care.
I'm sure this is not uncommon around the world.
P.S. Fuck you MS and Ubuntu and Fuck you America...
That is all.
I agree, reading these comments it felt like people were turning against the open use of information.
/. ers feel about information. That the works of others are being exploited for the financial profit of this company is problematic, but their application doesn't really examine the contents of the works themselves (nor make those contents available as GBS does) and the meta data that is being used is likely useful ONLY for this type of application.
Turnitin is using information (which is not in the public space but their method of use could be [I.E. meta-data of essays]) for a purpose apparently beneficial to academia.
I think there is very little dangerous information and support most information being free so this doesn't immediately contradict what I feel many
I think the schools are at fault for allowing their staff to make a compromise which may increase marking efficiency (Big classes can now be marked by several markers with no concerns surrounding plagarism etc.) while violating their students rights in several ways.
I'm anti corporation myself but I feel that this knee jerk reaction is at least partially to blame for IP freedom advocates not being taken seriously.
Agree with parent, grandparent is a fool. I've held one, they're awsome, keyboard is a little small and touchpad was strange (Something they changed in the new revision.)
I don't think they should sell it to the public, but I've had my hands on one and at any price it is a very slick peice of kit.
It feels like an apple project, things are so well designed.
Everything is very slick and simple, processing power wasn't an issue with any of the applications I ran (And I did try to pain test the unit, running everything I could think of).
These would overturn the laptop market, but for them it's probably easier for linux developers to run the images, work through their own laptop and submit code. Why would they want to ship to thousands of people who already have laptops.
My you sure covered all your bases there, well for a conservative.
Doesn't all the talk of companies losing their focus register with you? These people are passionate about educating children in developing nations (3rd world is a conservative or American term not used in most of the Civilized world).
Since we see companies losing focus every day you'd be right in thinking that there exists no possible solution, except these guys seem to have found one.
Now capitalists are stepping in and saying "Just sell a few, you'll be hands off" but they'll be back distracting open source developers and the company doing the work with "easy" solutions to "consumers" problems.
Additionally from the perspective of a third world government a non-profit is trying to help and brilliant minds may actually be involved, as soon as it becomes capitalistic it's just another American quick fix, which translated to Non-American means quick sale.
That's just how the world see's American, you and the 5 people who modded you up thinking you'd actually examined the issue are the problem, deal with it.
Only a really boneheaded company will lose nerve after wasting a ton of money on R&D
It's called throwing good money after bad.
The real reason Apple must release the iPhone is the same as they must release high end iPods, they want to appear to have the best gear. That way when they filter down into a market segment where they can actually make a profit they will have mindshare as well as R&D behind them, people often refer to V1 mac products as "Beta" and that's the case, often they are excellent on paper (and look pretty) but have problems in implementation. The Good on Paper part is the most important aspect. Apple doesn't have some magical system that produces "just works" products they have a public beta testing unit that exploits the Apple fanboy market segment ruthlessly.
Fortunately for me my Qualcomm Q2760 still works perfectly and I don't need a status symbol, if they release a quality product in a few years within my budget I'll buy it and be happy for all the fools who beta tested it for me at $600.
As an aside Apple had to lock down the iPhone, otherwise people would use the 802.11n (Which is now final) and VOIP to thwart subsciption services. It's going to happen eventually and Apple's iPhone is a perfect example of what advanced smart phones without ties to carriers will look like.
iPhone V3 will likely come with a 10 year phone # registered to it and no provider.
Or at least it will unless teleco's lobbying power is even greater than the *IAA or energy companies.
Agreed, though why it has taken so long is subject to inquiry.
I think the Conservatives under Bush have made a brutal attack on the court system and Judges have found themselves serving two masters (The public interest and the White House).
An interesting thing to consider about the legal system is that almost all court cases are trying to define "fair" or "equal" as benefits their client, piracy can't claim that it is directly fair.
The arguement for piracy is that information can be shared without loss and that it's beneficial to do so and errode the attempt at defining some information as more valuable than other information (largely though marketting).
While I do think the Judges have taken their time (obviously these are not young people) learning about this civil rights position and accepting it to the point where they have decided to violate the letter of the law to promote a more equal society.
The fact that these decisions put their heads on the Bush chopping block means that they haven't been undertaken lightly and these people should have our respect.
More modern high speed trains (I.E. the kind we don't have in North America) don't vibrate as much and run on electricity, as such they are INCREADIBLY quiet.
Sitting in a japanse rail station and watching a Shinkansen go past at 230kmph 4 meters away is increadible.
And once again you are assuming a transitional period (Which makes the whole point moot as people will simply drive across the country) of largely driving with some slight rail usage for long distances.
Japan's model of linking the rail system with the subway system (moving between cities is handled the same way local travel is) makes far more sense, you walk to a subway station and make a transition like transfering subway lines getting on an inner city train.
Imagine no traffic at all, and perfect timing (I.E. if the subway is supposed to arrive at 10:36 and the train is supposed to leave at 10:43 you can plan on buying some food.) further you don't need to worry about long term parking or transit to and from a distant airport and it's remarkably comfortable. The less dense cities of the U.S. and Canada means that busses are needed to bridge the gap between home and subway but disability conscious busses make carrying large bags easy.
It's a far superior way to travel, especially with mounting airport security advising you to show up 3 hours early for a flight (I once showed up 40 minutes early for an inner Canada flight [Montrel to Toronto] to be told that I shouldn't expect to be on the plane).
If fuel prices continue to rise and paranoia does as well plane travel will eventually resort to knocking everyone out and stacking them like cord wood, which would be fine for me but many people won't enjoy it.
Conservatives seem to feel that protecting the rights of actual terrorists isn't important, I think that's where the line is drawn.
Most liberals don't enjoy feeling they should have rights, but do feel so. And when you look at the possibility of terrorist attack, possible victims it quickly becomes apparent that only large organized groups are a threat worth fighting because of the implications towards person freedoms and privacy.
The Canadian government has long had more powers than our Southern Neighbors, powers we would like to think they don't abuse. It's bills like this one make us question that, there simply aren't a lot of good reasons to not get warrants, if it's too expensive hire more paralegals. If they're worried about terrorists infiltrating the courts then it will never stop, they could infiltrate any aspect of society and be potentially dangerous.
When I see the Muslim (or any minority group) society of Canada come forward and say that Muslims in the court system are revealing information about wiretaps (A discovery which doesn't put lives at risk) and that the risks are real enough that they're willing to have their court members moved to other areas of the legal system, then it will be threat enough and not until then.
But doesn't perform as well when used by an operating system.
Since flash doesn't have sectors that are faster than others; Thus, this is incorrect.
Flash chips each have a read and write speed limit the more of them you have in parrelel the faster it can read/write. It's trivial to make the chips within a flash drive have JBOD(F) properties.
This is one of the major advantages for me, disks that will be able to max out gigabit+ ethernet with increadible seek times, data redundancy, and massive througput.
As disks get bigger it may become nescessary to have some space for a read/write buffer (normal HD's have ram for this) which will increase the life or need for higher MTBF sections, both of these properties are showing up in variations on flash.
So if you have a flash disk with 1 Increadible MTBF chip, 1 super speed no storage sector (like ram), 1 massive storage space, and a bunch of standard flash you can have all the advantages of every kind of disk with the internal controller handling performance and wear leveling (not a trivial programming problem but one which we have a bunch of excellent solutions in place for).
My personal problem with flash disks is that industry seems to be holding back development, trying to develop an upgrade cycle instead of realeasing a perfect solution.
I can get a 1GB microsd flash card for $15 about 400-600(conservative) of them would fit into a 2.5 disk enclosure. With JBOD and wear leveling across the chips and I'm assuming it would be cheaper because you wouldn't need hundreds of cases/interfaces a 200GB drive with read/write speeds of 100-300 Gb a sec and seek time of
Hmm, well maybe the price does need to come down but the other concerns about flash seem unjustified, write wear isn't a problem, it's not scary. losing all your data to a HD failure, now that's scary.
All the whinning on slashdot and you forgot to mention the battery life?
My palm 5 lasts for about 22 hours of constant use.
My palm 3xe when used as an e-book reader lasted about 30hrs (About a week and a half reading whenever I had a moment).
Maybe now these battery people will shut up and admit they want more than decent battery life.
I don't understand why the monitor is needed for interfacing with the computer. Usually what you interface with is text, reading what I write, reading menu items, reading over what you've written. Writting is a subset of language and can be handled through speech (though sometimes people assume not as fast, if a computer can modulate itself to your listening and speaking speed it could be quite efficient).
The smallest computer needs to have some way of interfacing with the user, whether it be an ear jack (think dictation and contextual information) or a connection to a nerve (If implanted at birth one connection could become increadibly efficient, obvious if you've ever observed the disabled interfacing with their tools).
One line in, one line out that's it that's all you need.
The problem is that information is also sometimes represented graphically, which is used to add context. With a simple computer literary system which could offer context to information there would be no need for images.
Plus those laser keyboards are pretty awsome!
Good stuff, well several of the pastoral poets and authors used vistas to mean a great many things.
If the editor felt that someone viewing a panorama should be on the cover that probably means he relates the book to the works of Wordsworth, Malory, and sundry.
And it will STILL be obsolete in 8 months!
On my laptop hibernate doesn't work, neither does suspend.
This is a pretty serious boogeyman in Linux's closet if people I know with linux laptops are any indication.
I installed ubuntu 6.04 updated to 6.10, it broke a few things but mostly is working fine.
:)
As mentioned before the wireless applications and support are a show stopper. Typing sudo ifdown and ifup is no fun, and having to hard type the ssid without getting a list of available ones, also no fun.
So I fixed it, got a wlassistant program, very nice.
Only problem it needs sudo to run and I haven't been able to figure out how to do that from inside gnome or blackbox.
Seems like something that should be in the right click menu (Especially if it will fail without it)... For me personally these are the kinds of things that totally need to be solved, they are so simple that they are hard to describe and hard to search for, "sudo gnome right-click ubuntu"?
Other than that I'm pretty happy with it, I've got maybe 4-5 error messages that I'd like to disable but can't (wireless access uses a web prompt and wlassistant complains needlessly, symantec has packages it can't download but keeps trying etc)...
Also some open source applications I'd gotten used to running in windows seem to work WORSE in linux, there is no support for Miranda (an excellent IM client for windows), and the Open-Office spellcheck isn't working (And doesn't offer Canadian english[which I assume they replace with British English, though how hard is it to offer a link file to the British dictionary in that case]... Opera is a pain to install in Linux but got it running...
I guess these are mostly application concerns but they've become something of a pain in the ass.
Just saying it's not all roses, but I'm enjoying it and I have a good support team
Well photorealistic textures are starting to take over, so instead of artists needing to make 1024x1024 bitmaps all the time they can just take photo's (And blend them together in software which is fuzzy or do it by hand which is still faster than designing the whole thing) Motion capture is getting a lot cheaper (and replacing the animators, which I assume is because it's cheaper/better).
The Genre's are becoming more defined so programmers are getting experience in the genre they will be designing.
They typically use existing engines instead of designing their own and they don't need to fight for every gram of power because the consoles have so much more head room (though software tools such as sh are just coming out usually they are learned by the engine designers not the rank and file game dev houses).
Publishing costs on the 360 and ps3 will be really high due to high console costs, but that doesn't explain the 20% increase in price.
I think a lot of it comes from being in a $40bln industry and being gouged for movie liscences, hardware liscences and publishing.
Probably 5-10% is internal fighting because dev's want to do something exciting and management takes out features (See "evolution" of Halo for an example).
Each detail takes time and effort, but the big stuff should be getting easier at a rate which evens out with the increasing complexity of the small touches, there just isn't a good reason why games need to be so expensive.
And many great games ones aren't...
Hardware, also the creative Jukebox and Zen lines.
:().
They used a riser for the headphone jack, that riser had a 5 month lifespan (Across 5 players I've owned or had friends own, all broken
Creatives Drivers for these products were terrible, so terrible that a company was started to provide a replacement, Notmad.
Thier Soundstorm technology put into several Nforce 2 boards is a gigantic pile of crap, basically you have to remove their drivers, do several updates and then run all the sound processing through software (And the card still creates lag in some games).
Several friends have had creative speakers break within the lifetime of my $50 logitec Z540s (Far cheaper than Creative speakers).
So please don't defend them, they don't seem to be doing many things right, except driving people to onboard sound.
Like a 2d Checksum? Sure :P
But since it's difficult to decrypt now it'll always be...
Or um... something
EIAA:
You have been found to be in violation of the EMEA (Electric Millenium Energy Act), sharing energy through p2p.
This violates your contract for 4TW/s of energy, unlimited monthly.
By doing so you threaten our business model and we don't like it.
Since we're too lazy to come up with a new business model pay us $75,000 or we'll see you in court.
"place your hands on the wall and wait" = "place ass in couch"?
You know the fishermen subsequently sued him right, it's in the back.
Note: if you live in the U.S., the advice above will be considered evidence, of anything.
Don't you find it's kind of funny that the best configuration you can come up with Opera ships with by default, bet there's lots of stuff like that... Oh well it's closed source guess it isn't an option.
It would be just like the American political debate, but without the finger in the ears and yelling.
/. quite right wing and I enjoy hearing about the right wing stuff, I find it really scary sometimes but I like to hear the other side.
/. does a pretty good job of presenting both sides of the debate and having both sides present to mod up their advocates.
I find
I find it kind of disturbing that people want to block out the other side of the debate,
I think if Slashdot splits into left and right it will lose most of the non-American audience who enjoys hearing intellectual discourse in their politics, as well as flag waving.