No need to blame Google for this. The way that Google AdWords(TM) work, its the person who made the publicity who needs to react and I guess that he is kind of overwhelmed by many other things right now or maybe even dead. It's like saying : "It's a shame that the Internet can't respond to a crisis and remove those web sites of destroyed commerce's. The owners of each web site needs to react, not the TLD. Anyway I agree with you that it`s looki verry creepy to read those publicities
Another thing that get on my nerves is to hear the glorious noise of an army of cows ruminating jumbo buckets of triple sauce Nachos/Popcorn and slurping their barrel of coke. I am sure they will sell pork chops and fried chicken very soon.
I find it always very annoying when people start insulting without any provocation. In your cases it was humor that was above is cognitive ability, sometime people starts insulting because the original post have some political meaning or unpopular opinion (like saying that Microsoft is not 100% evil but just 99.9%).
But what really offence my is when people start to mod up the one who was using insults and then call troll the one who have the unpopular point of view even if he was acting much more civilized.
The fun thing in a discussion is to compare the different points of view and learn new stuff. If every body had the same opinion and knowledge there will be no point on posting except to write "me too".
What I hopping to see is lots of cheap old good obscure not mainstream movies. Those movies are hard to find in local video stores and expensive to buy. That situation sucks. I'll be the first one to buy lots of these. But if they sell over 5$ piece I'll probably go on eMule to look for some "substitute product", for education purpose of course.
Like for music, there is lots of material out there and each individual desire probably to own much more stuff than what is wallet can afford. In consequence even if they lower the prices, there revenue wont go down. The people who where spending 200$ each year on movie purchase will still spend it but will just get more. The people like me who weren't buying anything will maybe start to do so. I hope they will realize that they can make much more money on the volume than on the price of each movie.
Wouldn't t it be sweet if some one who had a couple of million (or billions) to burn like let's say Paul Allen would create an entity with the only goal of putting out of business this guy. You monitor all the time he tries to bully some little guy and then you offer full legal help to the victim. Because he wouldn't be able anymore to get legal settlements and because is cases are without merit he would probably end up in bankruptcy by running out of cash flow.
I understand that they want you to buy their new shit to make some cash but I don't know why they keep this pattern of pushing people to upgrade to more powerful hardware. Its not like they are making profit if you upgrade your hardware. I'll be the first to buy a 50$ 2 years customer support extension for my windows 2000 in order to be able to continue to use my old Pentium 3 who is more than enough to make web development. I am sure that thousands of business owners think the same way I do.
And I will also say that most normal people (we are not, sorry to break the news) are not able to install a simple driver and even less a complete operating system. If they also have to hack it and find instruction on H4x0r web sites, in don't think that the "impact" will be much bigger than the one I create on the ocean water level when I take a pee in it.
All those years, I watched sci-fi and was expecting the fun stuff that come in most of the movies:
Flying cars, AI, Cybernetics
(Blade Runner, RoboCop, Total recall)
Instead of that what we have?
The classic case where the government became the lapdog of massive corporations and industries and the case where the government calls a terrorist anybody who don't agree with their corrupted attitude.
(Blade Runner, RoboCop, Total recall)
I propose to write an email, fax or call to EFF first to ask them if they are willing to help the lady + create a found where we can donate. If the EFF is associated with the project, the people will probably be more willing to contribute. I'll be the first the give something. I have already started to write my letter.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
454 Shotwell Street
San Francisco CA 94110-1914 USA
I like science fiction but I have never dressed like a character or joined any fan club on the subject.
Still, I don't understand why people find it so strange that a small amount of hardcore fans dress each two years like their favorite hero but then, never make fun of the thousands of stupid jocks that paint their faces and go dressed in a clown looking way to their favorite football game every Sunday.
It's rare that people in discussion boards are willing to propose a truce instead of continuing an escalation of attacks and I salute your initiative; It takes much more courage to call a ceasefire than to continue the flaming. To be honest I pretty much detest flaming and offer you my own apologises for the strong words I used in my answers.
I am also willing to admit that I understand your point of view about people abusing their first language and find your intentions reasonable but the Internet and Slashdot is a global community and a large percentage of the users use English as their second or third language so I guess maybe many of the bad grammar is done by people that simply try to do there best and not by lazy writers. (0n anoth3r h4nd I th1nk that th3 l1t3 wr1t1ng on3s d3s3rve to d13)
When I first started to participate in online communities in English, I was writing under each of my comments things like "please excuse the quality of my grammar, English is not my first language" but I then decided to stop doing that because it seams to be kind of repetitive and annoying and did not bring anything else to the discussion.
I basically learned and developed my English writing skills on the Internet so sadly, I am the reflect of the people that populate it... Nevertheless I try to use grammar and spelling checkers and I my goal is to continue to improve my mastering of THE undisputable global language.
Slashdot Mirror
Just for some perspective."
For some more perspective ;)
Did Gates Really Say 640K is Enough For Anyone?
Urban Legends Archive
No need to blame Google for this. The way that Google AdWords(TM) work, its the person who made the publicity who needs to react and I guess that he is kind of overwhelmed by many other things right now or maybe even dead. It's like saying : "It's a shame that the Internet can't respond to a crisis and remove those web sites of destroyed commerce's. The owners of each web site needs to react, not the TLD. Anyway I agree with you that it`s looki verry creepy to read those publicities
Definitively another of the signs that the apocalypse is coming!
Another thing that get on my nerves is to hear the glorious noise of an army of cows ruminating jumbo buckets of triple sauce Nachos/Popcorn and slurping their barrel of coke. I am sure they will sell pork chops and fried chicken very soon.
It's already available since at least yesterday. QuakeIII source
I think you meant "...games will be actually opensource, LIKE free-as-in-beer..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_Razor
Mmm... then God probably invented that Razor Scam thingy to confuse us even more! ;)
2840 MB?
Good, that means we can simply ship them a 199$ iPod mini so they can drop all the stuff in.
Problem solved, Next!
Well if you go on the web site the description is clear. First the tag line: "Whatever you want it to be"
//I did want to beat up the submitter too.
Then : "Konfabulator, runner of widgets, this is what you need. Seriously."
It couldn't be more clear than that, how can you not understand?
Its a watchyamacallit for Smurfing Marclars!!!
I find it always very annoying when people start insulting without any provocation. In your cases it was humor that was above is cognitive ability, sometime people starts insulting because the original post have some political meaning or unpopular opinion (like saying that Microsoft is not 100% evil but just 99.9%).
But what really offence my is when people start to mod up the one who was using insults and then call troll the one who have the unpopular point of view even if he was acting much more civilized.
The fun thing in a discussion is to compare the different points of view and learn new stuff. If every body had the same opinion and knowledge there will be no point on posting except to write "me too".
What I hopping to see is lots of cheap old good obscure not mainstream movies. Those movies are hard to find in local video stores and expensive to buy. That situation sucks. I'll be the first one to buy lots of these. But if they sell over 5$ piece I'll probably go on eMule to look for some "substitute product", for education purpose of course.
Like for music, there is lots of material out there and each individual desire probably to own much more stuff than what is wallet can afford. In consequence even if they lower the prices, there revenue wont go down. The people who where spending 200$ each year on movie purchase will still spend it but will just get more. The people like me who weren't buying anything will maybe start to do so. I hope they will realize that they can make much more money on the volume than on the price of each movie.
Remembers me the joke of the two guys in the jungle who see a lion.
The first one start immediately tying is shoes, preparing himself to make the run of is life.
The second one say: "What the hell are you doing, do you really think you can run faster than the lion?"
The first guy answer: "I am not planning to run faster than the lion but faster than you!"
Wouldn't t it be sweet if some one who had a couple of million (or billions) to burn like let's say Paul Allen would create an entity with the only goal of putting out of business this guy. You monitor all the time he tries to bully some little guy and then you offer full legal help to the victim. Because he wouldn't be able anymore to get legal settlements and because is cases are without merit he would probably end up in bankruptcy by running out of cash flow.
I understand that they want you to buy their new shit to make some cash but I don't know why they keep this pattern of pushing people to upgrade to more powerful hardware. Its not like they are making profit if you upgrade your hardware. I'll be the first to buy a 50$ 2 years customer support extension for my windows 2000 in order to be able to continue to use my old Pentium 3 who is more than enough to make web development. I am sure that thousands of business owners think the same way I do.
And I will also say that most normal people (we are not, sorry to break the news) are not able to install a simple driver and even less a complete operating system. If they also have to hack it and find instruction on H4x0r web sites, in don't think that the "impact" will be much bigger than the one I create on the ocean water level when I take a pee in it.
Flying cars, AI, Cybernetics
(Blade Runner, RoboCop, Total recall)
Instead of that what we have?
The classic case where the government became the lapdog of massive corporations and industries and the case where the government calls a terrorist anybody who don't agree with their corrupted attitude.
(Blade Runner, RoboCop, Total recall)
What a bummer!
What's next? Ill learn that coffee is people?
"Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!"
You could blast through things, use it to heat a rock for warmth, stun, hit somebody over the head with it... "
And because of their ugly shape, I always assumed you can even used them to vacuum potato chips crumbles under your desk.
Your lack of faith is disturbing!
[raises hand to begging throat crushing]
And even when they are interesting, why do they force me to watch the damn spoiling trailer?
I propose to write an email, fax or call to EFF first to ask them if they are willing to help the lady + create a found where we can donate. If the EFF is associated with the project, the people will probably be more willing to contribute. I'll be the first the give something. I have already started to write my letter.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
454 Shotwell Street
San Francisco CA 94110-1914 USA
Phone: +1 415 436 9333
Fax: +1 415 436 9993
information@eff.org
EFF Contact
Still, I don't understand why people find it so strange that a small amount of hardcore fans dress each two years like their favorite hero but then, never make fun of the thousands of stupid jocks that paint their faces and go dressed in a clown looking way to their favorite football game every Sunday.
I am also willing to admit that I understand your point of view about people abusing their first language and find your intentions reasonable but the Internet and Slashdot is a global community and a large percentage of the users use English as their second or third language so I guess maybe many of the bad grammar is done by people that simply try to do there best and not by lazy writers. (0n anoth3r h4nd I th1nk that th3 l1t3 wr1t1ng on3s d3s3rve to d13)
When I first started to participate in online communities in English, I was writing under each of my comments things like "please excuse the quality of my grammar, English is not my first language" but I then decided to stop doing that because it seams to be kind of repetitive and annoying and did not bring anything else to the discussion.
I basically learned and developed my English writing skills on the Internet so sadly, I am the reflect of the people that populate it... Nevertheless I try to use grammar and spelling checkers and I my goal is to continue to improve my mastering of THE undisputable global language.
Anyway, cheers